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The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel

Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era

Borovaya, O.

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

eBook available Published May 2011

The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

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eBook available Published August 2022

200 Years of Peace

New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy

Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)

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 to endure a uniquely long period of time without any pronounced conflict.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published October 2003

The Abolitions of Slavery

From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848

Dorigny, M. (ed)

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century

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eBook available Published May 2017

The Absent Jews

Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia

Hess, C.

For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia. This groundbreaking historical investigation demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests, tracing it to the ideologically compromised work of a single Nazi-era historian who badly mishandled evidence.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published January 2005

Adolf Cluss, Architect

From Germany to America

Lessoff, A. & Mauch, C. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)

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eBook available Published April 2023

Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published March 2022

The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Bogerts, L.

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 1996

African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

Fowler, I. & Zeitlyn, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published April 2022

African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies

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eBook available Published July 2012

After The History of Sexuality

German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

Spector, S., Puff, H. & Herzog, D. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2021

After Auschwitz

The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)

This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2023

After Liberation

Toward a Sociology of the Shoah

Selected Essays

Adler, H. G.

This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the ‘coerced’ human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, dread, charisma, loneliness, and ideology.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II

Hb

Published August 1996

After Socialism

Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe

Abrahams, R. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

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Published April 2011

After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

Feuchtwang, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Hb

Published March 2009

After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

Last, G.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 1997

After Unity

Reconfiguring German Identities

Jarausch, K. H. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2013

Against the Grain

Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times

Mendelsohn, E., Hoffman, S., & Cohen, R. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published June 2021

The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy

Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber

Mommsen, W. J.

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2023

Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and importance is often overlooked.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Forthcoming January 2025

Agency and Author

German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List

Halverson, R. J. & Schaper, B. D. (eds)

An exacting meditation on the financial realities of authorship, Agency and Author explores how lesser-known German-language writers navigate the German literary landscape. Ranging from literary awards to social media hate campaigns, this volume considers authorial attempts to assert creative agency and the implications for wider, structural change it offers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

eBook available Published July 2020

Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

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Published February 2001

Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940

The Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees and Illegal Aliens

Caestecker, F.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published November 2013

Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2010

Alsace to the Alsatians?

Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939

Fischer, C. J.

The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity—not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community.

Subject: History (General)

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Published April 2008

Alternative Exchanges

Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

Fontaine, L (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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eBook available Published November 2016

Ambassadors of Realpolitik

Sweden, the CSCE and the Cold War

Makko, A.

This groundbreaking study looks at the tension between realism and idealism in Swedish diplomacy during the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and 1975 Helsinki Accords. It offers a compelling counternarrative of this period, showing that Sweden strategically ignored human rights violations in Eastern Europe in its pursuit of national interests.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published July 2019

Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published January 2003

The Ambivalent Alliance

Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966

Granieri, R.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 1995

The American Impact on Postwar Germany

Pommerin, R. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2004

Americanization and Anti-americanism

The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945

Stephan, A. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2005

The Americanization of Europe

Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Stephan, A (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2021

Analysing Historical Narratives

On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)

From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians’ contemporary concerns.

Subject: History (General)

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Published January 2007

Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction

Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923

Smith, A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2016

The Anatomy of Murder

Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich

Hildebrandt, S.

Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian and physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression; in some cases, the traditional model of working with deceased bodies gave way to experimentation with the “future dead.”

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published April 2022

Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

A Shared Political Tradition?

Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)

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 everyday institutions and organizations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2023

Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism

Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology

Ferraz de Matos, P.

Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb

eBook available Published March 2006

Anti-americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

McPherson A. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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Published December 2014

Anti-liberal Europe

A Neglected Story of Europeanization

Gosewinkel, D. (ed)

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme rightists as well as communists, arguing that antiliberal concepts in 20th century Europe were not the counterpart to, but instead part of the process of European integration.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published August 2020

Antisemitism in Galicia

Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Buchen, T.

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published January 2018

Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)

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eBook available Published December 2019

An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

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 justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2017

Archeologies of Confession

Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017

Johnson, C. L., Luebke, D. M., Plummer, M. E. & Spohnholz, J. (eds)

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 religious plurality were excised from historical memory.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Memory Studies

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Published June 2008

Archives, Ancestors, Practices

Archaeology in the Light of its History

Schlanger, N. & Nordbladh, J. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published January 2019

The Arkansas Regulators

Gerstäcker, F.

Adams, C. & Irmscher, C. (eds)

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published December 2013

The Armenian Genocide

Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916

Gust, W. (ed)

The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Official German diplomatic documents are of great importance in understanding the genocide, as only Germany had the right to report day-by-day in secret code about the ongoing genocide. The motives, methods, and after-effects of the Armenian Genocide echoed strongly in subsequent cases of state-sponsored genocide. Studying the factors that went into the Armenian Genocide not only gives us an understanding of historical genocide, but also provides us with crucial information for the anticipation and possible prevention of future genocides.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published October 2018

The Art of Resistance

Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Fiddler, A.

The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published November 2006

The Arts in Nazi Germany

Continuity, Conformity, Change

Huener, J. & Nicosia, F. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

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Published January 2002

'Aryanisation' in Hamburg

The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany

Bajohr, F.

Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies

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Published March 2015

At Home in Postwar France

Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort

Rudolph, N. C.

After World War II, France embarked on a national project of modernization, which included the development of mass housing. At Home in Postwar France reveals how modernizers saw the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, and identifies the emergence of a “right to comfort” that shaped new expectations for well-being.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies

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eBook available Published March 2021

At the Edge of the Wall

Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin

Hochmuth, H.

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 Cold War takes a microhistorical approach to illuminate the broader historical trajectories of East and West Berlin.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies

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Published December 2014

Atlantic Automobilism

Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940

Mom, G.

Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.”

Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

Hb

eBook available Published October 2023

Audiences of Nazism

Using Media in the Third Reich

Weckel, U.

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Subjects: History: World War II Media Studies

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Published March 2008

Austria, Germany, and the Cold War

From the Anschluss to the State Treaty, 1938-1955

Steininger, R.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 1996

Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives

Good, D. F., Grandner, M., & Maynes, M. J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Hb

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Published November 1995

Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Coetzee, F. & M. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2009

Balkan Departures

Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe

Bracewell, W. & Drace-Francis, A. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published March 2009

Banned in Berlin

Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Stark, G. D.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published April 2018

Basic and Applied Research

The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)

Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, explores its role in different ideological contexts after World War II, and ultimately provides valuable insights into present-day EU research policy.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2002

Becoming a Subject

Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950

Voglis, P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published September 2013

Becoming East German

Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler

Fulbrook, M. & Port, A. I. (eds)

“This is an excellent edited collection. It provides a range of methodological approaches and is right up to date: it introduces a number of new academics onto the scene while also providing some old favourites. The volume significantly adds to our understanding of East Germany and its population. It provides a reassessment of antifascism and memory... Port’s introduction and Fulbrook’s chapter on memory are masterful.” · Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published January 2006

A Belle Epoque?

Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914

Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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eBook available Published September 2010

Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

Broadbent, P. & Hake, S. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published April 2021

Bestsellers of the Third Reich

Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature

Adam, C.

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 mentality of the Germans between 1933 and 1945.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

Hb

Published December 2016

Between Blood and Gold

The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas

Beauvois, F.

Lost among current debates over slavery reparations is the fact that such payments were once widespread—except the “victims” were not slaves, but slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade’s aftermath.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General) Colonial History

Hb

Published May 2006

Between Bombs and Good Intentions

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Italo-Ethiopian war, 1935-1936

Baudendistel, R.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb

eBook available Published May 2017

Between Empire and Continent

British Foreign Policy before the First World War

Rose, A.

Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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eBook available Published November 2010

Between Left and Right

The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published December 2005

Between Marx and Coca-Cola

Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2008

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2011

Between Prague Spring and French May

Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980

Klimke, M., Pekelder, J. & Scharloth, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published May 1998

Between Reform and Revolution

German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990

Barclay, D. & Weitz, E. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

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Published July 2011

Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday

Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present

Brown, T. & Anton, L. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2007

Between Tradition and Modernity

Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg

Russell, M. A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2004

Between Utopia and Disillusionment

A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe

Vogt, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published October 2013

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

German Visions of Europe, 1926-1950

Bailey, C.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 1997

Beyond 1989

Re-reading German literature since 1945

Bullivant, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Published July 2014

Beyond Alterity

German Encounters with Modern East Asia

Shen, Q. & Rosenstock, M. (eds)

This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2011

Beyond Conversion and Syncretism

Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000

Lindenfeld, D. & Richardson, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published November 2012

Beyond Habermas

Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere

Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

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eBook available Published October 2022

Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'

Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse

Postoutenko, K. (ed)

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb

eBook available Published November 2018

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2011

Beyond Pleasure

Cultures of Modern Asceticism

Peeters, E., van Molle, L. & Wils, K. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology

Hb

eBook available Published February 2020

Beyond Posthumanism

The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

Mathäs, A.

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

Hb

Published July 2008

Beyond Prison

The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the World

Othmani, A.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb

eBook available Published March 2019

Beyond the Border

Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971

Wung-Sung, T. H.

Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of minority youths living in the Danish-German borderlands from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, author Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses political issues from the NATO alliance and European integration to everyday life and popular culture.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb

Published October 2015

Beyond the Divide

Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe

Mikkonen, S. & Koivunen, P. (eds)

Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

Published September 2008

Biography Between Structure and Agency

Central European Lives in International Historiography

Berghahn, V. R. & Lässig, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

Published August 2013

Bittersweet Europe

Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008

Brisku, A.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published January 2013

Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb

Paperback available

Published April 2006

The Body of the Queen

Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000

Schulte R. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

Paperback available

Published January 2014

Bondage

Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

Stanziani, A.

Subject: History (General)

Paperback available

eBook available Published May 2008

Border Interrogations

Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Sampedro, B. & Doubleday, S. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

hb

eBook available Published September 2022

Borders in East and West

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

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 through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

Hb

eBook available Published November 2019

Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer

Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend

Mallios, S.

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb

Paperback available

Published May 2006

The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815

Heller, H.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

Paperback available

Published September 1999

The Brave New World of European Labor

European Trade Unions at the Millennium

Martin, A. & Ross, G. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb

Paperback available

Published March 2015

Bread from the Lion's Mouth

Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities

Faroqhi, S. (ed)

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb

eBook available Published October 2022

Brewing Socialism

Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization

Kloiber, A.

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 Unity Party’s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

Published March 2009

Bringing Culture to the Masses

Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR

Richthofen, E. von

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

eBook available Published July 2012

Building a European Identity

France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74

Gfeller, A. E.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

Published May 2006

Building on Water

Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times

Ciriacono, S.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern Urban Studies

Hb

eBook available Published April 2023

The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

Jarausch, K. H.

The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History History: World War II

Hb

eBook available Published May 2020

Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

Nützenadel, A. (ed)

In Bureaucracy, Work and Violence, the Reich Ministry of Labor is for the first time systematically illuminated as the bureaucratic arm responsible for the implementation of the National Socialist work doctrine. Historians reveal through pioneering research that the classical administrative apparatuses were far more involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes than has long been suspected.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Hb

Published March 2004

Business and Industry in Nazi Germany

Nicosia, F.R. & Huener, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Hb

Paperback available

Published December 2001

Cameroon's Tycoon

Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences

Chilver, E. M. & Röschenthaler, U. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published May 2020

The Candle and the Guillotine

Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93

Johnson, J. P.

Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

eBook available Published October 2020

Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople

Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900

Palmer, R.

This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological research to compare Malta’s experience under the regimes of the Knights of St. John from 1530 to 1798 and afterward as a maritime outpost of the British Empire in terms of such topics as slavery, the control of resources, and globalization.

Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology

Hb

eBook available Published August 2018

Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Bardach, B.

Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies

Hb

Paperback available

Published October 1994

Cars

Analysis, History, Cases

Williams, K., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, J.

Subject: History (General)

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published March 2019

Categories in Context

Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present

Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology

Hb

Published December 2001

Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation

American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century

Heideking, J., Fabre, G. & Dreisbach, K. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published January 2024

Centennial Fever

Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism

Moreno-Luzón, J.

Hispanic commemorations that shaped the major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century, and their persistence to the present day, from the “discovery” of America to the publication of Don Quixote of la Mancha, are truly global and transnational events that have created a cultural community on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

Published May 2008

The Center-Left's Poisoned Victory

Briquet, J.-L., & Mastropaolo, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb

Published May 2009

Central European Crossroads

Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921

Duin, P. C. van

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

Published December 1998

The Challenge of Globalization for Germany's Social Democracy

A Policy Agenda for the 21st Century

Dettke, D. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published September 2014

The Challenges of Globalization

Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914

Torp, C.

In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

Published March 1999

The Chameleon State

Global Culture and Policy Shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914-1933

Liu, T-L.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published October 2018

Changes in the Air

Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present

Rohland, E.

Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies

Hb

Paperback available

Published December 2007

Changing Cultural Tastes

Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany

Waine, A.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published January 2019

The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

Edling, N. (ed)

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, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Hb

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Published July 2012

Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Emden, C. J. & Midgley, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb

eBook available Published March 2010

Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Davis, B., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M. & MacDougall, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb

Paperback available

Published August 2012

Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements

The Revolutionary Power of Ordinary Men and Women

Stutje, J. W. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb

eBook available Published September 2022

The Chernobyl Effect

Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990

Szulecki, K., Waluszko, J., & Borewicz, T.

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was created on the opposition scene and challenge the dominant narrative of the Cold War’s end.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published May 2023

Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

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 and Western Australia dealt with this process.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

Hb

eBook available Published November 2013

Children of the Dictatorship

Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

Kornetis, K.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published March 2011

Children, Families, and States

Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe

Hagemann, K., Jarausch, K. H. & Allemann-Ghionda, C. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb

Paperback available

Published December 2015

Cinema in Service of the State

Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960

Karl, L. & Skopal, P. (eds)

Despite being two key sites for filmmaking in the Soviet bloc, the national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany have received comparatively little attention from scholars. This volume comprehensively explores these film cultures using a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a multifaceted, richly contextualized portrait.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published October 2019

Cinema of Collaboration

DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe

Ivanova, M.

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state cinema of the newly created East Germany, that emerged as one of the primary sites where these practices persisted.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published April 2024

Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Hales, B.

The roots of German National Socialist policies have strong connections to Weimar era circulation of medical hygiene propaganda films that conveyed strong connections between scientific legitimacy between racial superiority, genetically spread “incurable” diseases, and the degradation of the German national population.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: World War II Media Studies

Hb

Published August 2000

Citizens and Aliens

Foreigners and the Law in Britain and German States 1789-1870

Fahrmeir, A.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb

Published April 2023

Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

de Groot, T.

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

eBook available Published October 2008

Civil Society and Gender Justice

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Hagemann, K., Michel, S. & Budde, G. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published May 2013

Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy

Trägårdh, L., Witoszek, N., & Taylor, B. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published November 2012

Civilizing Nature

National Parks in Global Historical Perspective

Gissibl B., Höhler, S. & Kupper, P. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Heritage Studies

Hb

Paperback available

Published April 2006

Claims to Memory

Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean

Reinhardt C.

Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Hb

Paperback available

Published June 2002

Class and Other Identities

Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History

Voss, L. Heerma van & Linden, M. van der (eds)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb

Paperback available

Published December 2014

Clausewitz in His Time

Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War

Paret, P.

Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

Published May 2000

Cold Fusion

Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia

Barabtarlo, G. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb

eBook available Published March 2012

Cold War Cultures

Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

Vowinckel, A., Payk, M. M., & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

Published July 2009

Colette's Republic

Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914

Tilburg, P. A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published November 2020

Collective and State Violence in Turkey

The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State

Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.

Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb

Published May 2013

Colonial Collecting and Display

Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Wintle, C.

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb

eBook available Published February 2020

Colonial Seeds in African Soil

A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone

Munro, P.

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leone, examining how colonial ideas shaped forest conservation in West Africa.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published February 2013

The Colours of the Empire

Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

Matos, P. F. de

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb

eBook available Published July 2019

Comical Modernity

Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

Hakkarainen, H.

Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

Published June 2002

Coming Home to Germany?

The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945

Rock, D. & Wolff, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

Published May 2016

Coming of Age

Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

Kalb, M.

In the years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the hypothetical threat that youths posed to postwar stability. This fascinating study shows that constructs like the rowdy young male and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the anxieties of adult society, while allowing authorities to expand social control.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Paperback available

eBook available Published January 2021

Commerce as Politics

The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence

Maliehe, S. M.

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

Hb

Published March 2000

Common Destiny

A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969

Orlow, D.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published January 2018

Communist Parties Revisited

Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991

Bergien, R. & Gieseke, J. (eds)

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.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published March 2010

Comparative and Transnational History

Central European Approaches and New Perspectives

Haupt, H. & Kocka, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published September 2017

Compensation in Practice

The Foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich

Goschler, C. (ed)

The German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history. This volume provides an unparalleled look at its creation, operations, and future prospects, bringing together the work of historians who were granted unrestricted access to its records, and offering nuanced, clear-eyed analysis of its successes and missteps.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II

Hb

Published February 2020

Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

Smith, T.

Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

Paperback available

Published December 2015

Comrades of Color

East Germany in the Cold War World

Slobodian, Q. (ed)

The political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world, from contributions to relief efforts in Vietnam to public memorials for Ho Chi Minh and Martin Luther King, Jr. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume traces the contours of East German internationalism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published April 2019

Concentrationary Art

Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)

The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. Concentrationary Art represents the first translation into English of Cayrol’s two essays on concentrationary art, as well as the first book-length study of his theory.

Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb

eBook available Published June 2017

Conceptual History in the European Space

Steinmetz, W., Freeden, M., & Fernández-Sebastián, J. (eds)

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

Subject: History (General)

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published December 2018

Conceptualizing the World

An Exploration across Disciplines

Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published June 2019

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)

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 the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb

Published July 2007

Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity

Essays on Modern German History

Biess, F., Roseman, M. & Schissler, H. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published May 2017

Conflict, Domination, and Violence

Episodes in Mexican Social History

Illades, C.

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published May 2007

Conflicted Memories

Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

Jarausch, K. H. & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb

Paperback available

Published March 2014

Connecting Histories of Education

Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education

Bagchi, B., Fuchs, E. & Rousmaniere, K. (eds)

The history of education in the modern world is a history of transnational and cross-cultural influence. This collection explores those influences in (post) colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own adaptation of colonialism, identity, and autonomy, creating a multi-centric and entangled history of modern education. In both formal as well as informal aspects, they demonstrate that transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, re-contextualization, and hybridization, thereby rejecting traditional notions of colonial education as an export of pre-existing metropolitan educational systems.

Subjects: Colonial History Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

eBook available Published June 2020

Conservation’s Roots

Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800

Dowling, A. P. & Keyser, R. (eds)

Conservation’s Roots illuminates the diversity of practices in premodern environmental history across Europe from the Middle Ages to the brink of modernity. It emphasizes that the ways in which we currently understand “conservation” in the West, which is generally presumed to be a modern invention, are deeply rooted in the environmental practices and regulation of medieval and early modern Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb

Published May 1996

Conservative Radicalism

A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Evans, T.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published October 2004

The 'Conservative Revolutionaries'

The Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s

Thériault, B.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published January 2011

Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa

Lollini, A.

Subject: History (General)

Hb

eBook available Published July 2010

Constructing Charisma

Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Berenson, E. & Giloi, E. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published September 2019

Constructing Industrial Pasts

Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Berger, S. (ed)

The contributions in this volume demonstrate that even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches as well as straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Heritage Studies

Hb

Published November 2004

Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

Judson, P. & Rozenblit, M. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Paperback available

eBook available Published December 2018

Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology

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Contested Femininities

Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960

Lynn, J.

Contested Femininities for the first time contributes a long-view study of constructions of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) in the illustrated press providing an incredible scope of inquiry spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war occupation, and a divided German.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies

Hb

eBook available Published September 2017

Contesting Deregulation

Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s

Andresen, K. and Müller, S. (eds)

Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published March 2007

Continental Britons

German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Berghahn, M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Pb

eBook available Published May 2022

Continental Transfers

Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

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 exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

Hb

eBook available Published May 2012

Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

Luebke, D. M., Poley, J., Ryan, D. C., & Sabean, D. W. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb

eBook available Published August 2017

Cooperation and Empire

Local Realities of Global Processes

Bührer, T., Eichmann, F., Förster, S. & Stuchtey, B. (eds)

The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of colonial collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. Its case studies range globally over the course of four centuries, exploring the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors.

Subjects: Colonial History History (General)

Hb

eBook available Published October 2006

Coping with the Nazi Past

West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

Gassert, P. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2023

Coproducing Europe

An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity

Sideri, E.

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Forthcoming December 2024

Correcting the Record

Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Lewis, H. S.

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

a April 2012

Cosmos and Colonialism

Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism

Clark, R. & Lubrich, O. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Published November 1994

The Council on Foreign Relations and American Policy in the Early Cold War

Wala, M

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published June 2024

Courage and Compassion

A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

Molho, T.

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

Hb

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Published October 2003

Creating the Other

Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe

Wingfield, N.M. (ed)

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

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Published July 2014

Creating Wilderness

A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park

Kupper, P.

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide. Creating Wilderness consequently situates the park’s fascinating history within a transnational conservation framework.

“This is environmental history of the first order, ranging widely across geographical scales and historical periods to trace the changing discourses and manifestations of the national park model.” · Andrew Denning, Western Washington University

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Hb

Published November 2004

The Creation of the Modern German Army

General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930

Mulligan, W.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published March 2014

Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia

Knörr, J.

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb

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A Creole Nation

National Integration in Guinea-Bissau

Kohl, C.

Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb

Published May 2014

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

Wetzell, R. F. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Paperback available

Published April 2009

Crime Stories

Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany

Herzog, T.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies Film and Television Studies Sociology

Hb

Published January 2007

Crime, Jews and News

Vienna 1890-1914

Vyleta, D.M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published December 2008

Crises in European Integration

Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005

Kuehnhardt, L. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published February 2002

Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962

Mouré, K. & Alexander, M. S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published January 2005

The Crisis of the German Left

The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy

Thompson, P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published May 2005

Critical Junctions

Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn

Kalb, D. & Tak, H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published September 2022

Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

Hb

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Published October 2001

Crossing Boundaries

The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and America

Jones, L. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published June 2019

Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology

Hb

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Published May 2003

Crossing the Aegean

An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey

Hirschon, R. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2016

Crown, Church and Constitution

Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867

Neuheiser, J.

Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to their radical politics, neglecting the patriotism, royalism, and xenophobia that countless Victorian men and women embraced. This study of “conservatism from below” explores the working-class devotion to Britain’s monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

Hb

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The CSCE and the End of the Cold War

Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990

Badalassi, N. & Snyder, S. B. (eds)

Since its inception over forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been met with political and historical controversies. While it’s known today as a significant contributor to the end of the Cold War, The CSCE and the End of the Cold War revisits some of the most fascinating questions in Cold War historiography.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb

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Cultural Borders of Europe

Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past

Andrén, M., Lindkvist, T., Söhrman, I. & Vajta, K. (eds)

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, creating uncertainty for liberal democratic traditions, and questions of legitimacy, political representation, and the legal bases for citizenship. This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of European regions and historical eras.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2002

Cultural Encounters

European Travel Writing in the 1930s

Burdett, C. & Duncan, D. (eds)

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published November 2017

Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. R. (eds)

Transformed by the Wall's opening in 1989 and the concomitant shift in global relations of power, Berlin continues to shape historical and contemporary images of Germanness. This interdisciplinary anthology explores Berlin's unique cultural topographies in literature, film, architecture, urban planning, and city marketing.

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published December 2002

Culture and Crisis

The Case of Germany and Sweden

Witoszek, N. & Trägårdh, L. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published May 2003

Culture and International History

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. & Schumacher, F. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

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Published December 2012

Culture in Dark Times

Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile

Hermand, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb

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Published December 2007

Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany

Usborne, C.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology

Hb

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eBook available Published June 2012

Cultures of Colour

Visual, Material, Textual

Horrocks, C. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology

Hb

Published February 2006

Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Nowotny, H. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb

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eBook available Published December 2015

Cycling and Recycling

Histories of Sustainable Practices

Oldenziel, R. & Trischler, H. (eds)

In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2012

Czechs, Germans, Jews?

National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia

Capkova, K.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2017

Daily Life in the Abyss

Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

Tachjian, V.

Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2014

The Dark Side of Nation-States

Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe

Ther, P.

“Philipp Ther's newest contribution to the burgeoning literature on ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and population transfer in the Twentieth Century is admirable in a number of ways. [It] is a genuinely comprehensive treatment of one of the most central problems of modern European history.” · Norman Naimark, H-Soz-u-Kult

“A groundbreaking study…based on an impressive amount of facts and balances… This analytically dense, well-written book is highly recommended for a broad audience.” · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Subjects: Genocide History History (General)

Hb

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Published December 2011

Dark Traces of the Past

Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking

Straub, J. & Rüsen, J. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Hb

eBook available Published June 2012

Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

Harrison, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Hb

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Published September 2013

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990

Schulz, F. R.

“Felix Robin Schulz’s insightful and thoroughly researched book makes a significant contribution to the growing scholarship on the history of East Germany. It is, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive study of sepulchral culture in the GDR. Schulz is to be strongly commended for his extensive archival research in Berlin and in a number of city archives. He also visited numerous sites personally, which lends him a further layer of authority over his subject matter and allows him to make observations on how quickly certain spatial elements of socialist sepulchral culture are disappearing.” · Heléna Tóth, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Forthcoming September 2024

The Death in their Eyes

What Perpetrator Images Perpetrate

Sánchez-Biosca, V.

Perpetrator images — those that embody the point of view of the perpetrators or their accomplices during acts of violence — from Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, and of illegal prisoners captured during the fiercest dictatorships, are analyzed under a new methodology in The Death in their Eyes to account not only for the visible aspect of the image but to see what is concealed behind or beyond the frame limits.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Sociology

eBook available Published December 2003

Death of the Father

An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Borneman, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

Hb

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Published December 2007

Decentering America

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)

Subject: History (General)

Hb

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eBook available Published October 2018

The Decisionist Imagination

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Bessner, D. & Guilhot, N. (eds)

The Decisionist Imagination explores the relationship between the key concept of “decisionism,” as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and the postwar development of formal decision theory when sovereign decision-making became an object of scientific inquiry in a new cultural, institutional, and international landscape.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published March 2016

The Decolonial Mandela

Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.

This concise, forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal justice and a rationalistic approach to warmaking, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni elevates transformative political justice and a pluriversal vision of society as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published August 1999

DEFA

East German Cinema 1946-1992

Allan, S. & Sandford, J. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published November 2021

Defeating Impunity

Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)

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 perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Hb

Published October 1998

Democracy in Europe

Legitimising Politics in a Non-State Polity

Abromeit, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published June 2018

Democracy in Modern Europe

A Conceptual History

Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)

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.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published May 2007

Demonstrating Reconciliation

State and Society in West German Foreign Policy toward Israel, 1952-1965

Hindenburg, H. von

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

Published June 2016

Designing Worlds

National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds)

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

Paperback available

eBook available Published February 2016

Desires for Reality

Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film

Halligan, B.

This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the “cinema of 1968,” and its social and aesthetic contexts. Benjamin Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis of films reflecting the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt—cinema that did not merely entertain, but was made the barricades.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published August 2008

Destination London

German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950

Bergfelder, T. & Cargnelli, C. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published May 2011

The Devil's Captain

Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

Mitchell, A.

Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published February 2016

The Devil's Riches

A Modern History of Greed

Poley, J.

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, showing how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.

Subject: History (General)

Hb

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eBook available Published August 2016

The Devil's Wheels

Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic

Disko, S.

During the unprecedented modernization of Germany’s Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values. The Devil’s Wheels analyzes motorcycle culture, and reassesses mechanized life in Weimar Germany.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Transport Studies

Hb

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Published April 2010

Diamonds and War

State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

De Vries, D.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Paperback available

eBook available Published November 2022

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

Lerg, C. A. (ed.)

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published October 1999

Dictatorship as Experience

Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR

Jarausch, K. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published November 2022

Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published December 2016

Different Germans, Many Germanies

New Transatlantic Perspectives

Jarausch, K. H., Wenzel, H., & Goihl, K. (eds)

For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective, arguing above all for a more nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic German Studies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published August 1996

Different Restorations

Reconstruction and Wiederaufbau in the United States and Germany: 1865-1945-1989

Finzsch, N. & Martschukat, J. (eds)

Subject: History (General)

Hb

Published January 2007

Disenchantment with Market Economics

East Germans and Western Capitalism

Müller, B.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb

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Forthcoming February 2025

The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I

Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

eBook available Published March 2016

Disrupted Landscapes

State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

Dorondel, S.

The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the landscape itself. This study focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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Published March 2011

Diversity and Dissent

Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800

Louthan, H., Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb

eBook available Published December 2010

Divided, But Not Disconnected

German Experiences of the Cold War

Hochscherf, T., Laucht, C. & Plowman, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

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eBook available Published August 2016

Divining History

Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit

Svenungsson, J.

Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies, from Ancient Judaism, through German Romanticism, to contemporary radical thought.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion History (General)

Hb

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eBook available Published June 2021

Do Not Forget Me

Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto

Saltiel, L. (ed)

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 Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

Hb

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eBook available Published August 2024

Documenting Socialism

East German Documentary Cinema

Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)

More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism brings a fresh introduction to the field of documentary cinema and the complexities of diversity under socialism in the GDR.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Hb

eBook available Published February 2018

Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Fleisch, A. & Stephens, R. (eds)

The contributions assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. From prehistoric dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of postcolonial nationalism, each engages with African intellectual history while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work” and “land” take shape.

Subject: History (General)

Pb

eBook available Published June 2020

Don't Need No Thought Control

Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Horten, G.

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.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies

Hb

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eBook available Published April 2020

A Dramatic Reinvention

German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970

Anderson, S.

A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Media Studies

Hb

eBook available Published December 2018

Dreams of Germany

Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds)

Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.

Subjects: Media Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies

Hb

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Published February 2007

Driving Germany

The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970

Zeller, T.

Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)

Hb

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Published April 2017

Driving Modernity

Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

Moraglio, M.

Driving Modernity recounts the history of the first Italian motorway, which—alongside railways and aviation—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that m