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Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (Middle Ages)
by Caroline Bynum  Publisher Comments The quiet market town of Wilsnack in northeastern Germany is unfamiliar to most English-speakers and even to many modern Germans. Yet in the fifteenth century it was a European pilgrimage site surpassed in importance only by Rome and Santiago de...
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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...
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The Other Prussia (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
by Karin Friedrich Publisher Comments A study of national identity in Royal Prussia - the ???other Prussia???, part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793....
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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...
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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...
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.)
by James R Gaines Publisher Comments Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a...
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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...
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The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster
by Anthony Arthur Publisher Comments As the leader of a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists in 16th-century Germany, Jan van Leyden created a New Zion and waited for the final apocalyptic battle against his godless oppressors. After repeated attacks by the local Prince Bishop were...
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Frederick the Great
by Giles Macdonogh Synopsis Frederick the Great was one of the most successful and controversial European monarchs. On becoming King at 29, he welded one of the most formidable powers of Europe and created a Royal Court that was the envy of the continent, becoming the embodiment of...
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Frederick the Great (Us)
by Giles Macdonogh Synopsis In this bold new interpretation of the king who shaped modern Germany, MacDonogh provides the most fully rounded portrait yet of a much misunderstood and complex man. of photos....
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Critique of the German Intelligentsia
by Hugo Ball Book News Annotation In his scathing polemic first published in 1919, philosopher, dramatist, and theatrical producer Ball (1886-1927) lays the blame for the German disaster of World War I at the feet of German philosophers. Luther, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, he...
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Toward the Century of Words: Johann Cotta & the Politics of the Public Realm in Germany, 1795-1832
by Daniel Moran Publisher Comments In the decades between the French Revolution and the first stirrings of liberalism in the 1830s, German political culture defined itself apart from that of its neighbors to the west. Focusing on the career of Johann Cotta, the preeminent publisher of his...
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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...
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Urbanization and Crime: Germany, 1871-1914
by Eric A Johnson Publisher Comments A study of urban crime in Imperial Germany, questioning whether cities, in themselves, cause crime....
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The German ideology
by Karl Marx Publisher Comments This edition of the critique of post-Hegelian thought includes the first full statement of dialectical materialism....
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Germany's rude awakening :censorship in the land of the Brothers Grimm
by Frederik Ohles Book News Annotation Delves into the actual practice, as well as the laws, of the censorship that was a reaction to new political ideas and literature in German at the beginning of the 19th century. Also explains how the German public increasingly read and wrote whatever...
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Count & Bishop in Medieval Germany: A Study of Regional Power, 1100-1350
by Benjamin Arnold Book News Annotation Is this a story for lovers of flying, space buffs, or businessmen? The answer, of course, is all of the above. This is a unique look at a man who has really led several lives. Ultimately, the most interesting is his presidency of Eastern Airlines...
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Present State of Germany
by Michael J Seidler
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Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany
by Steven Ozment
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The Bèurgermeister's daughter :scandal in a sixteenth-century German town
by Steven Ozment Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-220) and index....
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