Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Leader

History

Smelser, Ronald

Europe

Berg

<p>Among the various history texts on modern Germany, Diether Raff's book occupies a special place.  Conceived during a spell at the Institute for Advanced Foreign Language Study in Beijing, China, it is specially designed for German Studies courses around the world.  Its emphasis is on easy comprehensibility, detailed empirical information rather than complex structural analysis, and full coverage of the political, economic and cultural development of German society from the eighteenth-century to the present.  In an introductory chapter the author presents a brief survey of the history of the Germans from the very beginning.  Reviewers of the German edition have invariably praised the author's superior style which makes the history of this period genuinely come alive for the non-specialist.  The volume contains a helpful select bibliography, biographical notes on the major historical figures mentioned in the text, and maps.  Teachers as well as students will find the chronologies at the beginning of each chapter, which list the most important dates and events of the period, additionally useful.</p>

A History of Germany from the Medieval Empire to the Present

RAFF, Diether

Presents a vivid picture of the various ways in which the French people experienced war: resistance and collaboration, the colonial wars, the military and the state, the military-industrial complex, war propaganda, and literary and cultural representations of war.

War and Society in 20th Century France

, xvi, 203 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout

The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the 19th century

SCHIVELBUSCH, Wolfgang

Because it made possible rapid movement and shipping across large distances, joining far-off towns to economic and cultural capitals, many people who lived in the early 19th century regarded the railroad as an instrument of progress. Because anyone with the price of a ticket could board a train, regardless of social class, the railroad was also seen as a democratizing technology. But, Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes in this vivid history of early rail travel, the promise of progress and democracy was swiftly compromised. The railroads became an agency for the concentration of wealth in a few hands, and they created a class of passive consumers who simply got aboard and waited to arrive at their destinations. The railroads, Schivelbusch writes, changed the 19th-century world for good and ill. They helped rewrite the industrializing world's sense of time, for now precise schedules had to be kept; they reinforced a sense of forward-plunging movement into the future; they even introduced the reality of mass disaster, for railroads were always crashing, sometimes taking hundreds of riders to their deaths. Delving into urban planning, psychology, architecture, and economics, as well as the history of technology, Schivelbusch paints a revealing portrait of the role of the railroad in shaping the 19th-century mind. --Gregory McNamee 

Militarism: The history of an international debate, 1861-1979

Engineering & Transportation

Berghahn, Volker Rolf

Engineering

<p>Text: English, German (translation)</p>

Facing total war: German society, 1914-1918

Kocka, Jürgen

This work represents a major survey of research which succeeds in opening up new perspectives on a number of European countries. The theme of social inequality is divided into sections on income, property, employment, education, housing, illness and death. The author finally attempts to develop a number of arguments about the relationship between industrialisation and social inequality, which are likely to stimulate further debate.

Industrialisation and Social Inequality in 19th-Century Europe

Business & Money

Hartmut Kaeble

Biography & History

The Weimar Republic has long held a special fascination for the modern historian and many studies are now available on its internal development, its cultural life and its eventual destruction by Nazism. Meanwhile, although diplomatic history has been less in the limelight, a great deal of fresh and important work has been done on Weimar foreign policy. Both authors have been in the forefront of this research and have now pooled thier intimate knowledge of German domestic and foreign affairs to produce this brilliant synthesis which at the same time raises major questions of continuity fom the Kaiser to Hitler.

German Foreign Policy 1917-1933; Continuity or Break?

Politics & Social Sciences

Marshall, Lee

Wolfgang Michalka

Politics & Government

The Americanisation of West German industry, 1945-1973

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