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Gendered Practices of Rulership at the Court of Württemberg, 1568–1634
Gender history has alerted us to the fact that it is misleading to assume transhistorical features when it comes to issues such as childbearing, mother- and fatherhood, and gendered systems of labour division. Instead, all of these are culturally inflected and thus variable across time. Gendered Practices of Rulership at the Court of Württemberg, 1568-1634 explores the ways in which socially constructed differences between men and women supported the dynastic practice of power in the early modern duchy of Württemberg. The book investigates three generations of the Württemberg ducal family from the late sixteenth to the first half of the seventeenth century. In five chapters, five gendered...
Keeping the Peace in the Village
Keeping the Peace in the Village describes the nature of conflicts among rural people in the period after the Thirty Years' War. These included property disputes, conflicts between employers and their workers, disputes over marriage promises, and, most often, honor disputes.
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
In the first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, Dr Whaley provides a full account of the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Volume II extends from the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich.
Litigating Women
This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field. Individually, the chapters offer an insight into the motivations and strategies of women who engaged in legal action in a wide range of courts, from local rural and urban courts, to ecclesiastical courts and the highest jurisdictions of crown and parliament. Collectively, the focus on individual women litigants – rather than how women were defined by legal systems – highlights continuities in their experiences of justice, while also demonstrating the unique and intersecting facto...
Germany at War
Written by experts for use by nonexperts, this monumental work probes Germany's "Genius for War" and the unmistakable pattern of tactical and operational innovation and excellence evident throughout the nation's military history. Despite having the best military forces in the world, some of the most advanced weapons available, and unparalleled tactical proficiency, Germany still lost both World Wars. This landmark, four-volume encyclopedia explores how and why that happened, at the same time examining Germany as a military power from the start of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 to the present day. Coverage includes the Federal Republic of Germany, its predecessor states, and the kingdoms and p...
Inside Hitler's High Command
Challenging previous accounts, Megargee shatters the myth that German generals would have prevailed in World War II if only Hitler had not meddled in their affairs. Instead, he observes that the military's strategic ideas were no better than Hitler's and often were worse. 20 photos.
Kesselring's Last Battle
Revisits the war crimes trial of Albert Kesselring, commander-in-chief of German troops in Italy during Wold War II, who was sentenced to death for the killing of thousands of civilians in Italy. Reveals how the commutation of that death sentence was one of the earliest maneuverings in the nascent Cold War.
Verwaltungsgeschichte der Habsburgermonarchie in der Frühen Neuzeit
Der erste Band des umfassenden neuen Handbuchs ist dem Kaiserhof, den Zentralbehörden der Monarchie und dem Verhältnis zwischen dem Kaiser, seinen Erbländern und dem Heiligen Römischen Reich gewidmet. Die Darstellung der Entwicklung des Kriegswesens, des landesfürstlichen Finanzwesens sowie der Kommerzbehörden und des Postwesens erfolgt in eigenen Abschnitten. Weitere Beiträge befassen sich mit der territorialen und demographischen Entwicklung, den dynastischen Erbfolgeregelungen und dem länderspezifischen Thronfolgerecht sowie dem Adel in der Habsburgermonarchie. 60 ausgewiesene Fachleute aus sieben Ländern führen die in unzähligen Publikationen und etwa einem Dutzend Sprachen zerstreut vorliegenden einschlägigen Forschungen zusammen und lassen auch ganz aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse in das Handbuch einfließen.
Death of the Wehrmacht
A deft, lively, and highly readable history of the demise of the German way of war. As the allies found an antidote to the "shock and awe" approach of the Wehrmacht, the once mighty German army underwent an epic fall from remarkable operational victories to crushing operational defeats, forced to take on a defensive stance in a war it could never win.
Corps Commanders of the Bulge
Study of the Battle of the Bulge.
