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Product Description: What makes a person call a particular place 'home'? Does it follow simply from being born there? Is it the result of a language shared with neighbours or attachment to a familiar landscape? Perhaps it is a piece of music, or a painting, or even a travelogue that captures the essence of home...read more
By David Blackbourn (editor) and James Retallack (editor)
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9780802093189, titled "Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-speaking Central Europe, 1860–1930" | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $71.00 | About this edition: What makes a person call a particular place 'home'?

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A history of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century to the present documents its rise as reflected by the nation's water and landscape developments, covering such topics as Frederick the Great's transformation of previously uninhabitable marshlands, the Rhine engineering projects, and the development of hydroelectric power. Reprint.
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9780393062120 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A history of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century to the present documents its rise as reflected by the nation's water and landscape developments, covering such topics as Frederick the Great's transformation of previously uninhabitable marshlands, the Rhine engineering projects, and the developments of hydroelectric power.
9780224060714 | Ill edition (Vintage Uk, January 19, 2006), cover price $53.45 | About this edition: Explores how the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on the German imagination.

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9780393329995 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A history of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century to the present documents its rise as reflected by the nation's water and landscape developments, covering such topics as Frederick the Great's transformation of previously uninhabitable marshlands, the Rhine engineering projects, and the development of hydroelectric power.

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Product Description: This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One.Written by a leading German historian who has transformed the historiography of modern Germany over the past two decades...read more
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9780631231950 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, October 18, 2002), cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One.

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Product Description: This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One.Written by a leading German historian who has transformed the historiography of modern Germany over the past two decades...read more
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9780631231967 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, October 18, 2002), cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One.

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Product Description: In the late eighteenth century, German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of principalities and lordships. Most people lived in the countryside, and just half survived until their late twenties. By the beginning of our own century, unified Germany was the most powerful state in Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195076714 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In the late eighteenth century, German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of principalities and lordships.

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9780195076721 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the late eighteenth century, German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of principalities and lordships.

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Product Description: In July 1876 three eight-year-old girls from Marpingen, a village in the Saarland region of south-west Germany, claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Their visions attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims and led to hundreds of claims of miraculous cures...read more
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9780198217831 | Clarendon Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: In July 1876 three eight-year-old girls from Marpingen, a village in the Saarland region of south-west Germany, claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary.

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Product Description: In a riveting work of historical research, David Blackbourn brings might the period surrounding the days in July 1876 when three young girls claimed to have sighted the Virgin Mary in the fields outside the German town of Marpingen...read more
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9780679757788 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In a riveting work of historical research, David Blackbourn brings might the period surrounding the days in July 1876 when three young girls claimed to have sighted the Virgin Mary in the fields outside the German town of Marpingen.

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In an intriguing study of the subtle interplay between politics and religion, a historian recounts the story of the 1876 appearance in a vision of the Virgin Mary in the German town of Marpingen and its dramatic impact on Germany in the crisis-laden aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War.
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9780679418436 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses the alledged visitation of the Virgin Mary

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Product Description: The German bourgeoisie has received a consistently bad press from historians through the decades. It has been blamed for succumbing to the lure of titles and honours, for being enticed away from its historic committment to liberal values, for aping the aristocracy, for political indifference, for fear of democracy and distrust of the modern world...read more
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9780415093583 | Reprint edition (Routledge, December 1, 1993), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The German bourgeoisie has received a consistently bad press from historians through the decades.

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9780049430471 | Unwin Hyman, December 1, 1987, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: "A well-written, stimulating...piece of scholarship." --German Studies Review. In a major re-evaluation of the cultural, political, and sociological assumptions about the "peculiar" course of modern German history, the authors challenge the widely-held belief that Germany did not have a Western-style bourgeois revolution...read more
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9780198730576 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 20, 1984, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: "A well-written, stimulating.

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