The role of the state in capitalist societies has been a bone of considerable contention among scholars. The two founding fathers of sociology held radically opposing views on this subject which were reflected in the numerous debates over subsequent decades to this day.
Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial topics in both the United States and Germany.This interdisciplinary collection of essays by... Læs mere
Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection... Læs mere
Contributors offer a cautiously optimistic set of answers to questions surrounding German unification and the political and economic transformations in central... Læs mere
Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the... Læs mere
A comparative history of American and German social and cultural developments following the... Læs mere
In October 1990 West German general Jorg Schonbohm and a small team of experts moved into the headquarters of the former East German... Læs mere
Since the modern founding of the theory of signs by the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the field of... Læs mere
Four years after unification, Germany completed what has been called the "super election year": no less than nineteen elections, culminating in the... Læs mere
German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquieting memories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy.
A biography of the famed German film producer whose successes such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Blue Angel have... Læs mere