David Blackbourn, „Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000“

Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Read more

Andrée Blouin, „My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria“

Introduction by Adom Getachew and Thomas Meaney Contributions by Jean Mackellar “We who have been colonized can never forget” Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ’60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana.In Read more
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