| Author | : Joe Salmons |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2012-10-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199697930 |
This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. It is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards.
| Author | : David E. Wellbery |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1038 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780674015036 |
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
| Author | : Joseph Salmons |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2018-08-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0192561359 |
This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such as: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar? Why are noun plurals so complicated? Are dialects dying out today? Does English, with all the words it loans to German, pose a threat to the language? This second edition has been extensively expanded and revised to include extended coverage of syntactic and pragmatic change throughout, expanded discussion of sociolinguistic aspects, language variation, and language contact, and more on the position of German in the Germanic family. The book is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards. The new edition also includes more detailed background information to make it more accessible for beginners.
| Author | : James J. Sheehan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 996 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780198204329 |
Now available in paperback, this is a uniquely authoritative study of Germany from the mid-18th century to the formation of the Bismarckian Reich.
| Author | : William W. Hagen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 483 |
| Release | : 2012-02-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316025225 |
This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the nineteenth century; the 1914–45 era of war, dictatorship and genocide; and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras since 1945 as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality. This book's 'Germany' is polycentric and multicultural, including the multinational Austrian Habsburg Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism offers a conceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and styles of life, which often contrast with Western ideas of Germany.
| Author | : Richard H. Tilly |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2020-10-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 022672557X |
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.
| Author | : Alan John Percivale Taylor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : Germany |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Philip Oltermann |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2012-01-31 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0571279910 |
In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries to explain German cuisine to the Iron Lady, the Mini plays catch-up with the Volkswagen Beetle, and Joe Strummer has an unlikely brush with the Baader-Meinhof gang. Keeping Up with the Germans is a witty look at the lighter-side of Anglo-German relations over the last 100 years.
| Author | : Neil Gregor |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2006-06-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253111951 |
German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors' new and often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of Germany's 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewry's sophisticated appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of antisemitism in Weimar's campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly "Jewish" sexual behavior; and post-war West Germany's struggles with ethnic and racial minorities despite its avowed liberalism. Germany's minorities have always been active partners in defining what it is to be German, and even after 1945, despite the legacy of the Nazis' murderous destructiveness, German society continues to be characterized by ethnic and cultural diversity.
