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Religion, politics, and social protest: Three studies on early modern Germany

Blickle, Peter

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal: A New View of German History (Studies in Early Modern German History)

Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal is a concise book, brimming with smart ideas and important, little-known information. It lays to rest the notion that ordinary people passively let 'history' sweep over them, instead of actively creating their own history. It is also a powerful antidote to some of the most persistent stereotypes about German history. Anyone interested in the early modern era will want to read this book for its grand thematic sweep and interpretive rigor. It sets the standard for understanding the political role of the common people in European history.

History

Europe

University of Virginia Press

Religion, Politics and Social Protest: Three Studies on Early Modern Germany (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)

Religion, Politics and Social Protest (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)

Schulze, Winfried

Rublack, Hans-Christoph

Reference

Routledge

The idea of Heimat (home, homeland, native region) has been as important to German self-perceptions over the last two hundred years as the shifting notion of the German nation. While the idea of Heimat has been long neglected in English studies of German culture--among other reasons because the word Heimat has no exact equivalent in English--this book offers us the first cross-disciplinary and comprehensive analysis, in English or German, of this all-pervasive German idea. Blickle shows how the idea of Heimat interpenetrates German notions of modernity, identity, gender, nature, and innocence. Blickle reminds us of such commonplace expressions of Heimat sentimentality as Biedermeier landscapes of Alpine meadows and castles on the Rhine, but also finds the Heimat preoccupation in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. Always aware of the many literary representations of Heimat (for instance in Schiller, Hölderlin, Heine, Kafka, and Thomas Mann), Blickle does not argue for the fundamental innocence of Heimat. Instead he shows again and again how the idealization of a home ground leads to borders of exclusion.Peter Blickle is associate professor of German at Western Michigan University.

Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

BOYE6

Deutsche Untertanen: Ein Widerspruch (German Edition)

Beck

Von der Leibeigenschaft zu den Menschenrechten: Eine Geschichte der Freiheit in Deutschland

Beck C. H.

Munich 1975 Oldenbourg. Hardcover. Octavo, 250pp., original printed yellow cloth. Fine, no DJ.

Die Revolution von 1525 (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oldenbourg

Walter de Gruyter

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