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The Second Generation - Emigres from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide (Paperback): Andreas W. Daum,... The Second Generation - Emigres from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide (Paperback)
Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this "second generation."

The Second Generation - Emigres from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide (Hardcover): Andreas W. Daum,... The Second Generation - Emigres from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide (Hardcover)
Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan
R5,045 Discovery Miles 50 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this "second generation."

Essays on German History and Historians (Hardcover): James J. Sheehan Essays on German History and Historians (Hardcover)
James J. Sheehan
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Essays on German History and Historians (Paperback): James J. Sheehan Essays on German History and Historians (Paperback)
James J. Sheehan
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? - The Transformation of Modern Europe (Paperback): James J. Sheehan Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? - The Transformation of Modern Europe (Paperback)
James J. Sheehan
R464 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R56 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe's history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For centuries, war was Europe's defining narrative, affecting every aspect of political, social, and cultural life. But afterWorldWar II, Europe began to reimagine statehood, rejecting ballooning defense budgets in favor of material well-being, social stability, and economic growth.
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? reveals how and why this happened, and what it means for America and the rest of the world.
With remarkable insight and clarity, Sheehan covers the major intellectual and political events in Europe over the past one hundred years, from the pacifist and militarist movements of the early twentieth century and two catastrophic world wars to the fall of the BerlinWall and the heated debate over Iraq.This authoritative history provides much-needed context for understanding the fractured era in which we live.

German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): James J. Sheehan German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
James J. Sheehan
R1,566 Discovery Miles 15 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): James J. Sheehan German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
James J. Sheehan
R2,286 Discovery Miles 22 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Boundaries of Humanity - Humans, Animals, Machines (Paperback): James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna The Boundaries of Humanity - Humans, Animals, Machines (Paperback)
James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors: Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupre, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire, Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

German Home Towns - Community, State, and General Estate, 1648–1871 (Paperback, New edition): Mack Walker German Home Towns - Community, State, and General Estate, 1648–1871 (Paperback, New edition)
Mack Walker; Foreword by James J. Sheehan
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Burger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848

Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem, which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to both the "movers and doers" at the center and the citizens of the home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans' "ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness," which was to have its most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a racial community.

A path-breaking work of scholarship when it was first published in 1971, German Home Towns remains an influential and engaging account of German history, filled with interesting ideas and striking insights on cameralism, the baroque, Biedermeier culture, legal history and much more. In addition to the inner workings of community life, this book includes discussions of political theorists like Justi and Hegel, historians like Savigny and Eichhorn, philologists like Grimm. Walker is also alert to powerful long-term trends the rise of bureaucratic states, the impact of population growth, the expansion of markets and no less sensitive to the textures of everyday life."

Making a Modern Political Order - The Problem of the Nation State (Hardcover): James J. Sheehan Making a Modern Political Order - The Problem of the Nation State (Hardcover)
James J. Sheehan
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sheehan’s thoughtful book makes a convincing case that the modern political order arises out of people’s shared expectations and hopes, without which the nation state could not exist. Every political order depends on a set of shared expectations about how the order does and should work. In Making a Modern Political Order, James Sheehan provides a sophisticated analysis of these expectations and shows how they are a source of both cohesion and conflict in the modern society of nation states. The author divides these expectations into three groups: first, expectations about the definition and character of political space, which in the modern era are connected to the emergence of a new kind of state; second, expectations about the nature of political communities (that is, about how people relate to one another and to their governments); and finally, expectations about the international system (namely, how states interact in a society of nation states). Although Sheehan treats these three dimensions of the political order separately, they are closely bound together, each dependent on—and reinforcing—the others. Ultimately, he claims, the modern nation state must balance all three organizing principles if it is to succeed. Sheehan’s project begins with an examination of people’s expectations about political space, community, and international society in the premodern European world that came to be called the “ancien régime.” He then, in chapters on states, nations, and the society of nation states, proceeds to trace the development of a modern political order that slowly and unevenly replaced the ancien régime in Europe and eventually spread throughout the world. To close, he offers some speculations about the horizon ahead of us, beyond which lies a future order that may someday replace our own.

The Boundaries of Humanity - Humans, Animals, Machines (Hardcover): James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna The Boundaries of Humanity - Humans, Animals, Machines (Hardcover)
James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna
R2,863 Discovery Miles 28 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors: Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupré, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire, Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

The Central Collecting Point in Munich: A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of Art (Hardcover): Iris Lauterbach The Central Collecting Point in Munich: A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of Art (Hardcover)
Iris Lauterbach; Translated by Fiona Elliott; Introduction by James J. Sheehan
R1,779 Discovery Miles 17 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the end of World War II, the US Office of Military Government for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division, was responsible for the repatriation of most of the tens of thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis in the countries they had occupied. With the help of the US Army's Monuments Men-the name given to a hand-picked group of art historians and museum professionals commissioned for this important duty-massive numbers of objects were retrieved from their wartime hiding places and inventoried for repatriation. Iris Lauterbach's fascinating history documents the story of the Allies' Central Collecting Point (CCP), set up in the former Nazi Party headquarters at Koenigsplatz in Munich, where the confiscated works were transported to be identified and sorted for restitution. This book presents her archival research on the events, people, new facts, and intrigue, with meticulous attention to the official systems, frameworks, and logistical and bureaucratic enterprise of the Munich CCP in the years from 1945 to 1949. She uncovers the stories of the people who worked there at a time of lingering political suspicions; narrates the research, conservation, and restitution process; and investigates how the works of art were managed and returned to their owners.

An Interrupted Past - German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (Paperback, New Ed): Hartmut Lehmann,... An Interrupted Past - German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (Paperback, New Ed)
Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan
R1,149 Discovery Miles 11 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

Museums in the German Art World - From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (Hardcover): James J. Sheehan Museums in the German Art World - From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (Hardcover)
James J. Sheehan
R4,696 Discovery Miles 46 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ranging over the entire nineteenth century, Museums in the German Art World is a highly accessible study of the political, cultural, and artistic changes that marked Germany's transition into a modern state. Sheehan is original in focusing his examination of this transition on the invention of the museum, where 'fine arts' were defined, put on display, and the control over their political and cultural importance and influence were established. This book will appeal to German historians, historians of the 19th century Europe, art historians, and anyone interested in the interplay of fine arts, culture, and politics.

An Interrupted Past - German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (Hardcover, New): Hartmut Lehmann,... An Interrupted Past - German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (Hardcover, New)
Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan
R1,990 Discovery Miles 19 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

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