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After The History of Sexuality
German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Av Scott Spector, Helmut Puff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1936 kr
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Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditionally …
Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany
Av David M. Luebke, Jared Poley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very …
Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe
Av Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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How is it that walls, borders, boundaries—and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion—engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how …
After The History of Sexuality
German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Av Scott Spector, Helmut Puff m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
543 kr
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Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditionally …
Becoming East German
Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler
Av Mary Fulbrook, Andrew I. Port
Inbunden, 2013
1979 kr
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For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a …
Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
Av Jason Philip Coy, Benjamin Marschke m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
543 kr
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The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their …
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Av Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
618 kr
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In spite of having been short-lived, "Weimar" has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms …
Beyond Alterity
German Encounters with Modern East Asia
Av Qinna Shen, Martin Rosenstock
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies. …
Mixed Matches
Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Av David M. Luebke, Mary Lindemann
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were …
Kinship, Community, and Self
Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean
Av Jason Coy, Benjamin Marschke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students and his influence on countless other …
Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe
Av Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
527 kr
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How is it that walls, borders, boundaries - and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion - engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining …
Emperor's Old Clothes
Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2015
1979 kr
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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 Empire together. What …
Becoming East German
Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler
Av Mary Fulbrook, Andrew I. Port
Häftad, 2015
543 kr
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For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a …
Devil's Riches
A Modern History of Greed
Av Jared Poley
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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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, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an …
Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
Av Jason Coy, Jared Poley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1916 kr
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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, religious exiles, …
Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Av David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the "total work of art"-has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of …
Reluctant Skeptic
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Inbunden, 2017
1516 kr
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The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault …
Mixed Matches
Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Av David M. Luebke, Mary Lindemann
Häftad, 2017
526 kr
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The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were …
Ruptures in the Everyday
Views of Modern Germany from the Ground
Av Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Leonard Schmieding m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in …
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Av Carina L. Johnson, David M. Luebke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1880 kr
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Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? …
Money in the German-speaking Lands
Av Mary Lindemann, Jared Poley
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have …
Devil's Riches
A Modern History of Greed
Av Jared Poley
Häftad, 2017
359 kr
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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, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an …
Dreams of Germany
Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
Inbunden, 2018
942 kr
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For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as `land of music'. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to …
Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
Av Jason Coy, Jared Poley m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
543 kr
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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, religious exiles, …
Ruptures in the Everyday
Views of Modern Germany from the Ground
Av Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Leonard Schmieding m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
543 kr
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During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in …
Views of Violence
Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
Av Joerg Echternkamp, Stephan Jaeger
Inbunden, 2019
1979 kr
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The twenty-first-century vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles …
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Av Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Joel F. Harrington
Inbunden, 2019
1936 kr
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Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the …
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Av Carina L. Johnson, David M. Luebke m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
527 kr
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Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? …
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1900
Av Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1979 kr
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Of the many innovative historiographical approaches to emerge during the twenty-first century, one of the most productive has been the nexus of theories and methodologies broadly defined as "the history of emotions." While this conceptual toolkit has generated significant insights into the past, it …
Beyond Posthumanism
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities
Inbunden, 2020
1921 kr
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Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges …
