Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 0266-3554 - ISSN (Online) 1477-089X Published by Oxford University Press[372 journals]
Authors:Kirwan R. Pages: 1 - 20 Abstract: This article examines the case of the controversial seventeenth-century theologian Jacob Reihing. In 1621 Reihing fled Pfalz-Neuburg, where he had played an instrumental role in re-Catholicizing the territory, to seek asylum in Württemberg. His defection provoked shock and dismay in political, religious and academic circles in Pfalz-Neuburg and Bavaria. In Stuttgart Reihing was granted the protection of the duke and sent to the University of Tübingen. Jesuits and Catholic princes made a series of interventions, first in an effort to encourage Reihing to return to the fold and then to blacken his name. In spite of these pressures, the endorsements of the duke of Württemberg continued apace: Reihing was allowed a very public ceremony of conversion and was appointed professor of theology in Tübingen. The task of rehabilitating the former Jesuit fell largely to the University of Tübingen. Its professors attempted to refashion Reihing as an archetypal Lutheran scholar and carefully tended his public image over the remaining years of his life. For their part the Jesuits intensified their attempts at character assassination. The battle over Reihing’s reputation continued until and, indeed, beyond his death. This article explores the controversies generated by Reihing’s conversion and subsequent life and career and examines in particular the struggle over his reputation. In doing so it addresses a wider clash of ideals governing academic identities, lifestyles and behaviours in which scholars and institutions divided by confession participated. PubDate: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx125 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Murphy J. Pages: 21 - 37 Abstract: While the history of the Bürgertum (the German middle class) post-1848/49 has focused on the inherently political nature of a reform-oriented group of citizens concerned with progress and modernization, the Bürgertum’s explicit understanding of the political has largely remained on the periphery of research, overshadowed by nationalism and its shift to the right post-unification. This article focuses on the immediate post-revolutionary period. Using a case study, it depicts how members of German gymnastics societies relied on cultural strategies to negotiate an oppositional existence in the post-revolutionary security state. It contends that between 1850 and 1864, associations acted as a mediator between the Prussian state and its citizens in insisting upon the state’s adherence to legally defined norms. It illustrates that throughout the period, gymnastics societies across the Rhine-Ruhr region engaged in a political process of contestation to question the Prussia state’s justification of its power. After nearly a decade of playing by the rules of the surveillance game, the Bürgertum lost its trust in the state and began to demand that the laws the state had created to monitor voluntary associations also be used to guarantee their rights. By refusing to accept the state’s authority, the Bürgertum developed a form of contentious politics that required pamphlets rather than revolutionary barricades. PubDate: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx124 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Wiesen S. Pages: 38 - 59 Abstract: This article focuses on the Nazi perception and exploitation of American lynching in the prewar Third Reich. It explores how National Socialist policymakers and writers addressed violence within their own society by exploring racial persecution in the United States. In particular, they drew attention to mob violence and the spectacle murders of African Americans. How, they asked, could Germany build a racially pure society absent the alleged lawlessness of the United States' Ultimately, the lynched black body became a symbol of ‘racial chaos’ and juridical confusion across the Atlantic. If the Nazis were to design an effective racial order, they would have to regulate visible expressions of extra-legal violence. PubDate: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx122 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Rau C. Pages: 60 - 77 Abstract: This article examines the official and scholarly debate on Kommunalpolitik in the GDR, and analyses how the concept took root at the local level, and how the SED finally responded. While most historians tend to reduce the political system of the East German dictatorship to the highly centralized state model that was ruled only by the Politburo of the SED, this essay points out that governance within the GDR was coupled with decentralized elements. In the 1960s, the SED began to rethink the modus of governance by stressing the local sphere as a resource of economic planning and by replacing the Stalinist definition of what a city should be. However, the state party avoided a reform that might endanger the monopoly of the Politburo. Nevertheless, by leaving this opening within the discourse, the SED provided a framework in which local authorities and academics could articulate their perceptions and challenge the power of the Politburo. Even Honecker referred to the popular debate that was soon dominated by local politicians and academics, but he was unable to cope with this unloved discourse since local authorities were becoming more self-confident. These results open up new perspectives on political practices within the GDR, especially with regard to the alleged stability of the Honecker era and continuities after 1989. PubDate: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx120 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Pages: 78 - 100 Abstract: Historians of sexuality in the Holocaust go where most fear to tread: Lisa Heineman called the intersection ‘doubly unspeakable’. Why is it important to explore the history of sexuality in the Holocaust and what are the methodological, ethical and political issues at stake' In this Forum, five historians of gender, sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust discuss what the field of Holocaust history gains from integrating sexuality and gender as analytical categories. By connecting Holocaust studies to the history of sexuality, the field gains, as we will argue, new theoretical insights, recognizing power hierarchies and societal shifts. As the scholarship moves to examining gender and sexuality in the Holocaust beyond a sole (if understandable) focus on sexual violence, topics like agency, love and prostitution, same sex desire and memory and subjectivity of both the perpetrators and victims come to the fore. What are we allowed to research' Why do we consider so many topics connected to mass violence and sexuality as taboo' How are we to make sense of them' The history of sexuality and gender not only introduces new topics to Holocaust studies; it also offers, more importantly, new perspectives on familiar themes. PubDate: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx123 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Poley J. Pages: 105 - 109 Abstract: The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History. By WilsonPeter H.. London: Allen Lane. 2016. Lxv + 942 pp. £35.00 (hardback). PubDate: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx003 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Edwards K. Pages: 110 - 111 Abstract: Monster im Mittelalter: Die phantastische Welt der Wundervölker und Fabelwesen. By SimekRudolf. Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag. 2015. 345 pp. + 148 colour images. €29.99 (paperback). PubDate: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx090 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Simek R. Pages: 111 - 113 Abstract: Gott und die Welt: Religiöse Vorstellungen des frühen und hohen Mittelalters. Teil I, Band 3, IV: Die Geschöpfe: Engel, Teufel, Menschen. By GoetzHans-Werner. Göttigen: V&R unipress. 2016, 623 pp. €69.00 (hardback). PubDate: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx119 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Robertson R. Pages: 113 - 114 Abstract: The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew. By MintzkerYair. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2017. Xiv + 330 pp. £27.95 (hardcover). PubDate: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx111 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Laycock J. Pages: 116 - 118 Abstract: Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler. By IhrigStefan. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 2016. 460 pp. $35.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx083 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Roseman M. Pages: 118 - 120 Abstract: Rewriting German History: New Perspectives on Modern Germany. Edited by RügerJan and WachsmannNikolaus. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. Xxiii+336 pp. £55.99 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx109 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Ahonen P. Pages: 120 - 122 Abstract: Different Germans, Many Germanies: New Transatlantic Perspectives. Edited by JarauschKonrad H., WenzelHarald and GoihlKarin. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. Xii + 328 pp. £92.00 (hardback). PubDate: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx110 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Saunders T. Pages: 124 - 125 Abstract: Reluctant Skeptic: Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture. By CraverHarry T.. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2017. Ix + 284 pp. £92.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx081 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Trask A. Pages: 125 - 128 Abstract: Geschlechter(un)ordnung und Politik in der Weimarer Republik. Edited by MetzlerGabriele and SchumannDirk. Bonn: Dietz. 2016. 312 pp. €48.00 (hardback). PubDate: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx084 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Kauders A. Pages: 128 - 129 Abstract: Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany. By KillenAndreas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2017. 268 pp. £58.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx099 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Ritzheimer K. Pages: 129 - 131 Abstract: Moderne Jugend vor Gericht: Sensationsprozesse, ‘Sexualtragödien’ und die Krise der Jugend in der Weimarer Republik. By SackHeidi. Bielefeld: Transcript. 2016. 486 pp. €39.99 (paperback). PubDate: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx107 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Roeder C. Pages: 134 - 136 Abstract: Mountain of Destiny: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination. By HöbuschHarald. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2016. Viii + 290 pp. £60.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx087 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Crew D. Pages: 136 - 138 Abstract: Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth Century Germany. By WeinrebAlice. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. Viii + 317 pp. £35.99 (hardback). PubDate: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx097 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Jantzen K. Pages: 138 - 140 Abstract: Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. By KurlanderEric. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2017. Xxii + 422 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). PubDate: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx098 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Jünger D. Pages: 141 - 142 Abstract: German Rabbis in British Exile: From ‘Heimat’ into the Unknown. By ZajdbandAstrid. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2016. Viii + 321 pp. €79.95 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx096 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Geyer M. Pages: 142 - 144 Abstract: Der Unterführer als Feldherr im Taschenformat: Theorie und Praxis der Auftragstaktik im deutschen Heer 1869 bis 1945. By SiggMarco. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2014. Vii + 504 pp. €47.90 (hardback). PubDate: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx085 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Rubin E. Pages: 146 - 148 Abstract: Stadtverwaltung im Staatssozialismus: Kommunalpolitik und Wohnungswesen in der DDR am Beispiel Leipzigs (1957–1989). By RauChristian. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2017. 425 pp. €68.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx094 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Vinx L. Pages: 148 - 150 Abstract: Weimar als Herausforderung: Die Weimarer Republik und die Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert. Edited by DreyerMichael and BrauneAndreas. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2016. Xvi + 310 pp. €44.00 (paperback). PubDate: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx091 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Freeland J. Pages: 150 - 152 Abstract: Männer mit “Makel”: Männlichkeiten und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der frühen Bundesrepublik. Edited by GottoBernhard and SeefriedElke. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 2017. 161 pp. £12.99 (paperback). PubDate: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx108 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Slobodian Q. Pages: 152 - 154 Abstract: West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War. By von BülowMathilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 466 pp. £84.99 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx093 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
Authors:Stebenne D. Pages: 154 - 155 Abstract: Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States: Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s. Edited by von der GoltzAnna and Waldschmidt-NelsonBritta. Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, UK: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press. 2017. Xiii + 412 pp. $120.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx092 Issue No:Vol. 36, No. 1 (2017)
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