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In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been recognized as the central economic institution of medieval Japan, Thomas Keirstead argues that estates, or shoen, constituted more than a type of landownership. Through an examination of rent rolls, land registers, maps, and other data describing individual estates he reveals a cultural

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This is the third volume in a series of five books on the German army of World War II. Covering the Eastern Front, the book includes the organization, campaigns and uniforms of the army, beginning with the attack on the Soviet Union and ending with their defeat at Stalingrad in 1943.

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The fourth volume in a series of titles on the German army of World War II. It details the various unit uniforms and insignia as well as the significant events that affected the troops who fought there.

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For the better part of fifty years, the powerful German army of World War II has been seen as an organization of consummate skill and honor, one that had little in common with the criminal policies and ideology of the Nazi regime. The German Army and the Genocide explodes that myth.

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The first of a three-part study of the organization, uniforms, insignia and equipment of the German Army of World War I. It covers the troops who fought at Mons, Arras and 1st Ypres in 1914; at Neuve Chappelle, 2nd Ypres, Artois and the Argonne, 1915; and in East Prussia and Poland, 1914-15.

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This second volume in a series of three covers the troops that fought in the massive battles of attrition of the mid-war years - Champagne 1915, Verdun, the Somme, and the Chemin des Dames, 1916-17, and against the Brusilov Offensive in the East in 1916.

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This volume examines the troops that fought during the climax of the war on all fronts - the last great battles of attrition in the West and the collapse of Russia in the East. Uniform changes during this period reflected the introduction of new tactics and weapons and new types of troops, such as tanks and assault battalions.

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A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original conceptualization of the GDR as a totalitarian welfare state.

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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. 1815-1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers. -- .