Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jurgen tampke

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  • AUSTRALIA, WILKOMMEN
    JÜRGEN TAMPKE / COLIN DOXFORD
    Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia. Originally welcomed as hardy pioneers, German settlers were responsible for discovering and opening up vast tracts of land. German scientists and entrepreneurs played a large role in the Australian economy. But as the German empire expanded into the Pacific, and Britain and Aus...

    $920.00

  • WUNDERBAR COUNTRY
    JÜRGEN TAMPKE
    Wunderbar Country (1982) examines the experiences of Australia’s second largest migrant community, the Germans. Many Germans saw Australia as a land of social equality and mobility, with unlimited resources and economic possibilities. This book analyses Australian social legislation and the labour movement, the subject of much debate in Germany. Articles present both sides to a...

    $860.00

  • RUTHLESS WARFARE
    JÜRGEN TAMPKE
    Ruthless Warfare (1998) demonstrates how close the First World War came to Australia. It has been argued that Australia was manipulated against its interests into action in WW1 by London – this unpublished collection of documents from the military division of the German Archives shows that this was not the case. The German Navy expected a major confrontation with the British Em...

    $860.00

  • THE RUHR AND REVOLUTION
    JÜRGEN TAMPKE
    This book, first published in 1979, analyses the German November Revolution of 1919 and the years and conditions that led to it. It examines the economic, social and political background of the Ruhr up to the coal miners’ strike of 1912; how the war aggravated social hardship and rifts in the workers’ party; and, in detail, the revolution itself. ...

    $920.00

  • THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICS OF EASTERN EUROPE
    JÜRGEN TAMPKE
    This book, first published in 1983, goes beyond the ‘black and white’ literature of many East–West observers to offer a more nuanced assessment of the achievements of the Eastern bloc countries of the early 1980s. It covers the emergence of ‘Eastern Europe’ from revolution and war, the politics and economics of the new countries and their relationships with the West. ...

    $920.00