Metallic Modern

Presents multi-scalar interconnected history from South Asia Focuses on modernity at an everyday level Research based on multiple archives in the USA, Sri Lanka and India

Civilizing Nature

Explores the concept and expansion of the National Park from a global historical perspective, studying how a Western blueprint organised social and cultural relations to Nature into a multitude of ecological as well as political systems all over the world Situates the idea of confining n...

Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Opens up new field of study (popular histories) which promises to contribute in major way to investigation of broader historical cultures Intertextuality and interdisciplinarity point the way for future research in the area Explores popular histories in different media and popular hi...

Friendship without Borders

Dark Trophies

The only comparative and historical study of the use of human body parts as trophies by military personnel in modern warfare Argues that these deviant practices represent important evidence of the power of metaphor in structuring human social behaviour An exploration of the close col...

'For Their Own Good'

The first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II. Shows how policies in each country were shaped by events in the other. A truly cross-national comparison in a field dominated by accounts of one country or the other Unique in th...

A Lover's Quarrel with the Past

Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological ...

Sexual Knowledge

Explores the cultural history of public forms of sexual knowledge in early 20th century Vienna. A study of Viennese intellectual, political, and religious traditions. Examines "sexual knowledge" as a social reform movement intended for workers, women, and children.

Crises in European Integration

While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German sch...

Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable demand for novelty coincides with the rise o...

Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

The book is an interesting account of being a historian in Germany in the decades after 1945 The author searches for cohesiveness among the movements of the twenties and thirties The text is unique in its examination of the generation that came of age between the two world wars

Markets and Civil Society

Offers a multi-disciplinary approach Examines the political and social contexts of the economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe from the perspective of several different countries Offers a contribution to the ongoing debates regarding the nature of the currently emerging...

Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Offers new interpretation of Cold War and global relations in the 1960s and 70s through the perspective of the youth movements that shook the U.S. and Western Europe Presents transatlantic view of the ‘60s/’70s protest history Includes contemporaries’ views, as well as of both leadin...

The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder

Analyses ranges widely over political, economic and financial developments One of a few English studies in this particular area Recommended for both students and scholars interested in the political-economic development of modern Germany

The Frightful Stage

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore...

Conflicted Memories

Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work o...

Russia Before The 'Radiant Future'

One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. Thematically, they cover...

Music and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism in the Ibero-American Atlantic Space

Highlights the cultural transfer associated with the circulation of liberal ideas in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America by using snapshots that represent how different aspects of liberalism were created, staged and internalized across space and time. Features original research from ...

The Transatlantic World of Higher Education

Combines statistical and biographical approach in reconstructing the history of educational pilgrimages by young Americans to German-speaking universities between 1760s and 1914 Illustrates interconnectedness of student migration with educational reform on both sides of the Atlantic ...

Constructing Charisma

Examines the origins and nature of modern mass media and the culture of celebrity and fame they helped to create Presents multidisciplinary approach: history, art history, literature, sociology Focuses on arts celebrities (Sarah Bernhardt, Byron and Liszt); charismatic political figu...

Protest Beyond Borders

Analyses social movements in the past and in the present Features social movements in both the East and West (Global Europe) Examines social movements as relations between the local, national and global Conducts a transnational social movement analysis across disciplines

Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962

Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the de...

France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007

In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive ...

The German-American Encounter

While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after W...

Regime Changes

During the 1930s and 1940s, and again in the 1970s and 1980s, most European nations, indeed most industrial nations, undertook major changes in macroeconomic policy orientation and financial regulation. The contributors to this volume, historians, political scientists, and economists, identify ...

The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

Major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire Studies in Early Modern European political communication Studies in Early Modern European symbolic systems Political cultures of Early Modern Germany

That Sinking Feeling

Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.

Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

Providing a forensic analysis of the populist phenomenon that is sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe, Populism in Central and Eastern Europe re-examines the origins of this current political situation by tracing its historical development within this region of Europe, ultimately illumina...

Balkan Departures

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as ...

After The History of Sexuality

Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditiona...

Journey Through America

Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, i...

The Americanization of Europe

Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by some, welcomed by others, seems to progress unabated. This volume explores, for the first time and in a comparative manner, the role American culture and anti-Americanism p...

The Legacies of Two World Wars

Traces the moods and attidudes of the people of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy before, during and after the crucial moments of the First and Second World Wars Examines public attitudes towards war and peace Focuses on the experiences of the people during the conflicts of th...

Investigating Srebrenica

In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN “safe area” since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the Serb political and military leadership, the questi...

Beyond Alterity

A comprehensive collection of essays that challenges orientalist notions by proposing East and West as complementary elements of global culture Provides a new perspective on the complex international relationships in Asian German studies The study encourages a move beyond a national ...

Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990

This is the first book to systematically investigate the visions of the end of the Cold War that have existed throughout the period. Beyond its specific topic, the volume may serve as a useful introduction to the Cold War as a whole. It is also a contribution to the understanding of ...

Class and Other Identities

With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some c...

Vienna Is Different

First comprehensive study of Viennese Jewish literature from the 19th century to the present Interdisciplinary approach to history and literature

Challenging Norms

An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlight...

Genocide and Settler Society

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with th...

Cinematically Transmitted Disease

The roots of German National Socialist policies have strong connections to Weimar era circulation of medical hygiene propaganda films that conveyed strong connections between scientific legitimacy between racial superiority, genetically spread “incurable” diseases, and the degradation of the Ge...

Coping with the Nazi Past

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offe...

Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond

Comparative history of samizdat and tamizdat Multi-disciplinary approach to to dissident media, including art, music and film First scholarly treatment of cultural cross-border activities during the Cold War Comparative framework of socialist and post-socialist media in Eastern E...

Grassroots Memorials

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the natio...

The Imaginary Revolution

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little...

Beyond 1989

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies'...

New Dangerous Liaisons

In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume ...

Evidence, History and the Great War

In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'c...

Exiles From European Revolutions

Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributor...

Ambiguous Transitions

Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as ...

Gray Zones

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Chr...

The Russian Cold

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspecti...

Remembering Violence

Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the...

France in the Age of Organization

Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between science, culture and politics in interwar France A detailed yet accessible study of France between World Wars 1 and 2 The author offers a reinterpretation of a wide array of published and unpublished sources

Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979

Detailed examination of the social history of the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s Portrays a society beyond the Berlin Wall, Soviet tanks and state security police Describes increasing accommodation to dominant norms and conceptions of socialist "normality"

Nature of the Miracle Years

After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar cont...

Creating the Other

The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction...

Rethinking Vienna 1900

Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle V...

The Future of Memory

Presents a survey of theories and case studies Addresses the ‘big issues’ of memory studies, including witnessing, trauma and memorials Analyses several diverse but interconnected phenomena such as the Rwanda and 9/11 memorials

Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship, 1300-1900

Includes a broad range of historical evidence such as personal documents, letters, memoirs and genealogies Essays are written by established scholars Serves as an introduction to the current research trends of family and kinship studies

The Great Train Race

From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that e...

European Foundations of the Welfare State

Sets out a theory of the welfare state Portrays the welfare state as a political project embedded in European culture Disentangles the interaction of politics, economy and households in social welfare Assesses the welfare state's achievements and current challenges

Lessons of History

Focusing on how cataclysmic events within primarily Central and Eastern Europe have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for comprehending contemporary conflicts and is...

Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very c...

Helsinki 1975 and the Transformation of Europe

It was in Europe that the Cold War reached a decisive turning point in the 1960s, leading to the era of détente. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), with its Final Act in Helsinki in August 1975, led to a rapprochement between East and West in the fields of security, ec...

The Historical Practice of Diversity

While multicultural composition of nations has become a catchword in public debates, few educators, not to speak of the general public, realize that cultural interaction was the rule throughout history. Starting with the Islam-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean world of the early modern period, thi...

Restitution and Memory

The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of comm...

Friendly Enemies

The first comprehensive study of Anglo-East German relations in a surprisingly under-researched field Examines the complex motivations underlying different political groups’ engagement with the GDR, and offers new and interesting reflections on what this tells us about British political ...

Osthandel and Ostpolitik

Eclipsed by the scope of the Atlantic economy, obscured by Anglo-German rivalry, and nearly destroyed by the post-1945 division of Europe, the flow of goods across East Central Europe has been, nonetheless, an immensely significant pattern of European economic exchange. For Germany, the Osthand...

From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significa...

Forging the Collective Memory

When studying the origins of the First World War, scholars have relied heavily on the series of key diplomatic documents published by the governments of both the defeated and the victorious powers in the 1920s and 1930s. However, this volume shows that these volumes, rather than dealing objecti...

Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945

Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 explores questions of Polish-Jewish life that are rarely discussed and new methodological directions to advance debates on the complicity of Polish citizens during the mass murder of Jews under the nation’s Nazi occupation.

Diversity and Dissent

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflic...

Encounters with Emotions

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in...

A German General and the Armenian Genocide

An enlightening reassessment of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders’ life, this book uses original archival materials to present a more nuanced insight into Liman von Sanders’ role in the Armenian genocide, in order to explore wider ethical questions concerning the nature of morality and...

Post-communist Nostalgia

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all ...

Anti-liberal Europe

Offers a detailed study on the political and intellectual history of European integration Shifts focus away from the institutional histories of the EU, towards an examination of cultural and societal influences on 20th Century Europe Explores modern European integration through the s...

The Social Construction of Diversity

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through ...

The Devil's Captain

Written by a Choice Academic Book of the Year award winner Uses Ernst Jünger’s journals and correspondence to investigate his professional and personal experiences Analyses Nazi Paris through Jünger’s experiences in order to better understand the France of this period

Identities

"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to ...

The Fateful Alliance

Memory and Amnesia

Using a rich variety of sources such as official newsreels, school textbooks, the work of contemporary historians, memoirs, official documents, legislation, and monuments, this book explores how the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) influenced the transition to democracy in...

Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

Pious Pursuits

Recent work on the history of migration and the Atlantic World has underscored the importance of the political economies of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the eighteenth century, emphasizing the impact of these exchanges on political relations and state-building, and on economic structures...

Stardom in Postwar France

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context...

Militär, Staat und Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert

Kriegführung und Militär wandelten sich im 19. Jahrhundert fundamental – ebenso wie die Gesellschaft der europäischen Staaten. Zwischen beiden Veränderungsprozessen bestanden spannungsreiche Wechselwirkungen; Ralf Pröves militärhistorische Einführung ist daher zugleich eine gesellschafts-, politi...

The Sea in History - set

An assessment of how important the sea was in the development of world history from the earliest times to the present.How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this ground-breaking four-volume work. The books bring together the...

Music and Noise

An ethnographic study of how the political was configured among controversial post-conflict Northern Irish marching bandsIn Music and Noise, anthropologist Sean French examines the practice of controversial Protestant parading in postconflict Northern Ireland, as well as the broader political mov...

The Royal House of Savoy

For generations, the Italian peninsula was Europe’s fragmented battlefield. This book is the definitive account of how the House of Savoy ended that chaos and forged a modern nation. It is a story of how ruthless Realpolitik prevailed over romantic zeal. Through access to private archives and met...

Guía práctica del estoicismo: 53 Breves lecciones para una vida plena / A Field Guide to a Happy Life

Un libro inspirado por los principios de Epicteto y su sabiduría para cultivar la felicidad y la resiliencia en la vida diaria. Con su enfoque en las cuatro virtudes cardinales—sabiduría, justicia, valor y templanza— Massimo Pigliucci presenta 53 lecciones breves que combinan inspiración y herram...

Birth Control Battles

Американские консервативные и прогрессивные религиозные сообщества резко расходятся во взглядах на проблему контроля рождаемости. Предпосылки для разногласий сложились в 1930-х годах, когда адепты евгеники считали контрацепцию обязательной для некоторых групп населения. В 1960-е годы большинство ...