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Stripping the Veil
Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany
Inbunden, 2022
2119 kr
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Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant regions should …
Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic
Communists and Kings
Av Marcus Colla
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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No example demonstrates the fluidity of the past within the German Democratic Republic more powerfully than the history of the Prussian state. Initially attacked in East German official histories as the historical engine of German militarism and reaction, Prussia underwent a remarkable …
Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this practice really so new? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions for the protection of other rulers' …
The Other '68
A Social History of West Germany's Revolt
Inbunden, 2024
531 kr
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The book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book argues that '1968' was just …
The Primitive Within
The Entanglements Between Anthropology and Folklore Studies in Germany, 1850s-1930s
Inbunden, 2026
1300 kr
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This book is the first to examine the relation between German folklore studies and colonial anthropology in the age of empire. It expounds how anthropologists and folklorists aimed to compare rural cultures in the European hinterland to supposedly primitive societies in the colonial peripheries in …
Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire
Av Luca Scholz
Inbunden, 2020
1998 kr
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In the Holy Roman Empire 'no prince... can forbid men passage in the common road', wrote the English jurist John Selden. In practice, moving through one the most fractured landscapes in human history was rarely as straightforward as suggested by Selden's account of the German 'liberty of …
Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony
Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg
Av Sarah Greer
Inbunden, 2021
1390 kr
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In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present. New accounts of former leaders and their deeds could strengthen their successors, establish novel claims to power, or criticize the current ruler. After 888, when the Carolingian Empire fractured into …
Forging Germans
Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944
Inbunden, 2020
1733 kr
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Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative approach, Caroline Mezger …
Local Lives, Parallel Histories
Villagers and Everyday Life in Divided Germany
Inbunden, 2020
1950 kr
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The division of Germany separated a nation, divided communities, and inevitably shaped the life histories of those growing up in the socialist dictatorship of the East and the liberal democracy of the West. This peculiarly German experience of the Cold War is usually viewed through the lens of …
Networks of Modernity
Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880
Inbunden, 2021
1883 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 …
Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
Av Jamie Page
Inbunden, 2021
1733 kr
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Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men for whom they provided a …
Biographies of a Reformation
Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520-1635
Inbunden, 2021
1540 kr
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Biographies of a Reformation: Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, c. 1520-1635 investigates how religious coexistence functioned in six towns in the multiconfessional region of Upper Lusatia in Western Bohemia. Lutherans and Catholics found a feasible modus vivendi …
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation
Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
Inbunden, 2021
1417 kr
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The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation explores ways of thinking, feeling, and talking about being gay in the 1970s, an influential decade sandwiched between the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in 1969, and the arrival of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s. Moving beyond divided Cold …
Keeping the Peace in the Village
Conflict and Peacemaking in Germany, 1650-1750
Inbunden, 2024
1241 kr
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Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in the century after 1650. Based on extensive research in German archives, particularly in local court records, the book examines how rural people sought peace in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War. An understandable …
Emergency Powers and the Home Fronts in Britain and Germany during the First World War
Av André Keil
Inbunden, 2025
1241 kr
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts with little democratic scrutiny …
Gendered Practices of Rulership at the Court of Württemberg, 1568–1634
Inbunden, 2025
1461 kr
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Gender history has alerted us to the fact that it is misleading to assume transhistorical features when it comes to issues such as childbearing, mother- and fatherhood, and gendered systems of labour division. Instead, all of these are culturally inflected and thus variable across time. Gendered …
Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2026
1300 kr
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Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in terms of both the cultural meanings attached to body size and personal perceptions of the body. …
Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. By paying close attention to the institutions within which these ideas were articulated, Golf-French reveals their complex and …
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
Av Alon Confino, Paul Betts m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
532 kr
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Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these …
Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War
Häftad, 2012
359 kr
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A comprehensive analysis of political violence in Weimar Germany with particular emphasis on the political culture from which it emerged.“Today’s readers, living in what Charles Maier calls ‘a new epoch of vanished reassurance’, will find this book absorbing and troubling.”—The HistorianThe …
Nature of the Miracle Years
Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Häftad, 2012
532 kr
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After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context. …
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Av Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1936 kr
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The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. …
Nature in German History
Inbunden, 2004
1916 kr
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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany,and in no other country have ideas of …
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'
The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2013
526 kr
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The 20th century, declared at its start to be the "Century of the Child" by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be …
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2014
2186 kr
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The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, …
Plans That Failed
An Economic History of the GDR
Häftad, 2013
543 kr
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The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR’s ‘new’ society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model …
Encounters with Modernity
The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975
Inbunden, 2014
1921 kr
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During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the “psy sciences,” were debated and …
Respectable Career of Fritz K.
The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader
Av Hartmut Berghoff, Cornelia Rauh
Inbunden, 2015
2139 kr
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Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful …
Fellow Tribesmen
The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
Av Frank Usbeck
Inbunden, 2015
1979 kr
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around “Indianthusiasm.” …
Second Generation
Émigrés from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide
Av Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2621 kr
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Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this …
