German drawings and watercolors, including Austrian and Swiss works

Swiss hostility towards Konstanz led to the ‘Plappart War’ of 1458, followed by papal excommunication of Archduke Sigismund of Austria in 1460, which provided the context for Swiss...

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its “no future” sloganeeri...

Nearly a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany was subsumed into the West German national structure. As a result, the distinct political systems, institutions, and c...

The History of German film is diverse and multi-faceted. This volume can only suggest the richness of a film tradition that includes five distinct German governments [Wilhelmine Ge...

In Swiss German, which encodes a phonological contrast in consonant length, consonant duration signals the segment’s geminate status and, in medial position, indicates the word’s s...

Texts—including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist—on the work of Sherrie Levine. The artist Sherrie Levine (b. 1947) is best known for her appropriations...

The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly e...

This work explores the early diplomatic career of Robert Morier, the British Foreign Office's foremost expert on German affairs in the period leading up to German unification in 18...