Books in the Publications of the German Historical Institute series

This collection of essays does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale.

How do migrants and refugees fashion group identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious nomads selectively engaged with nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies.

A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias.

The essays in this 1997 book analyse how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images reflect the contemporary relations, often foreshadow future trends, and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, and stereotypes influenced perceptions.

Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession before and after 1945. The essays look at ten prominent historians whose lives and work spanned the period from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period. They explore the consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyse this conflict's military significance, the attempts to plan for another general war and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.

These essays provide a comparison of nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, examine facets of the political, cultural, and social history of inclusion and exclusion in both countries, and sharpen our understanding of the symbolic construction and the social and political practices of 'us' and 'them'.

The history of consumption is a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this collection represent a variety of approaches, discussing products, corporate strategies, government policies, and ideas about consumption.

This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporating much new research.

This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference of 1922. The authors present new findings on such matters as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and United States policy on European debts.

By expanding the study of German resistance to the Nazis to include the efforts of Jews, women, workers, and young people, David Clay Large has written a book which is essential to the consideration of this complex period. Includes personal testimony from the likes of Willy Brandt.

The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised.

In this volume empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s are placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration.

Sixteen international scholars explore the twin problems of electoral politics and social dislocation in the course of examining Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era.

This collection of essays that focuses on the women refugees of the Nazi period who fled to different countries all over the world. It describes their important role in the survival of their families, their everyday life, and their adaptive skills in the various places of exile and emigration.

This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions and constraints that informed decision-making by the politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement.

This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. The authors ask what these two capitals have meant for the nation and explore the relations between architecture, political ideas, and social reality.

This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.

This collection comprehensively and critically addresses fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany. The central focus is on the professionalisation of modern medicine and the medicalisation of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme.

This book brings together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationship among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Political thinkers were faced with a battery of new terms - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' among them - with which to make sense of their era.

This study links two fundamental political structures of the Cold War era; the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system. Both Washington and London identified the cost of British and American troops in Germany as a major reason for the decline of their currencies, whereas Germany reluctantly traded 'Money for Security.

This collection comprehensively and critically addresses fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany. The central focus is on the professionalisation of modern medicine and the medicalisation of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme.

As wars and other conflicts increase on a worldwide scale, the alleged ''new wars'' of the present day have taught that military victory does not necessarily result in a sustained state of peace. Rather, societies in conflict experience a ''status mixtus'' - a transformative period that includes substantial changes in economy, politics, society and culture. Focusing on these decades of reconstruction in Europe and North America, this book examines the transformation of state systems, international relations, and normative principles in international comparison. By putting the postwar decade after 1945 into a long-term historical perspective, the chapters illuminate new patterns of transition between war and peace from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Experts in the field show that states and societies are never restituted from a ''zero hour''. They also demonstrate that foreign and domestic policy are intermixed before and after peace breaks out.

Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s is an interdisciplinary anthology addressing the political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s, thereby making a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s.

In the borderland of Upper Silesia between 1848 and 1960, the local population resisted attempts by nationalist activists to compel them to become loyal Germans or Poles, a divide dictated by the two languages they spoke. This study of that resistance will appeal to scholars of European history and nationalism.

Drawing on a diverse array of Turkish- and German-language sources, this book explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children in West Berlin from 1961 to the early years after reunification. Sarah Thomsen Vierra sheds new light on the relationship between belonging, identity, and everyday life.

Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800-1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and German modernity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using a variety of tourist propaganda. By promoting an image of 'grounded modernity', Bavarian tourism reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science.

This study of the 1930s German-Japanese alliance employs sources in both languages to reveal the role of mass media in shaping and promoting an ideology which, by creating a niche for Japan in the Nazi worldview, convinced German Nazis to identify with non-Aryans and non-Germans to become adherents of Hitler.

In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany from 1770-1914, Jeffrey T. Zalar exposes the myth that the clergy defined Catholic reading habits. He shows that readers disobeyed the book rules of their church and read diverse literature, even works from the Index of Forbidden Books.

International scholars review decades of postwar reconstruction in international comparison from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, demonstrating how foreign domestic policy cannot be separated.