Berlin Metropolis
Title | Berlin Metropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Emily D. Bilski |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520222410 |
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 vividly documents the diverse ways that Jewish artists, intellectuals, and cultural impresarios participated in this burst of creativity and promoted the emergence of modernism in Berlin and on the international scene."--BOOK JACKET.
The Berlin-Baghdad Express
Title | The Berlin-Baghdad Express PDF eBook |
Author | Sean McMeekin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674058534 |
The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey’s hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I—Turkey’s entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution—are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia’s yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East.
Russia in the German Global Imaginary
Title | Russia in the German Global Imaginary PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Casteel |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2016-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822981351 |
This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how Russia figured in the imperial visions and utopian desires of a variety of Germans, including scholars, journalists, travel writers, government and military officials, as well as nationalist activists. He illuminates the ambiguous position that Russia occupied in Germans' global imaginary as both an imperial rival and an object of German power. During the interwar years in particular, Russia, now under Soviet rule, became a site onto which Germans projected their imperial ambitions and expectations for the future, as well as their worst anxieties about modernity. Casteel shows how the Nazis drew on this cultural repertoire to construct their own devastating vision of racial imperialism.
USSR
Title | USSR PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004449302 |
Berlin Moskva: Chronik
Title | Berlin Moskva: Chronik PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art, German |
ISBN |
Hitler's war in the East, 1941-1945
Title | Hitler's war in the East, 1941-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Rolf-Dieter Müller |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | 9780857450753 |
Recent Stage and Prospects of Agricultural Mechanization in Developing Countries
Title | Recent Stage and Prospects of Agricultural Mechanization in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1976-12-31 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3112713699 |
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