Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 0266-3554 - ISSN (Online) 1477-089X Published by Oxford University Press[370 journals]
Abstract: When Hans Mommsen died on 5 November 2015, at the age of eighty-five, he left a huge legacy, having grappled with many of the most intractable issues of modern German history, in particular Nazism. PubDate: 2017-05-18
Authors:Ziemann B. Abstract: Max Weber and ‘The Protestant Ethic’: Twin Histories. By GhoshPeter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. xviii + 402 pp. £26.95 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-05-18
Authors:Haase C; Kraiker CW. Abstract: After Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik, West Germans began to accept the more permanent division of the country and rediscovered the regional fundaments of their federal political system. A catalyst for this process was provided by a massive regionalization of the daily press in the aftermath of the recession in 1973. That regionalization entailed the delineation of new regional distribution and advertising areas, the launch of new editions, the growth of regularly and irregularly published alternative papers and a stronger emphasis on regional news. In the 1970s regionalization cut across all segments of the market and across party affiliations and affected established papers, the irregular alternative press and even television and broadcasting. It propelled the West German daily press to its height point in German history, with more than 25 million copies per day in 1982. The new regional focus of the daily press increased public awareness of regional protests, regional identity politics and regional scandals during the chancellorship of Helmut Schmidt (1974–82) to such an extent that the article concludes that the 1970s were not only a ‘global’ decade, but also a regional decade. The history of the regional press that is presented in the article for the first time facilitates a new view of regional changes in economic prosperity, criticism of the federal state and the emergence of regional consumer markets between 1974 and 1982. The analysis provides a cornerstone for a more detailed media history of the Bonn Republic and a new understanding of the 1970s. PubDate: 2017-05-18
Authors:Fitzpatrick MP. Abstract: While the category of race remains indispensable for mapping the construction and maintenance of imperial hierarchies, this article argues that it is not sufficient. Far from being a universally accepted first principle in all colonial settings, racial thinking was viewed in German Samoa as an unwanted, highly controversial and even inflammatory approach to maintaining the asymmetrical communal relations necessitated by colonialism. Examining the civil unrest sparked by the publication of a racial theorist’s manifesto in the colony’s newspaper of record in 1911, and the ensuing furore this triggered in Germany, this article suggests that in German Samoa racial considerations came exceedingly late to the social and legal codification of colonial sexuality and marriage. Furthermore, when they arrived, they were resisted by Samoans, contested in the colonial metropole and subverted by leading officials in the colony. PubDate: 2017-05-09
Authors:Lisner W. Abstract: Midwives worked at the interface between governmental intervention and the biographical turning points of pregnancy, giving birth, and early parenthood. With the introduction in 1938 of the mandatory enlistment of a midwife for every birth, the National Socialist state monopolized the activities of midwives, reinforcing their position as obstetrics experts. As such, midwives were indispensable for the implementation of Germanization policy for reproduction in Nazi-occupied western Poland during World War II.Recent studies concerning occupied Poland point out the intimate link between occupation and race policy, between Germanization policy and genocide. Yet only a few authors take gender-specific aspects of occupation policy into account or analyse everyday life and interactions between ethnic groups in occupied Poland. Based upon the biographies of three midwives, one German, one Polish and one Jewish, this article takes a closer look at the female space of pregnancy, child birth and early parenthood as a key starting point for biopolitics and Germanization policy. It thus sheds light on gender-specific realizations of occupation policy and its consequences for everyday life. Both Germanization and motherhood mattered to Nazi policy in the annexed Polish territories, and so examining how the roles of German, Polish and Jewish midwives were transformed opens a window onto how racial classifications were enacted within the ‘private sphere’ of pregnancy and birth. PubDate: 2017-05-04
Authors:Patrico R. Abstract: Historians of early modern Europe have long been interested in how female monastics responded to the Reformation’s message. While most modern scholars emphasize the socio-economic reasons a woman might have wished to remain in her convent, this article shows that religious concerns led the vast majority of monastic women in Württemberg to both reject the Reformation and refuse to leave a territory which had become Protestant. These women did so in part because they believed they were spiritually responsible for protecting the property and financial assets of their convent’s founders and benefactors. This article therefore explores early modern monasticism’s emphasis on the spiritual significance of property and place and how the Reformation challenged that belief. PubDate: 2017-04-07
Authors:Forster MR. Abstract: Der katholische Luther: Begegnungen—Prägungen—Rezeptionen. By BlumDaniela. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2016. 221 pp. €24.90 (paperback). PubDate: 2017-04-07
Authors:Gusejnova D. Abstract: German Cosmopolitan: Social Thought and the Idea of the West. By HarringtonAustin. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. 439 pp. £68.56 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-03-22
Authors:Hardy D. Abstract: Zwischen Reich und Region im Spätmittelalter: Governance und politische Netzwerke um Kaiser Friedrich III. und Kurfürst Albrecht Achilles von Brandenburg. By HeinemeyerChristian. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2016. 746 pp. €109.90 (paperback). PubDate: 2017-03-10
Authors:Stokes L. Abstract: Fraternité! Schöne Augenblicke in der europäischen Geschichte. By WarnekenBernd Jürgen. Vienna: Böhlau. 2016. 341 pp. €29,99 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-03-10
Authors:Becker T. Abstract: Grandhotels: Luxusräume und Gesellschaftswandel in New York, London und Berlin um 1900. By KnochHabbo. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2016. 495 pp. €34,90 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-03-10
Authors:Bonnell AG. Abstract: Arbeiter in der Moderne: Arbeitsbedingungen, Lebenswelten, Organisationen. By SchmidtJürgen. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag. 2015. 285 pp. €29.90 (paperback). PubDate: 2017-03-10
Authors:Wolf M. Abstract: Zugriffe auf das Ich: Psychoaktive Stoffe und Personenkonzepte in der Schweiz, 1945 bis 1980 (Historische Wissenforschung 4). By TornayMagaly. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2016. 286 pp. € 49.00 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-03-10
Authors:Adam T. Abstract: Ludwig Andreas Jordan und das Pfälzer Weinbürgertum: Bürgerliche Lebenswelt und liberale Politik im 19. Jahrhundert. By TürkHenning. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2016. 424 pp. €60.00 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-22
Authors:Spicka M. Abstract: Faktor Freude: Wie die Wirtschaft Arbeitsgefühle erzeugt. By DonauerSabine. Hamburg: Körber Stiftung. 2015. 241 pp. €16,00 (softcover). PubDate: 2017-02-22
Authors:Esposito F. Abstract: Die Entdeckung der Zukunft. By HölscherLucian. Göttingen: Wallenstein Verlag. 2016. 371 pp. €28.90 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-18
Authors:Templin C. Abstract: ‘Trash,’ Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany. By RitzheimerKara L.. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 326 pp. £64.99 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-18
Authors:Schüring M. Abstract: Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany. By TompkinsAndrew S.. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. 265 pp. £65.00 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-18
Authors:Lahti J. Abstract: Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680–1850. Edited by BrahmFelix and RosenhaftEve. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2016. xiii + 261 pp. £17.99 (paperback). PubDate: 2017-02-17
Authors:Bowersox J. Abstract: Imperial Projections: Screening the German Colonies. By FuhrmannWolfgang. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2015. xi + 309 pp. £75.00 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-17
Authors:Giles GJ. Abstract: Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. By PonzioAlessio. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2015. 316 pp. $65.00 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-17
Authors:Steinhoff AJ. Abstract: Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By PurvisZachary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. xi + 271 pp. £65.00 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-16
Authors:Unger S. Abstract: Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany. By LewyGuenter. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. xi + 268 pp. £19.99 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-02-16
Authors:Pols H. Abstract: Tropenliebe: Schweizer Naturforscher und Niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. By Bernhard C. Schär. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag. 2015. 378 pp. €43.00 (paperback). PubDate: 2017-02-12
Authors:Buchner M. Abstract: Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus 1800–1900. By SuterMischa. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press. 2016. 328 pp. €32.90 (paperback). PubDate: 2017-01-21
Authors:Weiler B. Abstract: Kontrolle der Macht: Formen und Regeln politischer Beratung im Mittelalter. By AlthoffGerd. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. 2016. 360 pp. €49.95 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-01-20
Authors:Wiede W. Abstract: Der Mythos von der postindustriellen Welt: Wirtschaftlicher Strukturwandel in Deutschland 1960 bis 1990. Edited by PlumpeWerner and SteinerAndré. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2016. 277 pp. €29.90 (hardback). PubDate: 2017-01-20
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