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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

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

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 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

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

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

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

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

Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism

Switzerland, 1800–1900

By Mischa Suter
Subjects: German Studies, History, Economics
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Debt as a social relation at the intersection of history and anthropology in the precarious economies of nineteenth-century liberalism

Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By Christoph Kreutzmüller & Jonathan R. Zatlin
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Comparative context for understanding the experience of the German Jewry in the wake of Nazi plundering, racism, and genocide

Sex between Body and Mind

Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

By Katie Sutton
Subjects: History, Gender Studies, German Studies, Psychology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
 

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

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

By Cathy Gelbin & Sander Gilman
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought

 

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

Three-Way Street

Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

By Jay Howard Geller & Leslie Morris
Subjects: History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

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

An Emotional State

The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

By Anna M. Parkinson
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the extent of Germany’s emotional responses in the postwar period, challenging persistent paradigms

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

Communism Day-to-Day

State Enterprises in East German Society

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

A thoughtful examination of how communism was instituted, debated, and “lived” in the workplaces and in state enterprises of East Germany

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

The People's Own Landscape

Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany

By Scott Moranda
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, Nature/Environment
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of East German tourist practices of the 1970s and 1980s provides new insight into the country’s environmental politics

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

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