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German description: Die DDR-Forschung ist, bezogen auf den diktatorischen Machtapparat der SED, reich an Untersuchungen zu drei der ihn tragenden bewaffneten Saulen: der Staatssicherheit, der Deutschen Volkspolizei und der Nationalen Volksarmee, wie auch zu deren Beziehungsgefuge untereinander.

Compares the political changes of 1989-90 in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. This title focuses on the conditions of transition, on the state of the autocracies at the end of their rule, on the specificity of the system change and, finally, on the phase of the establishment of democracy.

Addresses Helmuth Plessner's critical analysis of Nazism, in which he couples an examination of liberal values and societies with a reconstruction of German characteristics responsible for the rise of Nazism. It discusses Plessner's continued relevance for the humanities with a focus on the concepts of political humanism, and totalitarianism.

What are the conditions for success of Radical Right-Wing Parties in German? This study addresses this problem by means of a comparative analysis and shows a typology of mechanisms favouring success of the Radical Right.

Totalitarianism was the crucial challenge for German writers in the 20th century. This title includes essays that approach the multi-facetted problem from the perspective of cultural studies, history of literature, reception aesthetics and religious studies.

Focuses on the autocratic regimes with totalitarian features and the factors that boosted their change into consolidated and democratic constitutional states.

Nur wenige Philosophen und Sozialwissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts durften einen vergleichbaren geistigen Einfluss auf die Debatten in Wissenschaft und Offentlichkeit gewonnen haben wie Hannah Arendt.

Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals eine ausfuhrliche zeitgeschichtliche Darstellung des Prozesses der SED-Entmachtung und der Demokratisierung bis zur Marzwahl 1990 vor. Erganzt wird der Text durch zahlreiche Diagramme, mit denen die Stimmen der Bevolkerung quantitativ erfasst und ausgewertet werden.

Evaluating eye-witness interviews and Stasi documents simultaneously, this study analyses the changing methods of governmental control and repression within the context of individual experiences since the beginning of the Honecker era.

Analyses how political ideologies are represented in the discourses, visions, programmes and propagandistic efforts of extremist organisations.

Does Germany and Europe still have a social formation that continues the tradition of the bourgeoisie after the civil era? This title examines fields of expertise, which were characterised as bourgeois in 19th century research.

Examines the historical development and specific developments of national status by comparing Germany and Italy.

Looks at the influence of middle-class and middle-class-based social reform movements concerned with welfare state-building in the US and in Germany from 1880 to 1940. This book considers the interaction with poverty as elementary for the constitution of the middle class as a distinct social group.

Using the example of the Moravian Church to examine the role that concepts of self and space play in creating a global community, this book traces the elaborate network of organization, communication, and collective memory that nurtured ties between settlements and missions spread around the globe.

A study of the practice of piety of the learned middle class in Protestant south Germany. It shows that the special mixture of Lutheran Pietism, middle class living conditions and gender produced a new middle class culture.

Die Geschichte des Judenhasses war lang, brutal und gipfelte in der Vernichtung von über sechs Millionen Juden durch die Nationalsozialisten. Nach der Schoah war der Antisemitismus in Europa tabu, verschwand aber nicht aus den Denkmustern. Vielmehr zeigte er sich in seiner stereotypen Gestalt recht bald wieder. Das Buch behandelt in chronologischer Form die verschiedenen Ausprägungen und Entwicklungen des Judenhasses in Europa. Sie reichen von Vertreibung, Gettoisierung, Pogromen und der Schoah bis zum alltäglichen Antisemitismus. Die Ereignisse werden dabei im jeweiligen historischen, ideologischen und literarischen Kontext verortet.

Investigates the transformations of the Faust-figure within the early modern Faustbooks, that have founded the Faust-legend.

A study of astronomical and cosmological diagrams from the High and early Late Middle Ages that shows that the form of the diagram not only generated a specific meaning but also conveyed the nature and scope of contemporary knowledge about the cosmos.

Die Beitrage widmen sich verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen der Herrschaftsbildung und der regionalen Verdichtung von Herrschaft im Mittelalter aus den Bereichen mittelalterlicher Kunst- und Baugeschichte, aus den Literaturwissenschaften und der Quellenkunde, aus der Archaologie und der komparatistischen.

Among the most popular books of the 18th century was "Vorbereitung zur WeltGeschichte fur Kinder" (1779) (Preparing Children for World History) by August Ludwig von Schlozer (1735-1809). The historian believed that children should become scholars at an early age. His history book was not only meant to educate his sons but also his daughters.

Combining the methods of history and art history, this book gives fresh insight into the social position of scholars in medieval Italy and France and discusses the roots of group portraiture.