In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions.
"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what's right in front of your eyes? The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible, but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt--even of hope. How easy was it to know what was a…
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt rev…
It was at this time, in April of 1945, that Michael Hargrave answered a notice at the Westminster Hospital Medical School for ‘volunteers’. On the day of his departure the 21-year-old learned that he was being sent to Bergen-Belsen, liberated only two weeks before. Between 1941 …
Do you want to blend in when visiting Berlin? To feel like you belong in Bavaria? When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do makes it simple! If you long to navigate the narrow streets of an Alpine village unnoticed or go to a movie in Munich without turning heads, transform yourself…
Weimar Germany (1919-33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want to pass or be perceived as non-Jews; yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be …
Migration in the German lands : an introduction / Alexander Schunka -- Martyrdom and its discontents : the martyr as a motif of migration in early modern Europe / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg -- Penal migration in early modern Germany / Jason Coy -- No return? : from temporary exile t…
"Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, r…
English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse, 1871-1945
by Rash, Felicity J., Horan, Geraldine, International Conference "English and German Nationalist and Anti-semitic Discourse, 1871-1945", Queen Mary, University of London), Wildmann, Daniel
fromGerman linguistic and cultural studies
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if full…
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if full…
Focusing on the German effort to rehabilitate its international reputation in the wake of the Holocaust, this study examines German-American relations from the 1970s through 1990.