Introduction : an essay on mediate family -- Into the family gallery -- Nuclearity and its discontents -- Abortive Romanticism -- Feminism, or, The Hegelian dynasty -- Wagner, or, The bourgeois dynasty -- Naturalism, or, The dynastic romance -- Freud, or, The reluctant patriarch…
Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji War in East Africa. Recently, historians have emphasized the role of German military culture in shaping the horrific violence of the…
The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed…
In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over th…
In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over th…
Zusammenfassung: In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum …
"At its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years' War, on what resources they drew, and how they attempted to make sense of it. A rich tapestry of stories brings to light contemporaries' trauma as well …
Introduction : The World at War -- Stalingrad : The Right to Believe in Victory -- Mobilizing the National Community : Do You Want Total War? -- Genocide and Mass Atrocities : A Page Never to Be Written -- Enemies Within and Without : A Sign of Providence -- Dissolution : Histor…
Zusammenfassung: "Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on re…
"This volume explores how the study of anatomy was conducted during the governance of the Third Reich, from the Third Reich's involvement with university anatomy departments to how the Third Reich implemented protocols for anatomists"--Provided by publisher.
An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, 'The Laughter of the Thracian Woman' describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's 'Theaetetus' dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, …
Introduction : Berlin's invisible infrastructures -- Trajectories of technological urbanism -- Unitary services for a greater Berlin -- Weimar's networked municipalism -- Subjugation to National Socialism -- Vulnerability and resilience during war and division -- In pursuit of t…
Zusammenfassung: The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Concentrating on Nuremberg, A New Order of Medicine follows the intertwined careers of municipal physicians as they encountered the challenges of …
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar cinema
by Hales, Barbara, Weinstein, Valerie
fromFilm Europa
"The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and me…
Zusammenfassung: "The German Social Democratic Party was the world's first million-strong political party and was the main force pushing for the democratisation of Imperial Germany before the First World War. This book examines the themes around which the party organized its mai…
"The Historical Dictionary of Berlin contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events"
The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern Württemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in…