The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S.... Læs mere
This book captures the methodological and thematic diversity and richness of current work on the history of the German working class and the political movements that emerged from it.
The most original, new work on Hesse in many years and the definitive study of the young Herman Hesse, offering much previously unknown material such as his "neo-Romantic" poetry of which two dozen are published here for the first time in the original.
Essays from an April 1991 symposium represent disciplines including history, the social sciences, and the... Læs mere
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many... Læs mere
Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have... Læs mere
These essays uncover the distinctive elements of 'modern' German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II, while at the same time advancing alternative readings of events before 1914.
When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were... Læs mere
Explores the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. Working across established disciplines and methodological divides,... Læs mere
"Death of the Father" is a comparative examination of the crises in symbolic identification and national traumas that have resulted from the defeat and/or implosion of regimes in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Communist Eastern Europe.