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• Translation of: Das Deutsche Kaiserreich, 1871-1918.
• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 265-290.

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• Germany — History — 1871-1918.

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• By arrangement with the BBC and the British Museum –Title-page verso.
• Originally published in Great Britain by Allan Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London, in 2014 –Title-page verso.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-572) and index.
• Where is Germany?. The view from the gate Divided heaven Lost capitals Floating city Fragments of power — Imagining Germany. A language for all Germans Snow White vs. Napoleon One nation under Goethe Hall of heroes One people, many sausages — The persistent past. The battle for Charlemagne Sculpting the spirit The Baltic brothers Iron nation Two paths from 1848 — Made in Germany. In the beginning was the printer An artist for all Germans The white gold of Saxony Masters of metal Cradle of the modern — The descent. Bismarck the blacksmith The suffering witness Money in crisis Purging the degenerate At the Buchenwald gate — Living with history. The Germans expelled Beginning again The new German Jews Barlach’s angel Germany renewed.
• Germany is unlike any other country in the world. But how much do we really know about it, and how do its people understand themselves? In Germany: Memories of a Nation, Neil MacGregor — director of the British Museum and author of A History of the World in 100 Objects — presents the stories of a nation through a collection of thirty objects and touchstones. From coins and crowns to fairy tales and philosophers, MacGregor presents the inventions, ideas, and icons that comprise the many identities of the German people. Germany: Memories of a Nation is a view of this complex and fascinating country like no other — Provided by publisher.

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• Germany — History.
• Germany — Civilization.

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Part of the series Other voice in early modern Europe. The Toronto series 25;Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series 25.
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• Translation of Memoiren der herzogin Sophie, originally published: Leipzig : S. Hirzel, 1879.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Issued also in electronic format.
• Co-p̂ublished by: Iter Inc.

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• Sophia, Electress, consort of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, 1630-1714.
• Princesses — Germany — Hannover (Province) — Biography — Early works to 1800.
• Mothers of kings and rulers — Great Britain — Biography — Early works to 1800.
• Hannover (Germany : Province) — History — Sources.
• Hannover (Germany : Province) — Politics and government — Sources.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-370) and index.
• Nervous breakdown — Up in the air — Whale or minnow? — I will show them — Get out, and fast — Like football and cricket — Dancing with Nazis — A mad hatter’s luncheon party — Uniforms and guns — On our island — Feeding the squirrels — The last act.
• Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans–diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes–who watched horrified and up close. By tapping a rich vein of personal testimonies, Hitlerland offers a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era. Some of the Americans in Weimar and then Hitler’s Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind a few were Nazi apologists. But most slowly began to understand the horror of what was unfolding, even when they found it difficult to grasp the breadth of the catastrophe. The most perceptive of these Americans helped their reluctant countrymen begin to understand the nature of Nazi Germany as it ruthlessly eliminated political opponents, instilled hatred of Jews and anyone deemed a member of an inferior race, and readied its military and its people for a war for global domination.–From publisher description.

Subjects:

• Germany — Politics and government — 1918-1933.
• Germany — Politics and government — 1933-1945.
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
• Nazis — History.
• Americans — Germany — Biography.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Germany.
• Germany — Social conditions — 1918-1933.
• Germany — Social conditions — 1933-1945.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Part I: German Central Europe Before Modern Nationalism — Herrschaft: Lordship and power in the Germanies — Alltag: Contours of daily life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries — Power states (Machtstaaten): the Prussian and Austrian military-bureaucratic monarchies — Aufklärung: the German enlightenment and other spirits of the age — Part II: German Identities Between Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism, 1789-1914 — Liberté?: facing the French Revolution, 1789-1815 — Land of poets and thinkers (Dichter und Denker): from enlightenment universalism to German national culture — Freedom and voice, iron and blood (Eisen und Blut): liberalism and nationalism, 1815-1914 — Sozialdemokratie: workers and politics in the age of industrialization — Frauen: women, family, feminism, 1789-1914 — State of many peoples (Vielvölkerstaat): the Habsburg Austrian monarchy — German citizens of Jewish faith (deutsche Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens): Jews, Germans, German Jews, 1789-1914 — Part III: Duels of Identity and the Death of Nations, 1914-1945 — Krieg: The Prussian-German monarchy’s sudden death in war and Revolution, 1914-1920 — Weimarer Republik: Democracy’s bitter fruits, 1918-1933 — A people without a state? Volk ohne staat?: Middle-class discontent and populist utopia — Lebensraum: War for empire in Eastern Europe — Shoah Banned from nation and earth: German Jews after 1914, National Socialist Jewish policy , and the Holocaust — Part IV: The Cold War Germanies and Their Post-1989 Fusion: A Nation Reforged from Its Remnants? — Beyond zero hour (Stunde null): defeated Germany and the West German Federal Republic, 1949-1989 — Real existing socialism (real existierender Sozialismus): Soviet-occupied Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 — Mauerfall Fall of the wall: the post-unification scene in West and East.
• This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture, and political power, contrasting German with western patterns. Rather than treating the Germans as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire the nineteenth century the 1914-1945 era of war, dictatorship, and genocide and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras since 1945 as successive worlds of German life, thought, and mentality. The book sets forth the differences between them, even as it traces paths leading from one to the other. This book’s German is polycentric and multicultural, including the multi-national Austrian Habsburg Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism offers a comceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The book’s numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and styles of life, which often contrast with western ideas of Germany –Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Germany — History.
• Germans — Europe, Central — History.
• Europe, Central — History.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Germania — Das Reich — Confessions — What is enlightenment? — Imagining a nation — An empire of monuments — Modernity and its ciscontents — Downfall — Zero hour — Ode to joy.

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• Germany — History.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 528-537) and index.
• Bismarck’s ‘sovereign self’ — Bismarck : born Prussian and what that meant — Bismarck : the ‘Mad Junker’ — Bismarck represents himself, 1847-1851 — Bismarck as diplomat, 1851-1862 — Power — ‘I have beaten them all! All!’ — The unification of Germany, 1866-1870 — The decline begins : liberals and Catholics — ‘The guest house of the dead Jew’ — Three Kaisers and Bismarck’s fall from power — Conclusion : Bismarck’s legacy : blood and irony.
• Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the nineteenth century, except for Napoleon. He unified, and indeed, created, the country at the center of two world wars that would transform the world. This biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. The author draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck’s friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck’s personality. He was a kind of malignant genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them.

Subjects:

• Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898.
• Statesmen — Germany — Biography.
• Germany — Politics and government — 1871-1888.
• Bismarck, Otto von, 1815-1898 gnd (DE-588)11851136X
• Politics and government fast (OCoLC)fst01919741
• Statesmen. fast (OCoLC)fst01131990
• Germany. fast (OCoLC)fst01210272
• Bismarck, Otto (Otto Eduard Leopold), Fürst von, 1815-1898. (NL-LeOCL)06855981X
• 1871 – 1888 fast
• War and conflict.
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686

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Part of the series The California world history library 12;California world history library 12.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-376) and index.
• Mapping postwar historiography in Germany and Japan — The origin of the nation: Bismarck, Meiji Ishin, and the subject of history — The nation as victim: writing the history of National Socialism and Japanese fascism — The invention of contemporary history — The temporalization of space: Germany and Japan between East and West — History and memory: Germany and Japan, 1945-2000.
• Translated from the German.

Subjects:

• Germany — Historiography.
• Japan — Historiography.
• Historiography — Germany — History — 20th century.
• Historiography — Japan — History — 20th century.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Influence.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Germany.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Japan.
• Cold War — Social aspects — Germany.
• Cold War — Social aspects — Japan.

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Part of the series Weimar and now : German cultural criticism 47;Weimar and now 47.
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• This book is a collection of documents, mostly translated from the German, that covers the entire Third Reich, from the beginnings of National Socialism in Munich in 1919, through the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, and ultimately the defeat of the Third Reich. It is wide-ranging, covering the core doctrine of anti-Semitism, education, German youth, women and marriage, science, health, the Church, literature, visual arts, music, the body, industry, sports, and the resistance — Provided by publisher.
• Part one. The beginnings of National Socialism — Part two. The National Socialist worldview — Part three. Antisemitism : the core doctrine — Part four. Nationalizing German youth — Part five. The racial community — Part six. The churches — Part seven. National Socialism and the arts — Part eight. Work, industry, modernity — Part nine. Body culture, sports, public amusements — Part ten. War, conquest, and the annihilation of the Jews — Part eleven. Resistance — Part 12. Defeat.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The Munich years and the legacy of the war — Nazism in power: 1933 — The political religion: Führer cult, ceremonies, and symbol — Between myth and doctrine — Racial science — Germany’s colonial mission — Jews: the visible enemy — Eliminating the Jews: from the Nuremberg laws to Kristallnacht — Educating the race: children and adolescents — Higher education: science, history, and philosophy revised — Women and the woman question — Marriage and the family — Eliminating superfluous life : asocials, criminals, the handicapped, and the mentally ill — Healthy and unhealthy sexuality — The German soul and psyche — The national socialist state and Christianity — Literature: Official culture and its outcasts — The visual arts: German art vs. degenerate art — Music: the Wagner cult vs. degenerate music — Cinema: entertainment and propaganda — Politics and entertainment: theater, radio, and television — Jewish culture under Nazi persecution: the Jewish cultural league — Industry and labor: the four-year-plan, beauty of labor, and strength through joy — Modernizing Germany: the autobahn and Americanism — The 1936 Olympics and the world of sports — Amusmang : laughter in the Third Reich — The Holocaust begins: violence, deportation, and ghettoization, 1939-1942 — The annihilation of European Jewry, 1942-1945 — Total war: 1939-1945 — Communists, socialists, youth, and the conservative resistance — Hitler’s last will and testament.

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• National socialism — Germany — History — Sources.
• Germany — History — 1933-1945 — Sources.

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Part of the series International library of twentieth century history 70;International library of twentieth century history 70.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-330) and index
• Introduction — Occupation policy and German refugees : the case for revision — ‘Germanity and humanity’ — Realities of the occupation — A region in crisis : Schleswig-Holstein — Crisis compounded : German reaction and the impact on policy — Occupation policy and the civilising mission : a compromising legacy — The Janus faces of occupation , 1949-55 — Notes — Select bibliography — Index.
• In the years following World War II, the allies occupied a shattered Germany. Britain held North-Western Germany for ten years, overseeing the rehabilitation of ‘the biggest single forced population movement in modern history’, as Germans from around Europe were expelled from the crumbling Third Reich. This was a humanitarian crisis — with most hospitals, houses, transport networks and schools destroyed during the war, and the British and Americans running enormous and often inhumane refugee camps. Here, Francis Graham-Dixon assesses how the British squared their ethical focus on liberalism with their status as an occupying power, and examines the economic, military and political pressures of the period through the key turning points of the end of World War II — the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, the mismanagement of the refugee camp system and the fallout between occupiers and occupied after the Nuremberg trials of 1945/6. The first book to compare German and British sources from the period, this is an essential contribution to the literature on World War II, the Cold War and post-war Europe. — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Reconstruction (1939-1951) — Germany.
• Germany — History — 1945-1955.
• Great Britain — Foreign relations — Germany.
• Germany — Foreign relations — Great Britain.

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