Books in the Publications of the German Historical Institute series

A study of the unprecedented mobilization and transformation of conservative movements on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars chart how and why countless new political organizations emerged as a self-styled 'silent majority' in defence of the existing order against a perceived left-wing threat.

Countries under German hegemony during World War II were a vital source of supplies for Hitler's war machine. Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study which explores their different experiences through case studies of twelve occupied, neutral or allied nations.

This book represents the cooperative effort of American and German scholars to systematically study the similarities and differences in the understanding of Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German states. The book stimulates efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world.

This 2000 volume analyses the First World War in light of the concept of 'total war'. Leading scholars explore the efforts of soldiers, statesmen and civilians to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.

A fundamental reassessment of the ways that racial policy worked and was understood under the Third Reich. Leading scholars explore race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

A study of the unprecedented mobilization and transformation of conservative movements on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars chart how and why countless new political organizations emerged as a self-styled 'silent majority' in defence of the existing order against a perceived left-wing threat.

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.

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.

This book examines the use of national and international law to prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century state-sponsored genocide and mass murder. Its various essays reconstruct the historical setting of crimes sponsored by Nazi Germany and discuss the limitations placed on the national and international judicial forums responsible for prosecuting German perpetrators.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism.

Countries under German hegemony during World War II were a vital source of supplies for Hitler's war machine. Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study which explores their different experiences through case studies of twelve occupied, neutral or allied nations.

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. Around 22 million US servicemen have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century.

The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare.

An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. Around 22 million US servicemen have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century.

This 2000 volume analyses the First World War in light of the concept of 'total war'. Leading scholars explore the efforts of soldiers, statesmen and civilians to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.

This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices, offering a broad array of case studies from nine different countries on five continents. Its essays highlight the diversity of claims and movements and of the ways in which societies have tried to right past wrongs.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism.

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 book addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the USA and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Issues include the rights of women and minorities, National Socialism and the emergence of the concept of social rights.

This volume discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate between American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations.

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.

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.

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.

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 Ostpolitik of Chancellor Willy Brandt not only redefined Germany's relation with its Nazi past but also altered the global environment of the Cold War. This book examines the years 1969-1974, when Brandt broke the Cold War stalemate in Europe with the practice of Ostpolitik, with significant impact on world history.

Presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. The volume will interest all students of war and society in the modern era.

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment - ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism - presenting these connected issues as a global phenomenon, with chapters concerning China, the USSR, Europe, North America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.

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'.