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Book Germany s Rude Awakening

Download or read book Germany s Rude Awakening written by Frederik Ohles and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's Rude Awakening depicts the rise and fall of censorship in the age of the Brothers Grimm and Prince Metternich. Focusing on the Grimm's homeland of Hesse-Cassel, Frederik Ohles illustrates how censorship first awakened to the challenge posed by new political forces and literary forms, then lost its effectiveness as more and more Germans read and wrote what they wanted, finding ways to evade both censors and police. Ohles examines actual practices, looking beyond the legislation of the German Confederation and the pronouncements of Prince Metternich. He explores the effects of the laws on the censors' work, analyzes the political influence of Prussia and Austria on the Principality of Hesse (situated at the crossroads of the German Confederation), and interprets the results of censorship on literature, politics, the book trade, and public and private life. In telling the story of a momentous struggle between old and new views of politics and literature, he shows that while censorship became a public issue in eighteenth-century Germany, it failed as a policing institution. Ohles's extensive research includes police archives, early issues of the bookdealers' gazette published in Marburg, recollections of the Brothers Grimm, the Hessian collection of artistic and scholarly memoirs, and travelers' accounts. The result is a work that will appeal to specialists in nineteenth-century German history and literature as well as historians of censorship, publishing, and German political culture. It also complements current historical debates about communications, public culture, and the modernization of bureaucracy.

Book A Very Rude Awakening

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Grose
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2007-05-01
  • ISBN : 1741762456
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book A Very Rude Awakening written by Peter Grose and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour and caused an unforgettable night of mayhem, high farce, chaos and courage. A ground-breaking new look at one of the most extraordinary stories of Australia at war. On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers devoted more pages to horse racing than to Hitler. That Sunday night the party came to a shattering halt when three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour, past eight electronic indicator loops, past six patrolling Royal Australian Navy ships, and past an anti-submarine net stretched across the inner harbour entrance. Their arrival triggered a night of mayhem, courage, chaos and high farce which left 27 sailors dead and a city bewildered. The war, it seemed, was no longer confined to distant desert and jungle. It was right here at Australia's front door. Written at the pace of a thriller and based on new first person accounts and previously unpublished official documents, A Very Rude Awakening is a ground-breaking and myth-busting look at one of the most extraordinary stories ever told of Australia at war.

Book Banned in Berlin

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  • Author : Gary D. Stark
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0857453114
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Banned in Berlin written by Gary D. Stark and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors, but still not broad enough to prevent the literary community from challenging and subverting many of the social norms the state was most determined to defend. This study is the first systematic analysis in any language of state censorship of literature and theater in imperial Germany (1871-1918). To assess the role that formal state controls played in German literary and political life during this period, it examines the intent, function, contested legal basis, institutions, and everyday operations of literary censorship as well as its effectiveness and its impact on authors, publishers, and theater directors.

Book The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism

Download or read book The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism written by Jakob Norberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly reconstructing the political ideas of the Brothers Grimm, Jakob Norberg transforms our image of history's most famous folklorists.

Book Readers  Guide to Periodical Literature

Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by Bertha Tannehill and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Formation of the First German Nation State  1800   1871

Download or read book The Formation of the First German Nation State 1800 1871 written by John Breuilly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many accounts of German unification focus on war, diplomacy and Bismarck and on the crucial ten years up to 1871. John Breuilly, in addition to paying attention to those issues extends the analysis back to 1800. He also takes into account social, economic and cultural developments, bringing to the reader's attention recent research, much of it in German. In particular, the book argues that one should see unification as just one possible outcome of the German situation, the result of rapid shifts in the relative power of different European states and of underlying changes which made nationality a more vital force in politics.

Book International Organization and Conference Series

Download or read book International Organization and Conference Series written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readers  Guide to Periodical Literature

Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interned in Germany

Download or read book Interned in Germany written by Henry Charles Mahoney and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Organization and Conference Series

Download or read book International Organization and Conference Series written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Entangled Emancipation

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  • Author : Alexandria N. Ruble
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2023-11-01
  • ISBN : 1487550316
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Entangled Emancipation written by Alexandria N. Ruble and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens with regard to marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany – the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich – the Civil Code remained the law of the land. After Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945 and the founding of East and West Germany, legislators in both states finally replaced the old law with new versions that expanded women’s rights in marriage and the family. Entangled Emancipation reveals how the complex relationship between the divided Germanys in the early Cold War catalysed but sometimes blocked efforts to reshape legal understandings of gender and the family after decades of inequality. Using methods drawn from gender history and discourse analysis, the book restores the history of the women’s movements in East and West Germany. Entangled Emancipation ultimately explores the parallel processes through which East and West Germany reimagined, negotiated, and created new civil laws governing women’s rights after the Second World War.

Book Aeronautics

Download or read book Aeronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treitschke s History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Treitschke s History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century written by Heinrich von Treitschke and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hitler Youth

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  • Author : H. W. Koch
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0815410840
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Hitler Youth written by H. W. Koch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. W. Koch, himself a former Hitler Youth brings a unique sensitivity and perspective to the history of one of the most fascinating vehicles for Nazi thought and propaganda. He traces the Hitler Youth movement from its antecedents in nineteenth-century German romanticism and pre-1914 youth culture, through the World War I radicaliztion of German youth, to its ultimate exploitation by the Nazi party.

Book Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe

Download or read book Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe written by Herman Willem Hoen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Undeniably Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe provides many insights in the political economy of institutional reform and constitutes an important contribution to the growing literature on "second-generation" reforms.' - Carlos Santiso, Democratization The implementation of a democratic order embedded in a market economy environment has proved immensely difficult. Furthermore, this process is subject to tremendous variety within Central and Eastern Europe. Ten years after the collapse of communism it was apparent that only Poland and Slovenia surpassed their 1989 levels of GDP. This book scrutinises the arrangements to enforce good governance in this area both by means of external help and domestic political leadership. From the popular assumption that transformation is a collective good, it follows that the problem of free-riding has to be faced. Consequently there is a danger that transformation may never be completed. This book empirically tests the relationship between economic performance and good governance focusing upon voluntary coercion as a means to prevent free-riding behaviour. The author examines the role of international organisations and discusses elite formation as an important element of good governance - something often ignored in the economic analysis of economic performance.

Book Germany and China

Download or read book Germany and China written by Andreas Fulda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Germany. In Germany and China, leading international relations expert Andreas Fulda looks critically at the increasingly interdependent relationship between the two countries. Drawing on examples from politics, industry, development aid and technology sectors and academia, the book explores how successive governments from Helmut Kohl to Angela Merkel have pursued ever-closer ties to China in the interests of short term economic gain. Fulda explores the danger of this increasing entanglement not just for Germany, but for Europe and the international world order.