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Germania, U.S.A social change in New Ulm, Minnesota.
Published 1966Subjects: “…German Americans.…”
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American memories : atrocities and the law /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…-- What the literature tells us, and unchartered terrain -- Constructing and remembering the My Lai massacre (with Rajiv Evan Rjan and Lacy Mitchell) -- From Vietnam to Iraq : bridging metaphors, mnemonic struggles, and haunting (with Jeremy Minyard) -- Slobodan Milosevic through lenses of law, diplomacy, and media reporting (with Courtney Faue and Yu-Ju Chien) -- The shape of American memories and a German comparison -- From collective memory to law : theoretical interlude -- How Aamerican memory shapes hate crime law and a German comparison -- Commemorating injustice and implementing hate crime law across jurisdictions in the United States -- Conclusions : atrocities, law and collective memory in America and beyond.…”
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Longing, belonging, and the making of Jewish consumer culture
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : longing, belonging and the making of Jewish consumer culture / Nils Roemer and Gideon Reuveni -- Jewish consumer culture in historical and contemporary perspective / David Biale -- German-Jewish spatial cultures : consuming and refashioning Jewish belonging in Berlin, 1890-1910 / Sarah E Wobick-Segev -- Jewish identity, mass consumption, and modern design / Elana Shapira -- Longing and belonging : French impressionism and Jewish art patronage / Veronica Grodzinski -- Advertising, Jewish ethnic marketing and consumer ambivalence in Weimar Germany / Gideon Reuveni -- Jews as consumers and providers in provincial towns : the example of Linz and Salzburg, 1900-1938 / Michael John -- How to cook in Palestine : Kurfürstendamm meets Rehov Ben Jehuda / Joachim Schlor -- Toyre fun skhoyre, or, i shop, therefore i am : the consumer cultures of American Jews / Jeffrey Shandler -- Consuming identities : German-Jewish performativity after the Schoah / David Brenner.…”
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Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Faust saves the euro -- From a new complacency to the Irish crisis -- A sophisticated way to commit suicide -- A fateful fight between the ECB and the heads of governments -- The crisis reaches Italy and Spain -- Berlusconi's moral hazard and the German waterboarding strategy -- Solution or dissolution : political union or the end of the euro -- Epilogue : toward the political union.…”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Changing structures of inequality a comparative perspective /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Changing structures of inequality : a comparative perspective / Heinz-Herbert Noll, Yannick Lemel -- Social stratification : the distinctiveness of French research / Yannick Lemel -- Class, stratification and beyond : the German case / Heinz-Herbert Noll -- Empirical studies on social stratification in Quebec and Canada / Simon Langlois -- Social stratification and inequalities in Spain : the state of the art / Salustiano del Campo -- Research on class in the United States / Paul W. …”
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International HRM a cross-cultural approach /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…The Competent Organization: The American Model 59 Andersen Consulting (Europe) - The American model - Why American theories might not apply abroad - Parochialism and universality - Management competences approach - European and international competences - The cultural regard for managers and their competences - Different degrees of internationalization of companies - Problems inherent within the competences model - Implications for managers: selection of managers and key staff - An agenda for research. 4. …”
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Social security pension reform in Europe
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction: An American Perspective I -- Martin Feldstein -- Introduction: A European Perspective 9 -- Horst Siebert -- 1. …”
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