This edition has been revised, rewritten and expanded. It examines 16th century Europe as a complex, but interconnected whole, and explores the different political structures of Europe, such as the monarchies and city-republics, how they operated and related to one another. In particular it incorporates the most recent scholarship in this field and emphasizes the increasing importance of town-life in the 16th century, and the economic background of political change. In includes an entirely new chapter on "social life", taking into account and recent work on demographic history, attitudes to women, the family, and on the impact of education, war and disease, concentrating on the Reformation and the religious and intellectual movements that fuelled it.

Product Description: Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century...read more

Historian George Mosse explores a critical time in German history when thinkers of both the left and the right shared a common longing: to solve the problems of contemporary society by creating a force that would eliminate both Marxism and bourgeois society - a "third force" beyond communism and capitalism. This pervasive turn in ideology had profound effects on German history: left-wing political efforts became increasingly unrelated to reality, while the right finally discovered in fascism the "third force" it had been seeking.

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Documents life under the Hitler regime by reproducing propaganda posters and photographs and compiling selections from contemporary newspaper accounts, novels, school textbooks and private journals (view table of contents)

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Traces through the nineteenth and early twentieth century the progressive social and political institutionalization of racism, Germanic Christianity, nature mysticism, youth worship, and other Volkish ideas (view table of contents)

Looks at how the concept of masculinity has changed, and describes modern expectations for men by the society at large

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Product Description: Jews were emancipated at a time when high culture was becoming an integral part of German citizenship. German Jews felt a powerful urge to integrate, to find their Jewish substance in German culture and craft an identity as both Germans and Jews...read more

Argues that the bourgeois of Europe established sexual guidelines for respectability, explains how deviations from these ideals seemed threatening to nationalistic goals, and examines stereotypes of the outsider (view table of contents)

Product Description: Mosse offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex and contradictory interactions of nationalism and Judaism during the last two centuries.

Product Description: Nationalism lies at the core of the history of the twentieth century. This volume provides a unique insight into the history, and contemporary experience, of modern nationalism, drawing on a wealth of examples from a broad geographical range...read more

Analyzes the myth of the war experience--the mind-set that overlooked the carnage and brutality of the two world wars and justified the conflicts

Analyzes the men, ideas, and social conditions that precipitated the reorganization of the Christian church in the sixteenth century

Mosse analyzes how men and women in modern Europe, discontent over the loss of order and the disintegration of traditional values, turned to nationalism. Seeking guidelines upon which they could model their lives, they found in nationalism a means to maintain clear distinctions between the accepted and the unacceptable, the permitted and the forbidden, and the normal and the abnormal. (view table of contents)

Product Description: By collectively concentrating on the theme of political symbolism in modern Europe, the con­tributors to this volume have cho­sen to honor a revered teacher and colleague by developing a set of variations on one of his primary scholarly concerns...read more

Book by Mosse, George L.