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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"German States"”.
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The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War
… of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called …
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The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War
… of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called …
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THE GERMAN SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (VOLUMES I AND II, CHAPTERS 1-12)
<p>The thirty thousand German soldiers who served with the British Army in the American Revolution enabled the British to attempt to successfully wage war without affecting the stability of British society. The six German states that sent troops to America did so as a result of hundreds of years of …
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West Germany and Namibia's path to independence, 1969-1990: foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany
This thesis examines West Germany's relationship with Namibia between 1969 and 1990. It investigates West German foreign policy towards Namibia, at the height of the Namibian liberation struggle, against the backdrop of East and West German rivalry. It brings to light that the post-war division of …
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The Julich-Kleve succession crisis (1609-1620): A study in international relations
… strategic location in the Rhineland area of the German Empire on the border with the divided Netherlands made the succession an international concern. In 1609-10 and 1614 there were two crises which resulted in foreign powers mobilizing armies to intervene in Julich-Kleve; nevertheless no war was …
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Continuity and Change in German Security Policy: the Pivotal Role of Unification
… looks at the way in which the reunification of Germany changed the formation of security policy in the Federal Republic. Prior to 1989, Germany, lacking full sovereignty, was unable to make foreign policy decisions without consulting its allies, especially the United States. With the fall of …
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Intimate strangers: intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935
In this dissertation, I examine intermarriage in Germany from 1875, when the Second Reich implemented obligatory civil marriage, to 1935, the year the Third Reich implemented the Nuremberg Laws. At its core are common mixed marriages between Protestants and Catholics, as well as the relatively less …
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Language and ideology: a linguistic analysis of school textbooks from the FRG and the GDR, with special reference to the role of language in socialisation
… of politics textbooks used in East and West German schools. The theoretical framework adopted is a development of the work of M A K Halliday, incorporating also work done in other fields of linguistics, in psychology, pedagogics, political science, and sociology. Part I discusses the corpus …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
… The war started in 1618 to determine whether the German States would be dominated by Catholic interests or by Protestantt . Entwined, however, with the religious alliances were a myriad of political and feudal quarrels in which external European powers were quick to meddle. Eventually, the affairs …
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Making Nationalism Work: German Attempts at Liberalism and Nationalism, 1848-1871
… challenged the conservative monarchies of Germany. During the Revolutions of 1848, that movement was able to seize power and establish a new Germany which promised a nation-state based on rights and freedoms. However, by 1871 and the establishment of the German Empire Germany had gone from …
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Sports, Mass Mobilization, and the Everyday Culture of Socialism in East Germany
… explores how the communist government of East Germany used sports to build socialism. Sports had traditionally enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany, and communist leaders sought to instrumentalize this popularity towards socialist ends. They believed that sports could produce efficient …
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Promoting and monitoring Low German: education policies and ideologies of language in the northern German Bundesländer
… from the Charter’s active protection is Low German—the heritage language of northern Germany and parts of the northeastern areas of the Netherlands. This thesis analyzes the Charter’s success in fostering this language in the field of education and how the policies meant to accomplish this …
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“One Cannot Leave It Undecided”: On the Dynamic Production of Scoring Decisions in the School Inspection Process
… school inspection systems were included – the German states Lower Saxony and Thuringia. In each system, three school inspection teams were shadowed during their on-site scoring work. In addition to observations, discussions among team members were sound recorded and analysed with tools from …
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Essays on Inequality, Growth, and Economic Policy
… inequality by examining the cases of Italy and Germany in the context of nineteenth century unification. To conduct this analysis, the study puts forward - for the first time - estimates of income inequality for pre-unification German states using social tables, compiled using primary data, some …
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The difficulty in forging a bond: the inner workings of postmemory within family relationships in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel Meines Bruders
1989 marked a pivotal time in Germany’s history where the two German states and their respective histories needed to be reconciled and the memory of its citizens was called upon to be revisited as well. With a major political event, such as WWII in the German history, Germans were prompted to …
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The Origins of Transnational Political Policing in Europe, 1830-1870
… between the post-Napoleonic era and the German unification (1871)/the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), this treatise analyzes the reactions of the Prussian and Austrian state apparatuses against political unrest from a transnational perspective. The fact that Prussia and Austria were …
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Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49
The Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-49, was intended to transform the war-torn Third Reich into a peaceable nation through a series of far-reaching political, economic, and social reforms. But amid the growing tensions between East and West these radical plans would be significantly altered, …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… Berlin-especially with the founding of the two German states in 1949 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961-urban planning and development are most easily understood to be part of East-West ideological divides. Visions for the city of the future that were produced in secluded West Berlin …
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The German Moment in English Musical Culture, 1820-1859
… argues that a distinct and highly consequential German moment crystallised in English musical culture between the 1820s and 1850s. Across these four decades, music written by German and Austrian composers went from being received as an esoteric and essentially foreign cultural import to becoming …
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