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Kurt Eisner : a modern life
- Title
- Kurt Eisner : a modern life / Albert Earle Gurganus.
- Author
- Gurganus, Albert E.
- Publication
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- x, 576 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.
- Series Statement
- German history in context
- Uniform Title
- German history in context.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A novel's suffering hero: a youth in Berlin (1867-1889) -- Aristocratize the masses: from Berlin to Frankfort to Marburg (1890-1893) -- Refuge of all idealists: through Cohen to Kant toward Marx (1893-1896) -- Dictatorial megalomania: Lèse Majesté and Plötzensee Prison (1898-1900) -- No idle dreamer: at the helm of Vorwärts (1900-1902) -- My life's purpose: molding the readership (1902-1903) -- Never ... a less fruitful scholastic debate: intramural strife - evolution vs. revolution (1903-1905) -- Revolutionizing minds: the scorched middle ground (1905) -- The complete parity of my experiences: from exile to Nuremburg (1905-1907) -- The most genuine and fruitful radicalism: taking the lead at the Fränkische Tagespost (1907-1908) -- So suspect a heretic, as surely I am: new bearings in North Bavaria (1908) -- Dear little whore: personal and professional turmoil (1909) -- To find a lost life: from Nuremberg to Munich (1909-1910) -- Something of a party (Offiziosus in Bavaria: political editor at the Münchener Post (1910-1911) -- At peace with myself: resettling into family life (1912-1913) -- The powerlessness of reason: the World War erupts (1914) -- Wretched superfluity: divided loyalties (1915-1916) -- War for war's sake: political alienation and realignment (1916-1917) -- The most beautiful days of my life: leading the opposition (1917-1918) -- Our power to act now grows: from prisoner to premier (1918) -- The terror of truth: forging the republic, combating reaction (1918) -- The fantasies of a visionary: martyr of the revolution (1918-1919) -- Now dead, as it stands: outcomes and legacy (1919-2017) .
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6903
- ISBN
- 9781640140158
- 1640140158
- LCCN
- 2017055940
- 40028233199
- OCLC
- 1001454683
- Author
- Gurganus, Albert E., author.
- Title
- Kurt Eisner : a modern life / Albert Earle Gurganus.
- Publisher
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- German history in contextGerman history in context.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1918-1919
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028233199
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6903