World-renown photographer Jim Brandenburg once again uses the hidden world of his beloved Minnesota northern woods as the setting for a daunting artistic challenge. From 21 June to 21 September, Jim spent each day capturing the spirit of the Minnesota wilderness through the lens of his camera. At the end of each day, Jim edited the day's shoot and ...
On each of the 90 days that elapse between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice, Jim Brandenberg took one photograph, recording the approach of winter in the woods near his Minnesota home. Here is the result of his project: 90 days, 90 exquisite photos.
In this pamphlet Margaret Shennan surveys the rise of Prussia from the early 17th century to 1740, highlighting and evaluating the role of its rulers, in particular Frederick William I, the Great Elector, and his two successors. The author takes account of: international relations, social and economic structures, domestic pressures, ethical and ...
Here is a true story of a young German's investigation into the years of the Third Reich, into the events that made Hitler's Germany a synonym for evil an d destruction. A dramatic, suspenseful account with all the gripping thrills of a masterful detective story. Photos.
Winner of Grand Prix du Roman 2002, a prize awarded annually by Academie Francaise (the French counterpart of The Royal Society of Literature) Who is the real Barbara von Brandenburg, that plain woman who looks at us from Mantegna's masterful painting, The Gonzaga Family? Using historic facts and documentary references, Marie Ferranti takes us ...
This book gives voice, in unusual depth and immediacy, to ordinary villagers and landlords (Junkers) in the Prussian-German countryside, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The trials and fortunes of everyday life come into view - in the family, the workplace, in the private lives of both men and women, in courtroom and jailhouse, ...
On each of the 90 days that elapse between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice, Jim Brandenberg took one photograph, recording the approach of winter in the woods near his Minnesota home. Here is the result of his project: 90 days, 90 exquisite photos.
In 1640 Frederick William, the 'Great Elector' of Brandenburg, inherited a minor territory devastated by the Thirty Years War. He would restore its fortunes, win its independence from Poland, and build a powerful, extended state, centred on Berlin, which by the 1670s was strong enough to be chief mover in the league of protestant and imperial ...
In his study of Brandenburg, Germany, Timothy Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that Soviet denazification was neither an effective purge of society not part of a methodical "sovietization" of the ...
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
