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From Liberal Democracy to Fascism

Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic

By: Peter Caldwell,William Scheuerman

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From Liberal Democracy to Fascism

Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic

By: Peter Caldwell,William Scheuerman

The Weimar Republic – from 1919 until 1933, when Hitler came into power – witnessed crucial debates on law and politics. These debates are reexamined in this book. Were, for example, democratic rules and procedures an adequate basis for democracy, as Hugo Preuss and Hans Kelsen suggested? Or should constitutional law elaborate the deeper, basic principles embedded in the democratic constitution itself, as Hermann Heller argued? Was the president the immediate “guardian of the constitution”, as Carl Schmitt’s concept of “representation” suggested? Or was Schmitt’s concept itself subject to Walter Benjamin’s critique of the aura of authenticity? These, and other typical Weimar-era debates helped shape West German constitutionalism. The former labor lawyer on the left Ernst Fraenkel, for example, began to develop a general theory of dictatorship mass democracy while in exile, which influenced the new discipline of political science after the war. Similarly, Gerhard Leibholz, an anti-positivist lawyer in Weimar, served on the first Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany, helping to consolidate its new constitutional culture.

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BRILL

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9004473890

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9789004473898

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law

The Theory & Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism

By: Peter C. Caldwell

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Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law

The Theory & Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism

By: Peter C. Caldwell

A path-breaking critical analysis of the meaning and interpretation of the German constitution in the Weimar years (1919-1933).

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324

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Duke University Press

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0822319888

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9780822319887

Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe

Ludwig Feuerbach, Moses Hess, Louise Dittmar, Richard Wagner

By: Peter C. Caldwell

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Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe

Ludwig Feuerbach, Moses Hess, Louise Dittmar, Richard Wagner

By: Peter C. Caldwell

The philosopher of religion and critic of idealism, Ludwig Feuerbach had a far-reaching impact on German radicalism around the time of the Revolution of 1848. This intellectual history explores how Feuerbach s critique of religion served as a rallying point for radicals, and how they paradoxically sought to create a new, post-religious form of religiosity as part of the revolutionary aim. At issue for the Feuerbachian radicals was the emergence of a humanity emancipated from the constraints of mere institutions, able to express itself freely and harmoniously. Caldwell also touches on Moses Hess, Louise Dittmar, and Richard Wagner in his discussion of the time. Thisbook reconstructs the nature of Feuerbach s radicalism and shows how it influenced early works of socialism, feminism, and musical modernism.

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230

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Springer

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0230622704

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9780230622708

Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic

By: Peter C. Caldwell

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Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic

By: Peter C. Caldwell

The introduction of state planning and party dictatorship dramatically altered the environment for social theory in the German Democratic Republic. But social thought did not disappear. By the mid-1950s, East German social theorists discovered the basic contradictions of state socialism that would eventually lead to its collapse: the inability of the plan to function without markets and its inability to permit markets; the inability of the party-state to guarantee the rule of law and yet also the need for a regular system of rules in a modern industrial society; and the contradictory philosophical claims of a Marxist-Leninist philosophy that rejected idealism, and Marxist-Leninist dogma with its idealistic claim to know the laws of social modernization. Making use of archival sources, Caldwell examines the articulation of these analyses, their subsequent suppression by party authorities in the late 1950s, and their return under the guise of cybernetics in the 1960s.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521820901

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9780521820905

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989

By: Peter C. Caldwell

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Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989

By: Peter C. Caldwell

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy and its relationship to capitalism. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration of democracy, and National Socialist dictatorship after 1930. Three central issues emerged. First, the development of a nearly all-embracing set of social services and payments recast the problem of how social groups and interests related to the state, as state agencies and affected groups generated their own clientele, their own advocacy groups, and their own expert information. Second, the welfare state blurred the line between state and society that is constitutive of basic rights and the classic world of liberal freedom; rights became claims on the state, and social groups became integral parts of state administration. Third, the welfare state potentially reshaped the individual citizen, who became wrapped up with mandatory social insurance systems, provisioning of money and services related to social needs, and the regulation of everyday life. Peter C. Caldwell describes how West German experts sought to make sense of this vast array of state programs, expenditures, and bureaucracies aimed at solving social problems. Coming from backgrounds in politics, economics, law, social policy, sociology, and philosophy, they sought to conceptualize their state, which was now social (one German word for the welfare state is indeed Sozialstaat), and their society, which was permeated by state policies.

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Oxford University Press

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0192570528

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Critical Concepts in Management and Organization Studies

Key Terms and Concepts

By: Peter Stokes

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Critical Concepts in Management and Organization Studies

Key Terms and Concepts

By: Peter Stokes

Critical Concepts in Management and Organization Studies provides an accessible introduction to the key themes of critical management studies. An ideal companion for students studying critical management and organizations, it breaks down the complex language, concepts and philosophical underpinnings defining critical management studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350305316

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9781350305311

From Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee

The Civil War Diaries and Letters of St. Joseph Tucker Randolph

By: Peter C. Luebke

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From Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee

The Civil War Diaries and Letters of St. Joseph Tucker Randolph

By: Peter C. Luebke

From Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee presents the diaries and letters of St. Joseph Tucker Randolph, a young Confederate soldier from Richmond, Virginia. As might be expected of the son of a bookseller, Tucker's writings offer lucid and candid descriptions of the Civil War. Unlike most who served, Randolph fought in both the eastern and western theaters of the war. He began the war in the 21st Virginia Infantry, a part of the famed Stonewall Brigade, before moving on to staff roles with Henry M. Ashby in Tennessee and John Pegram in Virginia. Throughout it all, he kept diaries and wrote letters home, correspondence his family preserved after Tucker's death in action at Bethesda Church in 1864. Tucker's lengthy accounts of campaigning in western Virginia in 1861 and early 1862 give many rich characterizations of the area and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. His writings from Kentucky and Tennessee in 1862 offers trenchant commentary on the failures of the western armies. Tucker's return to Virginia in late 1863 as a staff officer gave him the perfect vantage point to write about Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, including a particularly vivid account of the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864. Ample illustrations and maps help bring Tucker's writings to life, making this book an excellent account of a young Confederate soldier's Civil War. Peter C. Luebke, editor of other Civil War narratives such as Albion Tourgée's The Story of a Thousand and The Autobiography of John A. Dahlgren, contextualizes the writings and provides thorough annotation on the people, places, and events mentioned. Noted scholar Gary W. Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War (emeritus) at the University of Virginia, contributes a foreword that amplifies the importance of Tucker's writings.

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35th Star Publishing

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9798986599380

Germany Since 1945

Politics, Culture, and Society

By: Peter C. Caldwell,Karrin Hanshew

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Germany Since 1945

Politics, Culture, and Society

By: Peter C. Caldwell,Karrin Hanshew

Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of East and West Germany in their international contexts, but one that also takes the significantly different world of the Berlin Republic seriously, analyzing it as a distinct and significant period of German history in its own right. Split into three parts roughly devoted to a quarter-century each, this book guides students through contemporary Germany from the catastrophe of war, genocide and the country's division to the very different challenges facing the reunified Germany of the 21st century. There are key primary source excerpts integrated throughout the text, as well as 32 images, numerous maps, charts and tables and a detailed bibliography to further aid study. The book is complemented by online resources which include sample syllabi and a pedagogical supplement. Germany Since 1945 underscores both the particularities of German history and the international trends and transactions that shaped it, giving good coverage to key aspects of post-1945 German society and politics, including: * East and West German paths to reconstruction * The development of consumer society and the welfare state * The politics of memory and coming to terms with the Nazi past * The Cold War * New social and political movements that opposed the postwar status * Immigration and the move toward a multicultural society This is an essential text for any student of contemporary German history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474262449

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9781474262446

American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936

By: Peter Buck

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American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936

By: Peter Buck

This essay in comparative history focuses on the transmission of scientific ideas and organizations from the United States to China.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521227445

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A Hero to His Fighting Men

Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925

By: Peter R. DeMontravel

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A Hero to His Fighting Men

Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925

By: Peter R. DeMontravel

In this reassessment of the career of Nelson A. Miles - which he began as a volunteer officer in the Civil War - the author suggests that comments made by his enemies influenced the way Miles's career has been viewed by historians and tries to readdress this.

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Kent State University Press

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0873385942

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9780873385947

Gettysburg

An Alternate History

By: Peter G. Tsouras

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Gettysburg

An Alternate History

By: Peter G. Tsouras

The most intriguing 'what if' of the American Civil War presents an exciting and graphic recreation of alternate possibilities. Everyone with an interest in America's greatest battle comes up against its controversies. What if J. E. B. Stuart had arrived on the battlefield before the second day? What if Ewell had pressed hard on the heels of the Union rout on the first day? What if Pickett's charge had been stronger and better led? What if the Army of the Potomac had been commanded by a more aggressive counter attacker than Meade? Gettysburg presents some of these possibilities as though they were the reality, and explores the impact they would have on the battle and on the course of the war. The alternate events are anchored firmly in the context of the actual events, and are all within the scope of what was genuinely possible.

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Tantor eBooks

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1618030191

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9781618030191

The Fight for Survival

Animals in Their Natural Habitats

By: Peter Brazaitis,Myrna Watanabe

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The Fight for Survival

Animals in Their Natural Habitats

By: Peter Brazaitis,Myrna Watanabe

An illustrated overview of the different habitats found around the world and the animals which occupy them.

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Friedman-Fairfax

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1567990940

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Book's by Peter C. Caldwell

From Liberal Democracy to Fascism

From Liberal Democracy to Fascism

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law

Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe

Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe

Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic

Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Critical Concepts in Management and Organization Studies

Critical Concepts in Management and Organization Studies

From Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee

From Western Virginia with Jackson to Spotsylvania with Lee

Germany Since 1945

Germany Since 1945

American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936

American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936

A Hero to His Fighting Men

A Hero to His Fighting Men

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

The Fight for Survival

The Fight for Survival

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