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Authors:Pope B. Pages: 159 - 180 Abstract: The nobleman Werner von Parsberg served the imperial town of Nuremberg between 1430 and his death in 1455 as a mounted retainer and (from 1442) as the town’s imperial chief magistrate. In 1450 he carried Nuremberg’s standard in battle during the Second South German Towns’ War. This long record of close engagement with Nuremberg contrasts with the tradition of reading ‘town’ and ‘nobility’ in Germany as mutually exclusive and inherently antagonistic. In Parsberg’s time this was a position advocated by Nuremberg’s opponents amongst the territorial princes and rural nobility, and from the Enlightenment onwards a more rigid version of this dichotomy was projected back onto the late Middle Ages. This perceived opposition between ‘town’ and ‘nobility’ denied the possibility of meaningful cooperation between townspeople and rural nobles: all such relationships have consequently been described as the result of economic and political weakness on the part of the nobles concerned. Recent research, however, suggests that a re-examination of these relationships is necessary, and the case of Werner von Parsberg offers a model for such a reassessment. This article shows that Parsberg’s service for Nuremberg was not a symptom of weakness, but part of an assertive strategy to advance the independence from princely authority of his family’s lordship in the Upper Palatinate. Through this appreciation of the factors supporting town–noble cooperation in the late Middle Ages we are better able to understand the formation and development of the dialectic of town and nobility as a way of understanding German society. PubDate: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx135 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Trask A. Pages: 181 - 206 Abstract: In the early 1920s, German sexual scientists championed testicular modification as the cure for the ‘effeminate’ male homosexual. This article explores how, between 1914 and 1933, sexual scientists were able to imagine that they could engineer the body to transform the soul. Joining interdisciplinary work on the social history of medicine and gender, it traces the efforts of medical practitioners to understand and discipline the transgressing of normative gender roles, so-called ‘intermediacy’, that became central to taxonomies of sexual deviancy in the twentieth century. This article examines how sexual scientists engaged war pathology, endocrinology and constitutional medicine to develop utopian treatments that promised to turn ‘effeminates’ into ideal German men. It illuminates how medical experts imagined their role in defining the healthy embodiment of militant, patriarchal manhood as constitutive of social stability and political citizenship during a time in which German masculinity was assumed to be in crisis. Medical experts cast testicular modification as a possible antidote to the ‘hysteria’ of returning soldiers and the perceived effeminacy of urban men and alleged sexual deviants. While leading sexual scientists clashed on the ethics of surgeries aimed at restoring ‘masculine’ traits to the ‘weak-willed’ and male homosexuals, they agreed that glandular modification held the key to unlocking the malleability of men and the extent—and limits—of scientific intervention. PubDate: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy013 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Ashkenazi O. Pages: 207 - 228 Abstract: Founded by Lord David Davies in 1932, the New Commonwealth Society (NCS) was an anti-war organization with members in thirty-eight countries around the globe. Its principles included the establishment of an international equity tribunal, which would arbitrate international disputes, and a world police to enforce the tribunal’s decisions. Essentially, the organization sought effective means to restrict national sovereignty in order to promise a sustainable world order. Its activists included prominent politicians, generals, intellectuals, religious leaders and scientists, from Winston Churchill to Hans Kelsen and Albert Einstein. Many of the leading advocates of the NCS were Jewish or renowned Nazi criticizers. Yet, according to Davies, the NCS branch in Nazi Germany was one of the most ‘enthusiastic and enterprising’ groups of the organization. Furthermore, the National Socialist authorities were familiar with the organization, tolerated it and at times openly supported its campaigns. This article analyses the views and activities within the NCS group in Nazi Germany and explains their origins. The NCS’s efforts to restrict national sovereignty notwithstanding, its mechanism for peaceful changes in the international status quo, based on justice, was compatible with a popular sentiment in Germany, among liberals, conservatives and Nazis alike. I argue that the support of the NCS in the Third Reich was based on a distinct meaning attached in Germany to the organization’s key concepts, such as equity, emergency and sovereignty. Simply put, Nazis, liberals and Jews could conceive together a system based on these concepts as long as their actual meaning was left open. PubDate: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy004 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:DeWaal J. Pages: 229 - 251 Abstract: Through a case study on Cologne, this article examines an early postwar turn to local Heimat as a geography of renewal that offered visions of new postwar lives and new identities. A series of factors informed the local turn, including the decimation of home towns, loss of former local lives, elimination of the nation as a sovereign political actor and a need for local community in the face of social divisions and reconstruction. Heimat also came to the fore as a modifying force in ideas of nationhood. Rather than shedding national loyalties, the turn to Heimat involved a turn away from national struggle and towards local reconstruction to secure new civilian lives.By reformulating local historical memory and traditions, many Heimat enthusiasts argued for values of ‘Cologne democracy’, ‘openness to the world’ and ‘tolerance’ as important to democratization, European unification and outsider integration. These identifications remained proscriptive, existing alongside ongoing undemocratic and exclusionary practices, while aggravating failures to come to grips with the Nazi past. At the same time, they helped disband the notion that democracy and European unification were foreign entities.In showing how Heimat was crucial to early postwar culture, this study challenges notions of the concept as either taboo after 1945 or primarily about anti-Westernism, ruralism, repression of the past, regressive forms of environmental protection or self-victimization. It also contributes to research on West German democratization by pointing to often-overlooked popular attempts to forge identification with democracy in the early postwar years. PubDate: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy014 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Marshall P. Pages: 276 - 277 Abstract: A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation. By HarlineCraig. New York: Oxford University Press. 2017. 300 pp. £20.00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy011 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Watson R. Pages: 279 - 281 Abstract: Der sichtbare Glaube: Das Bild in den lutherischen Kirchen des 16. Jahrhunderts. By WegmannSusanne. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen. 2016. 370 pp. €99.00 (hardback) PubDate: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx116 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Rowe M. Pages: 281 - 282 Abstract: Napoleon’s Paper Kingdom: The Life and Death of Westphalia, 1807–1813. By MustafaSam A.. Lanham and London: Rowman & Littlefield. 2017. Xxiv + 341 pp. £65.00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy008 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Davies H. Pages: 282 - 284 Abstract: Auguren des Geldes: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Finanzjournalismus in Deutschland 1850–1914. By RaduRobert.Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2017. 382 pp. €59.99 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx131 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Brophy J. Pages: 284 - 287 Abstract: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion. By JonesGareth Stedman. London: Allen Lane. 2016. Xvii + 750 pp. £35.00 (hardback). PubDate: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx139 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Dietze C. Pages: 287 - 289 Abstract: “Fürst, sind Sie unverletzt'”: Attentate im Kaiserreich 1871–1914. By MühlnikelMarcus. Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn. 2014. 337 pp. €36.90 (hardcover). PubDate: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx128 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Motyl K. Pages: 291 - 293 Abstract: The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria. By WingfieldNancy M.. New York, NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. Xv + 272 pp. £60.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx129 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Fantauzzo J. Pages: 293 - 295 Abstract: Bid for World Power' New Research on the Outbreak of the First World War. Edited by GestrichAndreas and von StrandmannHartmut Pogge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. Xi + 444 pp. £85.00 PubDate: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx130 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Crim B. Pages: 295 - 297 Abstract: A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War. By GradyTim. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2017. 304 pp. £25.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx133 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Stibbe M. Pages: 297 - 299 Abstract: Nach dem ‘Großen Krieg’: Vom Triumph zum Desaster der Demokratie 1918/19 bis 1939. Edited by KailitzSteffen (= Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts, Band 62). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2017. 441 pp. €75.00 (hardback). PubDate: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx136 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Seidel K. Pages: 311 - 313 Abstract: The Quest for Europeanization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Multiple Process. Edited by ClemensGabriele. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2017. 256 pp. €49.00 (paperback). PubDate: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy007 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Hanshew K. Pages: 315 - 317 Abstract: Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe. By JobsRichard Ivan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2017. 352 pp. $35.00 (paperback). PubDate: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy012 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Forner S. Pages: 321 - 323 Abstract: Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983. By MilderStephen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2017. Xvii + 280 pp. £75.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy006 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Milder S. Pages: 323 - 325 Abstract: Behinderte Anerkennung' Interessenorganisationen von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Westdeutschland seit 1945. By StollJan. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag. 2017. 418 pp. €39.95 (paperback). PubDate: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy010 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Kreis R. Pages: 325 - 327 Abstract: “Selbst ist der Mann”: Do-it-yourself und Heimwerken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. By VogesJonathan. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2017. 647 pp. €54.00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx138 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Althaus A. Pages: 327 - 329 Abstract: Angeworben: GastarbeiterInnen in Österreich in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren. By LorberVerena. Göttingen: V&R unipress. 2017. 289 pp. €40.00 (paperback). PubDate: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghy009 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Fouracre P. Pages: 272 - 274 Abstract: Recht und Konsens im frühen Mittelalter. Edited by EppVerena and MeyerChristoph H. F. (= Vorträge und Forschungen, 82). Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2017. 474 pp. €54. 00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx113 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2017)
Authors:Dunwoody S. Pages: 277 - 279 Abstract: Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. Edited by Helmut Puff, Ulrike Strasser, and Christopher Wild. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2017. Ix + 255 pp. $65.00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx115 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2017)
Authors:Roscher M. Pages: 299 - 301 Abstract: Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo. By BruceGary. New York: Oxford University Press. 2017. Xii + 303 pp. $34.95 (hardback). PubDate: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx127 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2017)
Authors:Farges P. Pages: 310 - 311 Abstract: Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. By Zoë Waxman. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. 181 pp. £30.00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx114 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 2 (2017)
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