A history of russian women

Synthesizing decades of scholarship with her own work in primary and archival sources, Barbara Alpern Engel skillfully evokes the voices of individuals to enliven the account. The book captures the diversity of women’s lives, detailing how women of various social strata were affected by and shape...

Vermessung der oikumene

Versteht man „Vermessung“ in seinen diversen Facetten, so meint sie nicht nur die geodätische Erschließung des physischen Raumes, sondern vor allem die verschiedenen Formen von politischer, wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und auch mentaler Aneignung von Räumen. Die Erkenntnis, dass auch der Raum ...

Das auswärtige amt in der ns-diktatur

Die Studie "Das Amt und die Vergangenheit" (2010) hat nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit, sondern auch in der Fachwissenschaft eine lebhafte Debatte über die Rolle des Auswärtigen Amts in der NS-Diktatur hervorgerufen. Der vorliegende Sammelband bezieht sich auf diese Diskussion, die jedoch nic...

The csce and the end of the cold war

The book brings together senior and junior scholars from eight countries to reflect on the significance of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to the end of the Cold War. The book includes one of the first examinations of why Albania did not participate in the Conference...

Antigone

Die Reihe Griechische Dramen erschließt die großen Tragödien und Komödien des klassischen Athen in neuen, textnahen Prosaübersetzungen mit eingehender Einführung und detaillierter sprachlicher und sachlicher Kommentierung: ein unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel für Dozenten und Studierende der Klassisch...

Meistererzählungen vom mittelalter

Der Begriff "Meistererzählung" ist in den letzten Jahren in der öffentlichen Debatte häufig als Kampfbegriff gebraucht worden, wenn es darum ging, gegnerische Positionen als ideologisch zu brandmarken. Weniger bekannt ist dagegen der Versuch innerhalb der historischen Wissenschaften, diejenigen M...

Darstellung der lage der arbeiter in england von 1640 bis 1760

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1940

1940: das Jahr des "Blitzsiegs" im Westen, als das Reich den Krieg schon gewonnen glaubt. Man konzipiert ein Europa unter deutscher Hegemonie, gefällt sich in hochfliegenden Friedensplänen. Die "Heimatfront" erlebt den Krieg noch abgemildert. Eine Mobilisierung aller Personalreserven unterbl...

A u-turn to the future

Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities to...

Labour, unions and politics under the north star

Includes material on all five Nordic countries, including Iceland. Combines studies of Nordic labour movements and labour politics with attention to work in historical perspective. Covers broad historical period, ranging from the early modern period to the present day. Sets Nordi...

Stadtverteidigung / poliorketika

Aineias legt dar, wie eine kleine Stadt einer Belagerung standhalten kann. Die Schrift ist das älteste militärische Fachbuch, das uns erhalten ist, und erlaubt uns einen Einblick in die Welt des 4. Jh. v. Chr. jenseits großer Mächte wie Athen und Sparta: Im Zentrum steht eine kleine Polis mit ihr...

Reality in our times

The series Nord Studies in Reality Formations is Nord University’s official outlet of transdisciplinary research. Each volume addresses understandings of reality in our time and what the societal implications could be, discussed from various perspectives.

Deutschlands umkehr und seine stellung zur orient-frage

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The world at war

A series of articles and photographs, including interviews and personal photos, that printed during the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Italy.

Circles of compensation

This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the "circles of compensation." These cooperative groupings of economic, political, and bureaucratic interests dictate corporate and individual responses to such critical issues as investment and ...

Global entanglements of a man who never traveled

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activiti...

Die reichsversammlungen der jahre 1455 bis 1458

Im unmittelbaren Anschluss an die drei sogenannten Türkenreichstage in Regensburg, Frankfurt am Main und Wiener Neustadt (1454/55) wurden in den Jahren 1455 bis 1458 in Frankfurt am Main und Nürnberg in dichter Folge mehrheitlich kurfürstliche Versammlungen abgehalten, die sich den zentralen rei...

Ten documents that created america

Ten Documents That Created America is a collection of essays, speeches, legislation, and political theory that helped to form the United States of America as it is known today.Journey on a literary history of the United States with ten of the most powerful and influential documents ever written i...

Creativity and conflict. jews in interwar poland.

Creativity and Conflict reexamines interwar Polish Jewish history through both the author's essays and responses from leading scholars in the field.

Front line feminism, 1975-1995

This collection features over 80 essays from two decades of news, analysis, interviews, reviews, and letters from one of the nation's oldest and largest women's newspapers, Sojourner: The Women's Forum. These articles are a microcosm of the lively and committed debates around some of the key issu...

The limits of reform

The Limits of Reform examines the institutional, social, and cultural foundations of bureaucratic power and authority in Imperial Russia using the deeply rooted and wide ranging Ministry of Internal Affairs as example. The author develops the concept of “Ministerial Power” to explain the enduring...

Revisiting women's cinema

In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China. She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical intervention...

The invention of mikhail lomonosov

A fatal balancing act

First comprehensive study on the German-Jewish leadership during the Holocaust Gives a new perspective on the persecution of Jews in Germany Presents different inner-Jewish perspectives on the years 1939-1945

What is work?

Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist econom...

Minority discourses in germany since 1990

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume ...

The holocaust object in polish and polish-jewish culture

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects―pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils―tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts....

Children, families, and states

A comparative, interdisciplinary study Examines the development of ‘time policies’ in Europe Presents national case studies from large and small European countries such as Britain, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic Documents a wide range of thinking and practice about childr...

Sites of modernity—places of risk

Institutions with long traditions of calculating risk such as insurance firms, policing authorities, and prisons are at the center of debates surrounding the fields of security, risk, and emergencies. Starting with the 1970s, Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk innovates against these sprawling a...

Sexuality and german fascism

The interrelationship of fascism and sexuality has attracted a great deal of interest for some time now. This collection offers fresh perspectives by leading scholars on the history of sexuality under national socialism on such topics as the persecution of Jewish-gentile sex in the "race defile...

The arts in nazi germany

Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were ca...

Switzerland: national socialism and the second world war

In continuation of a long-standing national self-image, Switzerland saw itself after 1945 as a "small neutral state," which because of its will to resist and a clever policy managed not to be drawn into the Second World War. However, this self-image has been the subject of an increasingly heate...

An improbable war?

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrop...

An outline of european history from 1789 to 1989

In the wake of the revival of European nationalism in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Romano's essay explores the origin of the idea of the modern nation state between 1789 and 1848 when the citizen and the plebiscite replaced the subject as the legitimizing mechanism for ...

Polanim

Polanim’s literary journalism/reportage draws on extensive interviews with Israelis of Polish origin and their children, with each chapter organized around a particular experience of Poland and of Palestine/Israel, or around memories passed on. Some had gotten away from pre-war antisemitism, some...

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 ...

The respectable career of fritz k.

Provides an insight into understanding the political upheavals in the 20th Century in Germany. Facilitates understanding of the workings of the corrupt Nazi system. Analyses the "Coming to Terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.

Captives, colonists and craftspeople

Building and consoling a nation

Newly-translated works from modern Yiddish historians that seeks to expand the scholarship about eastern European Jewry.In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the “Yi...

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...

Split

Split war um das Jahr 1500 eine der bedeutendsten dalmatinischen Städte im venezianischen Überseereich. Lena Sadovskis Buch erlaubt einen tiefen Blick auf die lokalen Auswirkungen der von der Serenissima ausgeübten Herrschaft und auf die Folgen der wachsenden osmanischen Bedrohung. Der von Krisen...

Cosmos and colonialism

Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse (1799–1804). He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge from two dozen domains. Today, h...

Nazism, the holocaust, and the middle east

Focus on the diversity of responses from different elements in the Arab states and Turkey Chapters written by noted scholars in the field of Middle East Studies Offers responses to Nazism and the Holocaust that readers can compare to European responses Substantial bibliography on...

Not even past

Unmatched list of contributors – combination of very high-profile scholars and emerging voices. Comparative work illustrating the connections between Vietnam and contemporary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unique focus on what is left behind, and the local consequences of US actions. ...

France, germany, and nuclear deterrence

France, Germany, and the Nuclear Deterrence employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German ...

Grundlagen. die bevölkerung siziliens und des königreichs neapel

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Men under fire

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private...

Rethinking atlantic empire

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work ...

In the name of the great work

Follows the history of projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—designed to implement Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature" and intended to dramatically increase agricultural yields.. Explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Cold war cultures

Provides an innovative approach to the concept of Cold War Cultures Focuses on both Eastern and Western European Cultures

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...

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 ...

Germany and the black diaspora

Presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries Demonstrates how negative German perceptions of "blackness" proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories Probes individual and collective responses to inter-cultural points of contact

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...

The political economy of german unification

Although German unification has had a profound impact on European integration and economic development, very few studies of the East German economy exist. The editors of this volume have therefore brought together specialists in economics and politics who analyze such important issues as privat...

The rhythm of eternity

This study is one of the very few comprehensive studies of the history of the German youth movement in the English language. This book finally debunks the persistent myth that the German Youth Movement was a reactionary movement. This study bridges the gap between historiography and ...

The french right between the wars

Demonstrates the historiographical changes in scholarly understanding of the French right Examine various elements of the French right in their broader social, cultural and political contexts Reassesses the structures, mentalities and significance of various conservative and extremis...

Permeable borders

The legacy of liberal judaism

It is the first study of Hannah Arendt’s interest in and indebtedness to the philosophy and political thought of Ernst Cassirer. It is the first comprehensive analysis of liberal Jewish thought and its legacyt in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. It is the first book to analy...

Losing heaven

“Losing Heaven” is the first comprehensive history of religion in Germany since 1945. The book does not confine itself to (institutional) church history but takes on a wider perspective on religious life in Germany. Großbölting pursues an interdenominational approach that explores n...

Empire, colony, genocide

In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonizati...

Germans no more

Most books on Nazi Germany focus on the war years. Much less is known about the preceding years although these give important clues with regard to the events after November 1938, which culminated in the Holocaust. This book is based on eyewitness accounts chosen from the many memoirs that Harva...

Comparative and transnational history

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years ...

Former neighbors, future allies?

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fie...

History and modernity in latin america

Why is it that Japan, with few natural resources, has become one of the world's leading economies but not Latin America, which is so rich in natural resources? This anthropological essay questions the Euro-centric notion of modernity and modernization and argues that Latin America has to find i...

National socialist extermination policies

Moving beyond the well-established problems and public discussions of the Holocaust, this collection of essays, written by some of the leading German historians of the younger generation, leaves behind the increasingly agitated arguments of the last years and substantially broadens, and in many...

The modernist imagination

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are r...

The holocaust in bohemia and moravia

This book is the only recent account on the Holocaust in Bohemia Moravia (Last in English 15 years ago) Study is based on tons of new and unknown material , including weekly Jewish community reports to Eichmann, For the first time includes emphasis on individual and collective respon...

The indoctrination of the wehrmacht

Other studies look at the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht, and numerous studies look at the war crimes of the Wehrmacht. However, this study is different in that it focuses much more closely on the indoctrination of the Wehrmacht than previous studies, but perhaps more importantly, it views...

Dynamics of innovation

Presents a broad panorama of modern technology. Shows how artisanal know-how was adapted, expanded, and formalized during the three industrial revolutions that swept over Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States in a comprehensive analysis of this long, historical process. Illu...

Children of the dictatorship

Traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece from 1967-1974 Effectively relates the Greek activists of the ‘Long 1960s’ to the youth culture of the last third of the 20th century without losing touch with the Greek cultural and...

Occupation in the east

A nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of thousands of Germans, for whom Warsaw and Minsk became home, following their occupation by the Third Reich. Describes their unity in their self-conception as a “master race.” Examines how they engaged in acts of shocking brutality again...

Socialist escapes

Examines Eastern Europeans as individuals who seized opportunities for enjoyment, agency and autonomy while living under repressive rulers. Explores destinations and diversions that provided ordinary and extraordinary breaks away from the monotony of work, school, ideological orthodoxies...

The nanking atrocity, 1937-1938

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anni...

The chernobyl effect

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was create...

Journeys into madness

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art wo...

Poverty and welfare in modern german history

A long term perspective on Welfare and Poverty. Focuses on the politics of inclusion and the effects of exclusion. Relinks the historical studies of Poverty to debates on the German Welfare State Model.

Remaking france

Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two, offers a timely historical case study. Cu...

The paradoxical republic

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the poten...

Wartime captivity in the 20th century

Brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of a century of wartime captivity. Offers fascinating new perspectives on historical moments that range from the early days of the Great War to the arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

The struggle for a democratic austria

Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990) is undoubtedly the most prominent and influential politician to emerge in postwar Austria. For some thirty years, he helped to shape his country's politics and raise its status in the world, first as secretary of state, then as leader of the opposition Social Democrati...

Humanity's soldier

French security policy has posed a puzzle to many people outside France, including politicians and even defense specialists such as the author, who took time off from his administrative position in Whitehall in order to study French thinking about security in detail. As with many other studies,...

Estates and constitution

Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, puttin...

Alien policy in belgium, 1840-1940

Belgium has a unique place in the history of migration in that it was the first among industrialized nations in Continental Europe to develop into an immigrant society. In the nineteenth century Italians, Jews, Poles, Czechs, and North Africans settled in Belgium to work in industry and commerc...

Slavery and antislavery in spain's atlantic empire

Most comprehensive study of slavery in the Spanish Empire. Comparative and Atlantic-world perspectives. International group of authors (US, Latin America, Europe). Approaches subject from a variety of methods, including social, intellectual, legal, and economic history.

Metaphors of spain

Brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artefacts. Addresses “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Describes a nationalism that is constantly evolving...

The 'final solution' in riga

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists’ policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during t...

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 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...