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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.
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 ...
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
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, ...
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.
Surviving Santiago

Surviving Santiago

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

The tense, final months of the Pinochet regime in 1989 provide the backdrop for author Lyn Miller-Lachmann's suspenseful tale of the survival and redemption of the Aguilar family, first introduced in the critically acclaimed Gringolandia.
Rogue

Rogue

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

In Rogue, author Lyn Miller-Lachmann celebrates everyone’s ability to discover and use whatever it is that makes them different.
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 ...
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  ...
Hiding Places

Hiding Places

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

When living with his abusive stepfather becomes unbearable, seventeen-year-old Mark tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide then runs away to New York City where he encounters new problems living on his own.
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.
Dirt Cheap: A Novel

Dirt Cheap: A Novel

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

A recent cancer survivor and aware of the alarming increase in the number of cancer cases in his neighborhood, Nicky Baran risks everything to take on Hometown Chemical, a company that polluted the lands that local developers want to turn ...
History of Economic Thought Newsletter

History of Economic Thought Newsletter

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G.C Harcourt, 'The Cambridge Contribution to Economics', in Sarah J Ormrod (ed ) Cambridges Distributions (Cambridge University Press, 1998) pp 65-87. Brian J Loasby, 'Ludwig M. Lachmann: Subjectivism in Economics and the Economy' ...
Gringolandia: A Novel

Gringolandia: A Novel

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

I could not have revived this project without my critique group at Professor Java's —Gene Damm, Eric Luper, Mary Nicotera, Robyn Ringler, and Leonora Scotti— or readers Lily Ringler, Beth Janicek, Renee Rude, Kathryn Mora, Jane Gangi, ...
Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United ...

Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United ...

Donna L. Gilton

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, “The Middle East,” in Global Voices, Global Visions: A Core Collection of Multicultural Books, by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (New Providence , N.J.: Bowker, 1995), 501-38. 95. Florence Parry Heide, Sami and the Time of the  ...
Young Adult Fiction by African American Writers, 1968-1993: ...

Young Adult Fiction by African American Writers, 1968-1993: ...

Deborah Kutenplon

®Adolescent. Literature by andabout Black People, ̄ Black Literature forHigh School Students, Barbara DoddsStanford, ed. (Urbana,IL: National Councilof Teachers ofEnglish, 1978),p. 98¥99. 32. Lyn Miller-Lachmann, ed., ...
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.

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