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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society Under National Socialism

By: Susanne Heim,Carola Sachse,Mark Walker

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society Under National Socialism

By: Susanne Heim,Carola Sachse,Mark Walker

This book examines the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes under Hitler, illustrating the cooperation between scientists and National Socialists in service of autarky, racial hygiene, war, and genocide.

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Cambridge University Press

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052187906X

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Making Peace in an Age of War

Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)

By: Mark Hengerer

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Making Peace in an Age of War

Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)

By: Mark Hengerer

This English-language translation of Mark Hengerer's Kaiser Ferdinand III: 1608–1657 Eine Biographie is based on an analysis of the weekly reports sent by the papal nuncio’s office to the Vatican. These reports give detailed information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty, courtiers, and foreign visitors, and they contain the gossip of the court in addition to weekly analysis of some political problems. This material enabled the author to report on daily life of the dynasty and to analyze the circumstances under which policy was made, which has led to a balance between the personality of Ferdinand III and the problems with which he dealt. In this biography, Hengerer provides answers to the question: Why did it take the emperor more than ten years to end a devastating war, the traumatizing effects of which on central Europe lasted into the twentieth century, particularly since there was no hope of victory against his foreign adversaries from the very moment he came into power?

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Purdue University Press

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1612495923

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9781612495927

Democratic Accountability and International Human Development

Regimes, institutions and resources

By: Kamran Ali Afzal,Mark Considine

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Democratic Accountability and International Human Development

Regimes, institutions and resources

By: Kamran Ali Afzal,Mark Considine

Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health. However, many states still neglect these considerations in favour of competing priorities, such as expanding their armies. This book examines how states arrive at these decisions, analysing how democratic accountability influences public spending and impacts on human development. The book shows how the broader paradigm of democratic accountability – extending beyond political democracy to also include bureaucratic and judicial institutions as well as taxation and other modes of resource mobilisation – can best explain how states allocate public resources for human development. Combining cross-country regression analysis with exemplary case studies from Pakistan, India, Botswana and Argentina, the book demonstrates that enhancing human capabilities requires not only effective party competition and fair elections, but also a particular nesting of public organisational structures that are tied to taxpaying citizens in an undisturbed chain of accountability. It draws out vital lessons for institutional design and our approach to the question of human development, particularly in the less developed states. This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of political economy, public policy, governance, and development. It also provides valuable insights for those working in the international relations field, including inside major aid and investment organisations.

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Routledge

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1317661338

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Democratic Revolutions

Asia and Eastern Europe

By: Mark K. Thompson

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Democratic Revolutions

Asia and Eastern Europe

By: Mark K. Thompson

Thompson examines the neglected concept of democratic revolutions, spontaneous popular uprisings which topple unyielding dictators and begin a transition process that eventually results in the consolidation of democracy.

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1134409478

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The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

By: Mark Edward Ruff

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The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

By: Mark Edward Ruff

Mark Edward Ruff re-examines the bitter controversies in the Federal Republic of Germany over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107190665

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Science and Ideology

A Comparative History

By: Mark Walker

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Science and Ideology

A Comparative History

By: Mark Walker

Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they may or may not have been directly determined by them. Science and Ideology brings together a number of comparative case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state. Cybernetics in the USA is compared to France and the Soviet Union. Postwar Allied science policy in occupied Germany is juxtaposed to that in Japan. The essays are narrowly focussed, yet cover a wide range of countries and ideologies. The collection provides a unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century.

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113646669X

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Writing National Histories

Western Europe Since 1800

By: Stefan Berger,Mark Donovan,Kevin Passmore

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Writing National Histories

Western Europe Since 1800

By: Stefan Berger,Mark Donovan,Kevin Passmore

This book examines comparatively how the writing of history has been used to 'legitimate' the nation-state against socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era.

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Psychology Press

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0415164265

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The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy

War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon

By: Mark Jarrett

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The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy

War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon

By: Mark Jarrett

In 1814 the five reigning dynasties of Europe, Alexander I of Russia and ministers such Metternich and Talleyrand, descended upon Vienna. The Vienna Congress marked one of the great turning points in diplomatic history; the first attempt to create an 'international order' to secure peace for the nineteenth century. The blueprint for modern-day global governance models such as the UN, it was a response to Napoleon's expansion across Europe, and sought to build upon the state systems he left behind whilst shoring up the privileges and power of Europe's elite. Here, Mark Jarrett argues that the Congress of Vienna in fact marked the beginning of the end for the Ancien Regime, yet, despite its disintegration following the suicide of Castlereagh, the 'congress system' has had an enormous influence up to the present day. The role of diplomacy as a means to conflict resolution, the workings of multi-lateralism and the emphasis on international organizations to guarantee national sovereignty were all long term by-products of the 'congress system'. A new synthesis of archival material, The Congress System is a fresh exploration of a key event in the history of International Relations and Diplomacy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857735705

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ÜberLeben im Dritten Reich

Handlungsspielräume und Perspektiven von Juden und ihren Helfern

By: Mark Roseman

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ÜberLeben im Dritten Reich

Handlungsspielräume und Perspektiven von Juden und ihren Helfern

By: Mark Roseman

Die Verfolgung der deutschen Juden als erlebte und erinnerte Geschichte. Wie erlebten deutsche Juden nach 1933 die wachsende Diskriminierung und Verfolgung durch das NS-Regime und wie reagierten sie darauf? Warum und mit welchen Mitteln versuchten nichtjüdische Deutsche, den Verfolgten zu helfen und sie vor der Deportation zu retten? Und wie erinnerten die Beteiligten - Opfer, Helfer, aber auch Täter - ihre Erfahrungen nach dem Ende des Dritten Reiches? Mit seinen Analysen der zeitgenössischen Akteursperspektiven eröffnet Mark Roseman einen unmittelbaren Zugang zu deren Handlungen und Wahrnehmungen, frei von Deutungen, die erst im Wissen um das Ausmaß der NS-Vernichtungspolitik entstanden. Er begleitet seine jüdischen Protagonisten auf dem Weg der schrittweisen Entrechtung und ihrer wachsenden Erkenntnis eines beinahe ausweglosen Überlebenskampfes; er beleuchtet auch die Motive derer, die sich der antisemitischen Politik des Regimes verweigerten und den Betroffenen zu helfen versuchten. Daneben zeigt er, wie und warum Erinnerungen an die Zeit der Verfolgung verändert und überformt wurden. In einem abschließenden Gespräch reflektiert Mark Roseman über seine wissenschaftliche Sozialisation und seine Zugänge zu einer integrierten Holocaust- und Gedächtnisgeschichte.

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Wallstein Verlag

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3835345281

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Church of Spies

The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

By: Mark Riebling

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Church of Spies

The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

By: Mark Riebling

The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled "Hitler's Pope" -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler -- while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files by an acclaimed author, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. Riebling reveals here how the world's greatest moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history.

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Basic Books

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0465061559

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Dismembered Policing in Postwar Berlin

The Limits of Four-Power Government

By: Mark Fenemore

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Dismembered Policing in Postwar Berlin

The Limits of Four-Power Government

By: Mark Fenemore

Assessing the impact of Germany's defeat on the policing of Berlin, this book addresses the reconstruction of the police force as a crucial component of four-power government. As Mark Fenemore shows, getting four nationalities to work together to administer a complex major city was a unique undertaking, never before attempted. The situation was made even more difficult by the conditions of hunger and desperation that caused a spike in crime. The stage was a city in ruins, the capital of a defeated, divided, prostrate, occupied country. The audience the administrations were playing to was a population deeply scarred by Nazism, total war, cold, hunger and mass rape. Dismembered Policing explores postwar Berlin from the perspective of all four occupiers and of ordinary Berliners. Fenemore discusses how each occupation government sought to act as an advertisement for its country's respective cultural values, mores and system of governance. As an international, multi-archival study, the book draws on evidence in French and German as well as in English. Using law enforcement as a lens, it examines issues like mass rape, the black market, interracial sex and political violence. With hunger, sexually motivated assault and dismembered body parts featuring prominently, it is reminiscent of Ian McEwen's novel The Innocent, but based on real police files.

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1350334197

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Making History, Not Reliving It

A decade of Roman's rule at Chelsea

By: Mark Worrall,Kelvin Barker,David Johnstone

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Making History, Not Reliving It

A decade of Roman's rule at Chelsea

By: Mark Worrall,Kelvin Barker,David Johnstone

£80 million in debt and with financial meltdown a matter of weeks away, in July 2003 Chelsea Football Club were saved from almost certain penury by Roman Abramovich, a reclusive young billionaire that few people outside his native Russia had heard of. Making History, Not Reliving It recounts the first decade of Roman’s rule in London mirrored against a backdrop of an ever-changing, social-media-driven, angst and envy-ridden world where the revolving door of change seems to spin as fast as that of the manager’s at Stamford Bridge. Granular season-by-season detail of exactly how Chelsea amassed three league titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, a Champions League and a Europa League in ten eventful years is entertainingly supplemented with news and entertainment bulletins and rounded off with enlightening and diverse points of view provided by a broad cross section of supporters unified by their blissful enjoyment of the desperate jealousy of rival fans now only able to relive the history that their own precious club’s once made.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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0955745985

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9780955745980

Austria

By: Mark Honan

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Austria

By: Mark Honan

Whether you're exploring the magnificent Hohe Tauern National Park, paragliding from a Tirolean mountain, admiring the angelic voices of the Vienna Boys' Choir or wine tasting in Styrian vineyards, this essential guide has all the insight and practical information you need. -- 50 detailed maps, including full-colour country map -- hundreds of accommodation options, from camp sites and mountain chalets to magnificent period hotels -- valuable 12 page guide to Austria's best walking and skiing destinations -- the lowdown on Vienna's famous restaurants, coffee houses and wine taverns -- comprehensive illustrated architecture section -- helpful language chapter and glossary

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0864425775

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Germany and Austria 1814-2000

By: Mark Allinson,Professor School of Modern Languages Mark Allinson

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Germany and Austria 1814-2000

By: Mark Allinson,Professor School of Modern Languages Mark Allinson

Written for German majors taking courses in German history, this book offers a straightforward narrative history, with an emphasis on understanding major developments, their causes and the relationships between them. It includes extracts from historical documents, timelines, and an annotated futher reading list.

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Routledge

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1444118730

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Jewish Responses to Persecution

By: Jürgen Matthäus,Mark Roseman

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Jewish Responses to Persecution

By: Jürgen Matthäus,Mark Roseman

A history of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1938 told from the Jewish perspective through period documents, annotations, and black-and-white photographs.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759119082

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Lives Reclaimed

A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

By: Mark Roseman

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Lives Reclaimed

A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

By: Mark Roseman

From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the most vulnerable In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet, communal life focused on self-improvement. For the most part, they had come to know each other while attending adult education classes in the city of Essen. But “the Bund,” as they called their group, had lofty aspirations—under the direction of their leader Artur Jacobs, its members hoped to forge an ideal community that would serve as a model for society at large. But with the ascent of the Nazis, the Bund was forced to reevaluate its mission, focusing instead on offering assistance to the persecuted, despite the great risk. Their activities ranged from visiting devastated Jewish families after Kristallnacht, to sending illicit letters and parcels of food and clothes to deportees in concentration camps, to sheltering political dissidents and Jews on the run. What became of this group? And how should its deeds—often small, seemingly insignificant acts of kindness and assistance—be evaluated in the broader history of life under the Nazis? Drawing on a striking set of previously unpublished letters, diaries, Gestapo reports, other documents, and his own interviews with survivors, historian Mark Roseman shows how and why the Bund undertook its dangerous work. It is an extraordinary story in its own right, but Roseman takes us deeper, encouraging us to rethink the concepts of resistance and rescue under the Nazis, ideas too often hijacked by popular notions of individual heroism or political idealism. Above all, the Bund’s story is one that sheds new light on what it meant to offer a helping hand in this dark time.

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Metropolitan Books

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1627797866

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A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War

By: Frank Jacob,Mark D. Van Ells

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A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War

By: Frank Jacob,Mark D. Van Ells

For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka's collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that - in many soldiers' accounts - is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading.As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.

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Vernon Press

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1622735951

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Steamship Nationalism

Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World

By: Mark A. Russell

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Steamship Nationalism

Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World

By: Mark A. Russell

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.S. Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck. Transatlantic passenger steamships launched by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) between 1912 and 1914, they do not enjoy the international fame of their British counterparts, most notably the Titanic. Yet the Imperator-class liners were the largest, most luxurious passenger vessels built before the First World War. In keeping with the often-overlooked history of its merchant marine as a whole, they reveal much about Imperial Germany in its national and international dimensions. As products of business decisions shaped by global dynamics and the imperatives of international travel, immigration, and trade, HAPAG’s giant liners bear witness to Germany’s involvement in the processes of globalization prior to 1914. Yet this book focuses not on their physical, but on their cultural construction in a variety of contemporaneous media, including the press and advertising, on both sides of the Atlantic. At home, they were presented to the public as symbolic of the nation’s achievements and ambitions in ways that emphasize the complex nature of German national identity at the time. Abroad, they were often construed as floating national monuments and, as such, facilitated important encounters with Germany, both virtual and real, for the populations of Britain and America. Their overseas reception highlights the multi-faceted image of the European superpower that was constructed in the Anglo-American world in these years. More generally, it is a pointed indicator of the complex relationship between Britain, the United States, and Imperial Germany.

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Routledge

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0429648332

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Empathetic Memorials

The Other Designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial

By: Mark Callaghan

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Empathetic Memorials

The Other Designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial

By: Mark Callaghan

This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of concentration camp iconography. It explores the relationship between empathy and cultural memory when representations of suffering are notably absent. The book submits that one design represents the idea of an uncanny memorial, and also pays attention to viewer co-authorship in counter-monuments. Analysis of counter-monuments also include their creative engagement with German history and their determination to defy fascist aesthetics. As the winning design for The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is abstract with an information centre, there is an exploration of the memorial museum. Callaghan asks whether this configuration is intended to compensate for the abstract memorial’s ambiguity or to complement the design’s visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the memorial exclusively to murdered Jews.

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Springer Nature

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303050932X

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Theological Education at Finkenwalde

1935-1937: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 14

By: H. Gaylon Barker,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Mark Brocker,Douglas W. Stott

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Theological Education at Finkenwalde

1935-1937: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 14

By: H. Gaylon Barker,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Mark Brocker,Douglas W. Stott

In the spring of 1935 Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from England to direct a small illegal seminary for the Confessing Church. The seminary existed for two years before the Gestapo ordered it closed in August 1937. This volume includes bible studies, sermons, and lectures on homiletics, pastoral care, and catechesis, giving a moving and up-close portrait of the Confessing Church in these crucial years—the same period during which Bonhoeffer wrote his classics, Discipleship and Life Together.

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Fortress Press

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1451425872

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Exploring the Boundaries of International Criminal Justice

By: Mark Findlay

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Exploring the Boundaries of International Criminal Justice

By: Mark Findlay

This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies. In developing arguments in relation to these problems, the authors use international sentencing and the question of victims' interests and expectations as a focus. The conclusions reached are wide-ranging and haighly significant in challenging existing conceptions for appreciating and giving effect to the justice demands of victims of war and social conflict. The themes developed demonstrate clearly how comparative contextual analysis facilitates our understanding of the legal and social contexts of international punishment and how this understanding can provide the basis for expanding the role of restorative international criminal justice within the context of international criminal trials.

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1317137175

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1989

By: James Mark,Bogdan C. Iacob,Tobias Rupprecht,Ljubica Spaskovska

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1989

By: James Mark,Bogdan C. Iacob,Tobias Rupprecht,Ljubica Spaskovska

Placing Eastern Europe in a global context, this provides new perspectives on the political, economic, and cultural transformations of the late twentieth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108427006

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Hitler's Atomic Bomb

History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima

By: Mark Walker

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Hitler's Atomic Bomb

History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima

By: Mark Walker

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Hitler's Atomic Bomb sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009479245

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Black Queer Dance

Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight

By: Mark Broomfield

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Black Queer Dance

Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight

By: Mark Broomfield

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden Co-Artistic Directors of Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Ronald K. Brown, Artistic Director of Evidence. Black Queer Dance examines one of the most visible crucibles for masculinity—the male dancer—and illuminates the contradictory and conditional acceptance of black gay men’s contributions to American modern dance. The book questions the politics of "coming out" and situates a new framework of "doing out" for understanding marginalized black LGBTQ people in the 20th and 21st century. Narratives of black queer male dancers’ performance of identity reveals the challenges posed navigating strategic gender performances in a purportedly post-gay and post-race American culture. Broomfield demonstrates how the experiences of black queer, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary men expose the illusions of all masculine gender performances. Drawing on masculinity studies, dance studies, critical race and performance theory, and queer studies Black Queer Dance implicates the author’s embodied history, autoethnography, memoir and poetry that shines light on how black queer men offer an expansive vision of masculinity. This book will be a vital read for graduate and undergraduate students within dance and performance studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429668252

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9780429668258

Environmental Magnetism

Principles and Applications of Enviromagnetics

By: Mark Evans,Friedrich Heller

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Environmental Magnetism

Principles and Applications of Enviromagnetics

By: Mark Evans,Friedrich Heller

Magnetism is important in environmental studies for several reasons, the two most fundamental being that most substances exhibit some form of magnetic behavior, and that iron is one of the most common elements in the Earth's crust. Once sequestered in a suitable material, magnetic particles constitute a natural archive of conditions existing in former times. Magnetism provides a tracer of paleo-climatic and paleo-environmental conditions and processes.Environmental Magnetism details the occurrence and uses of magnetic materials in the natural environment. The first half of the volume describes the basic principles. The second half discusses the applications of magnetic measurements in various environmental settings on land, in lakes, in the ocean, and even various biological organisms.* Material is broadly applicable to environmental studies* Case histories illustrate key points* Extensive bibliography makes further research quick and easy

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0080505783

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9780080505787

Luther's Last Battles

Politics and Polemics 1531-46

By: Mark U. Edwards, Jr.

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Luther's Last Battles

Politics and Polemics 1531-46

By: Mark U. Edwards, Jr.

Edwards has...illuminat[ed] the reformer's thought and personality in a way that could never be achieved by studying the man's words alone. Future historians will identify Edwards's book as one of several that marked a turning point in Luther research. No one interested in the Reformation can afford to ignore it."? American Historical Review"Edwards turns his attention to...understanding Luther's often vitriolic campaigns against opposing princes, Jews, the papacy, and others.... This work is one of solid scholarship and long gestation that seeks to understand without condemning.... More important, Edwards has raised a number of questions about the relationship across time of Luther's deeds, his words, and his world. Such is the mark of good history and of those who write it."? Journal of Religion

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Fortress Press

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ISBN 10

145141398X

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9781451413984

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