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The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town by Steven Ozment Publisher Comments In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the frequent subject of gossip because of her immodest dress and flirtatious behavior. When her wealthy father... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Power, 1770-1871 by Gordon A Craig Publisher Comments In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political element was absent from the German concept of education." The Politics of the Unpolitical demonstrates... (read more) List Price $133.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 by Mary Lindemann Publisher Comments Patriots and Paupers carefully analyzes a crucial juncture in the history of a great city: Hamburg's passage from the pre-modern into the modern world. Despite the relative wealth of historical literature on Reformation Germany and on Germany after... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $115.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s by Ian F. McNeely Publisher Comments A path-breaking reassessment of the relations between state and citizen in Germany during the transition from premodern to modern society.... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $62.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford Studies in Social History) by Lyndal Roper Publisher Comments Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light they... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 by Mary Lindemann Publisher Comments Like many European cities, Hamburg experienced enormous growth in the eighteenth century, and with it a dramatic increase in the urban poor population. This book is a study of that city's response to the enormous changes in the political and social... (read more) List Price $150.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Germany :a short history by Donald S Detwiler Publisher Comments Especially useful to general readers and students who require a concise introduction to modern Germany. The first two chapters interpret the history of central Europe from antiquity through the 18th century providing the background for the 19th and 20th... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster by Anthony Arthur Publisher Comments He was only a Dutch tailor's apprentice, but from 1534 to 1535, Jan van Leyden led a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists to repeated triumphs over the combined powers of church and state. Revered by his followers as the new David, the charismatic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Life and Times of Louisa, Queen of Prussia with an Introductory Sketch of Prussian History Part One by Elizabeth Hudson Synopsis Volume One of Two. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417971207.... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford Synopsis In this biography of Frederick the Great, Nancy Mitford carefully unravels the complex character of one of Europe's brilliant rulers. She re-creates his unhappy youth; his reforming zeal, which paved the way for a united Germany; and his spectacular wars.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great: The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments 1858. Volume 3 of a 6 volume set. Scottish-born British historian and essayist who was a leading figure in the Victorian era. Partial Contents: First Silesian War, Awakening a General European One, Begins; First Silesian War, Leaving the General European... (read more) List Price $41.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Power, 1770-1871 by Gordon Alexander Craig Publisher Comments In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political element was absent from the German concept of education." The Politics of the Unpolitical demonstrates... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price: $101.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James Gaines Publisher Comments One Sunday evening in the spring of his seventh year as king, as his musicians were gathering for the evening concert, a courtier brought Frederick the Great his usual list of arrivals at the town gate. As he looked down the list of names, he gave a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Productive Men & Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household & the Emergence of Separate Spheres in the German Enlightenment by Marion W Gray Publisher Comments The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen by Richard M. Wunderli Publisher Comments ... lively and intellectually stimulating... --Speculum Wunderli... has lucidly reconstructed a controversial conflict in 15th-century south-central Germany.... this engaging narrative takes off from Hans Behem--the peasant who claimed to see the Virgin... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Peasant War in Germany by Friedrich Engels Publisher Comments A modern translation, written after the 1848-50 upheavals in Europe. Engels analyzes the deep social and economic causes of the Reformation and the Peasant War (1525), and sees them as very early stirrings toward the future capitalist order. He vividly... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prince, people, and confession :the Second Reformation in Brandenburg by Bodo Nischan Book News Annotation The Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg came late and was one of the most moderate Lutheran reforms in all Germany. Because of this conservatism, a "second," Calvinist reformation was attempted nearly three generations later. This study encompasses... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Highroad To the Stake (87 Edition) by Kunze Book News Annotation A reprint of the well-received edition of 1987. On the 15th c. persecution of a vagrant German family. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Origins of Modern Germany by Geoffre Barraclough List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions, & Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 by David Martin Luebke Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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