Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, b
Drawing primarily on sources from German state archives, Clarkson (German and European studies, King's College London) examines the response of West German state and political institutions toward immi
A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subjec
Schulz (modern history, Newcastle U.) has made this first work about East German "sepulcher culture" extremely interesting, covering the period 1945 to 1990. He examines the origins of modern East Ger
Kurlander (modern European history, Stetson U.) examines the precedents to the rise of nazism and finds that the argument that liberalism failed is not enough. He shows that German liberalism was actu
Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the behavior
Sutton (U. of Melbourne) explores representations of the "masculine woman" in the print press of Weimar Germany, arguing that various female figures understood as masculinized ("the sophisticated Garc
Though he focuses fairly narrowly on the sale and liquidation of Jewish businesses, Bajohr (history, Forchungsstelle fnr Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg) also sees Aryanization as an all-encompassing displace
In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany's colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, pr
Dennis (modern German history, U. of Wolverhampton, England) and LaPorte (history, U. of Glamorgan, Wales) examine the experiences of minority groups in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) i
Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship be
In contrast to most migration studies that focus on specific “foreigner” groups in Germany, this study simultaneously compares and contrasts the legal, political, social, and economic opportunity stru
A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject
Politically adrift, alienated from Weimar society, and fearful of competition from industrial elites and the working class alike, the independent artisans of interwar Germany were a particularly recep
Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who attempted to dictate how people spent their free time by prohibiting privately or
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, German artists and intellectuals recognized the peculiar sounds of German music and the German language as the nation's most palpable common ground. In this v
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian
Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesias
