German History

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Socialist Subjectivities

Queering East Germany under Honecker

Edited by Katharine White, Scott Harrison, and Jeff Hayton
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reexamining how East Germans constructed their present and future subjectivities

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942

By Patricia Anne Simpson
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, Political Science, Political History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

By Sara Pugach
Subjects: German Studies, African Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander's World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Arts of Democratization

Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany

By Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Caroline Kita
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

Spaces of Honor

Making German Civil Society, 1700-1914

By Heikki Lempa
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Traces the development of German civil society through collective actions of honor

Imperial Fictions

German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State

By Todd Kontje
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people

Performing Unification

History and Nation in German Theater after 1989

By Matt Cornish
Subjects: Theater and Performance, German Studies, History, German History

Considers how performance, plays, and history affect the collective memory of a society and national identity, on and off stage

Bodies and Ruins

Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present

By David F. Crew
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII

The Jazz Republic

Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

By Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Subjects: German Studies, Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

The War in Their Minds

German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany

By Svenja Goltermann
Translated by Philip Schmitz
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War

Krautrock

German Music in the Seventies

By Ulrich Adelt
Subjects: Music, German Studies, History, German History
Series: Tracking Pop

The first in-depth study of one of the most influential movements of contemporary popular music

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

The Corrigible and the Incorrigible

Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany

By Greg Eghigian
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores how the social sciences and clinical medicine contributed to the understanding and treatment of offenders in three disparate political regimes

Beyond Berlin

Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld & Paul B. Jaskot
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European History, Jewish Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts

Consumption and Violence

Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany

By Alexander Sedlmaier
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the relationship between the rise of political violence in West Germany to the unprecedented growth of consumption

The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess

The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe

By Jonathan Green
Subjects: History, Medieval and Early Modern History, German History, German Studies
Series: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Studying the prophecies of Wilhelm Friess and the interconnectedness of textual and print history

Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel

Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690

By Gerhild Scholz Williams
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Journalism, Literary Studies, European Literature

A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel

German Colonialism Revisited

African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Muehlhahn, and Patrice Nganang
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Asian Studies, African Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

Becoming a Nazi Town

Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars

By David Imhoof
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Local cultural activities played a key role in altering Germany’s political landscape between the world wars

The Origins of Christian Democracy

Politics and Confession in Modern Germany

By Maria Mitchell
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History

A pioneering exploration of the origins of German Christian Democracy in the context of 19th- and 20th-century politics and religion

Germany's Wild East

Constructing Poland as Colonial Space

By Kristin Kopp
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

This examination of the elements of colonial relationships is new in paperback

Culture in the Anteroom

The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

By Johannes von Moltke & Gerd Gemunden
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer's body of work

A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany

Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League

By Lily E. Hirsch
Subjects: Music, German Studies, Jewish Studies, History, German History, European History

Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany

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