The Great German Nation

Author : Craig White
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781434325495

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The Great German Nation by Craig White Pdf

Who exactly are the Germans? From which ancestor of Noah do they descend? Might their roots be found in the ancient Middle East? Does the Bible - God's precious Word - have anything to say with regard to the very talented German peoples and their ancient roots? Or does God ignore major nations such as Germany in His Word? These fascinating and highly talented people have been central to world history. Notice a chilling comment in an article on Russia by Peter Zeihan: "... history really does run in cycles. Take Europe for example. European history is a chronicle of the rise and fall of its geographic center. As Germany rises, the powers on its periphery buckle under its strength and are forced to pool resources in order to beat back Berlin. As Germany falters, the power vacuum at the middle of the Continent allows the countries on Germany's borders to rise in strength and become major powers themselves. Since the formation of the first "Germany" in 800, this cycle has set the tempo and tenor of European affairs. A strong Germany means consolidation followed by a catastrophic war; a weak Germany creates a multilateral concert of powers and multistate competition (often involving war, but not on nearly as large a scale). For Europe this cycle of German rise and fall has run its course three times -- the Holy Roman Empire, Imperial Germany, Nazi Germany -- and is only now entering its fourth iteration with the reunified Germany".

Author : Nancy R. Reagin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139457958

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Sweeping the German Nation by Nancy R. Reagin Pdf

Is cleanliness next to Germanness, as some 19th century nationalists insisted? This book explores the relationship between gender roles, domesticity, and German national identity between 1870–1945. After German unification, approaches to household management that had originally emerged among the bourgeoisie became central to German national identity by 1914. Thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness, along with particular domestic markers (such as the linen cabinet) and holiday customs, were used by many Germans to define the distinctions between themselves and neighboring cultures. What was bourgeois at home became German abroad, as 'German domesticity' also helped to define and underwrite colonial identities in Southwest Africa and elsewhere. After 1933, this idealized notion of domestic Germanness was racialized and incorporated into an array of Nazi social politics. In occupied Eastern Europe during WWII Nazi women's groups used these approaches to household management in their attempts to 'Germanize' Eastern European women who were part of a large-scale project of population resettlement and ethnic cleansing.

Author : Emil Ludwig
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781528760096

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The Germans: Double History Of A Nation by Emil Ludwig Pdf

This is Emil Ludwig’s 1941 book, “The Germans: Double History of A Nation”. A history of the German people rather than of Germany itself, this fascinating volume offers a unique insight into the spirit and personality of the Germans, and is highly recommended for those with an interest in European history. Contents include: “The Dreams of World Domination, from Charlemange to Gutenberg (800–1500)”, “Struggle for the Creed, from Luther to Kepler (1500–1650)”, “Schism of State and Spirit, from the Great Elector to Goethe (1650–1800)”, “World-Citizens and Nationalists, from Beethoven to Bismarck”, etc. Emil Ludwig (1881–1948) was a German writer famous for his biographies of great historical figures. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Glenn Penny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510414

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German History Unbound by Glenn Penny Pdf

Offers a new, polycentric vision of modern German history, focusing on the great plurality of Germans across Europe and around the world.

Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101875674

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Germany by Neil MacGregor Pdf

For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.

Author : JOHANN GOTTLIEB. FICHTE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033421006

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ADDRESSES TO THE GERMAN NATION by JOHANN GOTTLIEB. FICHTE Pdf

Author : Jan Vermeiren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031678

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The First World War and German National Identity by Jan Vermeiren Pdf

An innovative study of the impact of the wartime alliance between Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary on German national identity.

Author : Nicholas Stargardt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465073979

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The German War by Nicholas Stargardt Pdf

A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause in World War II In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of firsthand testimony -- personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence -- to explore how the German people experienced the Second World War. When war broke out in September 1939, it was deeply unpopular in Germany. Yet without the active participation and commitment of the German people, it could not have continued for almost six years. What, then, was the war the Germans thought they were fighting? How did the changing course of the conflict -- the victories of the Blitzkrieg, the first defeats in the east, the bombing of German cities -- alter their views and expectations? And when did Germans first realize they were fighting a genocidal war? Told from the perspective of those who lived through it -- soldiers, schoolteachers, and housewives; Nazis, Christians, and Jews -- this masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs and fears of a people who embarked on and fought to the end a brutal war of conquest and genocide.

Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136020544

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German National Cinema by Sabine Hake Pdf

German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form. The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s turbulent history from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Berlin Republic, with special attention paid to the competing demands of film as art, entertainment, and propaganda. Hake also explores the centrality of genre films and the star system to the development of a filmic imaginary. This fully revised and updated new edition will be required reading for everyone interested in German film and the history of modern Germany.

Author : George Stuart Fullerton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783486743777

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The truth about the german nation by George Stuart Fullerton Pdf

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Author : Charles W. Ingrao,Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1557534438

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The Germans and the East by Charles W. Ingrao,Franz A. J. Szabo Pdf

The editors present a collection of 23 historical papers exploring relationships between "the Germans" (necessarily adopting different senses of the term for different periods or different topics) and their immediate neighbors to the East. The eras discussed range from the Middle Ages to European integration. Examples of specific topics addressed include the Teutonic order in the development of the political culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle ages, Teutonic-Balt relations in the chronicles of the Baltic Crusades, the emergence of Polenliteratur in 18th century Germany, German colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the 18th century, changing meanings of "German" in Habsburg Central Europe, German military occupation and culture on the Eastern Front in Word War I, interwar Poland and the problem of Polish-speaking Germans, the implementation of Nazi racial policy in occupied Poland, Austro-Czechoslovak relations and the post-war expulsion of the Germans, and narratives of the lost German East in Cold War West Germany.

Author : Arnie Bernstein
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250036445

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Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein Pdf

In the late 1930s, the German–American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden backrooms, gathered at private resorts and public rallies, developed their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth, published a national newspaper and—for a brief moment of their own imagined glory—seemed poised to make an impact on American politics. But while the American Nazi leadership dreamed of their Swastika Nation, an amalgamation of politicians, a rising legal star, an ego-charged newspaper columnist, and denizens of the criminal underworld utilized their respective means and muscle to bring down the movement and its dreams of a United Reich States. Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein is a story of bad guys, good guys, and a few guys who fell somewhere in-between. The rise and fall of Fritz Kuhn and his German-American Bund at the hands of these disparate fighters is a sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always compelling story from start to finish.

Author : Mary Fulbrook,Martin Swales
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719059399

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Representing the German Nation by Mary Fulbrook,Martin Swales Pdf

Modern Germany, with its ruptures from late unification in 1871 through to the formation of two opposing German states, provides a case study for an analysis of the issue of representations of identity in Germany since the war.

Author : John Breuilly
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029560532

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The State of Germany by John Breuilly Pdf

Germany came into being as a single state in 1871. Twice defeated in war, it has been destroyed as a nation-state and now again reunified. This book, by means of a series of essays spanning the late eighteenth century up to the events of 1989 - 90, probes the role of the national idea in this dramatic history. It will help all those interested in both the German past and the German present to understand the changing meanings of the national idea and its political significance. The distinguished contributors include James Sheehan, William Carr, Mary Fulbrook, Peter Alter and Wolf Gruner.

Author : Celia Applegate,Pamela Potter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226021300

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Music and German National Identity by Celia Applegate,Pamela Potter Pdf

Concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire: composers like the three "Bs" of classical music, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, all of whom are German. Over the past three centuries, many supporters of German music have even nurtured the notion that the German-speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This book brings together seventeen contributors from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, and German literature to explore these questions: how music came to be associated with German identity, when and how Germans came to be regarded as the "people of music," and how music came to be designated "the most German of arts." Unlike previous volumes on this topic, many of which focused primarily on Wagner and Nazism, the essays here are wide-ranging and comprehensive, examining philosophy, literature, politics, and social currents as well as the creation and performance of folk music, art music, church music, jazz, rock, and pop. The result is a striking volume, adeptly addressing the complexity and variety of ways in which music insinuated itself into the German national imagination and how it has continued to play a central role in the shaping of a German identity. Contributors to this volume: Celia Applegate Doris L. Bergen Philip Bohlman Joy Haslam Calico Bruce Campbell John Daverio Thomas S. Grey Jost Hermand Michael H. Kater Gesa Kordes Edward Larkey Bruno Nettl Uta G. Poiger Pamela Potter Albrecht Riethmüller Bernd Sponheuer Hans Rudolf Vaget