FS: German History pt. 2
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1. Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant.
2. Communal Sick-Care in the German Ghetto.
3. German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945.
4. The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic
Republic.
5. Exile in New York: German and Austrian Writers after 1933.
6. Hostages of Civilization: The Social Sources of National Socialist
Anti-Semitism.
7. The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community,
1890-1933.
8. The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during
World War II.
9. The Structure of the Nazi Economy.
Krueger, Max Amadeus Paulus.
Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant.
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1976.
Revised edition, first edition thus. Very good octavo hardcover in very good
dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with some bumping
to the head and heel of the spine. Dj also has some wear and rubbing to edges
of the covers and spine with scuffing and light soiling to the covers. Foxing
to the upper and fore-edges of the pages. 161 pages with illustrations and
index. The memoirs of Max Krueger (1851-1927), German immigrant to Texas in
1868 and how he made his way in the United States.
$35.00
Marcus, Jacob R.
Communal Sick-Care in the German Ghetto.
Cincinnati: The Hebrew Union College Press, 1947.
1st edition. Very good hardcover without dust jacket. Wear to edges of boards
with bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight yellowing of pages. 335 pages
with footnotes, bibliography, 18 appendices, and an index. An interesting
history of Jewish communal care for the sick in ghettos (Jewish quarters) in
German lands (Holy Roman Empire, Germany, and Habsburg lands). Marcus's study
covers the "late medieval period," which to the author means from the 1500s to
the 1800s since "this was an age of political disability and social degradation
for the German Jew; emancipation, and with it 'modernity,' did not come until
the nineteenth century." (p. vii-viii). There are chapters on the Hebra
Kaddisha, women's sick-care societies, and Jewish hospitals.
$30.00
Paret, Peter.
German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945.
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in black binding without dust
jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to the edges of the boards with some
bumping to the head and heel of the spine and bumping to the corners of the
panels. Covers have some light scuffing and minor soiling. 271 pages with
illustrations, endnotes, and index. A collection of 9 essays on Modernism in
art and German society to the end of the Nazi regime. The essays are: 1.
Adolph Menzel from Differnet Perspectives, 2. Theodor Fontane and Max
Liebermann-A Prussian Comparison, 3. Modernism and the "Alien Element in German
Art," 4. The Tschudi Affair, 5. Revolutionary Continuities, 6. The Great
Dying-Notes on German Art, 1914-1918, 7. Field Marshal and Beggar-Ernst Barlach
in the First World War, 8. "The Enemy Within"-Max Liebermann as President of
the Prussian Academy of Arts, 9. God's Hammer.
$35.00
Peterson, Edward N.
The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic
Republic.
Westport: Praeger, 2002.
Second printing. Very good octavo hardcover in dark blue binding with gold
lettering without dust jacket. Light wear along the edges of the boards with
minor bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Boards have slight scuffing
on them. ISBN bar code sticker attached to rear free endpaper. 287 pages with
notes, bibliography, and index. A study of the Stasi and its role in the
collapse of East Germany.
$25.00
Pfanner, Helmut F.
Exile in New York: German and Austrian Writers after 1933.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.
1st edition. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear on dges of covers
and some scuffing also. Pages are foxed on edges. Dj has tear on upper edge
of back cover and a tear on lower front edge cover, wear on edges, rubbing
along the spine, and scuffing on covers. 252 pages with illustrations, notes,
exile authors and their works, selected bibliography, and index. A study about
many famous exiles, (artists, novelists, historians, scientists) from Austria
and Germany escaping from the tyranny of the Third Reich. This work also
examines the difficulties these exiles faced when coming to America.
$17.50
Reichmann, Eva G.
Hostages of Civilization: The Social Sources of National Socialist
Anti-Semitism.
Boston: The Beacon Press, 1951.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good to fair dust jacket. Wear
and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of
the spine. Dj also has wear and rubbing along the edges with numerous small
tears and chipping along the edges of the covers (mainly on the head and heel
of the spine) and some scuffing to the covers. Edges of pages are browned.
281 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and indices. An examination of
Anti-Semitism in Germany and the rise of the Nazi party.
$20.00
Ringer, Fritz K.
The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and
rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the
spine and heavy bump on the upper corner of the front cover. Dj has wear and
rubbing the edges with a three inch tear on the upper edge of the front cover
and a few tiny ones. Dj also has some browning along the spine and scuffing to
the covers. Name of the prevvious owner written in pencil on the front free
endpaper. 528 pages with bibliography, endnotes, and index. A look at the
German intellectual/mandarin class during the Wilhelmian and Weimar eras.
$25.00
Robin, Ron.
The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during
World War II.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Minor
wear to edges of the boards with some bumping to the heel and head of the
spine. Dj has rubbing and wear along the edges with some scuffing and
scratching to the covers and small tear on the front cover's upper corner.
Also dj has some light creasing on flaps. Endpapers and pages have slight
creases. 217 pages with illustrations, endnotes, note on sources, and index.
An interesting study of how American officials tried to shape and change the
minds of Nazi POWS held in the United States during World War II. This work
examines how German prisoners were taught democratic and anti-communism/soviet
values during their period of reeducation.
$14.00
Sweezy, Maxine Y.
The Structure of the Nazi Economy.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and
rubbing along the edges with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has
wear and rubbing along the edges with some small tears, mainly on the head of
the spine. Dj is scuffed, lightly soiled, and heavily browned along the spine.
Edges of the pages are lightly browned. There are some notes and underlining
in blue and red pencil in the text. 255 pages with footnotes, tables,
bibliography, and index. A study of the economy of Nazi Germany with chapters
on corporations, cartels, industrial price policy, foreign exchange and trade,
regimentation and conscription of labor, agricultural "planning," and other
topics.
$50.00
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