Author: Karl Friedrich BeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prussia (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The forgotten writer
Author: Friedrich S. PlechingerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3756882918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A forgotten writer who was once a Stasi agent and who provoked the world with his books was trying to find peace and quite by buying an old farm in a mid sized city in southern France so at least it seemed to everyone, but the reality told a different story and Francine Autem who sold him the farm through her little agency was suddendly confronted with many strange and unregular occurences which involved her in a world of sinister and life threatening secrets and a journey began that changed hers and other people`s life completely. Who was this man and why did their path cross?
Rebellion and Revolution
Author: Melissa EtzlerPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527553345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art is a transnational collection of twelve essays by scholars of history, literature and film. It offers new perspectives on several of the key moments in history when the German revolutionary spirit was at its peak. Inspired by both the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the 40th anniversary of the student movements of 1968, this book contributes to current discourses on resistance by providing a retrospective look at events and time periods ranging from the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the American War for Independence and the French Revolution in the 18th century; and from the tumultuous period of the Weimar Republic up until the final days of the German Democratic Republic. This book not only provides a new outlook on important historical moments and sociopolitical issues, rather the articles take a multidisciplinary approach to analyze a variety of artistic works inspired by historical rebellious movements. This book provides a variety of theoretical interpretations which will be useful to readers interested in historiography, gender studies, rhetoric, philosophy, film, music and literature.
Author: Wisconsin. Adjutant General's OfficeWhy the Church?
Author: Hans JoasPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503640809
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with other believers an alternative to the mere self-optimization of individuals? In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical territory in search of a viable conception of the church adequate to contemporary globalized societies. Across eleven essays that draw on work by Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, H. Richard Niebuhr, Leszek Kolakowski and others, Joas reflects on key debates—from the failure of so-called secularization theory to explain religiosity in modern society, to the role of Christianity and the church in relation to rampant nationalism and refugee crises, and to the question of whether or not human dignity ever was, or still is, the highest value in the West. Addressing the sociology of the church as the distinctive communal formation of Christianity for the last two millennia, Joas underscores the need for Christian conceptions of church to balance theological sensibility with concrete sociological grounding. In the process, he considers the relation of a community of faith to contemporary ideas about the optimization of life.
Author: Weimar on the Pacific
Author: Ehrhard BahrPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520257952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills
Author: Ian ClarkPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643108106
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the literature surrounding Burke and Wills, using official correspondence, expedition journals and diaries, visual art, and archaeological and linguistic research – and then complements this with references to Aboriginal oral histories and social memory. It highlights the interaction of expedition members with Aboriginal people and their subsequent contribution to Aboriginal studies. The book also considers contemporary and multi-disciplinary critiques that the expedition members were, on the whole, deficient in bush craft, especially in light of the expedition’s failure to use Aboriginal guides in any systematic way. Generously illustrated with historical photographs and line drawings, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is an important resource for Indigenous people, Burke and Wills history enthusiasts and the wider community. This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council project.
German Mercenary Expatriates in the U.S. & Canada Following the American Revolution
Author: Clifford Neal SmithPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353058
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The contents of this consolidated volume concern mercenaries from thedutchies or principalities of Brunswick, Ansbach and Bayreuth, andHessen-Hanau, based on sources in German archives. The Brunswick forces, itshould be noted, served mainly in Canada and northern New York, where theyare likely to be found residing in 1790--unless they became prisoners ofwar. The Ansbach and Bayreuth contingents were attached directly to theBritish army commanded by generals Howe and Clinton, and together served innearly every operation of the war. Their counterparts from Hessen-Hanaufought in New York, were captured during the Saratoga campaign, and wereforce-marched to Charlottesville, Virginia.
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