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Knowledge and power : essays on politics, culture, and war /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Craig, Gordon Alexander, 1913-2005
Other Authors: Thompson, Bruce A. (Bruce Allan), 1955-, Halladay, Carolyn, Abenheim, Donald, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto, Calif. : Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2013.
Subjects:
Germany > Politics and government > 1871-1933.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Politics and culture > Germany > History > 19th century.
Politics and culture > Germany > History > 20th century.
Liberalism > Germany > History.
Militarism > Germany > History.
Political leadership > Germany > History.
Germany > Intellectual life.
Germany > Military policy.
War and society > Germany > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Politics
  • The Nineteenth Century : The Triumph and Crisis of Liberalism
  • Politics of a Plague
  • Demonic Democracy
  • Berlin in the 1920s : The Capital Between Empire and Third Reich
  • "Working Toward the Führer"
  • Founding Father
  • Part Two. Culture
  • Great Scots!
  • Frederick the Great and the Prussian Style
  • Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn : Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation
  • The Magic Circle
  • On the German Historical Consciousness
  • Irony and Rage in the German Social Novel : Theodor Fontane and Heinrich Mann
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Bourgeois
  • The End of the Golden Age
  • Politics and Literature
  • Berlin : The Hauptstadt, Back Where It Belongs
  • Part Three. War
  • Prussian Soldiers Against Militarism : Corvin, Willich, Engels, Rüstow
  • The Political Leader as Strategist
  • The War Against War
  • "A Very Strange Machine"
  • How to Think About the Swiss
  • Fate and the Führer
  • The Goblin at War
  • The Russians Are Coming!
  • Mission Possible
  • Coda: History as a Humanistic Discipline.