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Recount the ways in which this drama - ""Gender in Transition"" - played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period from 1750 to 1830. This work examines the effects of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

Unified Germany continues to confront problems of social inequality and widespread resistance to the acceptance of a truly multicultural society. By exploring how West Germans confronted - or failed to confront - similar problems in the early history of the Federal Republic, this collection makes a crucial contribution to understanding the present.

Germany's rise from newly formed nation-state on the European continent to global industrial power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was propelled by the rapid transformation of its heavy industries, especially coal mining, iron and steel-making, electrical engineering, and chemical production. This book explores this transformation.

In her autobiography, Alice Salomon describes how she became involved in social work and devoted her life to social activism and education, became a prolific author and leading feminist of her time. Her account ends with her expulsion from Germany and emigration to America in 1937.

First published in France in 2001, Sandrine Kott's book examines how East German businesses and government carried out communist practices on a daily basis and how citizens and workers experienced the conditions created by the totalitarian state in their daily lives. Kott undertakes a social analysis of the Communist Party's grasp on state enterprises and the limits of its power.

Presents an exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of 'race' after the Holocaust. This title looks at ethnic drag (Ethnomaskerade) as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested 'Germanness' in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions.