Germania and Agricola
Described by two prominent twentieth century leftist academics as one of the 'most dangerous books ever written,' Roman historian Tacitus's 98 AD work Germania is credited with almost single-handedly creating modern German nationalism after the manuscript's rediscovery in 1462. Originally titled 'On the Origin and Situation of the Germanic Peoples' (De Origine et situ Germanorum), it provides a vivid survey of the physical, cultural, and behavioral characteristics of the German people in what the Romans called Germania Magna-'Greater Germany'-that area east of the Rhine River. Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people, and then moves on to detailed descriptions of the individual tribes all the way up to the Baltic Sea. This includes Tacitus's famous description of the Germans as a 'pure and unmixed race' with Nordic racial characteristics. It then describes the Germanic systems of government, religion, the egalitarian status of women in
German Film after Germany
What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? To answer that question, Randall Halle focuses on the film industry of Germany, one of Europe's largest film markets and one of the world's largest film-producing nations. In the 199...
Dissonant Lives
Dissonant Lives is not a standard 'history of Germany' in the twentieth century, or even of the German dictatorships. It is concerned with the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through this terrible period in German his...
Dissonant Lives
Dissonant Lives is not a standard 'history of Germany' in the twentieth century, or even of the German dictatorships. It is concerned with the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through this terrible period in German his...
Hitler's Geographies
Lebensraum: the entitlement of legitimate Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of undesirables to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of pow...
New History of German Literature
The revolutionary spirit that animates the culture of the Germans has been alive for at least twelve centuries, far longer than the dramatically fragmented and reshaped political entity known as Germany. German culture has been central to Europe, ...
Mapping the Germans
Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity. It asks how spat...
Born in the GDR
The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was...
Ostkrieg
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern fr...
Ostkrieg
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern fr...
Representations of German Identity
Who is German? What defines Germanness? These questions about national identity have continued to confound both Germans and foreign observers in light of Germanys complex history: its changing borders between 1871 and 1989 make even a geographic d...
Germany
'What is a German's fatherland?', asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This has arguably been the central question of modern German history. Germans did not have a united fatherland until 1871, and, thereafter, majo...
Most Dangerous Book
When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as "a bible" and vow to resurrect Germany on its g...
El Rego: El Rego
El Rego: El Rego [CD]
El Leopardo: El Leopardo
El Leopardo: El Leopardo [Vinyl 12"]
El El encantador de pájaros
A beautiful read full of symbolism that invites us to open our gaze to the present moment, conveying a powerful message: life is here and now. An enigmatic young woman roams the streets of Paris on her bicycle every day. Immersed in her work, she goes to her studio relentlessly. Only the meows of her beloved Max can bring a smile to her face every evening. A very special narrator has taken notice of her, unable to resist following her footsteps and noticing what unfolds until one day, something will happen that changes everything. This beautifully illustrated album reminds us that what truly matters is the present moment, as life happens here and now, and to enjoy it, we need to pause, open our eyes, and pay attention to our surroundings. A delicate, exquisite, and poetic text guides us through a powerful story wrapped in extraordinary illustrations reminiscent of art nouveau, ultimately captivating its readers. In the end, an incredible surprise awaits. Especially for her, the
Mariachi El Bronx: El Bronx
Mariachi El Bronx: El Bronx [CD]
Screening War
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath. The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films...
German Design 1949 - 1989
The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 - 1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such clichés. More than 30 years after German ...
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century seeks to understand recent German history and contemporary German culture through its sounds and musics, noises and silences, using the means and modes of the emerging field of Sound Studies. German soundscape...
El Vedüd
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El Kizi
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El viaje
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El Principito
El Principito habita un pequenisimo asteroide, que comparte con una flor caprichosa y tres volcanes. Pero tiene "problemas" con la flor y empieza a experimentar la soledad. Hasta que decide abandonar el planeta ...
El Capital
Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: El capital - Crÿtica de la Economÿa Polÿtica de Karl Marx es, como reza su subtÿtulo, un tratado de crÿtica de la economÿa polÿtica; al mismo tiempo, ha sido también leÿdo como una obra de filos...
El Greco
A visually stunning examination of El Grecos work that considers the artists constant reinvention and professional drive Renowned for a singular artistic vision, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (15411614), developed his distinctive pai...
El Aleph
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El entenado
Un grumete parte en una expedición a territorios rioplatenses en el siglo XVI, y es capturado por una tribu indígena, en el seno de la cual presencia actos innombrables que recordará el resto de su vida. Lo que no es fácil de reducir en El entenad...
El Principito
El Principito
El túnel
El túnel