9,450円 This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which both practices were regarded equally as criminal acts. Faced with dire consequences if they were found pregnant or if they bore illegitimat...

4,932円 The suicides of Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler, and later Goering at the end of World War II were only the most prominent in a suicide epidemic that has no historical parallel and that can tell us much about the Third Reich's peculiar self-destructiveness and the depths of Nazi fanaticism. Lo...

9,583円 Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women...

7,610円 Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has de...

11,416円 Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading lo...

5,073円 In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the ...

3,522円 Post-World War II scholarship and films like The Sorrow and the Pity have frequently replaced the old Gaullist notion of widespread resistance, and cultivated the impression that the French may well have been a "nation of collaborators," embracing the dream of a new authoritarian order in France ...

7,610円 Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entertainments, and none have exerted a more profound influence on the nature of modern politics. Nowhere in Europe were the tensions and controversies surr...

8,315円 This study traces the evolution of imperialist ideology in Germany from Bismarck in the mid-19th century through Hitler and the Third Reich. Although much has been written about the virulently racist and anti-communist ideologies of the Nazi party, this is the first book to treat Nazi imperialism...

1,600円 Über den Autor Robert Bohn lehrt an der Universität Flensburg Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte. Die Geschichte Nordeuropas und Norddeutschlands sind Schwerpunkte seiner Forschung. Von ihm liegen bei C.H.Beck vor: Dänische Geschichte (bsr 2162), Die Piraten (bsr 2327) sowie Geschichte der Seefahrt (...

1,600円 Hunderttausend tote Bauern – die Zahl lief um im Reich und war allgemein die grobe Aufsummierung dessen, was man gerüchteweise von den Schlachten des Bauernkriegs gehört hatte. „Das vergossene Blut des Jahres 1525“, schrieb ein Schweizer Beobachter, sei ausreichend, „alle Tyrannen zu ertränken“. ...

350円 Ce livre a été écrit il y a dix ans, à peu près jour pour jour, et presque dans le sang. Nul étonnement donc qu’il soit rouge et par la forme et par le fond. Il a été écrit d’ailleurs, comme il a été vu, avec l’horreur réfléchie de la guerre. Aujourd’hui qu’il y a un apaisement dans les esprits, ...