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<\/a>We are pleased to inform you that we will be attending the 51st Historikertag<\/a>\u00a0in Hamburg, Germany from 20th-23rd September, 2016. Please stop by our stand, HOF15,\u00a0 to browse our latest selection of titles at discounted prices\u00a0and pick up some free journal samples.<\/p>\nIf you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all History<\/a> titles found on our website<\/a>. At checkout, simply enter the code HTAG16<\/strong>.<\/p>\n To browse our latest History titles, please see our 2016 History Catalogue<\/a> or visit\u00a0our website<\/a> for a complete listing of all published and forthcoming titles.<\/p>\n Below is a preview of some of our newest releases on display.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NEW<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the \u201cfuture dead.\u201d<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 19, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era\u2019s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the \u201cnation-state\u201d prevalent at the time.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 15, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 27, International Studies in Social History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization\u2014challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations\u2014neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed\u2014it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. This study reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres\u2014food, labor, gender, and protest\u2014that comprise a fascinating case study in early twentieth-century social history.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Adaptation and Opposition in Democracy and Dictatorship<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n NEW IN PAPERBACK<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forthcoming in Paperback!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n MATTERS OF TESTIMONY<\/a> <\/p>\n Check out Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams\u2019s piece on Slate\u2019s The Vault<\/a> and also Searching for Feelings: The Scrolls of Auschwitz and Son of Saul<\/a> on the Berghahn Blog.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a major book that changes the field. It is a brilliant and original work of superb historical research and profoundly affecting cultural analysis.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Griselda Pollock<\/strong>, University of Leeds<\/p>\n In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando\u2014the \u201cspecial squads,\u201d composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process\u2014buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these \u201cScrolls of Auschwitz,\u201d which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp\u2019s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Matters of Testimony<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 15, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIn this exciting volume, Honeck, Klimke, and Kuhlmann put forward a unique resource for the burgeoning study of the African diaspora in Germany. Comprising essaysf rom scholars working in a variety of fields, the collection fills significant gaps in the current scholarship… In detailing a phenomenon long ignored within mainstream German culture and history, this collection will be of use to a variety of readers, including those working in African and African American studies, art history, German studies, and history\u2026Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature\u2014not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans’ perceptions of Blacks. The contributors present a wide range of Black\u2013German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany’s protectorate, Togoland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cKlautke provides readers both with useful biographical summaries and with cogent accounts of his protagonists\u2019 specific interpretations of <\/em>V\u00f6lkerpsychologie. But he also expands his narrative horizon beyond mere intellectual biography. Laudably, he pays special attention to the broader reception of their writings in an attempt to correct the misperception that V\u00f6lkerpsychologie was merely \u2018political propaganda dressed up as a social science\u2019.\u201d \u00b7<\/em> German History<\/strong><\/p>\n V\u00f6lkerpsychologie<\/em> played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of \u201cfolk psychology\u201d was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach. This book follows the invention of the discipline in the nineteenth century, its rise around the turn of the century and its ultimate demise after the Second World War.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: V\u00f6lkerpsychologie in Germany<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe strength of this collection is its engagement with this ideological and institutional diversity\u2026 Though not intended for general readers (who will find relatively little about Hitler and the Nazis here), specialists will benefit from this volume\u2019s exploration of the ideas that shaped the German Right and the ways that their spokesmen negotiated their ideological differences during a period of profound societal crisis.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n The German Right in the Weimar Republic<\/em> examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period. In particular, antisemitism and the so-called \u201cJewish Question\u201d played a prominent role in the self-definition and politics of the right-wing groups and ideologies explored by the contributors to this volume.<\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/strong>: The German Right in the Weimar Republic: New Directions, New Insights, New Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 19, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis is a very fine book worthy of wide scholarly attention. Unlike most other scholars, who see genocide and ethnic cleansing as closely interrelated, Philipp Ther emphasizes the differences between them\u2026 I admire its clarity and succinctness and the mastery of a vast material demonstrated by its author. His erudition and courage let him make new and surprising connections and offer truly illuminating insights.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 Slavic Review<\/strong><\/p>\n Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely organized and carried out in cold blood, with revenge, hatred and other strong emotions playing only a minor role. This book not only considers the majority of population removals which occurred in Eastern Europe, but is also an encompassing, comparative study including Western Europe, interrogating the motivations of Western statesmen and their involvement in large-scale population removals. It also reaches beyond the European continent and considers the reverberations of colonial rule and ethnic cleansing in the former British colonies.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 17, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAssis offers the reader a wide panorama of German historiography during the nineteenth century, centering on the debates about historicism, a dominant paradigm for German historical knowledge in the nineteenth century, and in the reformulation of pragmatic value for historiography. Arthur Assis’ work is therefore not only directed at specialists or at researchers of Droysen’s work, but at all those who study German and general historiography, intellectual history, and even political historiography, since it highlights the political influences of Droysen’s thought.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Revista Brasileira de Hist\u00f3ria<\/strong><\/p>\n A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droysen\u2019s theoretical project as an attempt to redefine the function of historiography within the context of a rising criticism of exemplar theories of history, and focuses on Droysen\u2019s claim that the goal underlying historical writing and reading should be the development of the subjective capacity to think historically.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 11, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201d…a timely, truly interdisciplinary, and much needed volume on the relationship between (mass) media, social movements and protests.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Peter N. Funke<\/strong>, University of South Florida<\/p>\n In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame specific protest issues? Drawing on contributions from media scholars, historians, and sociologists, this volume explores the dynamic interplay between social movements, activists, and mass media from the 1960s to the present. It introduces the most relevant theoretical approaches to such issues and offers a variety of case studies ranging from print media, film, and television to Internet and social media. <\/p>\n \u201cBailey\u2019s book opens long-term perspectives, and offers a thorough analysis of selected non-dominant ideas about Europe in Germany in the 1940s and 1950s.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 European History Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n An intellectual and cultural history of mid-twentieth century plans for European integration, this book calls into question the usual pre- and post-war periodizations that have structured approaches to twentieth-century European history. It focuses not simply on the ideas of leading politicians but analyses debates about Europe in \u201ccivil society\u201d and the party-political sphere in Germany, asking if, and how, a \u201cpermissive consensus\u201d was formed around the issue of integration. Taking Germany as its case study, the book offers context to the post-war debates, analysing the continuities that existed between interwar and post-war plans for European integration. It draws attention to the abiding scepticism of democracy displayed by many advocates of integration, indeed suggesting that groups across the ideological spectrum converged around support for European integration as a way of constraining the practice of democracy within nation-states.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 23, International Studies in Social History<\/a><\/em> This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who \u201cbelonged,\u201d and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources.<\/p>\n Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong>: Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1600-1950: Structures, Negotiations and Experiences<\/a><\/p>\n BERGHAHN JOURNALS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Aspasia<\/a> Aspasia<\/em> is the international peer-reviewed annual of women’s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). It aims to transform European women’s and gender history by expanding comparative research on women and gender to all parts of Europe, creating a European history of women and gender that encompasses more than the traditional Western European perspective. Contributions to the History of Concepts<\/a><\/p>\n Contributions to the History of Concepts is the international peer-reviewed journal of the History of Concepts Group (formerly HPSCG). The journal serves as a platform for theoretical and methodological articles as well as empirical studies on the history of concepts and their social, political, and cultural contexts.<\/p>\n French Politics, Culture & Society FPC&S is the journal of the Conference Group on French Politics & Society. FPC&S explores modern and contemporary France from the perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural analysis. It also examines France’s relationship to the larger world, especially Europe, the United States, and the former French Empire.<\/p>\n German Politics and Society<\/a><\/p>\n GPS is a joint publication of the BMW Center for German and European Studies (of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The journal provides a forum for critical analysis and debate about politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in contemporary Germany.<\/p>\n Historical Reflections\/R\u00e9flexions Historiques<\/a><\/p>\n HRRH has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of wide-ranging interest for over forty years. The journal, which publishes articles in both English and French, is committed to exploring history in an interdisciplinary framework and with a comparative focus.<\/p>\n Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society<\/a><\/p>\n JEMMS explores perceptions of society as constituted and conveyed in processes of learning and educational media. The focus is on various types of texts (such as textbooks, museums, memorials, films) and their institutional, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts. The construction of collective memory and conceptions of space, the production of meaning, image formation, forms of representation, and perceptions of the “self” and the “other,” as well as processes of identity construction (ethnic, national, regional, religious, institutional, gender) are of particular interest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are pleased to inform you that we will be attending the 51st Historikertag\u00a0in Hamburg, Germany from 20th-23rd September, 2016. Please stop by our stand, HOF15,\u00a0 to browse our latest selection of titles at discounted prices\u00a0and pick up some free journal samples. 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THE ANATOMY OF MURDER<\/a>
\nEthical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
\nSabine Hildebrandt
\nForeword by William E. Seidelman<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BachTropics.jpg\")
TROPICS OF VIENNA<\/a>
\nColonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
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COMRADES OF COLOR<\/a>
\nEast Germany in the Cold War World
\nEdited by Quinn Slobodian<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/AlthammerRescuing.jpg\")
RESCUING THE VULNERABLE<\/a>
\nPoverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
\nEdited by Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael, and Tamara Stazic-Wendt<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/KuceraRationed.jpg\")
RATIONED LIFE<\/a>
\nScience, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914\u20131918
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LOBBYING HITLER<\/a>
\nIndustrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship
\nMatt Bera
\nFrom 1933 onward, Nazi Germany undertook massive and unprecedented industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in two of the era\u2019s most important trade organizations. While Jakob Reichert of the iron and steel industry unexpectedly resisted state control and was eventually driven to suicide, Karl Lange of the machine builders\u2019 association achieved security for himself and his industry by submitting to the Nazi regime. Both men\u2019s stories illuminate the options available to industrialists under the Third Reich, as well as the real priorities set by the industries they served.<\/p>\n
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\nInterpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
\nNicholas Chare and Dominic Williams<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HoneckGermany.jpg\")
GERMANY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA<\/a>
\nPoints of Contact, 1250-1914
\nEdited by Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/KlautkeMind.jpg\")
THE MIND OF THE NATION<\/a>
\nV\u00f6lkerpsychologie<\/em> in Germany, 1851-1955
\nEgbert Klautke<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/JonesGerman.jpg\")
THE GERMAN RIGHT IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC<\/a>
\nStudies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism
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THE DARK SIDE OF NATION-STATES<\/a>
\nEthnic Cleansing in Modern Europe
\nPhilipp Ther<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/AssisWhat.jpg\")
WHAT IS HISTORY FOR?<\/a>
\nJohann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
\nArthur Alfaix Assis<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/FahlenbrachMedia.jpg\")
MEDIA AND REVOLT<\/a>
\nStrategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present
\nEdited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen & Rolf Werenskjold<\/p>\n
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BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW<\/a>
\nGerman Visions of Europe, 1926-1950
\nChristian Bailey<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/KingMigration.jpg\")
MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT AND BELONGING IN EUROPE, 1500-1930S
\nComparative Perspectives
\nEdited by Steven King and Anne Winter<\/p>\n
\n\u201c\u2026a valuable and engaging contribution to historical debates about labor, poverty, relief, and belonging\u2026[The papers] are written by leaders in their fields\u2026and pulled together [by the editors] in an elegant and convincing treatment of the case for such a geographical spread.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Alannah Tomkins<\/strong>, University of Keele<\/p>\n
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\nThe International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History<\/a><\/p>\n
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