Author: Anthony McElligott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: germany, history, oxford, short, weimar
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2009-06-19
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 019928007X
ISBN-13: 9780199280070

The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany’s defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution from the left and coups d’états from the right. Plagued early on by a wave of high-profile political assassinations and a period of devastating hyper-inflation, its later years were dominated by the onset of the Great Depression. And yet, for a period from the mid-1920s it looke

Authors:Anthony McElligott, Tim Kirk,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: sir, ian, kershaw, honour, essays, towards, fuhrer, working
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-09-04
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0719067332
ISBN-13: 9780719067334

Working Towards the Führer brings together leading historians writing on the Third Reich, in honor of Sir Ian Kershaw, whose own work, along with that of the contributors to this volume has done much to challenge and change our understanding of Nazi Germany. Covering issues such as the legacy of the world wars, the female voter, propaganda, occupied lands, the judiciary, public opinion and resistance, this volume furthers the debate on how Nazi Germany operated. Gone are the post-war stereotypes of a monolithic state driven forward by a single will towards war and genocide. Instead there is a

Authors:Tim Kirk, Anthony McElligott,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: resistance, europe, authority, community, fascism, opposing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-03-13
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521483093
ISBN-13: 9780521483094

This innovative volume draws together in a wide-ranging collection a series of new perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the "age of fascism." The contributions go beyond the conventional stereotypes of organized resistance to examine the tensions and ambiguities within the communities, national and local, that opposed fascism. The authors show that under the pressures of civil conflict, occupation, and even everyday life, motives were rarely as pure and political alignments seldom as straightforward as our reassuring collective memories of fascism and war have led us to beli

Authors:Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: science, twentieth, century, medical, service, bodies, humans, useful
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-10-07
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801873428
ISBN-13: 9780801873423

Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced in other countries, as well, both before and after the Nazi era. The use of unwitting or unwilling subjects in experiments designed to test the effects of radiation and disease on the human body emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, when the rise of the modern, coercive state and the professionalization of medical science converged. Useful Bodies brings together leading historians of medicine to explore the intersection of government power and medical knowledge in revealing

Author: Matthew McElligott
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Reader
Keywords: absolutely
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 080278934X
ISBN-13: 9780802789341

Two friends will win your heart as their adventure amazes your eyes.  Gloria is brave, but Frieda is absolutely not. Gloria wants to go for a walk but Frieda absolutely does not. Everything is scary from Frieda’s point of view-the river looks suspiciously like a snake, and is that a moldy old log over there, or a ferocious dog? When Frieda cries wolf one too many times, Gloria stops listening to her. But what’s that in the bushes? Are the two little friends in danger, or is it another figment of Frieda’s imagination?  Matthew McElligott’s visual illusions will have yo

Author: Matthew McElligott
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: thirteen, bean
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-05-10
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0399245359
ISBN-13: 9780399245350

Ralph warns Flora not to pick that thirteenth bean. Everyone knows it’s unlucky! Now that they’re stuck with it, how can they make it disappear? If they each eat half the beans, there’s still one left over. And if they invite a friend over, they each eat four beans, but there’s still one left over! And four friends could each eat three beans, but there’s still one left over! HOW WILL THEY ESCAPE THE CURSE OF BEAN THIRTEEN?! A funny story about beans, that may secretly be about . . . math! Sometimes you can divide, but you just can’t conquer (the bean thirteen, that is).

Author: Jason McElligott
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: cultural, political, social, history, modern, studies, print, censorship, revolutionary, england, royalism
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-10-16
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1843833239
ISBN-13: 9781843833239

This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy in London during the late 1640s. It uses these flimsy, ephemeral sheets of paper to rethink the nature of both royalism and Civil War allegiance. Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England moves beyond the simple and simplistic dichotomies of ’absolutism’ versus ’constitutionalism’. In doing so, it offers a nuanced, innovative and exciting vision of a strangely neglected aspect of the Civil Wars. Print has always been seen as a radical, destabilizing force: an