"In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on t…
"In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on t…
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 d…
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the E…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia", "Eastern Europe", and "the Balkans". Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realit…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia", "Eastern Europe", and "the Balkans". Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realit…