German Freedom and the Greek Ideal, McGrath William J

Автор: McPherson James M.
Название: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
ISBN: 019516895X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195168952
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.

The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict.

This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.

Автор: Beiser Frederick C.
Название: After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900
ISBN: 069116309X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691163093
Издательство: Wiley
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Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel s death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. But Frederick Beiser argues that the second half of the century was in fact one of the most revolutionary periods in modern philosophy because the nature of philosophy itself was up for grabs and the very absence of certainty led to creativity and the start of a new era. In this innovative concise history of German philosophy from 1840 to 1900, Beiser focuses not on themes or individual thinkers but rather on the period s five great debates: the identity crisis of philosophy, the materialism controversy, the methods and limits of history, the pessimism controversy, and the "Ignorabimusstreit." Schopenhauer and Wilhelm Dilthey play important roles in these controversies but so do many neglected figures, including Ludwig Buchner, Eugen Duhring, Eduard von Hartmann, Julius Fraunstaedt, Hermann Lotze, Adolf Trendelenburg, and two women, Agnes Taubert and Olga Pluemacher, who have been completely forgotten in histories of philosophy. The result is a wide-ranging, original, and surprising new account of German philosophy in the critical period between Hegel and the twentieth century."

Автор: Kennedy David M.
Название: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
ISBN: 0195144031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195144031
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Описание: Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.

Автор: Russell Bertrand
Название: Freedom and Organization
ISBN: 0415487390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415487399
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Written in the approachable style that has made Russell`s works so revered, this is a major work of political history in which significant economic and political forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century are examined.

Автор: Ehlert Hans, Epkenhans Michael, Gross Gerhard P.
Название: The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I
ISBN: 0813147468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813147468
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: "With the creation of the Franco-Russian Alliance and the failure of the Reinsurance Treaty in the late nineteenth century, Germany needed a strategy for fighting a two-front war. In response, Field Marshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen produced a study that represented the apex of modern military planning. His Memorandum for a War against France, which incorporated a mechanized cavalry as well as new technologies in weaponry, advocated that Germany concentrate its field army to the west and annihilate the French army within a few weeks. For generations, historians have considered Schlieffen`s writings to be the foundation of Germany`s military strategy in World War I and have hotly debated the reasons why the plan, as executed, failed. In this important volume, international scholars reassess Schlieffen`s work for the first time in decades, offering new insights into the renowned general`s impact not only on World War I but also on nearly a century of military historiography. The contributors draw on newly available source materials from European and Russian archives to demonstrate both the significance of the Schlieffen Plan and its deficiencies. They examine the operational planning of relevant European states and provide a broad, comparative historical context that other studies lack. Featuring fold-out maps and abstracts of the original German deployment plans as they evolved from 1893 to 1914, this rigorous reassessment vividly illustrates how failures in statecraft as well as military planning led to the tragedy of the First World War"--

Автор: Demshuk
Название: The Lost German East
ISBN: 1107634350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107634350
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: After 1945, Germany was inundated with German refugees ethnically cleansed from territories ceded to East European states. Using cultural historical approaches to memory, nostalgia and ethnic cleansing, Andrew Demshuk shows how these refugees came to realize that the idealized world they mourned no longer existed and began to integrate into West German society.

Автор: David Barnett
Название: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre
ISBN: 0521855144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521855143
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Using extensive and untapped archival material as well as a series of in-depth interviews with Fassbinder`s main theatre associates, this book offers commentary on and insights into Fassbinder`s plays, his dramaturgies and staging practice. David Barnett helps to unlock the much discussed theatricality of Fassbinder`s films by showing its many concrete sources.

Автор: Eozyeurek Esra, Zyrek Esra, Ozyurek Esra
Название: Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe
ISBN: 0691162794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691162799
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts--a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European value

Автор: Scales
Название: The Shaping of German Identity
ISBN: 1107460344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107460348
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: For the first time in any language this book recounts the formation of German identity in the late Middle Ages. Offering a significant new perspective on German history and European nation-making, it shows how German identity took shape in a period of weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire.

Автор: King, Charles
Название: The Ghost of Freedom
ISBN: 0195392396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195392395
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Named by Moscow Times "the History Book of the Year," The Ghost of Freedom combines riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, in the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the rise of new countries after the Soviet Union`s collapse. In evocative and accessible prose, Charles King provides an indispensable guide to the complicated histories, politics, and cultures of thisintriguing frontier. The paperback features new material, including an Afterword on the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.