A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany's Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism... Zobraziť viac
The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe's foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western imagination.In the late sixteenth century, a German... Zobraziť viac
A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice-with lasting consequences.Property reform was at the heart of the French... Zobraziť viac