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Exclusionary Violence
Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History
Av Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
457 kr
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Whereas a large body of scholarly literature exists on German antisemitism in general, pre-Nazi histories of violence against Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been widely neglected. This coherent and well-focused collection of essays is the first comprehensive work in any …
Heimat Abroad
The Boundaries of Germanness
Av K. Molly O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
489 kr
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Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland) wherever they moved, and that their enclaves could remain truly German. Furthermore, the history of …
War against Catholicism
Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Häftad, 2005
398 kr
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"A lucid, innovative work of top-flight scholarship. Gross shows us the depths of anti-Catholicism in nineteenth-century Germany; he explains why the German Kulturkampf had such force and why prominent liberals imagined it as a turning point not only in Germany but in world history."---Helmut …
Other Germans
Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich
Häftad, 2005
395 kr
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It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten …
After the Nazi Racial State
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe
Av Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of …
German Literature on the Middle East
Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989
Av Nina Berman
Häftad, 2013
527 kr
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German Literature on the Middle East explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Cold War. This insightful study illuminates the complex relationships among literary and other writings on the one hand, and …
Consumption and Violence
Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
Häftad, 2014
395 kr
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Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes …
Beyond Berlin
Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past
Av Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Paul B. Jaskot
Häftad, 2015
519 kr
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Beyond Berlin breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. The contributors challenge reigning views of Germany's postwar memory work by examining how specific urban centers apart from …
Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism
Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany
Av Anna Holian
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
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"Though its primary focus is on the immediate postwar, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism will surely illuminate the contemporary crisis around citizenship and definitions of Germanness in the context of European Union and globalization."---Geoff Eley, University of Michigan In May of …
Emotional State
The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture
Häftad, 2017
383 kr
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This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an “inability to mourn,” arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or …
Germany's Wild East
Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
Av Kristin Kopp
Häftad, 2017
457 kr
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the …
German Colonialism Revisited
African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences
Av Nina Berman, Klaus Muehlhahn m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
519 kr
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German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This …
War in Their Minds
German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany
Häftad, 2020
457 kr
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Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers’ experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part I …
Bodies and Ruins
Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present
Häftad, 2020
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Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the …
Africa in Translation
A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945
Av Sara Pugach
Häftad, 2022
457 kr
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The study of African languages in Germany, or Afrikanistik, originated among Protestant missionaries in the early nineteenth century and was incorporated into German universities after Germany entered the “Scramble for Africa” and became a colonial power in the 1880s. Despite its long history, few …
Queer Livability
German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing
Av Ina Linge
Häftad, 2023
332 kr
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Finalist: Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize | December 10, 2024This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities of gender and sexuality emerged at the …
Women in German Expressionism
Gender, Sexuality, Activism
Häftad, 2023
579 kr
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This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes …
Uncanny Creatures
Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture
Häftad, 2024
270 kr
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Germany held a monopoly on the manufacture and export of bisque toy dolls in Europe before WWI. Yet, dolls’ omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern German-speaking world has so far not been properly addressed. In demonstrating this cultural affinity for dolls, …
Topographies of Class
Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin
Av Sabine Hake
Häftad, 2008
534 kr
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In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and …
German Patient
Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the idea of a healthy "national body"---propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations---continued to shape post-1945 discussions about the …
Jazz Republic
Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in …
Passing Illusions
Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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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 openly Jewish. Being …
Marking Modern Movement
Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic
Häftad, 2020
519 kr
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Imagine yourself in Weimar Germany: you are visually inundated with depictions of dance. Perusing a women’s magazine, you find photograph after photograph of leggy revue starlets, clad in sequins and feathers, coquettishly smiling at you. When you attend an art exhibition, you encounter Otto Dix’s …
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
Av Katrin Sieg
Häftad, 2021
457 kr
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Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines efforts by European museums to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. A flurry of exhibitions and the overhaul of numerous large museums in the last decade signal that an …
African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975
Av Sara Pugach
Häftad, 2022
395 kr
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This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students started coming to the East in 1951 as invited guests who were offered scholarships by the East German government to prepare them for primarily technical …
Socialist Subjectivities
Queering East Germany under Honecker
Av Katharine White, Scott Harrison m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the German Democratic Republic’s long march towards demise. While East Germany certainly ended in dissolution, not all East Germans experienced late …
German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942 investigates the ways German-speaking Europe’s cultural narratives reflect histories of entanglement with the colonial world. Drawing from an impressive range of sources, Patricia Anne Simpson decodes the ironclad colonial logic that reproduces and …
Interrogating Integration
Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany
Av Kate Zambon
Häftad, 2025
457 kr
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Interrogating Integration explores how international sporting spectacles, media campaigns, and public debates construct racialized national identity in an era of rising right-wing nationalism. Across Europe, “integration” has emerged as a guiding concept to regulate cultural differences, …
Photographic Fix
Memory, Ideology, and the First World War in the Weimar Republic
Av Justin Court
Häftad, 2026
395 kr
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The Photographic Fix explores how photographs from World War I were used in personal photo albums and mass-market picture books to determine the meaning and legacy of the postwar Weimar Republic. Due to their publication success and wide reception, picture books should be considered no small part …
Icon Dresden
Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token
Häftad, 2026
581 kr
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Icon Dresden explores how memory and politics in Dresden after its 1945 bombing are deeply intertwined with the city’s urban history. It highlights the complex origins of Dresden’s reputation as an exclusively cultural center, focusing on urban planning, marketing, tourism, and the city’s visual …
