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In the wake of the Fischer Controversy on the origins of WWI, there emerged in West Germany a younger generation of historians, who took a critical 'revisionist' view of the Bismarckian Empire and began to analyze the political development of the Hohenzollern monarchy against the background of the country's social and economic power structures.

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In the wake of the Fischer Controversy on the origins of WWI, there emerged in West Germany a younger generation of historians, who took a critical 'revisionist' view of the Bismarckian Empire and began to analyze the political development of the Hohenzollern monarchy against the background of the country's social and economic power structures.

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This work charts the seemingly spontaneous growth of the "Free Corps" movement from the ashes of the Imperial German Army following the 1918 Armistice. It features accounts of dramatic and little-known campaigns inside Germany and on the Baltic and Polish frontiers.

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At the outbreak of war in 1939 Germany was committed to the concept of Blitzkrieg yet the reality became something very different as every corner of German society was impacted by the realities of war. This book details the critical civilian support that was necessary to maintain German control.

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Since the early nineteenth century fellow Europeans have asked themselves how Germany could fit into the existing as well as the future political and mental map of Europe.

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This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 18151920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers.

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This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 1815-1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers. -- .

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Why did Bismarck's new German State degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich What happened to Europe's leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945 This study explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries.

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The surprising story of the most infamous prison ship of the American Revolution, the HMS Jersey, and its role in the fight for independence

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In 1832, 57 Irish Catholic workers were brought to the United States to lay one of the most difficult miles of American railway, Duffy's Cut of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.

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Alan Baker weaves an extraordinary, vivid picture of Roman life as his compelling and evocative history tells the story of Rome's most notable gladiators.

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Arthur Koestler's first novel, set in the late Roman Republic, tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and man's search for Utopia.

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New Princeton paperback printing, with a new foreword by J.R. McNeill.

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Provides an interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human. This title questions the notion of 'frontier freedom' through an examination of European expansion. It focuses on the role of catastrophe in our lives.

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Explores the impact of Rome's globalizing empire upon identity and visual culture in its western and eastern provinces, particularly as it pertains to the realities of glocal identities.

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Looks back at the golden age, from 1920s to 1970s, when well-appointed airliners whisked around the world on holiday and on business. This title evokes the chink of champagne glasses, the aroma of expensive cigars and the roar of early jet engines: the experience of air travel before package holidays and budget airlines changed flying forever.

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The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an i