Das bis heute unübertroffene Standardwerk Gerhard Schoenbergers zur Judenverfolgung in aktualisierter Ausgabe. Über den Autor Gerhard Schoenberger trat als Schriftsteller der Nachkriegsgeneration vor allem mit Essays, Büchern, Ausstellungen und Filmen zur Zeitgeschichte hervor.

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported by the current state of the art-world. It was Hegel, who most profoundly argued that the shape of our modern world no longer permits us to grant art the significance it once possessed...

In its more than three decades of existence, the discipline of American studies has been reliably unreliable, its boundaries and assumptions forever shifting as it continuously repositions itself to better address the changing character of American life, literature, and culture. American Mythologies is a challenging new look at the current reinvention of American studies, a reinvention that has questioned the whole notion of what "American"—let alone "American studies"—means...

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries. Theological division, political rivalry and sectarian violence combined to produce what ultimately became separate Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches, a schism that persists to this day...

The city of Liverpool remains outside the narrative frameworks of modern British history, at the nexus of competing cultural, economic, and political forces. Merseypride explores just how this sense of otherness shapes Liverpudlian identity, a “Merseypride” that changes with the city’s fortunes. Leading academic John Belchem’s second edition of this acclaimed book paints a fascinating picture of a city currently experiencing an extraordinary renaissance. “Belchem is entitled to take pride in this piece of Mersey History.”—History

In the summer of 1967, Tony Richardson of Penguin Books took a chance. Then Penguin’s poetry editor, Richardson devoted the tenth volume of the highly prestigious Penguin Modern Poets series to three unknown writers from Liverpool: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten. Little did anyone anticipate that the book produced, The Mersey Sound, would become one of the best-selling poetry anthologies of all time...

The worst disaster of the North Wales coalfield – one of the worst in the history of the British mining industry – occurred in 1934, killing 256 men and devastating a small community. Stanley Williamson’s account draws on his own interviews with the bereaved and those involved in the rescue, as well as the reports of the subsequent inquiry and the records of the North Wales Miners’ Association. Williamson covers the inquiry, and the important issues it raised, in detail and charts the way in which Sir Stafford Cripps, representing the North Wales miners, launched an attack on the whole social and industrial system of which the industry was a part. "An intelligent and well-informed documentary narrative of the disaster and the official inquiry."—The Economic History Review

Gerd Postel ist Briefträger von Beruf - berühmt geworden ist er allerdings als geschätzter Oberarzt für Klinische Psychiatrie. Er verhandelte mit den Ministerialen im Dresdner Sozialministerium erfolgreich um Leitungspositionen, schrieb psychiatrische Gutachten für sächsische Schwurgerichte, genoß eine Privataudienz beim Papst, diskutierte unter vier Augen mit seinem Minister - bis eine kleine Unregelmäßigkeit seiner schillernden Karriere ein jähes Ende setzte. Mit anderen Worten: Dr. Gert Postel ist ein notorischer Hochstapler...

With the "Liverpool Scene", poetry registered nationally as a popular art form arguably for the first time. Since then, poetry appears to have contracted once more to its metropolitan, literary heartland. So what happened to the "Mersey sound"? Gladsongs and Gatherings examines this question through the ideas and reflections of poets and poetry readers. The book includes interviews with the famous 60s trio, and places their experience alongside that of contemporary poets who continue to find the city a rich source of inspiration.

Am 26. August 1944 wird der Abwehroffizier Hans Georg Klamroth wegen Hochverrats hingerichtet. Jahrzehnte später sieht seine jüngste Tochter in einer Fernsehdokumentation über den 20. Juli Bilder ihres Vaters - aufgenommen während der Prozesse im Volksgerichtshof. Ein Anblick, der Wibke Bruhns nicht mehr loslässt. Wer war dieser Mann, den sie kaum kannte, der fremde Vater, der ihr plötzlich so nah ist? Die lange Suche nach seiner, ja auch ihrer eigenen Geschichte führt sie zurück in die Vergangenheit: Die Klamroths sind eine angesehene, großbürgerliche Kaufmannsfamilie und muten wie ein Halberstädter Pendant zu den Buddenbrooks an. Unzählige Fotos, Briefe und Tagebücher sind der Fundus für ein einzigartiges Familienepos.

W. E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death...

Martin Mere is a first-class, year-round wetland wildlife atrractions, with a diversity of waterbird exhibits. Situated in the beautiful countryside of central Lancashire in northwest England, the mere is a vast marsh that, until it was drained in 1700, was the largest lake in England. This fascinating volume explores the history of the mere, from Thomas Fleetwood's drainage proposal to the ensuing dramatic transformations of the area's wildlife to the mere's present-day status as a protected nature reserve. Heavily illustrated, A History of Martin Mere provides a comprehensive look at one of the most striking areas of natural beauty in all the British Isles. It will be an essential resource for tourists, naturalists, and historians alike.

The Divine Institutes of Lactantius was a vigorous riposte to pagan criticism and persecution of Christianity, which came to a head in the "Great" Persecution of Diocletian in the early fourth century AD. This edition has been prepared with students and scholars of intellectual history in mind, but it will also appeal to those concerned with ecclesiastical history and patristics, and to anyone interested in tracing the impact of classical philosophy and literature on an early Christian thinker...

On 21 October 1988 at 6.15pm the cruise liner Jupiter was sunk after a collision in the Aegean Sea with the Italian ship Adige. On board the Jupiter were 391 schoolchildren, 84 adults and 110 crew members. A teacher and a child were never found; two crew members died...

Michel Tournier is possibly France's most widely acclaimed modern novelist, a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. His texts demand academic scrutiny, but Tournier also actively encourages a different form of reception...