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German–jewish studies

Applying current and evolving interdisciplinary scholarship to bring an original and comprehensive assessment of why German-Jewish studies as a field is vital to further our understanding of antisemitism, racism, and coloniality, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations grounds the field’s neces...

Permeable borders

This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as ...

Brewing socialism

Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social ...

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...

Mass communication in israel

This text documents the long-standing relationship between mass communication and the construction of nation states The author examines the impact of the media at both cultural and institutional levels Soffer positions Israel as a unique case study, drawing parallels between techno...

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 anatomy of the holocaust

Historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise ...

Emotions in american history

The study of emotions has attracted anew the interest of scholars in various disciplines, igniting a lively public debate on the constructive and destructive power of emotions in society as well as within each of us. Most of the contributors to this volume do not hail from the United States but...

In the shadow of the great war

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effecti...

Business and industry in nazi germany

During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and public debate. This volume brings together a group of internationally renowned scholars who have been at the forefront of recent research. Their articles...

The greater german reich and the jews

Details the various European states and territories annexed into the German Reich between the period of 1935 and 1940. Analyzes the diverse attitudes of non-Jews, Germans and indigenous populations. Challenges the common assumption that one unified movement ran through the territorie...

Raising citizens in the 'century of the child'

Brings a transatlantic perspective to the history of child-rearing and education Applies T.H. Marshall’s concept of citizenship to the history of child-rearing and education Takes a long-term view in exploring the complex relationship between the family, experts, and the state from t...

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...

One sound, two worlds

Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.

The paris peace conference of 1919

An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopo...

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...

Scientific internationalism in cold war central and eastern europe

Brings together eminent experts in the history of science of East Central Europe. Challenges the dominant perception of state institutions and international projects as the driving forces of scientific cooperation. Contributes to a more complex understanding of socialist hierarchies ...

Magical house protection

First world-wide survey of this topic in book form. The latest theories and thoughts about magical house protection archaeology. The result of 20 years research on the topic. Contains a gazeteer of discoveries in Britain and America showing the geographical distribution of th...

Postwar soldiers

In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier.

The challenge of globalization for germany's social democracy

"Modell Deutschland," once admired worldwide, has lost much of its shine, due to a number of internal and external factors. This important and timely volume deals with the economic and political pressures and challenges of globalization and is particularly concerned with their effect on social ...

Hazardous chemicals

(1) The long period of analysis: Unique is the approach to present several substance biographies which analyze the handling of various hazardous chemicals in different countries during the course of two centuries. (2) The comparative approach applied to several different substances, and...

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. ...

The politics of personal information

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

At the edge of the wall

The neighboring boroughs of Friedrichschain and Kreuzberg shared a history and identity until their fortunes diverged dramatically following the construction of the Berlin Wall, which placed them within opposing political systems. This revealing account of the two towns during and after the Col...

A stranger in paris

In this compact and tightly argued essay, the author maintains that the French Third Republic - and European history during this period in general - can only be understood if particular attention is paid to the special relationship that existed between France and Germany. The experience of the ...

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...

Building a european identity

Offers a unique combination of multiarchival diplomatic history and analysis of political language Skillfully examines the interplay between transatlantic relations, the Middle East and the makings of a united Europe Reappraises the significance of the post-de Gaulle era in the histo...

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.

The making of the greek genocide

Provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide during and after World War 1 (when over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey) as cultural trauma. Sjöberg irecounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan ...

Politics of the dunes

Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can ...

The decisionist imagination

This is the first volume to explore decisionism beyond the thought of Carl Schmitt. This is the first volume to trace how decisionism impacted the social sciences in the trans-Atlantic context of the United States and Europe. This is the first volume to explore decisionism from an in...

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...

Nature in german history

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany,and in no other country have ide...

The virago story

The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.

The jews and the expansion of europe to the west, 1450-1800

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resour...

The politics of german defence and security

The post-Cold War era has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the German political consensus about the legitimacy of the use of force. However, in comparison with its EU and NATO partners, Germany has been reticent to transform its military to meet the challenges of the contemporary security...

Captives, colonists and craftspeople

Changes in the air

It’s the first “hurricane history” of New Orleans It covers all three of the city’s historical eras: French (1718-1762), Spanish (1762-1800) and American (1803-present) based on primary sources It features the first comprehensive history of the New Orleans levees from the French colo...

Cold fusion

While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching th...

Portraits of hope

Elie Wiesel called the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War ‘the Holocaust before the Holocaust’. Around one and a half million Armenians - men, women and children – were slaughtered at the time of the First World War. This book outlines some of the historical facts and conseque...

Reconciliation road

Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.

Singing ideas

Singing Ideas: this is a highly original concept that echoes of A.B. Lord’s seminal work of oral theory entitled ‘The Singer of Tales’, but ultimately fuses oral theory and performance theory with social and anthropological theory which makes it very distinctive. This is the first full l...

A human garden

A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational p...

Rethinking holocaust justice

In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to expl...

De-commemoration

In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it re...

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

The lion and the eagle

The German and Spanish-speaking worlds have, over the centuries, developed an intrinsic relationship, one which predates the Habsburg dynasty and the Renaissance and baroque periods. The cross-fertilization and challenges have been both fruitful and complex with novel inventions surfacing in on...

The wars of yesterday

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

Working in greece and turkey

The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinenta...

Do not forget me

Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarin...

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...

Expeditionary anthropology

Fills a gap in the history of anthropology by examining the role of expeditions in structuring both anthropological inquiry and its antecedent forms of human research. It does this by providing a long-term historical perspective, beginning in the seventeenth century and following it through ...

The anatomy of murder

This is the first comprehensive account of “Anatomy in National Socialism”. Traces the gradual escalation of ethical transgressions in anatomy during National Socialism from the traditional anatomical work with the dead to human experimentation, and points to the need for vigilance again...

Rampart nations

Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious his...

Modern germany in transatlantic perspective

Includes chapters by major scholars. Deals with central historiographical questions in German history.

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...

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.

Managing northern europe's forests

First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-for...

A history of the i.g. farben trial

In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial...

Shaping tomorrow's world

Shaping Tomorrow’s World is an award-winning volume that documents the history of futures studies using extensive archival material and rich analysis of the debates surrounding the limits of fields growth.

Kinship, community, and self

David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. The significance of Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, de...

The man from the third row

The first book in English about Hasse Ekman. Discusses 1940s Swedish cinema, which has previously been overlooked outside of Sweden. The first book, in any language, that discusses the whole of Ekman’s career and places it in a social and political context.

Imperial germany revisited

International selection of Authors, all leading experts in the field of the history of the German Empire Gives good overview of the “state of the art” and raises important questions for future research Volume shows a much more “modern” and pluralistic picture of Imperial Germany than...

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...

On the death of jews

In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while tea...

Memory and change in europe

Offers a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. The authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.

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...

Germany and 'the west'

First comprehensive study of the conceptual history of ‘the West’ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany Conceptual history approach Reflecting the importance of the nineteenth century in the history of ‘the West’ A historical contribution to the current debate about the me...

Globalizing automobilism

Multi-award winning titles that reveals how automobilism became a global force shaping modern mobility cultures. 'Magisterial in its account of car society and "layered mobility" across Africa, Asia, and Latin America’. (WHBP Committee) Introduces the concept of “layered mobility” to...

The persistence of race

In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peop...

Healing and harm

Professor Mary Lindemann’s career inspired several generations of researchers in early modern German history and culture. In Healing and Harm, scholars at the height of the field speak to key continuations of subjects stemming from the marked breakpoints across Lindemann’s wide body of work.

Ruptures in the everyday

As either an alternative or a complement to the typical survey of major figures, institutions, and groups, this book tells stories of modern Germany from the perspective of ordinary Germans “on the ground,” making the material more accessible and relevant to the reader. Broadly interdisc...

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...

End game

Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes th...

Bridging divides

No comparable historical account of recent Russian Sami history has been produced, and the book in addition features a thorough summary of Soviet Sami history One of the few English language volumes which focuses on border-transcending Western-Russian ethnic activism Based on thoroug...

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...

Responsible history

“I can warmly recommend Responsible History to any concerned historian in need of a reliable compass for responsible conduct. I endorse Voltaire’s words quoted in this book: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.’ Responsible conduct is necessary because ir...

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 ...

German migrant historians in north america

The experiences of German born historians who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s has had a unique impact on the practice and project of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in North America intimately reviews these historians’ experiences, career paths, scholarship,...

Narratives in motion

The articulation between historical events and journalistic narratives. The focus on a peripheral case (Portugal), traditionally disregarded in the studies of modernism and modernization. The focus on newspaper readership and public participation of public events. The relation be...

Losing and finding prussia in the twentieth century

First study in any language to examine the changing role of Prussia - as a state, an identity, and a cultural presence - in the lives of German people over the period from the First World War to the present. Brings together over a century of diverse German scholarship on Prussia. Use...

Social history of german jews

Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.

Lives in fragments

An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence. 

World war i and the jews

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East partic...

Points of passage

A major contribution to the understanding of the European Jewish migration to late 19th to early 20th century America Provides rich detail about what trans-Atlantic migration felt like to those involved Investigates various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel...

The changing meanings of the welfare state

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sw...

European memories of the second world war

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war...

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 challenges of globalization

Describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War. Demonstrates the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German empire. Articulates how and why the German government found it increasingl...

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...

Conflict, catastrophe and continuity

Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany’s descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe. It explores the intersections betw...

Being a state and states of being in highland georgia

Explores questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in the Highland areas of Georgia. The author scrutinizes local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state and argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the sta...

Testimonies of resistance

As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represent...

House of the waterlily

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

The force of comparison

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each contribution demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, with a ...

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 ...