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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Alan John Percivale Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ursula Heinzelmann |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1780233027 |
Thanks to Oktoberfest and the popularity of beer gardens, our thoughts on German food are usually relegated to beer, sausage, pretzels, and limburger cheese. But the inhabitants of modern-day Germany do not live exclusively on bratwurst. Defying popular perception of the meat and potatoes diet, Ursula Heinzelmann’s Beyond Bratwurst delves into the history of German cuisine and reveals the country’s long history of culinary innovation. Surveying the many traditions that make up German food today, Heinzelmann shows that regional variations of the country’s food have not only been marked by geographic and climatic differences between north and south, but also by Germany’s political, cultural, and socioeconomic history. She explores the nineteenth century’s back-to-the-land movement, which called for people to grow food on their own land for themselves and others, as well as the development of modern mass-market products, rationing and shortages under the Nazis, postwar hunger, and divisions between the East and West. Throughout, she illustrates how Germans have been receptive to influences from the countries around them and frequently reinvented their cuisine, developing a food culture with remarkable flexibility. Telling the story of beer, stollen, rye bread, lebkuchen, and other German favorites, the recipe-packed Beyond Bratwurst will find a place on the shelves of food historians, chefs, and spätzle lovers alike.
Author | : James N. Retallack |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472111046 |
Twenty scholars explore the theory and practice of regional history in one of Germany's most under-researched but conflict-ridden territories