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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Visual narratives of conflict in Germany, 1871-1933

Fox, Paul Louis Dominic January 2009 (has links)
This thesis investigates how war was represented in positive terms in German culture between 1871 and 1933. It explores how modes of representing combat in affirmative illustrated accounts of the Franco-Prussian War were reinterpreted in order to remember the First World War on equivalent terms, after defeat in 1918. It examines the terms on which representations of cohesive teamwork on the battlefield demonstrate the will to battle, conceived of as a German trait. It addresses a broad spectrum of sources in which this quality is exemplified, including oil painting, film, illustrated histories, newspapers and propaganda posters. The thesis considers the implications for spectatorship posed by a society that practiced universal male conscription, and explores the relationship between military experience and issues of memory formation. Chapter 1 examines how the rhetoric of selfless attentiveness in visual accounts of military command and control was so solidly embedded in German culture by 1918 that it crossed over into the civilian domain. Chapter 2 addresses the terms on which visual accounts of combat proclaimed the martial virtues of the German soldier through representations of a collective will to aggressive war fighting. Chapter 3 investigates the terms on which the rhetoric of performing excellence associated with both command and combat were redeployed in an account of counterrevolutionary operations in early 1919. The final chapter explores how the growing influence of technology on battlefield events was acknowledged in accounts affirming a German way of waging war. The thesis concludes that affirmative narratives maintained a consistent thematic approach to the representation of the German soldier at war. Performing excellence located in the will to battle was upheld as an enduring virtue in visual accounts of decision making and of combat, despite the impact of increasingly lethal technology, and of defeat in 1918. 4
2

The German democratic press and the collapse of Weimar democracy

Eksteins, Modris January 1970 (has links)
No description available.
3

Ex-serviceman's organisations and the Weimar Republic

Elliott, Christopher James January 1971 (has links)
No description available.
4

Rituals, migrations, and texts : German charms in a transcontinental perspective

Klein Käfer, Natacha January 2016 (has links)
The present work will analyse how German charms were recorded, perceived, and used in different periods of history. This analysis will be based on sources like ninth-century to late-sixteenth-century manuscripts, late-sixteenth- to seventeenth-century treatises and witch trial records, eighteenth- and nineteen-century printed books and booklets, and currently used manuscripts in a German immigrant community in Southern Brazil, as well as interviews with local healers from immigrant communities in Brazil and in Pennsylvania (USA). The study of these sources will be divided in four chapters. In the first chapter, the focus will be on how German charms entered manuscript culture in the ninth and tenth centuries, how they were incorporated into the body of the text in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and how they became popular in recipe collections and pharmacopoeias until the late sixteenth century. The second chapter will deal with the reduction of records of charms in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. For that, we will look into medical and religious treatises to see how they portray the use of charms. To give more nuance to how these treatises had an impact on the transmission of charms, examples of witch trial records dealing with charm users will be presented. In chapter 3, the attention will shift to charms in print. In the late eighteen century, charm books started to gain popularity and entered the esoteric book market. We will look into how these texts were adapted by publishers, the strategies they used to market these books, and the impact that print had in the transmission of charms among practitioners. Chapter 4 focuses on charms found among German immigrants in Southern Brazil and in Pennsylvania. By combining textual and oral sources, this chapter will analyse how these charms are used in these two immigrant communities and examine the textual means in which they survive in these new contexts, to see what they reveal about practice, transmission, and textual adaptation of charms. The goal of these chapters is to understand charms in their textual and social environments, to see how changes in these environments affected or did not affect the way in which charms were transmitted, the opinions surrounding the use of charms, and the use of charms in daily life.
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The tournament and its role in the court culture of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519)

Anderson, Natalie Margaret January 2017 (has links)
This thesis is an extensive and interdisciplinary study of the tournaments of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). It draws upon material, literary, narrative, and visual sources to create a holistic view of what the late medieval German tournament looked like in the court of Maximilian. Its scope includes the types of tournaments held, historical context and influences, the network of participants, the environment, the practicalities, and the symbolism. It also invesitagates Maximilian’s influence on the tournament at this time, and its role in shaping his legacy. At its heart, by examining various narrative sources, this thesis presents a chronological study of the primary tournaments in which Maximilian was involved during his lifetime. Using this study, the thesis explores the various styles of joust practiced at the tournament under Maximilian, and the arms and armour, as well as decorative elements, employed in each. Finally, it explores the role of the tournament specifically as it pertained to Maximilian’s courtly culture. This thesis makes use of an unprecedented range of sources in presenting its findings. By drawing upon extant Maximilian-related tournament arms and armour, as well as visual depictions of his tournaments, alongside both fictional and real-life accounts of these events, new information may be gathered which brings to light previously unexplored findings and draws connections which have not before been made. This research demonstrates the central role which tournaments played during Maximilian’s reign. It attempts to categorise and catalogue the numerous styles of joust which the emperor promoted by analysing their distinct features. Further, it reveals his influence upon them and, in turn, theirs upon him, through the crafting of his memory in the form of public spectacle and various literary and artistic works.
6

Buildings, spaces, politics : Munich city council and the management of modernity, 1900-1930

Jerram, Leif W. January 2001 (has links)
No description available.
7

The political development of German university towns in the Weimar Republic : Gottingen and Munster, 1918-1930

Marshall, Barbara Regina Elizabeth January 1973 (has links)
No description available.
8

Political thought of the Counter Reformation in England, 1579-1615 : a study of the Allen-Parsons party

Clancy, Thomas Hanley January 1960 (has links)
No description available.
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Relations between townspeople and rural nobles in late medieval Germany : a study of Nuremberg in the 1440s

Pope, Benjamin John January 2016 (has links)
In the 1440s all levels of society in the imperial city of Nuremberg were strongly differentiated as social groups from almost all groups within the rural nobility. Townspeople and nobles nonetheless interacted in many ways, and this thesis examines: the presence of the nobility in the town; burghers as rural landowners; cooperation and conflict between town and nobility over questions of rural security; communication practices and common membership of regional and imperial political communities; nobles as allies and servitors of Nuremberg; and nobles as feud opponents of Nuremberg. The objective is to locate within this interaction influences upon and consequences of fifteenth-century discourses about town and nobility which emphasized antagonism between the two, and which seem to have been increasingly influential over the course of the century. The thesis finds that, whereas townspeople and nobles have traditionally been seen as opposing forces in German history, the actual points of tension between Nuremberg and rural nobles were closely focused on security in the countryside, and a clash of interests arising from the often unintended consequences of nobles’ feuding activity for the city’s long-distance trade. But we also see that although the urban elite had much in common with the rural nobility, Nuremberg had weak (and weakening) connections to communities amongst the nobility in the 1440s, and that the city council’s policy within the walls placed obstacles in the way of nobles’ engagement with the town. The resulting social and political distance between town and nobility was exploited for political gain by certain regional princes, who (in the 1440s at least) were the principal promoters of antagonistic models of town-noble relations, though events during the 1440s may have helped to establish these ideas in wider debates about the fundamental order of society.
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The opposition in the central German states to a 'Kleindeutsch' solution of the German Question, 1859-1867

Hope, Nicholas Martin January 1971 (has links)
No description available.

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