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The Demon of Geopolitics

How Karl Haushofer "Educated" Hitler and Hess

By: Holger H. Herwig

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The Demon of Geopolitics

How Karl Haushofer "Educated" Hitler and Hess

By: Holger H. Herwig

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the “father of geopolitics.” In 1945 the United States sought to put him on trial at Nuremberg as a major war criminal for being “Hitler’s intellectual godfather” and the true author of Mein Kampf. In this definitive biography, noted historian Holger H. Herwig assesses the fiction and reality behind these claims. Making comprehensive use of Haushofer’s previously unavailable private papers, Herwig analyzes Haushofer’s geopolitical concepts, his relations with his student Rudolf Hess, and his mentorship of Hitler and Hess at Landsberg Prison in 1924. Herwig offers unique insights into Haushofer’s crucial behind-the-scenes influence in providing the Nazis with his theories of Autarky and Lebensraum, the rationale for Germany’s control of Europe and the world. This riveting book ends with Haushofer’s final verdict on himself: “I want to be forgotten and forgotten.” But the author concludes with the admonition that the “demon” of Geopolitik demands much closer scrutiny in this new age of geopolitics.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442261145

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The Marne, 1914

The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

By: Holger H. Herwig

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The Marne, 1914

The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

By: Holger H. Herwig

For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marne and puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: the French resolve to win, and the crucial lack of coordination between Germany’s First and Second Armies. Herwig also provides stunning cameos of all the important players, from Germany’s Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke to his rival, France’s Joseph Joffre. Revelatory and riveting, this is the source on this seminal event.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812978293

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9780812978292

On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

By: Holger Afflerbach

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On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

By: Holger Afflerbach

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108832881

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The First World War

Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918

By: Holger H. Herwig

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The First World War

Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918

By: Holger H. Herwig

The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed the seeds of another worldwide conflict 20 years later. This is the only book in the English language to offer comprehensive coverage of how Germany and Austria-Hungary, two of the key belligerents, conducted the war and what defeat meant to them. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, including new developments in the historiography and, in particular, addressing new work on the cultural history of the war. This edition also includes: - New material on the domestic front, covering Austria-Hungary's internal political frictions and ethnic fissures - More on Austria-Hungary and Germany's position within the wider geopolitical framework - Increased coverage of the Eastern front The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918 offers an authoritative and well-researched survey of the role of the Central powers that will be an invaluable text for all those studying the First World War and the development of modern warfare.

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A&C Black

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147251081X

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9781472510815

Global Debates About Taxation

By: Holger Nehring,Florian Schui

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Global Debates About Taxation

By: Holger Nehring,Florian Schui

Current debates about taxes are dominated by references to foreign models. The contributors to this book explore how ideas about taxation were transferred between and within countries from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. They send out a word of caution to current policymakers looking for straightforward solutions from abroad.

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Springer

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0230625517

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9780230625518

Luxury Fleet

The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918

By: Holger Herwig

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Luxury Fleet

The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918

By: Holger Herwig

Originally published in 1980 ‘Luxury’ Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill’s) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918. After tracing the historical background to German naval ambitions, the first two sections of the book analyse Admiral Tirpitz’s programme of building a battle fleet strong enough to engage the Royal Navy in the North Sea. The author shows the fleet in its European setting and describes the warships and the attitudes of the officer corps and seamen. The final section of the book discusses the tactical deployment of the German fleet during the First World War, both in home waters and overseas; and it weighs the balance between those who supported fleet actions in preference to those who favoured cruiser and submarine warfare.

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Routledge

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1317703669

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9781317703662

Politics of Security

British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970

By: Holger Nehring

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Politics of Security

British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970

By: Holger Nehring

Focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to understand how European societies experienced and reacted to the Cold War.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199681228

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9780199681228

A Glance at the History of Linguistics

with particular regard to the historical study of phonology

By: Holger Pedersen

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A Glance at the History of Linguistics

with particular regard to the historical study of phonology

By: Holger Pedersen

This volume presents a translation into English of Holger Pedersen’s Et Blik på Sprogvidenskabens Historie (Copenhagen 1916). In addition, it provides an introductory article by E.F.K. Koerner on Pedersen’s life and work, and a bibliography of his writings.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027280274

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Law Beyond Israel

From the Bible to the Qur'an

By: Holger M. Zellentin

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Law Beyond Israel

From the Bible to the Qur'an

By: Holger M. Zellentin

The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile "residents" living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law. This volume corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on gentiles, on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. Firstly, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentiles. Secondly, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Thirdly, the Qur'an reinvents Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with - and at times in critical distance from - late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.

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Oxford University Press

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0199675570

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9780199675579

Germany's Vision of Empire in Venezuela, 1871-1914

By: Holger H. Herwig

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Germany's Vision of Empire in Venezuela, 1871-1914

By: Holger H. Herwig

The book details which Germans pushed for overseas expansion, how they tried to implement their ambitions, and why they ultimately failed. Discussions of political leaders and diplomats, the navy, German nationals overseas, and the German Evangelical Church and its missions abroad contribute to the history of Wilhelmian Germany. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400858275

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9781400858279

Production Yield of Muon-Induced Neutrons in Lead

Measured at the Modane Underground Laboratory

By: Holger Kluck

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Production Yield of Muon-Induced Neutrons in Lead

Measured at the Modane Underground Laboratory

By: Holger Kluck

The work presented in this book is a major step towards understanding and eventually suppressing background in the direct search for dark matter particles scattering off germanium detectors. Although the flux of cosmic muons is reduced by many orders of magnitude in underground laboratories, the remaining energetic muons induce neutrons through various processes, neutrons that can potentially mimic a dark matter signal. This thesis describes the measurement of muon-induced neutrons over more than 3 years in the Modane underground laboratory. The data are complemented by a thorough modeling of the neutron signal using the GEANT4 simulation package, demonstrating the appropriateness of this tool to model these rare processes. As a result, a precise neutron production yield can be presented. Thus, future underground experiments will be able to reliably model the expected rate of muon-induced neutrons, making it possible to develop the necessary shielding concept to suppress this background component.

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Springer

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3319185276

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The Drama of Space

Spatial Sequences and Compositions in Architecture

By: Holger Kleine

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The Drama of Space

Spatial Sequences and Compositions in Architecture

By: Holger Kleine

The experience of architectural spaces is formed by the way they are staged. The Drama of Space examines the composition and articulation of architectural spaces in terms of spatial dramaturgy, as a repertoire of means and strategies for shaping spatial experience. This fundamental approach to architectural design is presented in four parts: Archetypal principles of spatial composition are traced from the study of three assembly buildings of the early modern period in Venice. Theatre, film, music, and theory provide background knowledge on dramaturgy. Detailed analyses of 18 international case studies offer new perspectives on contemporary architecture. The book ends with a systematic presentation of the dramaturgy of space, its parameters and tools, in architectural design.

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Birkhäuser

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3035604355

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9783035604351

Hiding in Broad Daylight

An Analysis of the Political Radicalisation and Commercialisation of Artistic Modernism

By: Lars Holger Holm

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Hiding in Broad Daylight

An Analysis of the Political Radicalisation and Commercialisation of Artistic Modernism

By: Lars Holger Holm

Artistic modernism. To most of us it would seem a separate universe with its own esoteric intention and logic. What Lars Holger Holm shows in this essay, however, is how intimately the development of various modern artistic idioms, and their theoretical underpinnings, have been linked to concomitant social revolutions and to the highly politicised, theoretical, even racial agendas, entertained by people in the highest places. He also demonstrates how big money has thoroughly perverted art and artists, turning the latter into simple con men performing their charades to a whole world of spectators, manipulated by financial institutions, press, politicians and the media alike into believing that the contemporary art scene really ought to have some kind of meaning... And it does. Only, it's not artistic but exclusively financial and political.

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Arktos

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1910524298

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9781910524299

Art and Craft of Facial Rejuvenation Surgery

By: Wayne F. Larrabee,Holger G. Gassner,William E. Walsh

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Art and Craft of Facial Rejuvenation Surgery

By: Wayne F. Larrabee,Holger G. Gassner,William E. Walsh

The Art and Craft of Facial Rejuvenation presents the essential techniques and procedures that constitute the heart of the specialty. The authors descriptions enable the experienced surgeon to accurately reproduce each technique, and they answer the student's key question: How does one really do it? Detailed intraoperative photography and drawings illustrate each chapter. The images depict all important maneuvers and cover every important step of the operation for the best possible reproducibility of the surgery described.

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PMPH-USA

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1607950383

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9781607950387

Theory of the History Classroom

By: Manuel Köster,Holger Thünemann,Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting

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Theory of the History Classroom

By: Manuel Köster,Holger Thünemann,Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting

This volume proposes a theory of history education in formal classroom settings. Specifically, it aims to outline how the particular setting of the classroom interacts with domain-specific processes of historical thinking. The theory rests on the notion that formal school education is a communicative and social system, while historical thinking occurs in the psychological system of a person's historical consciousness. In the complex interaction of these systems, historical thinking, emotions, communication, media and language are of particular importance. Drawing upon educational theory as well as the theory of history, this theory of the history classroom provides a framework as well as a solid foundation for future empirical research, both for developing research questions as well as for interpreting findings.

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Wochenschau Verlag

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3734413850

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9783734413858

Schildkröten Der Welt

By: Holger Vetter

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Schildkröten Der Welt

By: Holger Vetter

Alle Arten und Unterarten der behandelten Regionen im Bild! Text in Englisch und Deutsch. Haltungsrichtlinien für die dargestellten Taxa in Symbolform. Artkomplexe auf farbigen Verbreitungskarten

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3930612577

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9783930612574

Transitions of Energy Regimes

An Evolutionary Economic Interpretation

By: Holger Berg

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Transitions of Energy Regimes

An Evolutionary Economic Interpretation

By: Holger Berg

Transitions of energy regimes are phenomena that have profoundly affected economies and civilisations over the last 600 years. The shifts from wood to coal, from coal to oil and the potential change to another resource that might be pending now have influenced the ways in which we work, produce, and live. Though they are fundamentally influenced and steered by economic forces these changes have seen little analysis from the viewpoint of economic theory. This book seeks to contribute to filling this gap. To this avail, it firstly provides insight into the historical and present transitions that have taken place. It then gives an overview of the existing economic approaches to energy regime transitions and develops a new interpretation based on evolutionary economics. For this, an approach based on complexity theory and complex adaptive systems is created and applied and the mechanisms behind regime changes are interpreted according to this framework. The analysis is supported by further research into certain aspects of transitions: Historical and present research on resource depletion is compared, the working of path dependence in the constitution and decline of the oil regime is analysed, and the role of entrepreneurship in a regime change from the oil regime towards a potential renewable energy regime is investigated. The book closes with an appraisal of energy regime transitions as a future field of research for evolutionary economics.

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3844102256

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