0d86ceb3-e24e-4826-8166-766561481035TrueNewShip67IrelandAmazonLargeBooksreviewrank8639786400226304981http://www.amazon.com/Basel-Age-Burckhardt-Study-Unseasonable/dp/0226304981%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D02263049811900931http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WEJ22XQML._SL75_.jpg7548http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WEJ22XQML._SL160_.jpg160102http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WEJ22XQML.jpg475303Lionel GossmanHardcover949.43206397802263049841500226304981University Of Chicago PressEnglishEnglishEnglish9505000USD$50.00University Of Chicago Press1622Book2000-06-15University Of Chicago PressUniversity Of Chicago Press2206251500USD$15.003250USD$32.50740011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewFHqWJaPlfod0Nrh0H8t4kRQ%2F36Hrvxuovry%2Fn429rXJq5qEjFSnisxWQvlPc5R%2F3fmPjFeraCu1RexOTWVEwOg%3D%3D5000USD$50.00Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks5.02102263049815222007-02-10

An Affectionate, Sophisticated Portrait of Burckhardt and His City

Lionel Gossman seems to be a student of human nature as well as a professional historian, and he is at his best when examining his main characters: the rather delirious Johann Jacob Bachofen (treated here at length); Friedrich Nietzsche (discussed much more briefly but to great effect); and the central figure of Jacob Burckhardt. For more than two decades, Gossman has been wrestling with the confrontation of these men and modernity in the historical theater of 19th-century Basel. This magnificent book is the result. Gossman writes about his characters with a certain wryness that may be born of familiarity, but his enthusiasm for them (particularly Burckhardt) has not been worn down by time or erudition. His style of intellectual history reminded me of that of Joseph Levenson in his trilogy on Confucian China: large-souled yet agile and ready to be delighted. <br /> <br />Burckhardt was a rebel, in his way; thus, in great part, the "Unseasonable Ideas" of the subtitle. As the previous reviewer noted, the issues being dealt with here are very serious ones for us today as they were in Burckhardt's time. There is a rebellious quality to Gossman's own thinking, when he invites us to re-examine some of our received ideas about democracy, culture, education and the well-lived life. 0226304981518202001-01-16

A Look at Fin-de-Sicele Basel

Over the years many books have been written on the culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna, but no one had attempted a similar study of Basel, Switzerland, a city that blossomed as a cultural center during the Renaissance and then slowly faded over the centuries, as peace and prosperity teamed together to eliminate the tensions that make a city into a center of arts and literature. Vienna was done in by the war, Basel by peace.<p>Lionel Gossman has written an interesting and lively study of the city, choosing to focus on the four major thinkers that mark its last great period in intellectual history: Jacob Burckhardt, Johann Jacob Bachofen, Frans Overbeck, and Friedrich Nietzsche. and how their ideas were ultimately interwoven with the culture and tradition of Basel itself. <p>Recommended for anyone interested in the history of ideas and the question of not only whether liberty can co-exist with democracy, but can a culture keep alive in a setting that has escaped the tensions of its day, such as revolution, depression and war?<DIV>This remarkable history tells the story of the independent city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual history: the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.<BR><BR>"Remarkable and exceptionally readable . . . There is wit, wisdom and an immense erudition on every page."—Jonathan Steinberg, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><BR><BR>"Gossman's book, a product of many years of active contemplation, is a tour de force. It is at once an intellectual history, a cultural history of Basel and Europe, and an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century historiography. Written with a grace and elegance that many aspire to, few seldom achieve, this is model scholarship."—John R. Hinde,<i> American Historical Review</i></div>061891981302269834200674013174006074480405200756842371Irish2365Ethnic & National2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2393General2376Historical2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books4953General4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books4980Switzerland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465180General4948England4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books3006821Western4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books5039General5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books15812181History of Ideas4987Historical Study9History1000Subjects283155Books16244251International Institutions16022621Political Science11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books491414Europe468230History468206Humanities465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712989011General AAS468230History468206Humanities465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712982011General AAS465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books713014011General AAS319654011Qualifying Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0750937947http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hastings-Jim-Bradbury/dp/0750937947%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0750937947668742http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S0EA154ZL._SL75_.jpg7546http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S0EA154ZL._SL160_.jpg16098http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S0EA154ZL.jpg500306Jim BradburyPaperback942.0199780750937948790750937947Sutton PublishingEnglishEnglishEnglish7561495USD$14.95Sutton Publishing1224Book2006-02-25Sutton PublishingSutton Publishing755041196USD$11.96900USD$9.00650011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewrzMKabuobhxzKw9%2BT3JFPCY%2FnYQrZ6WDRQu06NrNYtqgUn9a9iBRcUV6O5jKtSTUZ7XFAugUBEDPiWB%2FaZd2vnTwR2qjATLh1196USD$11.96Usually ships in 1 to 4 months5.02107509379475152007-02-27

add 14 october to your list of new holidays

This book is lean and mean.Very little is devoted to the battle itself,because apparently there wasn't much to it,except in intensity.It seems the English didn't have much cavalry and not enough archers either,the Normans had plenty of well trained experts in both.In addition it seems that during this period Angleland was very politically unstable and had only recently repelled 2 invasions from Norway and the Danes as well.With all the chaos maybe the Normans were a positive addition to the English gene pool.This book also explains well the history of English territorial claims on the European continent.The claims of Henry the fifth were the reassertions of territorial rights in existence since the rule of William the Conqueror.There are some excellent interpretations of the Bayeux Tapestry as well.You'll be an expert without doing the original 3 volume 2000 page set and it will cost you about 3 or 4 hours and 3 or 4 cups of coffee(or tea?).The famous English Longbowman at Agincourt is an original French(Norman) invention.True the normans didn't have the longbow at Hastings but they used the bowman in groups for mass firepower and the Saxons had their archers sprinkled throughout the ranks.When the longbow was invented and used with Norman archery tactics it made the English dominant for 200 years or so.According to this book the Normans gave the Saxons a lesson on how to use archery.0750937947524252000-08-21

Climax of the Viking Age

The Battle of Hastings was a key turning point in the history of Northern Europe. Together with the Battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge, this trilogy of battles enabled the great civilization that was coming into being in Western Europe penetrate into the British Isles, when at that time were culturally and economically part of Scandanavia. Bradbury's account is the best that I have read - it is clear, concise but detailed enough to satisfy anyone who wants to find out more about the climactic battle of 1066. I loved the way he used the Bayeux Tapestry right through as a reference document. Many accounts (and I would include Frank McLynn's recent '1066 - Year of Three Battles'), use the tapestry as a secondary source only, a sure sign of the tyranny of the written word! Yet the Tapestry was made within at least twenty years of the battle on the order of one of the major participants (Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the Conqueror's half-brother). It is therefore perhaps the prime source for the battle. It is also a significant document on the weapons and tactics used, besides being a prime work of art! You feel that Bradbury is judicious and discerning on the major puzzles - Did Harold swear an oath to William? Did Edward support William's succession? What use did the English make of horses? How did Harold die? Did the Normans win the battle with a 'feigned flight'? How did the Normans use their archers? Where were the English archers? Anyone with an interest in medieval politics and military history should have this book on their shelves.The Battle of Hastings is probably the best-known and most significant battle in English history. Jim Bradbury explores the full military background to the battle, the sources of our knowledge and the role the battle played.0850529530B000HT2P160802777422052000350005827844094953General4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465180General4948England4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465208General4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465214Medieval4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books5014General5011Military9History1000Subjects283155Books5039General5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books5040Medieval5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0940410826http://www.amazon.com/Beckett-Actor-Jack-Macgowran-Beginning/dp/0940410826%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D09404108262415061http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/218DA8JB04L._SL75_.jpg7551http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/218DA8JB04L._SL160_.jpg14095http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/218DA8JB04L.jpg14095Jordan R. YoungHardcover792.02809249780940410824750940410826Moonstone PressEnglishEnglishEnglish9502495USD$24.95Moonstone Press1206Book1988-01Moonstone PressMoonstone Press100650875USD$8.754950USD$49.500610005.02109404108265002005-08-23

The Gift of MacGowran

I cannot imagine my life without the influence of Jack MacGowran as a crucial part of it. Young does an excellent job of bringing this amazing actor's life and work to the reader. But, after reading the book, please take the time to discover what Jack did best: Bringing the works of Samuel Beckett to life. 09404108265111999-01-23

Fascinating look at a fascinating actor.

My interest in Irish theatre brought me to this book. What a find! A fascinating look at a fascinating actor. The author brings alive the work and times of MacGowran. A well-researched and thorough work recommended for any student of theatre. I was especially impressed with the variety of interview subjects. Made me do a search for MacGowran's available work on video. While not a big fan of Beckett, I was impressed by the relationship between the playwright and this ultimate interpreter of his works.The first biography of Samuel Beckett's favorite actor and foremost interpreter discusses their collaboration on the definitive production of "Waiting for Godot" -- and reveals how MacGowran changed forever the public perception of Beckett from a purveyor of despair to a writer of wit, humanity and courage. The actor's collaboration with filmmaker Roman Polanski is also discussed in detail.2155Acting & Auditioning2154Theater521000Performing Arts1Arts & Photography1000Subjects283155Books2218General2154Theater521000Performing Arts1Arts & Photography1000Subjects283155Books2328Actors & Actresses2327Arts & Literature2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2348Theatre2327Arts & Literature2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2371Irish2365Ethnic & National2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books465208General4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books725798General11773Foreign Languages21Reference1000Subjects283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155BooksB0006P8UGAhttp://www.amazon.com/Belfast-confetti-Ciara%C3%8C%C2%81n-Carson/dp/B0006P8UGA%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0006P8UGACiarán CarsonUnknown BindingSilver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison LibrariesEnglishEnglishSilver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison LibrariesBook1993Silver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison LibrariesSilver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries0000005.021B0006P8UGA5002008-06-21

Belfast Confetti

This book could be read as its own text, or as a companion to the author's previous book, The Irish for No. This volume takes on many of the same places, people, and themes, and uses the same groundbreaking poetic line sprawling across the page to recreate the eight-bar rhythm of traditional music. But this book is also distinct: its short discursive essays give it the narrative feel of somebody letting you in on the secrets of his own life, and the darker tone reminds you that you have traveled to the other side of the poet's mind. <br /> <br />The extensions from the previous volume begin very explicitly, with the title, which comes from a poem in TIFN. The Exiles' Club, who were the center of a poem in the last book, now come up as the subject of an essay in this book. But the book reads like the aftermath of a car bomb, with body parts strewn throughout the titles (Hairline Crack, Bloody Hand) and memorials to notable acts of violence ("The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the time / of the explosion -- or was that last week's?"). <br /> <br />This book could easily have a wider audience than most books of poetry. For students of history, lovers of literature, Celtophiles, and those curious about the mind of the victim of violence, Belfast Confetti can be both an education and a very grim pleasure to read. Be warned, you can't read it too quickly, or the darkness will tear you down in a hurry; this is a book to be consumed in sips, not huge gulps. But it is a book to be consumed nevertheless, and enjoyed for as long as it lasts.B0006P8UGA513141998-02-12

Exceptional work.

"Belfast Confetti", along with Carson's 1987 "The Irish For No", are the most impressive volumes of poetry I have read in recent years. I could (and do, as an English student) pour over the poems for hour. He is wonderfully skilled at interconnecting his work and setting a real sense of place. Carson explores Belfast and the way the city and its people have changed in the last four decades or so since his youth. He is concerned not with judging the changes, but in examining the ways in which the Troubles, the English presence, and modernization have affected Belfast/Northern irish culture and the way his own memory betrays the truth as it falters. These are rich books, they keep you looking over & over for more layers. I also reccommend, if you can find it, his 1997 prose work, "The Star Factory". Its themes and subjects tie right back in with BC and TIFN.030738996001560340260822216728039396063306797834821000Subjects1Arts & Photography2Biographies & Memoirs3Business & Investing4Children's Books4366Comics & Graphic Novels5Computers & Internet6Cooking, Food & Wine86Entertainment301889Gay & Lesbian10Health, Mind & Body9History48Home & Garden10777Law17Literature & Fiction13996Medicine18Mystery & Thrillers53Nonfiction290060Outdoors & Nature20Parenting & Families173507Professional & Technical21Reference22Religion & Spirituality23Romance75Science25Science Fiction & Fantasy26Sports28Teens27Travel283155Books0634058479http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Irish-Songs-Leonard/dp/0634058479%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0634058479255311http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T5CC7B01L._SL75_.jpg7556http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T5CC7B01L._SL160_.jpg160120http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T5CC7B01L.jpg500375PaperbackHal Leonard Corp.782.421620094159780634058479600634058479Hal Leonard CorporationEnglishEnglishEnglish11901695USD$16.95Hal Leonard Corporation1192Book2004-01-01Hal Leonard CorporationHal Leonard Corporation1458801261USD$12.611195USD$11.951899USD$18.9922101011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewFyHm2bwkIwVQnBKAeBaZDQT6%2BD0WfC9Yo64IQNuoZrTG5Twb%2FTJZdIJjgzN9w%2FCfnEKwm96tc1c4rKvQpmFUwA%3D%3D1695USD$16.95Usually ships in 24 hours5.02106340584795452006-11-06

Excellent collection

This is an excellent collection of Irish music for the beginner to intermediate piano player. Even the unfamiliar songs are easy to learn in this uncomplicated Irish folk style. You will definitely have a lot of fun learning to play piano using this book. My only complaint is that while there are plenty of songs to choose from, you can easily play through this whole book in a short time. This will leave you wanting additional Irish music in this style. 063405847958112006-03-11

In time for St. Patty's Day...

Do you have a familiar tune in your head but can't quite remember the words? Maybe it's in this book! This has over 70 Irish songs, with piano part/vocals/and guitar chords. Among the fun titles are "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder," "I'm a Rover and Seldom Sober," and "Throw Him Down, McCloskey."A great collection of 76 beloved Irish tunes, from folk songs to Tin Pan Alley favorites! Includes: Danny Boy * Erin! Oh Erin! * Father O'Flynn * Finnegan's Wake * I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen * The Irish Rover * The Irish Washerwoman * Jug of Punch * Kerry Dance * Mary's a Grand Old Name * Molly Malone * My Wild Irish Rose * Peg O' My Heart * 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer * Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra (That's an Irish Lullaby) * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder * Wild Rover * and more.094600556706340172761857200926185720093408256023781769Piano1764Instruments & Performers4507Music86Entertainment1000Subjects283155Books1771Voice1764Instruments & Performers4507Music86Entertainment1000Subjects283155Books1821Songbooks4507Music86Entertainment1000Subjects283155Books4510General4507Music86Entertainment1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0571168094http://www.amazon.com/Big-Boys-Rules-Struggle-Against/dp/0571168094%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0571168094999695http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41V8M3K67RL._SL75_.jpg7547http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41V8M3K67RL._SL160_.jpg160101http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41V8M3K67RL.jpg475299Mark UrbanPaperback3279780571168095870571168094Faber & FaberEnglishEnglishEnglish7561860USD$18.60Faber & Faber1266Book1992-01Faber & FaberFaber & Faber494961140USD$11.401015USD$10.159800005.02105711680945342002-06-20

Compelling and thought provoking

Having served a number of times as an officer in Northern Ireland, this book filled in a number of gaps in my own knowledge. The reading of this book should be compulsory for anyone wishing to comment on the fight against Irish terrorism and the methods employed by each opposing side.05711680945342001-09-01

Compelling Reading

An overview of the SAS fight against the IRA, it appears that a shoot to kill policy may have been in place as the SAS killed many IRA terrorists during their covert operations.Great insight into the skill and sophistication of the IRA and the SAS.184415099207515316500226567702186207047415857474914948England46518418th Century46518619th Century46518820th Century465182Ancient465180General465190London465192Medieval465194Norman465196Tudor & Stuart4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books5015Intelligence & Espionage5011Military9History1000Subjects283155Books10907Law Enforcement173489Criminal Law10777Law1000Subjects283155Books747400Terrorism10546Current Events53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books16022631General16022621Political Science11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books33SKPDQZU2QRJAction Books0691056730http://www.amazon.com/Bismarck-Development-Germany-Volumes-1-3/dp/0691056730%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D06910567306216767Otto PflanzeHardcover94397806910567394000691056730Princeton Univ PrEnglishEnglishEnglish97514000USD$140.00Princeton Univ Pr1Book1990-10Princeton Univ PrPrinceton Univ Pr6106500000005.021069105673059102002-03-28

How Bismarck Unified Germany through Cunning

Otto Pflanze's book describes how Bismarck manipulated domestic and international politics to unify Germany.<br>This book, ending in 1871 at the end of the first phase of Bismarck's career is the first of three volumes. The book begins by showing how idealists and romantics tried and failed to unite Germany, but Bismarck was a realist and based his methods on the strengths and weaknesses of individuals.<p>First Bismarck used cunning diplomacy to isolate the Austria, Prussia's rival for control of the German states. The Franco Austrian war demonstrated Austria's weakness, and increased worries among northern Germans about French strength. This improved Prussia's hand, and later Bismarck's hand. <p>Pflanze follows Bismarck's tactics step by step through his labyrinthine maneuvers as he <br>played France against Austria during the Schleswig Holstein situation Bismarck wanted to separate Austria from the German confederation and inspire the northern German states to unite into a Northern German confederation.<br> <br>After Bismarck unified northern Germany he designed the constitution to allow him to play the Reichstag against the Prussian chamber of deputies. There was also a balance of power between the state and confederate governments. We also see domestic political and economic background to Bismarck's actions. Pflanze shows the domestic politics after Bismarck created the northern German confederation.<p>Bismarck used relations with France to make advances toward the southern German states. Pflanze carefully shows how Bismarck cleverly tried to use the Luxemburg crisis to woo the southern German states. But the southern German states were afraid of being overwhelmed by Prussia. The only thing that the southern German states admired about the northern German confederation was the Prussian military expertise. <p> Relations between France and Prussia worsened when the throne of Spain was offered to a Hohenzollern Kaiser William did not care if any of his relatives got the Spanish throne or not. But when Bismarck made it seem that the French had demanded that Kaiser William renounce any attention in the Spanish throne, he angrily refused. The nationalist French responded by declaring war.<p>Bismarck wanted a war with France to inspire the southern Germans to join the northern confederation against the threat of France. In this he succeeded. But nationalist anger of many, and political reasons of Bismarck caused Germany to annex Alsace Lorraine, which resulted in permanent hatred from France.<br>The only faults of this book are that Pflanze should have described the people more. He also should have included more maps and a bibliography.06910567305281999-10-23

Magisterial!

This is a work which, if you like solid history, you should read. It tells of the momentous things going on in Europe in the 19th century which are illuminated by this excellent workThe three volumes of this monumental work on Bismarck and his times constitute not only a finely honed analysis of a perplexing and enduringly fascinating human being but also a masterful study of nineteenth-century Germany. The product of a lifetime of scholarship, Otto Pflanze's trilogy blends into a single synthesis all aspects of the German historical experience, from the economic and social to the political and intellectual, in their relationship to Bismarck and his career. The purpose is to describe the interaction between a man of genius and the forces that both molded him and were reshaped by him--an objective that cannot be achieved within the limits of the customary biographical form. The author emphasizes the need to reassess the German past in view of the terrible tragedy of the twentieth century. Addressing this task in the most comprehensive way possible, Pflanze offers fresh insights into the functioning of both the internal and international political systems of the Bismarck era. At the same time Bismarck, the man, has not been neglected. The three volumes of the work combine to produce a vivid picture of this narcissistic personality, demonstrating the connections among health, neurosis, and political judgment. For the first time we can see the entire person and how his strengths and weaknesses became the key to modern German history. Volume I: The Period of Unification, 1815-1871 "The stream of time flows inexorably along. By plunging my hand into it, I am merely doing my duty. I do not expect thereby to change its course." This was the thought with which Otto von Bismarck began his career in the Prussian foreign service in 1851. Yet the will to power was the central characteristic of his personality. Describing the interaction between the "stream of time"--or social, political, intellectual, and institutional forces--and the character of one of history's greatest political talents, the author probes Bismarck's role in the unification of Germany and assesses his influence on the subsequent course of German history. Volume I of Pflanze's work was first published in 1963, to wide acclaim. Presented here is a revised edition that incorporates the most recent research and appears simultaneously with the first publication of Volumes II and III. Volume II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880 Volume II opens at a time when Bismarck had become the dominant figure in German and European politics and the new German Reich the most formidable power on the continent. Questions arose. What new goals would the "man of blood and iron" now pursue? What new conquests might be necessary to satiate a people steeped in the history and legends of medieval empire? Pflanze offers a comprehensive treatment of the years of consolidation, when, in reality, German unification introduced not a new era of conquest and bloodshed but a period of international order that lasted, despite many crises, for more than forty years. Volume III: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash of 1873, which opened a period of economic depression. Volume III describes the continuation of Bismarck's efforts to cope with the resulting economic and social problems that hindered his quest for a new national consensus in support of the Prussian-German "establishment." It also brings to a climax the author's account of Bismarck's mounting political frustrations, their psychopathological consequences, and the struggle of his doctors to convert him to a healthier life-style. The final chapters deal with the fascinating story of Bismarck's conflict with Wilhelm II. The work ends with an account of the Bismarck legend that endures to this day and may yet influence Germany's current quest for reunification.039300235705822932190198812701039470387100609276742375General2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books5039General5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books465200General4954Germany4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0691015503http://www.amazon.com/Black-47-Beyond-Princeton-Economic/dp/0691015503%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D06910155031642004http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2MT82MBL._SL75_.jpg7549http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2MT82MBL._SL160_.jpg160104http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2MT82MBL.jpg475310Cormac O GradaHardcover941.5089780691015507970691015503Princeton University PressEnglishEnglishEnglish9607500USD$75.00Princeton University Press1320Book1999-01-18Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press1416452495USD$24.951169USD$11.697599USD$75.9932010005.0210691015503510112001-02-19

Essential but not easy or pleasant reading.

Both the tragic subject and the density of documentation, with graphs and statistics, make this a hard book to read. The Famine killed over a million people, even on the most conservative estimates. It virtually wiped out the Gaeltacht. The question that resonates today is whether fewer people would have died if Ireland in 1840 had been an independent country, with its boundaries at the salt water. You'd have to read this book at least, and maybe some others as well, to get an answer to that question.069101550358161999-05-14

An leabhar is fearr ar an drochshaol - riamh!

This is a fraught subject, but O Grada handles it with both rigour and compassion.<p>Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó'Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight <i>phytophthora infestans</i> transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years.</p><p>Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó'Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish.</p><p>Ó'Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition.</p><p>The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.</p>The Irish famine of 1847 and 1848, when harvests failed and more than 3 million Irish died or were forced to emigrate, is one of the signal events of Irish history. The famine that devastated the country, notes Cormac Ó Gráda, professor of economics at University College, Dublin, was exceptional in its severity. "The cost in deaths of many highly publicized Third World famines in the recent past is modest by comparison," he writes, adding that real comparisons come only on the scale of China's catastrophic Great Leap Forward famine of 1959 to 1962 (when, Walter Becker alleges in <I>Hungry Ghosts</I>, 30 million Chinese died). The reason the Irish famine struck so hard, " Gráda argues, is that the Irish food supply was already tenuous; dispossessed from their land and made to rely on a single crop, the potato, the tenant agriculturists of Ireland simply had no resources or stores on which to fall back.<p> Important though the famine was to Ireland's history, Gráda notes, historians began to study it closely only in the last decade; in that time, dozens of books and monographs have been issued, amplifying a hitherto sparse literature. His scholarly book, heavily documented and full of statistics drawn from censuses and other demographic surveys, is itself a major contribution to historical writing on the subject. <I>--Gregory McNamee</I>014014515X06185488310140132503080505844301567070042587Economic Conditions2581Economics3Business & Investing1000Subjects283155Books5039General5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books465180General4948England4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books46518619th Century4948England4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465208General4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465210Potato Famine4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books10580Social Services & Welfare10576Poverty10546Current Events53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books11251Emigration & Immigration11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books10864Emigration & Immigration173492Administrative Law10777Law1000Subjects283155Books52107011History226680Agricultural Sciences75Science1000Subjects283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books1E39MWSZX03C3Famine31EYWNV5L1SIWIrish History Classics074531211Xhttp://www.amazon.com/Black-Green-Norhtern-Ireland-America/dp/074531211X%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D074531211X4713436Brian DooleyHardcover323.1196073978074531211875074531211XPluto Press (UK)EnglishEnglishEnglish8756000USD$60.00Pluto Press (UK)1192Book1998-04-01Pluto Press (UK)Pluto Press (UK)855754694USD$46.940400005.021074531211X5662003-05-05

making a record of remembered bridges

While most educators and textbooks in the US would have us believe the polarization of oppression and race along lines of skin pigmentation is the natural, inherent, and historical condition of ethnic interaction, Dooley's book suggests otherwhise. _Black and Green_ looks at the common link forged by oppression and the struggle for liberation between white Irish and black Americans since the 1800s.<p>Dooley examines the political, social, and ideological connections between the civil rights struggle in Ireland and America. His analysis results in a picture of reciprocal interchange with both sides influencing, shaping, and supporting the other. The end result is that this "other" demarcated through pigmentation was hardly an "other" during the historical moment. Angela Davis and Bernadette McAliskey support each other while in prison. When McAliskey later receives the keys to the city of New York for her work in Ireland, she gives them to the Black Panther Party. Frederick Douglas and O'Connell heavily influence each other's political thought and speak out in support of each other's cause. Marcus Garvey claims the color scheme of his movement reflects the struggle of various liberation moments of different races all over the world, including the Irish (Red for the reds of the world, green for the Irish struggle, and black for the African American, or, as he puts it at the time, the "Negro struggle." )<p>Dooley's writing is lucid, engaging, and often narrative. As his innovative and perhaps contentious claims demand, Dooley's research is heavily documumented, often cites primary sources, and features hundreds of foot notes at the book's end. Educators and researchers may use this book with the confidence that they can ascertain with some degree of certainty the primary sources from which Dooley's arguments arise. Further, Dooley's writing is eminently accessible and multi-layered. I have used sections of chapters in my middle school classroom in the Bronx and cited Dooley extensively in papers for graduate school. _Black and Green_ is an invaluable resource for race studies, American or Irish history, and civil rights seminars.074531211X5671999-06-21

An American Perspective on the Irish Struggle

The key to understanding who the oppressed are and who the oppressors are is determined by looking at who the domestic workers are and for whom they work. Who is it that picks up after whom? Bernadette Devlin McAlisky's keen political sense with activists in the civil rights struggle and affluent Irish-Americans is very revealing. Catholic women pick up after Protestant families in Ireland. African-American women pick up after affluent Irish-American families in America. She felt more at home with members of The Black Panther Party than with these affluent Irish Americans. The support of the abolition struggle by Irish republicans such as Daniel O'Connell is of historic import. The support the Irish struggle by fighters such as Frederick Douglas and Marcus Garvey is also of historic interest. However, the interchange of tactics by both struggles is most revealing. The historic Belfast-Derry March in January 1969 was modeled after the Selma-Montgomery protest four earlier. The Montgomery bus boycott got its name from Captain Boycott an avaricious Irish landlord. Michael Farrell set up the Young Socialist Alliance in Ireland modeled after the Young Socialists Alliance in the United States. Black and Green has much more of interest for American understanding of the Irish struggle and is must reading for fighters struggling against oppression and bigotry.1873176678B000GG4JK00822216728B000ILYYPSB000OCY7JO10550Civil Rights & Liberties10546Current Events53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books11083General11079Politics53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books11249Discrimination & Racism11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books16022631General16022621Political Science11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books16022721Systems Of Government16022731General16022761Islamic Government16022741Monarchy16022751Representative Government16022621Political Science11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books16022921Rights16022621Political Science11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books16023111Civil Rights16023071United States16022621Political Science11232Social Sciences53Nonfiction1000Subjects283155Books10892Human Rights227137Constitutional Law10777Law1000Subjects283155Books465208General4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books465212Troubles4958Ireland4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books394181011Hardcover394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books0814329209http://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Abyss-Inmate-Ravensbruck-Concentration/dp/0814329209%3FSubscriptionId%3D05ERXYTS89KFGEPQR5G2%26tag%3Dthebookrevi0b-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0814329209932018http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417GZXXJMKL._SL75_.jpg7549http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417GZXXJMKL._SL160_.jpg160105http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417GZXXJMKL.jpg475313Nanda HerbermannPaperbackHester BaerElizabeth Roberts Baer940.5317431579780814329207600814329209Wayne State University PressGermanEnglishEnglish8902295USD$22.95Wayne State University Press1280Book2000-12Wayne State University PressWayne State University Press756002190USD$21.901675USD$16.751080011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewymoLfbTUc36ve%2FVwIvNJ1zjhH2JznPG%2F7d26iCZIwIp3TWe9dMhhC0TNUX7JP63nx1jgtI5W8LHlxVdvP3FSVQ%3D%3D2295USD$22.95Usually ships in 24 hours5.02108143292095772000-12-21

Very Important Historical Contribution

Ravensbruck stood out among German concentration camps as gender specific: only women were imprisoned there. Perhaps for this reason, it has suffered from historical neglect, despite the fact that its inmates were often extremely important members of resistance movements in France, Germany and throughout Europe. By translating this extremely important memoir of Nanda Herbermann, known and taught widely in Germany, the Baers have made an important first step in telling the history of Ravensbruck. Baer's scholarly introduction frames the memoir from many angles--women in the holocaust, the new woman, the Catholic Church and the Nazis and wartime resistance. This is an important book for scholars of the twentieth century, and would make an excellent choice for teaching Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the Holocaust. It would also fit well in courses on women's autobiography.0814329209512122000-10-31

A Different Perspective

What do you think of whenever you hear the word, "Holocaust?" If you are like me, you think of German concentration camps and the Jews. It came as a complete surprise to me that Roman Catholic Aryan German could land in one of their "own"camps. This is exactly what happened to Nanda Herbermann, a German living in Munster. As an editor and writer for The Grail, her parish publication, Herbermann and parish priest, Father Muckermann, were part of the German, Catholic resistance to the Nazis. For this, Muckermann was forced to flee Germany; Herbermann was eventually arrested by the Gestapo and incarcerated at Ravensbruck, a concentration camp for women. In her own words, penned in "The Blessed Abyss, Inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women," we receive from Herbermann a detailed account of the horrors of her daily life, but from a very different perspective than Jewish accounts. Here is a woman who was brought up as an Aryan, with Aryan views, who slowly softens and revises her attitude toward Jews, lesbians, prostitutes and all other minorities imprisoned in Ravensbruck as she is thrown in among them and faced with the realities of their mutual hardships. Her incredulity that this is happening to her, that these atrocities are committed by her beloved, fellow Germans is a crushing blow. It is truly her faith that carries her through these daily "stations of the cross." This compelling reading is enhanced by Hester and Elizabeth Baer's meticulously written Preface and Introduction. Here she provides the reader with a detailed history of the Catholic Church's involvement with the Nazis, Herbermann's life and family, and a provocative discussion of women and the Holocaust. This is truly eye-opening, ground breaking reading that I consider imperative to any scholar of the Holocaust or someone who wants to read "the rest of the story."155876219115627905280827603983013177319415586143622375General2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2393General2376Historical2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2394Holocaust2376Historical2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books2445Women2437Specific Groups2Biographies & Memoirs1000Subjects283155Books4994Holocaust4992Jewish5035World9History1000Subjects283155Books5031World War II15812161Asia465310Eastern Front15812151Europe465308General465312Hiroshima & Nagasaki15812901Home Front465314Intelligence Operations465316Iwo Jima465318Naval465320Normandy465322Pearl Harbor465324Personal Narratives465326Stalingrad465328Western Front465330Women5011Military9History1000Subjects283155Books14450Military Science9History1000Subjects283155Books465200General4954Germany4935Europe9History1000Subjects283155Books491414Europe468230History468206Humanities465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712989011General AAS468230History468206Humanities465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books712982011General AAS465600New & Used Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books713014011General AAS319654011Qualifying Textbooks251254011Custom Stores44258011Specialty Stores283155Books400272011Paperback394184011Mass Market401237011Trade394174011Binding (binding)388186011Refinements283155Books618083011Printed Books618072011Format (feature_browse-bin)388186011Refinements283155Books