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Key to Military Symbols -- pt. 1. The German War Machine on the Eve of War : Myth vs. Reality -- The Third Reich Ascendant : The Reasons Why -- pt. 2. Comparing the World's First Military Superpowers on the Eve of War -- History's Bloodiest Conflict Begins -- An Inconvenient Decision Confronts Germany's Masters of War -- Another Role of the Dice -- Stalingrad in Context -- The European War's Periphery -- Seizing the Initiative : The Sword vs. the Shield -- pt. 3. A New Perspective for Explaining D-Day's Outcome -- Hitler's Greatest Defeat -- How the Third Reich Staved off Total Defeat during the Summer of '44 -- End Game

Examines the role of Germany in the European Union; some focus on how domestic support for the symbols of a united Europe might affect the political influence of a member state within the European Union.

Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue / John Walker -- Friedrich Schlegel's writings on India: reimagining Germany as Europe's true Oriental self / Michael Dusche -- Germany's local Orientalisms / Todd Kontje -- Tales from the Oriental borderlands: on the making and uses of colonial Algiers in Germanophone travel writing from the Maghreb around 1840 / James Hodkinson -- The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: figurations of the Oriental in the German-speaking world / Shaswati Mazumdar -- M. C. Sprengel's writings on India: a disenchanted and forgotten Orientalism of the late eighteenth century / Jon Keune -- Occident and Orient in narratives of exile: the case of Willy Haas's Indian exile writings / Jyoti Sabharwal -- Distant neighbors: uses of Orientalism in the late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empire / Johann Heiss and Johannes Feichtinger -- Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian letters and learning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margit Koves -- Where the Orient ends? Orientalism and its function for imperial rule in the Russian Empire / Kerstin S. Jobst -- Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech travel writing on Africa and Asia around 1918 / Sarah Lemmen -- Oriental sexuality and its uses in nineteenth-century travelogues / Ulrike Stamm

'Tamed Power: Germany in Europe' edited by Peter J. Katzenstein is reviewed. A book review of Tamed Power: Germany in Europe, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, is presented.

This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline's history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in the German Reich, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism and exile, before exploring sociology after 1945 as a 'key discipline' of the young Federal Republic of Germany, and reconstructing the periods from 1945 to 1968 and from 1968 to 1990. The final chapters are devoted to sociology in the German Democratic Republic and the period from 1990 to the present day. This work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, and to a general readership interested in the history of Germany. Stephan Moebius is Professor of Sociological Theory and Intellectual History at the University of Graz, Austria.

This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline's history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in the German Reich, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism and exile, before exploring sociology after 1945 as a 'key discipline' of the young Federal Republic of Germany, and reconstructing the periods from 1945 to 1968 and from 1968 to 1990. The final chapters are devoted to sociology in the German Democratic Republic and the period from 1990 to the present day. This work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, and to a general readership interested in the history of Germany.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. United Germany in an Integrating Europe / Katzenstein, Peter J. -- 2. Shaping the Rules? The Constitutive Politics of the European Union and German Power / Bulmer, Simon J. -- 3. Hard Interests, Soft Power, and Germany's Changing Role in Europe / Anderson, Jeffrey J. -- 4. Placed in Europe: The Low Countries and Germany in the European Union / Kurzer, Paulette -- 5. Moving at Different Speeds: Spain and Greece in the European Union / Marks, Michael P. -- 6. Pulling in Different Directions: The Europeanization of Scandinavian Political Economies / Ingebritsen, Christine -- 7· Returning to Europe: Central Europe between Internationalization and Instiltutionalization / Anioł, Włodek / Brzica, Daneš / Byrnes, Timothy A. / Gedeon, Péter / Jeřábek, Hynek / Katzenstein, Peter / Poláčková, Zuzana / Samson, Ivo / Zich, František -- 8. The Smaller European States, Germany and Europe / Katzenstein, Peter J. -- Index

Why study the history of modern German-speaking Central Europe? If pressed to answer this question fifty years ago, a Germanist would likely have said something to the effect that one studies modern German history to trace the "German" origins of Nazism, with the broader aim of understanding authoritarianism. While the problem of authoritarianism clearly remains relevant to this day, the nation-state-centered approach to understanding it has waned, especially in light of the recent shift toward transnational and global history. The following essay focuses on the issue of authoritarianism, asking whether the study of German history is still relevant to authoritarianism. It begins with a review of two conventional approaches to understanding authoritarianism in modern German history, and then thinks about it in a different way through G. W. F. Hegel in an effort to demonstrate the vibrancy of German intellectual history for exploring significant and global issues such as authoritarianism.