Authors:Volker R. Berghahn, Volker R. Berghahn, Simone Lassi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: historiography, studies, german, history, international, lives, structure, agency, central, european, biography
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845455185
ISBN-13: 9781845455187

While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling life-and-letters biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, institutions, and organizations, or more recently with the daily lives of ordinary people and small communities. The contributors to this volume all well known senior historians offer self-critical reflections on problems they encountered when writing biographies themselves. Some of them also deal with to

Author: Volker Berghahn
Publisher: C.H.Beck
Keywords: weltkrieg, erste, der
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3406480128
ISBN-13: 9783406480126

Author: Ian H. Birchall
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: french, studies, monographs, berghahn, stalinism, sartre
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2004-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1571815422
ISBN-13: 9781571815422

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic attitude to Stalinist Communism. This defense of Sartre shows his increasing involvement in the politics of the Left. Though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.

Author: Daniela Berghahn
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: germany, east, cinema, wall, hollywood
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0719061725
ISBN-13: 9780719061721

This book is a representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, examining both DEFA’s celebrated classics and the most acclaimed post-unification feature films by East German directors. As Berghahn shows, East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. It includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinema from East Germany, including cult films such as Sun Alley and Goodbye, Lenin! and provides contextualized readings of twenty significant films, ref

Author: Ian H. Birchall
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: french, studies, monographs, berghahn, stalinism, sartre
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2004-04
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1571816216
ISBN-13: 9781571816214

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard to the USSR and the French Communist Party. But his relationship with the Marxist Left was much more complex and contradictory than most accounts admit. This book offers a political defence of Sartre and shows how, from a relatively apolitical stance in the 1930s, Sartre became increasingly involved

Author: Frédéric Bozo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: monographs, french, studies, berghahn, unification, cold, war, german, mitterrand
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1845454278
ISBN-13: 9781845454272

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. Most accounts concentrate on the role of the United States and look at these events through the bipolar prism of Soviet-American relations. Yet because of its central position in Europe and of its status as Germany’s foremost European partner, France and its President, Francois Mitterrand, played a decisive role in these pivotal international events: the peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe from Soviet rule starting i

Author: Michael Scott Christofferson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: french, monographs, studies, berghahn, moment, intellectuals, antitotalitarian, 1970s
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2004-06-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1571814272
ISBN-13: 9781571814272

" . . . an exceptionally fine text - one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philias about French intellectual life of previous generations." - New Left Review "This book is clearly an indispensable resource for historians of twentieth-century France and French intellectual life, and a fine resource for anyone interested in a political sociology of the intellectual. Its fundamental thesis concerning the political sources of the antitotalitarian moment in the discourse of direct democracy and the electoral opposition to the PC