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George L. Mosse's Italy: Interpretation, Reception, and ...

George L. Mosse's Italy: Interpretation, Reception, and ...

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Johann Sommerville, “The Modern Contexts of George Mosse's Early Modern Scholarship,” inStanley Payne,David Sorkin, andJohn Tortorice, eds.,What HistoryTells: GeorgeL. Mosse and theCulture of ModernEurope (Madison: University of ...
De la Grande Guerre au totalitarisme

De la Grande Guerre au totalitarisme

George Mosse

George L. Mosse (1918 – 1999) a été professeur à l’université de Madison et à celle de Jérusalem.
Confronting History: A Memoir

Confronting History: A Memoir

George L. Mosse

Of the American historians of his generation George Mosse was one Of the greatest teachers, perhaps the best known abroad, and certainly one of the most beloved. There were many long and thoughtful reviews of his life and work in the  ...
The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity

The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity

George L. Mosse

In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, ...
Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the ...

Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the ...

George Lachmann Mosse

George L. Mosse's extensive analysis of Nazi culture - ground-breaking upon its original publication in 1966 - is now offered to readers of a new generation.
German Jews Beyond Judaism

German Jews Beyond Judaism

George L. Mosse

According to Mosse, it was German Jewry's attempt to humanize nationalism that remains one of its most important legacies.
Citadel LP

Citadel LP

Kate Mosse

Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women ...
Nationalism and sexuality: respectability and abnormal ...

Nationalism and sexuality: respectability and abnormal ...

George Lachmann Mosse

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
Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars

Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars

George L. Mosse

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
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping ...

Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping ...

Kevin Karnes

... behind—at least in part—the postwar rejection of Kurth. Throughout this book, I have cited from a pair of classic studies of nineteenth-century German irrationalist discourse published in the early 1960s by Fritz Stern and George L. Mosse.16 ...
William Appleman Williams: Learning From History

William Appleman Williams: Learning From History

Paul Buhle

Kaye, Allen Ruff, George Mosse, LarryGara,Elliott J. Gorn,Jim Lorence, LloydGardner, and BruceCumings. MariJo Buhle'scontributions significantly reshaped the manuscript. Interviewees especially eager tohelp us included, in addition to ...
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American ...

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American ...

Lisa McGirr

See also Erik Monkonnen, “History of Urban Police,” Crime and Justice 15 (1992 ): 547; Nathan Douthit, “Police Professionalization and the War Against Crime in the United States, 1920–1930s,” in Police Forces in History, ed. George L. Mosse  ...
The Taxidermist's Daughter

The Taxidermist's Daughter

Kate Mosse

The enthralling new Sunday Times bestselling gothic novel from the author of THE WINTER GHOSTS, CITADEL and LABYRINTH.
The Winter Ghosts

The Winter Ghosts

Kate Mosse

By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries. By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
Citadel

Citadel

Kate Mosse

Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right.
The Cave - Quick Read

The Cave - Quick Read

Kate Mosse

A QUICK READ - part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers.
George:

George:

Alex Gino

" - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever.
George

George

Alex Gino

" - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever.
Sepulchre

Sepulchre

Kate Mosse

With the master key, he let himself into Meredith Martin's room. He took a couple of Polaroids, to make certain he could return the room to the exact state in which he'd found it, then started to search, beginning with the bedside table. He went ...
Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Kate Mosse

. . July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden.
The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820-1935: A ...

The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820-1935: A ...

Werner Eugen Mosse

This unique study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the changing problem of `Jewishness' in a German environment as it presented itself to a privileged group of Jews.
The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales

The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales

Kate Mosse

Rooted in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc, here are tales of ghosts and spirits seeking revenge, grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.
Il marketing del terrore

Il marketing del terrore

Monica Maggioni

Per combatterli, intercettare le mosse dei nuovi terroristi, capire come si struttura il loro pensiero folle, e – soprattutto – realizzare la portata e le implicazioni della sfida che abbiamo di fronte è indispensabile seguirli, passo ...
Social psychology: contemporary perspectives on people

Social psychology: contemporary perspectives on people

George Cvetkovich

1, George Cvetkovich. p. 22, George Cvetkovich. Chapter 2: pp. 28 & 29, George Cvetkovich. p. 32, Dr. John Berry, p. 45, Andrew Mills. Chapter 3: pp. 60 & 61, George Cvetkovich. p. 63, David D. Johnson, p. 69, Photo by Dr. Alan M. Beck. p.
The Dante Club: Historical Mystery

The Dante Club: Historical Mystery

Matthew Pearl

Before Inferno came The Dante Club...the captivating thriller from the writer whose fans include Dan Brown, Jed Rubenfeld, Kate Mosse and Tess Gerritsen Boston, 1865.

who called from an unknown number?