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Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)

Author: George L. Mosse
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: intellectual, cultural, series, mosse, modern, european, george, history, third, culture, social, life, nazi, reich
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0299193047
ISBN-13: 9780299193041

What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religion? How did workers perceive the effects of the New Order in the workplace? What were the cultural currents—in art, music, science, education, drama, and on the radio? Professor Mosse’s extensive analysis of Nazi culture—groundbreaking upon its original publication in 1966—is now offered to readers of a new generation. Selections from newspapers, novellas, plays, and diaries as well as the public pronouncements of Nazi leade

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Athens in Decline, 404-86 B.C.,

Author: Claude Mosse
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: decline, athens
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 1973-06
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0710076495
ISBN-13: 9780710076496

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Handbook of Middle English

Author: Fernand Mossé
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: english, middle, handbook
Number of Pages: 519
Published: 2000-12-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801867614
ISBN-13: 9780801867613

Professor Fernand Mossé of the Collège de France is at home in all the Germanic languages and literatures, but for many years he has paid particular attention to English. Since he is a medievalist he has interested himself first and foremost in the earlier periods, and since he is a teacher as well as investigator he has been long concerned to smooth the path of students taking their first steps into a field far from our day and time. A few years ago, this concern of his ripened into a work that won general recognition as soon as it came out: his Manuel de l’Anglais du Moyen Age des O

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Alexander: Destiny and Myth

Author: Claude Mossé
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: myth, destiny, alexander
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-03-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0801879965
ISBN-13: 9780801879968

Few figures from history have aroused as much admiration as Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 B.C., conquered the immense Persian Empire, led his army as far as India, and transformed the known world. Even in antiquity, he was an almost mythical hero, and over the centuries he has been remembered as the paragon of martial brilliance. But for the historian, Alexander presents both a tantalizing subject and a formidable challenge. For all his achievements, there is very little direct evidence of his existence—a few inscriptions, some coins and portraits, a