Author: Peter Fritzsche
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: popular, imagination, aviation, german, fliers, nation
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1992-02-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0674601211
ISBN-13: 9780674601215

Gigantic, fragile airships hovering in a vast sky, war aces obsessed with death and destruction, daring young men launching their handbuilt gliders, schoolchildren wearing gas masks during air-raid drills - the bright idealism of flight and its darker service in total war come to life in this book about Germany’s perilous romance with aviation. From the Kaiser’s Second Reich to Hitler’s Third Reich, machine dreams mingled with imperial dreams and mastery over the natural world held the promise of mastery over the political world. This is popular history of the modern era. Fro

Author: Peter Fritzsche
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: reich, third, death, life
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0674034651
ISBN-13: 9780674034655

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler’s assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, “We are the losers, definitely the losers.” Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, “hate is sown a million-fold.” Yet in March 1938, he wept for joy at the Anschluss with Austria: “Not to want it just because it has been achieved by Hitler would be folly.” In a masterful work, Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism’s ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft—a “peopl

Author: Peter Fritzsche
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: nazis, germans
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0674350928
ISBN-13: 9780674350922

Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people.

Author: Peter Fritzsche
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: berlin, reading
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-01-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674748824
ISBN-13: 9780674748828

The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Döblin. This sumptuous history of a metropolis and

Authors:Alon Confino, Peter Fritzsche,
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: german, society, culture, study, directions, memory, new, work
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-04-08
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0252027175
ISBN-13: 9780252027178

Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory and identity. Tracing the role of memory in German history between the Reformation and reunification, contributors show how memory has a history and the presence of the past has historical context. With scholarly zeal and keen insight, these essays draw on ghost stories and the postwar fiction of Heinr

Authors:Charles C Stewart, Peter Fritzsche,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: century, twentieth, imagining
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0252066634
ISBN-13: 9780252066634

Authors:Klaus Fritzsche, Hans Grauert,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: manifolds, complex, functions, holomorphic
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-04-12
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0387953957
ISBN-13: 9780387953953

This introduction to the theory of complex manifolds covers the most important branches and methods in complex analysis of several variables while completely avoiding abstract concepts involving sheaves, coherence, and higher-dimensional cohomology. Only elementary methods such as power series, holomorphic vector bundles, and one-dimensional cocycles are used. Each chapter contains a variety of examples and exercises.