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Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from its founding until German unification, and tracing the outsize influence it exerted on international cultural relations during the Cold War.

Art --- Film festivals --- Cold War in motion pictures --- Politics in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Political aspects --- Documentary films --- History and criticism. --- Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm. --- Cold War Cinema. --- Film Studies. --- Postwar Germany.

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Highly praised when published in Germany, The Quest for the Lost Nation is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite-the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to make sense of the past and searched for fragments of the nation they had lost. By situating both countries in the Cold War, Conrad shows that the focus on the nation can be understood only within a transnational context.

Historiography --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Cold War --- History --- Influence. --- Social aspects --- Japan --- Germany --- Historiography. --- america. --- american occupation. --- asia. --- cold war. --- defeat. --- engaging. --- europe. --- fascism. --- german scholars. --- germany. --- global politics. --- historical perspective. --- historical. --- historiography. --- japan. --- japanese scholars. --- lost nation. --- modern history. --- national past. --- nonfiction. --- overcoming dark past. --- overcoming defeat. --- postwar germany. --- postwar japan. --- reclamation. --- reconstruction. --- revised history. --- revisionist history. --- social history. --- surrender. --- transnational context. --- world war ii. --- world wars. --- wwii.

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The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a nonprofit foundation. Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which established the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm's head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again--this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible. Books on Krupp tend to either denounce it as a diabolical enterprise or celebrate its technical ingenuity. In contrast, James presents a balanced account, showing that the owners felt ambivalent about the company's military connection even while becoming more and more entangled in Germany's aggressive politics during the imperial era and the Third Reich. By placing the story of Krupp and its owners in a wide context, James also provides new insights into the political, social, and economic history of modern Germany.

Steel industry and trade --- History. --- Krupp family --- Fried. Krupp GmbH --- Friedrich Krupp GmbH --- Krupp (Firm) --- Krupp (Fried.) GmbH --- Krupp GmbH --- Fried. Krupp AG --- Alfred Krupp. --- Alfried Krupp. --- Bertha Krupp. --- Berthold Beitz. --- English steel. --- Friedrich Alfred Krupp. --- Friedrich Krupp. --- German Empire. --- German industrial culture. --- German industrial recovery. --- German steel industry. --- Germany. --- Gustav Krupp. --- Gustav von Bohlen. --- Helene Amalie Krupp. --- Kaiser Wilhelm II. --- Krupp company. --- Krupp directors. --- Krupp family. --- Krupp. --- Kruppianer. --- NIROSTA. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nazi policy. --- Nazism. --- Nuremberg trials. --- Therese Krupp. --- Third Reich. --- Wilhelmine Germany. --- Wilhelminism. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- armament. --- armaments. --- business development. --- business ethic. --- business expansion. --- business. --- corporate culture. --- demilitarization. --- diplomacy. --- economic depression. --- entrepreneur. --- entrepreneurship. --- family affairs. --- family business. --- financial crisis. --- financial incentives. --- globalization. --- interwar years. --- modern Germany. --- modernity. --- nationalist management. --- naval rearmament. --- political engagement. --- postwar Germany. --- profitability. --- rearmament. --- reinvention. --- social philosophy. --- steel industry. --- steel mill. --- steel production. --- war criminal. --- work ethics. --- History

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The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be consolidated. Barany also demonstrates that building democratic armies is the quintessential task of newly democratizing regimes. But how do democratic armies come about? What conditions encourage or impede democratic civil-military relations? And how can the state ensure the allegiance of its soldiers? Barany examines the experiences of developing countries and the armed forces in the context of major political change in six specific settings: in the wake of war and civil war, after military and communist regimes, and following colonialism and unification/apartheid. He evaluates the army-building and democratization experiences of twenty-seven countries and explains which predemocratic settings are most conducive to creating a military that will support democracy. Highlighting important factors and suggesting which reforms can be expected to work and fail in different environments, he offers practical policy recommendations to state-builders and democratizers.

Armed Forces --- Civil-military relations --- Armed Services --- Military, The --- Military art and science --- Disarmament --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Reorganization --- 1947 Partition. --- Argentina. --- Bangladesh. --- Bosnia and Herzegovina. --- Botswana. --- British colonial rule. --- Chile. --- Cold War. --- El Salvador. --- European Union. --- Germany. --- Ghana. --- Greece. --- Guatemala. --- Hezbollah. --- Hungary. --- India independence. --- Indonesia. --- Japan. --- Lebanese Armed Forces. --- Lebanese civil war. --- NATO. --- Pakistan independence. --- Portugal. --- Portuguese civilЭilitary relations. --- Romania. --- Royal Thai Armed Forces. --- Russia. --- Russian military politics. --- Shi'a Islamist organization. --- Slovenia. --- South Africa. --- South Korea. --- Soviet Union. --- Spain. --- Spanish military. --- Tanzania. --- Territorial Defense Force. --- Thailand. --- Yemen. --- apartheid. --- armed forces. --- army building. --- authoritarianism. --- civil war. --- civilian control. --- civilЭilitary relations. --- civiЭilitary relations. --- colonialism. --- communism. --- communist regime. --- consolidated democracy. --- democracy. --- democratic armies. --- democratic army. --- democratic civilЭilitary relations. --- democratic control. --- democratic governance. --- democratic regimes. --- democratic transition. --- democratization. --- democratizing regimes. --- fascist dictatorship. --- formative moments. --- free elections. --- military dictators. --- military elites. --- military politics. --- military rule. --- party-state. --- political autonomy. --- political environments. --- political presence. --- postcommunism. --- postwar Germany. --- praetorian elites. --- praetorianism. --- regime change. --- reunification. --- single political entity. --- state formation. --- state transformation. --- state-builders. --- war.