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Format: 1 online resource (322 pages)

ISBN: 9780511187841

Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute

Content: Historians and political theorists consider the subject of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dictatorships.

Content: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- PART I Bonapartism to Its Contemporaries -- 1 From Consulate to Empire -- a first step: consul for life -- a successor to bonaparte? -- the last stand of the old revolutionaries -- a 'debate' in the tribunate -- the senate responds -- 2 The Bonapartes and Germany -- 3 Prussian Conservatives and the Problem of Bonapartism -- 4 Tocqueville and French Nineteenth-Century Conceptualizations of the Two Bonapartes and Their Empires -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- conclusion -- 5 Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte -- marx and history -- marx and marxism -- marx and english prose -- conclusions -- 6 Bonapartism as the Progenitor of Democracy -- the bonapartist territorial system -- centralization and its dysfunctions -- the empire's decentralist response -- the resistance of the administrative centralists -- the balance sheet of bonapartist decentralism -- PART II Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism -- 7 Max Weber and the Avatars of Caesarism -- avatars of caesarism -- of politics and sociology: a tale of two discourses -- the qualities of the caesarist politician -- conclusion -- 8 The Concept of Caesarism in Gramsci -- 9 From Constitutional Technique to Caesarist Ploy -- dictatorship between marxism and liberalism -- liberalism, exceptions, and the sovereign dictatorship of procedures -- conclusion -- 10 Bonapartist and Gaullist Heroic Leadership -- the heroic variant of charismatic authority -- constitutionalizing the heroic leader -- the interdependence between personal and popular sovereignty -- heroic legends and institutional legacies -- 11 The Leader and the Masses -- the leader -- the masses -- conclusion -- PART III Ancient Resonances -- 12 Dictatorship in Rome.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521825634

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Additional Edition: Print version Dictatorship in History and Theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism

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Format: 1 online resource (296 pages)

ISBN: 9781139146876

Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute

Content: The history of civil, political and social rights in the USA and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Content: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE Race, Immigration, and Rights -- 1 Asian Americans -- I -- II -- 2 Individual Right and Collective Interests -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 3 Securing Rights by Action, Securing Rights by Default -- 4 From Civil Rights to Civic Death -- FLASHBACK TO 1924 -- THE NAZIS ASSUME POWER -- 5 The Rights of Aliens in Germany and the United States -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF IMMIGRATION LAW IN THE UNITED STATES -- BASIC LAW TO THE RESCUE: ALIEN RIGHTS IN GERMANY -- CONCLUSION -- PART TWO Civil and Social Rights -- 6 "The Right to Work Is the Right to Live!" -- THE RIGHT TO WORK -- WORKING-CLASS VOICES -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Social Rights and Citizenship During World War II -- A "NEW ECONOMIC ORDER" IN EUROPE: THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA OFFENSIVE -- A NEW BILL OF RIGHTS FOR THE UNITED STATES? -- RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP, AND SOCIAL SECURITY -- THE IMPACT OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT -- MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Just Desserts -- 9 The Political Culture of Rights -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 10 The Emerging Right to Information -- THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF A RIGHT TO INFORMATION -- EXPERIENCE WITH GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED INFORMATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- EARLY INFORMATION POLICY INITIATIVES -- THE INFORMATION SOCIETY OF THE 1990S -- INFORMATION EQUITY -- TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMICS ISSUES IN INFORMATION EQUITY -- UNIVERSAL SERVICE -- ADDITIONAL EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART THREE Gender, Sex, and Rights -- 11 Feminist Movements in the United States and Germany -- 12 Minorities, Civil Rights, and Political Culture -- TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS -- FROM PERSECUTION TO PROMINENCE, 1897-1997 -- Germany: The Infamous Paragraph 175 -- The United States - Federalism at Work.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521792660

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Additional Edition: Print version Two Cultures of Rights : The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany

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Format: Online-Ressource (406 p.)

ISBN: 9780521834322

Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute

Content: This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Are We There Yet? World War II and the Theory of Total War; 1 Total War The Global Dimensions of Conflict; 2 Total War The Conduct of War 1939-1945; 3 The Ultimate Horror Reflections on Total War and Genocide; 4 Germany and the Battle of the Atlantic; 5 From "Blitzkrieg" to "Total War" Germany's War in Europe; 6 Global Yet Not Total The U.S. War Effort and Its Consequences; 7 The USSR and Total War Why Didn't the Soviet Economy Collapse in 1942?; 8 Blood, Sweat, and Tears British Mobilization for World War II , 9 The Impact of Compulsory Labor on German Society at War10 Fantasy, Reality, and Modes of Perception in Ludendorff's and Goebbels's Concepts of "Total War"; 11 The Home Front in "Total War" Women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War; 12 Women in the Soviet War Effort, 1941-1945; 13 The Spirit of St. Louis Mobilizing American Politics and Society, 1937-1945; 14 Partisan War in Belorussia, 1941-1944; 15 Allied Bombing and the Destruction of German Cities; 16 "Accidental Judgments, Casual Slaughters" Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Total War , 17 Sexual Violence and Its Prosecution by Courts Martial of the Wehrmacht18 Ideologies of Difference and the Turn to Atrocity Japan's War on China; 19 On the Road to Total Retribution? The International Debate on the Punishment of War Crimes, 1872-1945; 20 Total War Some Concluding Reflections; Index;

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780511081682

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521834322

Additional Edition: Print version A World at Total War : Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945

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Format: Online-Ressource (377 p.)

ISBN: 9780521804134

Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute

Content: This collection of essays does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and World War II; 2 Between Pain and Silence; 3 Paths of Normalization after the Persecution of the Jews; 4 Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood; 5 Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945; 6 "Going Home"; 7 Desperately Seeking Normality; 8 Family Life and "Normality" in Postwar British Culture; 9 Continuities and Discontinuities of Consumer Mentality in West Germany in the 1950s; 10 "Strengthened and Purified Through Ordeal by Fire" , 11 The Nationalization of Victimhood12 Italy after Fascism; 13 The Politics of Post-Fascist Aesthetics; 14 Dissonance, Normality, and the Historical Method; Index;

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780511072147

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521804134

Additional Edition: Print version Life after Death : Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s

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Format: Online-Ressource (690 p.)

ISBN: 9780521791120

Content: The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War is a multi-author work that looks at all aspects of German-American relations in the years from Germany's defeat in World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany's reunification

Note: Description based upon print version of record , COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FOR VOLUMES 1 AND 2; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Politics, Security, Economics, Culture, and Society; the united states and germany in the twentieth century; the presence of the past; dual containment; international economic crises, multipolarity, and the second cold war; arrival in the west: american influence on society and culture in the federal republic; POLITICS; "No Harder Enterprise"; chapter one The Allied Council of Foreign Ministers Conferences and the German Question, 1945-1947 , chapter two The United States in the Allied Control Councilchapter three Supervised Democratization; chapter four Life Rewarded the Latecomers; chapter five The Marshall Plan and the Origins of the Cold War; chapter six Winning the Peace; chapter seven The United States and the Founding of the Federal Republic, 1948-1949; chapter eight From Occupation to Alliance; chapter nine Rollback; chapter ten From Supreme Authority to Reserved Rights and Responsibilities; chapter eleven Germany Between the Superpowers, 1948-1968; chapter twelve The United States and the German Question, 1949-1968 , chapter thirteen Divided Loyalties in Transatlantic Policy Toward Europechapter fourteen The U.S. Congress and German-American Relations; chapter fifteen Political Parties and German-American Relations; chapter sixteen Personalities and Politics; chapter seventeen The Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, 1955-1968; chapter eighteen Berlin; chapter nineteen "Little Room for Maneuver"; SECURITY; Security Through Deterrence?; chapter one Overcast, Paperclip, Osoaviakhim; chapter two The Dilemmas of Dual Containment; chapter three Partners in Defense , chapter four Variable Architectures for War and Peacechapter five The Shifting Military Balance in Central Europe; chapter six NATO Strategy and the German-American Relationship; chapter seven German-American Disagreements over Arms-Control Policy; chapter eight The Origins of Intelligence Cooperation Between the United States and West Germany; ECONOMICS; From Enlightened Hegemony to Partnership; chapter one From Weakening an Enemy to Strengthening an Ally; chapter two Restructuring and Support; chapter three From Decartelization to Reconcentration , chapter four Opting for the Structural Breakchapter five The Marshall Plan; chapter six Protégé and Partner; chapter seven American and German Trade Relations; chapter eight Technology and the Construction of the Alliance; chapter nine Occupation Costs, Stationing Costs, Offset Payments; chapter ten From Reconstruction Aid to Capital Interlocking; chapter eleven German and American Economic and Monetary Policy; chapter twelve The Influence of the United States on German Economic Thought; CULTURE; A New Start and Old Prejudices , chapter one U.S. Cultural Policy and German Culture During the American Occupation

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780511194344

Additional Edition: Print version The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War: Volume 1, 1945-1968

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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