Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey

Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing a...

After the Cult

Offers comparison of indigenous and anthropological perceptions of other and self Examines mutual influencing between indigenous and Western perceptions as well as the relation between anthropological “predecessors” and “successors” Investigates cultural perceptions of other and self...

German Rule, African Subjects

This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.

Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality

A detailed account of the political leader Helmut Kohl. An innovative and biographical approach to the study of nationalism. This detailed study situates his rule against the backdrop of a post-fascist Germany, recovering from the stigma of Nazi rule and anti-Western thought. Off...

German History 1789-1871

Offers a wide-ranging account of nineteenth-century Germany Skillfully combines narrative with analysis Ideal for all students of nineteenth-century Germany

Shakespeare and the Arab World

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these i...

Football Nation

Explores how football shaped German identity from the Wilhelmine era to the 21st century. Interdisciplinary essays connect sport with culture, politics, fandom, class, and gender. Examines football’s links to race, exclusion, migration, and national belonging. Bridges German and ...

With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines

Offers a critical assessment of seven decades of Holocaust research and identifies the tasks ahead. The first comprehensive assessment of Raul Hilberg’s work, the most important Holocaust historian of his generation. A line-up of some of the most prominent Holocaust historians in the...

Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus

Offers an in-depth insight into the intimate work of the state situated within the closed-off sites and settings of asylum adjudication processes. Gives a nuanced understanding of the tense and emotional bureaucratic practices and experiences related to making life-altering and time-pressured d...

Business as Usual

Examines continuities across 1945, so contextualizes the Nazi period in the longer arc of German history Offers a highly condensed social history of the period, drawing on source material that has received little attention to date. Attempts to dissolve the purportedly clear distincti...

Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today

A comprehensive exploration of the crises of democracy and capitalism in Central Europe throughout the 20th century, drawing insightful parallels to contemporary issues Compares political trends in the various European countries and ask what lessons may be drawn for the present from inte...

A Global History of Right-wing Terrorism

Provides the first comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of global right-wing terrorism since the 19th century and examines the terrorists’ motivations, goals, and targets. Analyzes the transnational networks that have existed between right-wing terrorist groups since the 19th century...

Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America

The book differs from anything published so far because it focuses on Latin America, especially Cuba, Argentina and Brazil. The main focus is on the Brazilian context, which differs substantially from Cuba and Argentina because of the much lower intellectual density and absence of univer...

The Give and Take of Wind

In much of Europe, the energy transition away from fossil fuels is slowing down or has stopped altogether. Policy- makers and most academics are frustrated and stymied. Why should superior technology – technology that is becoming cheaper as well – not immediately replace the archaic gadgetry...

Friendship and Exchange Along the North Coast of New Guinea

Anthropologists working in Papua New Guinea have typically focused on a single ethnic community and what goes on within that community. This study considers how people in more than one hundred villages interact with people in other communities up and down the coast. These communities spe...

The Greek War of Independence

Sheds not only additional, but necessary, light on understudied aspects of the Greek Revolution. Places the Greek Revolution within both an Ottoman and European and, also, a larger historical and historiographical context. Examines the impact the Greek Revolution had in diverse case ...

Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany

Advances our understanding of the various responses to pandemics in Early Modern Germany. Points to similarities between Covid-19 and past pandemics. Provides an answer to the question: What can we learn from history?

Forced Labor for Siemens in the Women’s Concentration Camp Ravensbrück

The book reveals the many facets of the forced labor system and the specific conditions at Siemens in Ravensbrück. For the first time, the volume brings together texts by female forced laborers from Ravensbrück, translated from various languages, as well as contemporary illustrations and...

The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s

This collection is the first to update and extend the assessment of the field that was presented in the 1991 collection The Social Survey in Historical Perspective. That path-breaking collection covered 1880-1940; this collection traces the history and legacies of social surveys up to the pr...

Remembering Resistance

The existence and achievements of Jewish “self-rescuers” within Nazi-occupied Hungary remains, in spite of their significance, historically underexplored. In this illuminating chronicle of the life and work of a Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, Remembering Resistance seeks to address ...