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The Brick Maker
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Brick Maker

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Frederick Hermann August Pullman (1845-1925) was born in Lage, Lippe, Germany. With his family he moved to Holme, Germany in 1855 and then to Skanderborg, Denmark. He married Birthe Kirstine Rasmussen (1852-1918) at Vedslet, Denmark. He joined the LDS Church and emigrated to Utah with two of his sons. His wife and the remainder of the family emigrated in 1892-1893. He married Marianna Nielson (1852-1898) after his divorce from Birthe, in 1896. Marianna was born in Lyngaa, Aarhus, Denmark. They moved to Moroni, Utah, where she died along with one of two twin boys. He then married Emma Warner (1877-1941) and lived in Moroni. They later moved to Richfield, Utah. Ancestors and descendants lived in Denmark, Germany, Utah, Idaho, and California.

Shattered Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Shattered Past

Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests co...

Colonial Space
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Colonial Space

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 1992. This book is about space of a colony and how it was produced. It began as a study of the literature of the German colony of South-West Africa between the years 1884 and 1915. The author’s aim is to demonstrate the active role which literature had played in structuring the experience of the colony. If it could be shown that literature not only describes, but also helps to structure the forms of experience, then it would follow that it also plays an important role in structuring the experience of colonization, and hence the form of the colony itself. From the outset, therefore, the study was concerned with a number of issues centering around colonization, representation, experience, and social form, where spatiality is the concept which allows us to understand how these various aspects of colonialism interrelate.

Victory in Europe?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Victory in Europe?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

With the debate about Europe constantly in the headlines, this examination of the important and tricky post-war relationship between German and Britain compares their different roles, outlook and development. In the wake of a devastated continent, this relationship has been one of the central axes of the development of post-war Europe and crucial in terms of recent British history. Sabine Lee considers broad issues such as the comparative senses of national identity, destiny and direction, and the respective roles of Germany and Britain in Europe and in the world community at large. With Germany now reunited and at the head of the new Europe, and Britain in the process of devolution and struggling to retain the special relationship with the United States, this is an important and topical book.

The Human Rights Dictatorship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

The Human Rights Dictatorship

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.

Gender Across Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Gender Across Languages

This is the third of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the as...

Photography and Jewish History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Photography and Jewish History

It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical contexts to the background. For Morris-Reich, however, photography exists within reality; it partakes in and is very much a component of the history it records. Morris-Reich examines how photography affects categories of history and experience, how it is influenced by them, and the ways in which our underst...

Irredentism in European Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Irredentism in European Politics

Considers how the emergence of the territorial status quo norm in post-1945 Europe has reversed the pattern of disputes.

Atlantis Lost
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 549

Atlantis Lost

Summary: Contents: Part 1; Seperate worlds, different visions. Chapter One: From the Atlantic to the Urals: De Gaulle's 'European' Europe and the United States as the ally of ultimate recourse. Chapter Two: The Atlantic 'Community' in American foreign policy: An ambiguous approach to the Cold War alliance. Part II - Dealing with De Gaulle. Chapter Three: Organizing the West: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and de Gaulle's 'Tripartite' memorandum proposal, 1958-1962. Chapter Four: Of Arms and Men: Kennedy, De Gaulle, and military-strategic reform, 1961-1962. Chapter Five: Whose kind of 'Europe'? Kennedy's tug of war with de Gaulle about the Common Market, 1961-1962. Chapter Six: The Clash: Kennedy and de Gaulle's Rejection of the Atlantic Partnership, 1962-1963. Chapter Seven: The demise of the last Atlantic project: LBJ and De Gaulle's attack on the multilateral force, 1963-1965. Chapter Eight: De Gaulle throws down the gauntlet: LBJ and the crisis in NATO, 1965-1967. Chapter Nine: Grand Designs Go Bankrupt. Conclusions.

West Germany and the Global Sixties
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

West Germany and the Global Sixties

This book examines the synthesis of globalizing influences that precipitated the anti-authoritarian revolts in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.