Anti-americanism in latin america and the caribbean

Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the...

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

Sisters in arms

Up to now, studies of feminist activism have focused almost exclusively on protest that was commonly understood as peaceful. This study shows that there was considerable disagreement over the question of which tactics were appropriate and necessary in feminist struggles, and that some groups...

Spanish laughter

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultu...

Resettlers and survivors

Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring ...

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

Europe in crisis

The volume shows how conceptions of and projects for Europe were transformed by contemporaries’ experiences of crisis between 1917 and 1957. It investigates the ideas of a wide range of intellectuals from across the continent. It examines the relationship between ideas of Europe and ...

The world beyond the west

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspe...

To the bomb and back

The first English-language account of Finland’s children evacuees during World War II. Describes their experiences, told through the survivors’ own words. Testifies to the often lifelong traumas endured by youthful survivors of war.

The great tradition and its legacy

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, ...

Reparative citizenship for sephardi descendants

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wro...

Archeologies of confession

Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of re...

Taking on technocracy

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming.  The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

Meaning and representation in history

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging...

Refugees from nazi germany and the liberal european states

Focuses on one of the most dramatic refugee movements in contemporary European and world history. Takes a comparative approach in which each of the national cases is illuminated and enriched by comparison. The analysis shows the interplay between different national immigration policies a...

The third world in the global 1960s

the first book to analyze the 1960s from a Third World perspective. contains a wide geographical scope, and contains essays on Latin America, Africa and Asia. attempts to uncover everyday people and their struggle with the geopolitics of the Cold War, and analyzes the Cold War from ...

On violence in history

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

Culture in dark times

Explores how different groups fought over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture” Analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts Asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politicall...

The mirror of the medieval

One unique aspect of this book is its approach to interdisciplinary work. While many earlier works have sought to bring anthropological approaches to the study of the medieval past, what is different about this book is its emphasis on the value of disciplinary borrowing in both directions; i...

General de gaulle's cold war

The most comprehensive account written in English of General de Gaulle’s foreign policy. Based on extensive multi-national archival research. Explores the connections and linkages between different policy spheres, such as international economics, security, European Integration and the Cold ...

Medicine and medical ethics in nazi germany

The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, ...

The nature of german imperialism

Provides the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I. Focuses upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Situates East African wildlife poli...

Voices on war and genocide

Escapees

Escapes from deportation trains: First study of the phenomenon as Jewish resistance to National Socialistic persecution More than 750 escapees in Western Europe show various forms of motives and implementation (agency) First study of deportation train guards (who they were and how th...

The devil's riches

Interdisciplinary Accessible Focuses on the modern period (1400-present) Oriented around religion, economics, and health as three ways that humans have sought to understand greed

Topographies of suffering

At the forefront of transcultural innovations in memory studies. Provides a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of Holocaust commemoration, combining approaches from literary ecocriticism, cultural geography and cultural studies. Sheds new light on transnational networks of H...

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...

Historical reenactment

The increasing number of historical reenactments, along with their growing popularity, are catching both attention in popular culture and in multiple academic disciplines. Historical Reenactment takes a transdisciplinary and global approach to define and theorize reenactments as an embedded cul...

Continental transfers

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal excha...

Different restorations

This book responds to the frequently heard call for more comparative history .It does so by focusing on the problem of reconstruction in the national experience of the United States and Germany during three crucial periods: 1865-1945-1989. Accordingly, a group of internationally recognized expe...

History of the low countries

The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries - in English - from Roman Times to the present. Remaining polit...

Sacral kingship between disenchantment and re-enchantment

A major contribution to the study of early modern monarchy A well organised study focusing on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in France and England A new perspective on the sacred role that churches and religion bestowed on monarchs

The nuclear crisis

Provides a comprehensive survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis of 1983 as experienced by its various protagonists. Analyzes NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering. Traces the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

Recalling the belgian congo

When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, wide...

Wilhelminism and its legacies

What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" forma...

Cultural borders of europe

The essays in this anthology address processes of defining European cultural borders, as well as their dependence on – and relation to – various kinds of European belonging and national identity. By proceeding from cultural borders as the object of investigation, we open the door to a range ...

Myth and modernity

In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibe...

Rationed life

Effectively combines various methodological approaches from cultural history, anthropology and labor studies. Engages the literature on the Bohemian Lands as well as broader, thematic literatures on labor, gender relations, late 19th century scientism, Habsburg rule, and the experiences ...

Jewish life in nazi germany

German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish ...

The german right in the weimar republic

Examines a crucial episode in the demise of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism. Based upon extensive primary research in a wide range of archival collections. Employs a variety of methodological approaches in the study of the German Right. Approaches the issue...

Space and spatiality in modern german-jewish history

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

Ambassadors of realpolitik

Reveals the pragmatic side of Swedish foreign policy in the 1970s. Contributes to the history of multilateral summitry in general and the CSCE in particular. Draws upon a wealth of previously unresearched archival material from five countries. Demonstrates the obstacles met by Eu...

Reluctant skeptic

Discusses Kracauer from the perspective of the history of religion in modern Germany Seeks to give more emphasis to the importance of the history of religious thought in modern German cultural and intellectual history Approaches Kracauer on the basis of some of his earlier, less know...

Names and naming in early modern germany

Unique exploration of theSocial History of Nomenclature (socio-onomastics) Interdisciplinary and Archival Explores the Intentions of the Namers

Towards a collaborative memory

For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-ev...

Different germans, many germanies

Complicating academic discourses and scholarly analyses of Germany Pluralizing popular perceptions of Germany Contributing new knowledge on postwar Germany Combining historical with political and cultural approaches to Germany

Invested narratives

Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to addr...

Germany and the confessional divide

Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Prote...

'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...

From craftsmen to capitalists

Describes how the artisan class became one of the pillars of postwar stability in Germany. Explores how skilled tradesmen recast their historical traditions and forged alliances with former antagonists to help realize German democratization and recovery.

The absent jews

Combines medieval and modern historiography. First comprehensive work about Jewish life in medieval Prussia. Unique method for criticism of ideology combining biographic and semantic approach.

German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participa...

Banned in berlin

Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that o...

Fragmented fatherland

The only comparative studies of the internal development of different immigrant communities in the Federal Republic during the Cold War. Explores political conflict within various immigrant communities, and sets out a far more nuanced analysis of their internal development than most curr...

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...

The limits of loyalty

The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempt...

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

Civil society and gender justice

Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a fem...

Yugoslavia without yugoslavs

Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

Militant around the clock?

This book is the first study of the impact of left-wing political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth in the 1970s. Aanalyzes the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Demonstrates that left-wing ...

A living past

First (and only) synthesis of modern (19c/20c) Latin American/Caribbean Environmental History. Brings together authors from 7 countries of the Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador). Combines diverse frameworks/approaches: History, Geography, History of Scienc...

Conservation’s roots

Dynamics of memory and identity in contemporary europe

Combines theoretical sophistication with penetrating case studies. One of the first books to tackle Europeanization dynamics as they pertain to collective memories. A pan-European approach with cases from all regions of the continent. Takes the study of collective memory forward ...

Between empire and continent

It is the first major volume exploring the complex domestic backgrounds of British Foreign Policy, such as party politics, reform and retrenchment, invasion scares etc. It challenges many myths about the so called Anglo-German Antagonism such as the perceived threat of the High Seas Batt...

German railroads, jewish souls

This book centers around preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg’s landmark study of Nazi railways and their roles within the Jewish genocide. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from leading scholars Christopher ...

Rethinking social movements after '68

With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnec...

Small town and village in bavaria

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,00...

The east german state and the catholic church, 1945-1989

From 1945 to 1989, relations between the communist East German state and the Catholic Church were contentious and sometimes turbulent. Drawing on extensive Stasi materials and other government and party archives, this study provides the first systematic overview of this complex relationship and...

Chicanery

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland a...

Experience and memory

offers both West- and East European perspectives of history and historiography goes beyond the cesura of 1945 relating war time experiences to post war memories is written by experts in the field of the respective countries reflects on the writing of European history

Embers of empire

Examines how political elites and ordinary people processed the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and its familiar governing structures in 1918 Explores the diverse and important ways in which the Empire’s successor states drew upon its practices and traditions Discusses continuities...

Dynamics of emigration

In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both fascist and communist regimes. This book discusses the experience of exile and asks why some of them were successful in establishing themselves in their new host countries while others failed.

Theatres of violence

Covers the history of massacre and mass violence, which are under-researched areas Offers a wide range of case studies of massacre and mass killing from the ancient to the modern world The first book to build on Mark Levene and Penny Roberts' ground breaking 1999 study of massacre i...

The politics of authenticity

Covers protest movements and counter cultures across the Iron Curtain. Develops a conceptual framework to understand protests in different national contexts. Problematizes “authenticity” in the post-World War II era (which has hitherto been scantly researched). Argues that many c...

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 ...

Gender in germany and beyond

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of t...

The devil's wheels

Motorization: Focuses on the motorcycle not the car as the most important cultural commodity of early motorization in Germany. Gender and Consumption: Focuses on masculinity not only femininity in exploring how motorization as a practice of consumption shaped gender. Extends and amen...

Industrial culture and bourgeois society in modern germany

Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and economic history of Europe during the period of industrialization. This collection of essays gives a representative sample of his effort to develop, by ...

Narratives in the making

Compares the production of narratives at two very different types of institutions. Based on original participant observation in these institutions’ day-to-day work. Explores the production of representations of the East German past at a unique historical moment – in the run up to the...

The ethics of seeing

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective exper...

Performing memory

Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of me...

Social movement studies in europe

It is the only handbook offering a complete and articulate picture of the social movements studies in Europe. It gathers together some of ‘founding fathers’ of this discipline in Europe and younger scholars. The book has a coherence as a whole and, in the meantime, any chapter offers...

Women and men in love

It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in ...

The war for the german mind

There are several important studies on Allied efforts to re-educate German civilians after the fall of Nazism. The simultaneous major program of the U. S., Britain and Soviet Union to influence the future of German politics and society through the re-education of prisoners of war has not previo...

Kharkov/kharkiv

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city located on the Ukrainian-Russian historical borderland, has often been overlooked given its historic role. Kharkov/Kharkov for the first time uncovers the city’s long history, from the 17th century to today, and its process of becoming a borderland and und...

Communist parties revisited

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.

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...

Shadowlands

Describes how Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. An innovative study tracing the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis extending from the Great War to th...

Empty signs, historical imaginaries

The monumental nation

Concentrates on Hungary, the largest part of the Habsburg realm but mostly overseen in current scholarship. Instead of just focusing on the macro-processes, it deals with the provinces. Combines social history with the history of symbolic politics.

The american impact on postwar germany

It is only with the benefit of hindsight that the Germans have become acutely aware of how profound and comprehensive was the impact of the United States on their society after 1945.This volume reflect the ubiquitousness of this impact and examines the German responses to it. Contributions by...

Children in the holocaust and its aftermath

The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...

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...

Making nordic historiography

It discusses (critically) the importance and power of methodological nationalism It shows how political all historiography is and may have big positive or disasterous role in society: the most dangerous product of human brains (Paul Valery) All history is fiction and all fiction has ...

Divided, but not disconnected

It is one of the few studies that addresses the entanglement of the two Germanys during the Cold War at various levels including culture, society and politics. It comprises chapters from young researchers and established scholars from a plethora of subject areas who present original rese...

The mind of the nation

The first comprehensive study of the topic. Follows the reception and impact of Völkerpsychologie, both in Germany and abroad. Traces the genealogy of concepts currently used in the social sciences and humanities, e.g. ‘identity’, and explains the circumstances of their inception. ...

Historical memory in africa

Explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile Addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by fi...

Revisiting austria

The french defeat of 1940

Why France, the major European continental victor in 1918, suffered total defeat in six weeks at the hands of the vanquished power of 1918 only two decades later remains moot. Why the stunning reversal of fortunes? In this volume thirteen prominent scholars reexamine the French debacle of 1940 ...