Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905

Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history t...

Pacific Automobilism

In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status ...

France and the German Question, 1945–1990

This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth cent...

Metaphors of Spain

The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to e...

Trieglaff

Follows the history of a village and family estate in what is now western Poland from Napoleon's occupation in 1807, to the Red Army's invasion in 1945, until the departure of the last family member is 1948 Intertwines family history withn the political history of Germany Examines th...

Reynard the Fox

There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain ...

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...

Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Gre...

Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings ...

Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski

The proposed book tackles a wide range of issues in anthropology: from disciplinary trajectories in Global South areas to relations of power within the discipline, to research and teaching methodology. The book brings together voices from outside the discipline’s dominant Anglo-American ...

Bestsellers of the Third Reich

Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the men...

Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

First-hand account of the plight of Jewish civilians and also the-stab-in-the-back legend by the home front. Addition of photographs by the author, Bernhard Bardach First-ever detailed eye-witness account of the 1916 Brusilov Offensive Detailed day-by-day account of the entire w...

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990

Explores cultural responses to death in East Germany since the Second World War Examines the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry and the steps taken toward a socialist cemetary culture Offers an analysis of the changes to the system of disposal of the dead i...

Bringing Culture to the Masses

Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who attempted to dictate how people spent their free time by prohibiting privately organized leisure time pursuits and offering instead cultural activities in state institutions an...

Legal Entanglements

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.

Histories of the Aftermath

In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war’s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a ...

The Transnational Condition

During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational p...

German Division as Shared Experience

German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moment...

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.

Democracy in Modern Europe

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

Social Bonds as Freedom

Articulates how social bonds uniting groups underpin concepts of freedom instead of creating obstacles, to achieve the universal. Describes ways to conceive liberal democracy in the light of globalization.

Gendering Post-1945 German History

Invisible Founders

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student b...

Archives, Ancestors, Practices

In line with the resurgence of interest in the history of archaeology manifested over the past decade, this volume aims to highlight state-of-the art research across several topics and areas, and to stimulate new approaches and studies in the field. With their shared historiographical commitmen...

From Recovery to Catastrophe

Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the author argues; the financial burden of re...

Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understandi...

After the Event

Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the twentieth century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961 (the Great Leap famine). This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand ...

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...

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...

German Public Policy and Federalism

Since unification German society and institutions have been challenged by various transformations and the need to adjust to changing conditions. While much has been accomplished, many political, legal, and institutional problems remain. This volume deals with selected aspects of domestic and Eu...

Between Tradition and Modernity

Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, book-length study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. It analyse...

200 Years of Peace

In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation t...

The French Exception

The notion of French exceptionalism is deeply embedded in the nation's self-image and in a range of political and academic discourses. Recently, the debate about whether France really is "exceptional" has acquired a critical edge. Against the background of introspection about the nature of "nat...

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...

Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath

An illuminating re-examination of the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath refocuses attention on the multiethnic nature of this military campaign, by considering the role played by troops from Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, and others in Hitler’s plans fo...

Shades of Indignation

At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siècle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the Republic’s servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcome...

From Weimar to Hitler

This is the first edited volume on the Nazi seizure of power that spans the entire period from the end of the Brüning chancellorship in the late spring of 1932 though the Nazi consolidation of power in the Röhm purge of June 30, 1934. The essays offer a multitude of different perspective...

The Society of the Cincinnati

In 1783, the officers of the Continental Army created the Society of the Cincinnati. This veterans’ organization was founded in order to preserve the memory of the revolutionary struggle and pursue the officers' common interest in outstanding pay and pensions. Henry Knox and Frederick Steuben w...

The Kings and the Pawns

The most encompassing representation of the phenomenon of Byelorussian collaboration during World War II Illumination of virtually unknownaspects in modern East European history Study basing on multiple sources in different languages

The Engaged Historian

Investigates relationship between historical scholarship and political engagement Wide global coverage Raises questions about professionalism and normativity in historical work Strong theoretical framework

War Stories

This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir. Reveals the genre’s capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Considers how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even...

Opposing Ostpolitik

Broadens our understanding of a crucial period of German foreign policy, namely the 1960s. Introduces a major political figure and makes an important contribution to our understanding of Strauss’s strategic thinking during the Cold War while also offering important insights for the conte...

Israel-Palestine

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region tha...

Reading Hitler’s Victims

An original study exploring previously undiscovered archival sources and literary texts by neglected refugee authors and translators, including women. Significant to contemporary understanding and memory of the Holocaust – it illuminates Britian’s chronology of knowledge regarding the Ho...

An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social just...

Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyd...

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...

A World History of Mobility

In this comprehensive world history of (auto)mobility, Gijs Mom draws upon his expertise within the field to assess the past and present of road cultures, and hypothesize its future. From climate change and capitalism to decolonization and gender, this volume spotlights the car’s influence on o...

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...

Forging Architectural Tradition

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain ...

Demonstrating Reconciliation

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the West German government refused to exchange ambassadors with Israel. It feared Arab governments might retaliate against such an acknowledgement of their political foe by recognizing Communist East Germany–West Germany’s own nemesis–as an independent state, a...

Entangled Reactionaries

A transnational perspective of the construction of pre-fascist conservative identities in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century in relation to the European and Latin American contexts Explains the process of nationalization of the masses and the construction of political and social ...

All or None

All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusi...

Voices of the Dunera

Sheds new light on an infamous decision by the British government to deport German refugees (most of them Jewish) to Australia during WWII. Presents for the first hand first hand testimony from internees about their life and treatment. Has a contemporary relevance reflecting issues r...

Defeating Impunity

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspect...

The Long Aftermath

This broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories of the "Long Second World War" and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and other cul...

The Rise and Demise of German Statism

German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of political membership, a logic that has helped to dete...

Medicinal Rule

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s ...

Nordic War Stories

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion ...

Nation Branding in Modern History

New theme: nation branding and history New approach: introduces a new way of thinking about nation self-projection in the international arena Comparison: a comparative book on the history of nation branding – there is none to date Intercontinental approach: that comparison reache...

Tropical Nature

An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations ...

More than Mere Spectacle

More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapt...

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...

Gulag Memories

This book shows how the memory of the Soviet repressions was shaped in Russia in the 90’s, beginning of 21st century - at a time when the state no longer made memory of the repressions a taboo topic, but had not yet become actively involved in shaping it. It is an ethnographic descriptio...

Through the Water and the Storm

Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in th...

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...

To See a Moose

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the fie...

The World of Children

In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic explor...

Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Initially propounded by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in 1962 in order to describe the realm of social discourse between the state on one hand, and the private sphere of the market and the family on the other, the concept of a bourgeois public sphere quickly became a central point of referenc...

French Foreign Policy since 1945

Recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities, from the aftermath of World War II to the present. Provides insightful analysis of France's triumphs and setbacks through the years of decolonization, Cold War ma...

Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc

Brings together Historians and philosophers to analyse the totalitarian idea and its broader application. Highlights the reasons why totalitarianism is still an attractive model in political science born out of the cold war. Revisits ideas about totalitarianism and knowledge producti...

Colette's Republic

In France’s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Cathol...

Red America

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience i...

The Crisis of the German Left

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communis...

Borders in East and West

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia thr...

The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800

Germany and the Middle East

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major d...

Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of ...

Don't Need No Thought Control

Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.

The Spirit of the Berlin Republic

The "Berlin Republic" has become the key concept of post-Cold War Germany and as such has been widely discussed inside as well as outside Germany. Symbolized by the move of the government from Bonn to Berlin it signals all the tangible and intangible changes in Germany's position in the world t...

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...

Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness – and therefore its utility. More particularly, the concept’s relevance to the study of socia...

Gendering Modern German History

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to g...

Weaponizing the Past

Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Poland’s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.

Crime, Jews and News

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contempo...

Compensation in Practice

Unique study on forced labor compensation in Eastern and Central Europe after 1990 Unique study on practice and effects of compensation Based on extensive interdisciplinary studies and vast archival studies of material that has not been used elsewhere

Planning Labour

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process ...

The Radical Right in Switzerland

There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss excepti...

The Participants

While the Wannsee-Conference is widely seen to be a turning point in holocaust history, its participants have been often overlooked Unique glimpse of the individual Nazi perpetrators Sociology of Nazi administration, its networks and deadlocks

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...

Liberal Imperialism in Germany

French Intellectuals Against the Left

In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understa...

Shaping the Transnational Sphere

An original and innovative collection exploring the role of the expert in shaping culture and society Spans from the second half of the 19th Century, over a variety of landscapes from Western Europe to North America Demonstrates the influence of industrialisation and nation-building ...

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.

Subjects, Citizens, and Others

The work is the first to systematically compare the British and Habsburg empires The book challenges the alleged distinction between ‘Western’ modernity and ‘Eastern’ backwardness, primarily in terms of politically inclusive and ethnically exclusive versions of nationality. The work ...

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.

Ice and Snow in the Cold War

This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historio...

The Germans and the Holocaust

Up-to-Date: Features cutting-edge scholarship about a compelling and very important aspect of the Holocaust. Eminent Authors: All of the chapters have been written by highly accomplished senior scholars who are internationally known in this field of Research Focus on Sources: Several...