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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Prussian History"”.
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
… and even publicly celebrate figures from Prussian history who had not served a ‘progressive’ historical agenda. The ‘rehabilitation’ of Prussian history in the GDR has long been interpreted as a watershed moment in the political and cultural history of the East German state. Yet while it …
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Representations of Prussian life and history in the Preussische Chronik of Simon Grunau
… until around 1530. It delineates many aspects of Prussian customs, culture and history, from humanistic ethnogenesis in pre-Teutonic times, through the Teutonic conquest and subsequently into both daily life and political events in Prussia during his lifetime. Accordingly, Grunau deals with themes …
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Frederick the Great and the Meanings of War, 1730-1755
… centuries. It uses the methodology of cultural history, which focuses on the meanings given to human activities, to examine Frederick and the warfare of his time on three levels: cultural, temporal, and intellectual. It shows that Frederick’s warfare (at least in his youth) was culturally …