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Beyond the barricades : government and state-building in post-revolutionary Prussia, 1848-1858
Beyond the Barricades is an original study of government after the 1848 revolutions. It focuses on the state of Prussia, where a number of conservative ministers sought to learn lessons from their experiences of upheaval and introduce a wave of reform in the 1850s. Using extensive archival research, the work explores Prussia's entry into the constitutional age, charting initiatives to transform criminal justice, agriculture, industry, communications, urban life, and the press. Reform strengthened contact with the Prussian population, making this a classic episode of state-building, but Beyond the Barricades seeks to go further. It makes a case for taking notice of government activity at this particular juncture because the measures endorsed by conservative statesmen in the 1850s sought to remove the feudal intermediaries that had lingered long into the nineteenth century and replace them with an array of government institutions, legal regimes, and official practices. In sum, this book recasts the post-revolutionary decade as a period which saw the transition from an old to a new world, pivotal to the making of modern Prussia and ultimately, modern Germany.
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Prussian Strategic Thought 1815-1830
Carl von Clausewitz is still considered one of the most important writers on military strategy. In Prussian Military Thought 1815-1830: Beyond Clausewitz , Jacek Jedrysiak offers a new perspective on the context of his legacy, with a detailed analysis of Prussian military thought after the Napoleonic wars and an examination of the development of certain institutions, such as the General Staff, leading to a more nuanced understanding of Clausewitz's work. The dominance of the famous figures of Clausewitz and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder has obscured much about the Prussian army in the 19th century. In this study, Jacek Jedrysiak reveals the forgotten face of the Prussian army.
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The sanctity of rural life : nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia
This is a study of rural social relationships in the eastern Prussian provinces during the Weimar Republic. Using the province of Pomerania as its primary example, Baranowski assesses the contributions of rural elites, particularly Junker landlords and Protestant clergymen, to the rise of National Socialism in a region where the rural electorate’s attraction to the Hitler movement became crucial to the Nazi takeover in 1933.
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فريدريك الكبير الثاني، 1712-1786
يتناول كتاب (فريدريك الكبير الثاني 1712-1786) والذي قام بتأليفه بسام العسلي، موضوع (التراجم) هذا الكتاب من سلسلة \"مشاهير قادة العالم\" يحدثنا مؤلفه عن هذا القائد البروسي وفكره العسكري، فيتطرق لمراحل حياته المبكرة، انطلاقته كقائد، والحروب التي شارك فيها وتنظيمه للجيش، ومناوراته التي ميزته، والجرأة والإقدام اللتان كانتا من أبرز صفاته واللتان ميزتاه عن سواه من القادة. موقعه في التاريخ، وتجربته التاريخية الفريدة.
German Blood, Slavic Soil
German Blood, Slavic Soil
reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union,
twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes,
transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During
World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the
apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.
Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole
Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each
other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an
intricate timeline, first describing how Königsberg, a
seven-hundred-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and
lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the
easternmost bastion of Hitler's Third Reich and the launching point
for the Nazis' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how,
after being destroyed by bombing and siege warfare in 1945,
Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin's
Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been
ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own-in both wartime
occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes.
German Blood, Slavic Soil presents an intimate look
into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II. Eaton
impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of
power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis
and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal
transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in
dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of
the two regimes.
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In the shadow of wolves
\"The Second World War is drawing to a close, but the world is far from safe. Left to fend for themselves, women and children are forced out of their homes in East Prussia to make way for the advancing victors. As the Russian soldiers arrive, the women know that they are still very much in danger, and that for them, the fight for survival is only just beginning. Facing critical food shortages and the onset of a bitter cold winter without heat, the women send their children into the nearby forests where they secretly cross the border into Lithuania, begging the local farmers for work or food to take back home to their waiting families. Along the way the children find cruelty, hardship and violence, but also kindness, hope, and the promise of a new and better future.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture
In Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture, Daniel Riches investigates seventeenth-century Brandenburg-Swedish relations to present an image of early modern diplomacy driven by interpersonal networks grounded in their members' educational backgrounds, intellectual and cultural interests, religious convictions, and personal connections.
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Visions of the Enlightenment: The Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Making extensive use of archival and published documents from the eighteenth century, this book argues that the public sphere in eighteenth-century Prussia was a conservative realm that was deeply invested in methods of social control.
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