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Strukturwandel der Armen...
Studien zur Geschichte der Armenfürsorge und der Sozialpolitik in Münster, Band 4
by Hannes Lamba..., Franz Josef ..., and Ralf Klötzer
Mit der Publikation des vierten Bandes der "Studien zur Geschichte der Armenfürsorge und der Sozialpolitik in Münster" beendet das Stadtarchiv sein langjähriges Projekt zur Erforschung der Geschichte der sozialen Stiftungen in der Stadt und zur besseren Erschließung der über 5...
(2002)
172 Reads
Worldly Provincialism
German Anthropology in the Age of Empire
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology. Drawing on the most recent work on the history of the discipline, the contributors rethink the historical and cultural connections between German anthropology,...
(2010)
108 Reads
Neither German nor Pole
Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland
by James Bjork
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the i...
(2009)
17 Reads
Other Germans
Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich
It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of th...
(2009)
17 Reads
Projecting History
German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000
by Nora Alter
Between 1967 and 2000, film production in Germany underwent a number of significant transformations, including the birth and death of New German Cinema as well as the emergence of a new transnational cinematic practice. In Projecting History, Nora M. Alter explores the relatio...
(2009)
1 Read
After the Nazi Racial State
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
by Rita Chin and Heide Fehren...
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape...
(2010)
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Beyond Berlin
Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past
Beyond Berlin breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. The contributors challenge reigning views of Germany's postwar memory work by examining how specific urban...
(2010)
10 Reads
Changing Places
Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946
"Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in th...
(2010)
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Character is Destiny
The Autobiography of Alice Salomon
In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a care...
(2010)
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Growing Up Female in Naz...
by Dagmar Reese
Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmai...
(2010)
8 Reads
Murder Scenes
Normality, Deviance, and Criminal Violence in Weimar Berlin
by Sace Elder
Sace Elder has exhaustively researched both newspaper and other popular and professional treatments of murder cases and archival sources of police investigations and trials in Berlin between 1919 and 1931. Murder Scenes is an innovative and insightful exploration of the ways i...
(2010)
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Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gender...
(2010)
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The German Patient
Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the idea of a healthy "national body"---propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations---continued to shape post-1945 dis...
(2010)
29 Reads
The German Problem Trans...
Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995
Does the new, more powerful Germany pose a threat to its neighbors? Does the new German Problem resemble the old? The German Problem Transformed addresses these questions fifty years after the founding of the Federal Republic and ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ma...
(2010)
14 Reads
The Heimat Abroad
The Boundaries of Germanness
Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland) wherever they moved, and that their enclaves could remain truly German. Furth...
(2010)
52 Reads
Topographies of Class
Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin
by Sabine Hake
In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; de...
(2010)
8 Reads
Triumph of the Fatherland
German Unification and the Marginalization of Women
The East German uprising of 1989 was not a male revolution. Indeed, one of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. As one...
(2010)
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Work, Race, and the Emer...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's...
(2010)
12 Reads
Between National Sociali...
Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany
by Anna Holian
"Though its primary focus is on the immediate postwar, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism will surely illuminate the contemporary crisis around citizenship and definitions of Germanness in the context of European Union and globalization." ---Geoff Eley, University...
(2011)
69 Reads
Paul Robeson and the Col...
by Tony Perucci
Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to antilynching and American warmongering made him notorious. When Robeson announc...
(2012)
11 Reads
