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James Joll

James Joll (1936–2011) was a British historian. His books include The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870.

Nietzsche vs. Nietzsche

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890–1990

by Steven E. Aschheim

Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

by Ben Macintyre

When Nietzsche Wept

by Irvin D. Yalom

February 11, 1993 issue

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Alma Mahler or the Art of Being Loved

by Françoise Giroux

The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfel

by Susanne Keegan

Oskar Kokoschka Letters 1905-1976

selected by Olda Kokoschka and Alfred Marnau

Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge: An Artist and His Muse

by Wolfgang G. Fischer

The Fin-de-Siècle Culture of Adolescence

by John Neubauer

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October 8, 1992 issue

Revolt in Munich!

The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich

by Maria Makela

Diary of an Erotic Life

by Frank Wedekind, translated by W.E. Yuill, edited by Gerhard Hay

The Blue Rider in the Lenbachhaus, Munich

by Armin Zweite

Franz Marc

by Mark Rosenthal

The Blaue Reiter Almanac

edited by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc (new edition), edited with an introduction by Klaus Lankheit

Franz Marc: Postcards to Prince Jussuf

by Peter-Klaus Schuster

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April 11, 1991 issue

Art and Anarchy

Félix Fénéon: Aesthete and Anarchist in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

by Joan Ungersma Halperin, foreward by Germaine Brée

Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France

by Richard D. Sonn

November 23, 1989 issue

No Man’s Land

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

by Modris Eksteins

The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets and Playwrights

edited by Tim Cross

Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage

edited by Stephen Eric Bronner, edited by Douglas Kellner

Frieden für Europa: Die Politik der Deutschen Reichstagsmehrheit 1917-18

by Wilhelm Ribhegge

German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933

by Larry Eugene Jones

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April 27, 1989 issue

City Lights

Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848

by Lloyd S. Kramer

Restoration and Reaction, 1815–1848

by André Jardin and André-Jean Tudesq, translated by Elborg Forster

December 22, 1988 issue

Coming Up for Air

Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich

by Harold B. Segel

Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870–1925

by Elaine Brody

February 18, 1988 issue

The Cost of Bigness

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

by Paul Kennedy

February 4, 1988 issue

Red Rosa

Rosa Luxemburg: A Life

by Elzbieta Ettinger

March 26, 1987 issue

Esalen East

Mountain of Truth: The Counterculture Begins
Ascona, 1900–1920

by Martin Green

June 26, 1986 issue

Mann and the Magician

Mann and the Magician

Pro and Contra Wagner

by Thomas Mann, translated by Allan Blunden, with an introduction by Erich Heller

March 27, 1986 issue

Business as Usual

German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler

by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis

by David Abraham

September 26, 1985 issue

Klingsor’s Apprentices

Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics

edited by David C. Large, edited by William Weber, edited by Anne Dzamba Sessa

January 31, 1985 issue

Turning Toward War

The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World War

by George F. Kennan

November 22, 1984 issue

Slithering over the Brink

Russia and the Origins of the First World War

by D.C.B. Lieven

France and the Origins of the First World War

by John F.V. Keiger

March 29, 1984 issue

Ravings of a Renegade

Ravings of a Renegade

Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain

by Geoffrey G. Field

September 24, 1981 issue

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