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Foreign Rights: Available Now: German StudiesDisability in Twentieth-Century German Culture by Carol Poore Germans on Drugs by Robert Stephens The Heimat Abroad by Krista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal, and Nancy Reagin The War against Catholicism by Michael B. Gross Disability in Twentieth-Century German CultureCarol Poore Rights: World The first comprehensive study of disability in German culture, also containing comparisons with the United States Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, this book should appeal to a general readership interested in controversial questions about individuality, normalcy, citizenship, and morality. More specifically, it should interest readers from fields such as disability studies, philosophy, and history of medicine and rehabilitation. Carol Poore is Professor of German Studies at Brown University. September 2007 Germans on Drugs: The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg, 1945-1975Robert Stephens Rights: World Drugs, music, and postwar affluence had converged in 1960s and '70s Germany to create a new subculture of alienation, of newly-affluent and angry young people, struggling to throw off the narrow strictures imposed on them by German society—to wrestle with repressed national memories of the Nazi past, to escape the shadow of the Berlin Wall and the desperate reality of their entrapment at Ground Zero of an apocalyptic geopolitics. Robert Stephens' fascinating Germans on Drugs is the first English-language work to fully explore this zeitgeist of consumption, rebellion and cultural alienation. Robert Stephens is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech. This is his first book. April 2007 The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of GermannessKrista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin Rights: World The Heimat Abroad: the Boundaries of Germanness is an anthology that features a coherent view of the German diaspora that underscores the tenacity of German ethnicity around the globe, highlighting the enduring cultural bonds between extraterritorial Germans and the homeland, but also exposing the tenuousness and fluidity of German identity over time. Krista O'Donnell is Associate Professor of History at William Patterson University. Renate Bridenthal is Emeritus Professor of History at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Nancy Reagin is Professor of History at Pace University. Spring 2005 The War against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century GermanyMichael B. Gross Rights: World After the defeat of liberalism in the Revolution of 1848, and in the face of the dramatic revival of popular Catholicism, German middle-class liberals used anti-Catholicism to orient themselves culturally in a new age. Michael B. Gross's study shows how anti-Catholicism and specifically the Kulturkampf—the campaign to break the power of the Catholic Church—were not simply attacks against the church, nor were they merely an attempt to secure state autonomy. Instead, Gross shows that the liberal attack on Catholicism was actually a complex attempt to preserve moral, social, political and sexual order during a period of dramatic pressures for change. By offering a provocative reinterpretation of liberalism and its relationship to the German anti-Catholic movement, The War against Catholicism ultimately demonstrates that in Germany, liberalism itself contributed to a culture of intolerance that would prove to be a serious liability in the twentieth century. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of culture, ideology, religion and politics. Michael B. Gross is Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University. Fall 2005 Work and Play: Toys and the Toy Industry in Germany, 1880-1914David Hamlin Rights: World Work and Play is an insightful monograph on the history of the German toy industry. Its primary interest derives from the fact that it reaches beyond economic history to examine the role of toys and play in the evolution of a bourgeois German lifestyle. David Hamlin is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. June 2007 |
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