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Published October 2024
The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel
Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era
Borovaya, O.
Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies
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Published October 2003
The Abolitions of Slavery
From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848
Dorigny, M. (ed)
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2001
Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940
The Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees and Illegal Aliens
Caestecker, F.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2020
Antisemitism in Galicia
Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Buchen, T.
Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies
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Published January 2019
The Arkansas Regulators
Gerstäcker, F.
Adams, C. & Irmscher, C. (eds)Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published March 2009
Banned in Berlin
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Stark, G. D.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published January 2006
A Belle Epoque?
Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 2016
Between Blood and Gold
The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas
Beauvois, F.
Lost among current debates over slavery reparations is the fact that such payments were once widespread—except the “victims” were not slaves, but slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade’s aftermath.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General) Colonial History
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Published October 2022
Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'
Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse
Postoutenko, K. (ed)
Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published February 2020
Beyond Posthumanism
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities
Mathäs, A.
Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published August 2013
Bittersweet Europe
Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008
Brisku, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2022
Borders in East and West
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)
The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published May 2006
The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815
Heller, H.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published May 2020
The Candle and the Guillotine
Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93
Johnson, J. P.
Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.
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Published May 2009
Central European Crossroads
Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921
Duin, P. C. van
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Published September 2014
The Challenges of Globalization
Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914
Torp, C.
In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire.
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Published August 2000
Citizens and Aliens
Foreigners and the Law in Britain and German States 1789-1870
Fahrmeir, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published April 2023
Citizens into Dishonored Felons
Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933
de Groot, T.
Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2014
Clausewitz in His Time
Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War
Paret, P.
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored.
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Published July 2009
Colette's Republic
Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914
Tilburg, P. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2019
Comical Modernity
Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Hakkarainen, H.
Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2019
The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere
From the Enlightenment to the Indignados
Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)
This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published May 2017
Conflict, Domination, and Violence
Episodes in Mexican Social History
Illades, C.
This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published July 2010
Constructing Charisma
Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Berenson, E. & Giloi, E. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published November 2004
Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe
Judson, P. & Rozenblit, M. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2003
Creating the Other
Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe
Wingfield, N.M. (ed)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2007
Crime, Jews and News
Vienna 1890-1914
Vyleta, D.M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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Published May 2016
Crown, Church and Constitution
Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
Neuheiser, J.
Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to their radical politics, neglecting the patriotism, royalism, and xenophobia that countless Victorian men and women embraced. This study of “conservatism from below” explores the working-class devotion to Britain’s monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.
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Published June 2018
Democracy in Modern Europe
A Conceptual History
Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2008
Embodiments of Power
Building Baroque Cities in Europe
Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Urban Studies
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Published March 2020
Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries
The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland
Berecz, Á.
Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalizing projects reinterpreted various types of proper names as symbols of their national histories, how the related mass constituencies resonated with the new meanings and how names were utilized, manipulated and changed in the process.
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Published September 2020
Estates and Constitution
The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary
Szijártó, I. M.
Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Published January 2001
Europe in 1848
Revolution and Reform
Dowe, D., Haupt, H.-G., Langewiesche, D. & Sperber, J. (eds)
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Published May 2004
The European Way
European Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Kaelble, H. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2003
Exiles From European Revolutions
Refugees in Mid-Victorian England
Freitag, S. & Muhs, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2018
Explorations and Entanglements
Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)
Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Colonial History
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Published January 2020
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950
Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)
Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies
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Published May 2015
Fellow Tribesmen
The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
Usbeck, F.
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published October 2014
The Forgotten Majority
German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815
Schulte Beerbühl, M.
The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published June 1995
France and America in the Revolutionary Era
The Life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, 1725-1803
Schaeper, T. J.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2009
The Frightful Stage
Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Goldstein, R. J. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published February 2024
Gender History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Schüler-Springorum, S.
Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2004
The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century
Pierenkemper, T. & Tilly, R.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published August 2013
German History 1789-1871
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Brose, E.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published July 2013
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Honeck, M., Klimke, M., & Kuhlmann, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published December 2021
Germany and the Confessional Divide
Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989
Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)
Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2015
Germany and 'The West'
The History of a Modern Concept
Bavaj, R. & Steber, M. (eds)
In the nineteenth century “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
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Germany’s Struggle for Modernity
Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1780-1918
Kocka, J.
In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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Published October 2003
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Cherlin, M., Filipowicz, H. & Rudolph, R. L. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Literary Studies
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Published September 2000
The Great Train Race
Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies
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Published May 2019
Gustav Stresemann
The Crossover Artist
Pohl, K. H.
Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)
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Published August 2019
Hazardous Chemicals
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)
Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted over the past two hundred years.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2015
The History of Labour Intermediation
Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Wadauer, S., Buchner, T., & Mejstrik, A. (eds)
Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2023
The History of Thyssen
Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century
Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.
The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published June 2001
Human Nature and the French Revolution
From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code
Martin, X.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2005
Imperial Germany 1871-1918
Economy, Society, Culture and Politics
Berghahn, V. R.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2011
Imperial Germany Revisited
Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Müller, S. O. & Torp, C. (eds)
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Published June 1999
Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany
Kocka, J.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century Sociology
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Published November 2022
Invested Narratives
German Responses to Economic Crisis
Twark, J. (ed)
Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.
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The Island of the Pope
Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between Empire and Nation-State, 1770-1830
Kousouris, D.
This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated into the new Greek nation-state.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2000
The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793-1795
Kennedy, M. L.
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Published November 1995
Japan and Germany in the Modern World
Martin, B.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2007
Kinship in Europe
Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)
Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2017
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Badaró Mattos, M.
In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2016
Legacies of Violence
Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia
Mason, R. (ed)
Whether in the form of warfare, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia’s sense of nationhood was born from experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring empathy, isolation, and Australians’ imagined place in the world.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published September 2008
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884
Fitzpatrick, M. P.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published November 2007
The Limits of Loyalty
Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Cole, L. & Unowsky, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2001
Literature, the 'Volk' & the Revolution in Mid-19th Century Germany
Perraudin, M.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2018
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2017
Making Nordic Historiography
Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970
Haapala, P., Jalava, M., & Larsson, S. (eds)
Is there a “Nordic history”? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this definitive volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach while grounding itself in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.
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Published February 2018
Managing Northern Europe's Forests
Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology
Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)
Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century
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Published April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.
Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2013
The Mind of the Nation
Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
Klautke, E.
“This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.” · Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published February 2006
Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire
The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920
Quataert, D.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published December 2016
The Monumental Nation
Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
Varga, B.
In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-century Hungary’s attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians.
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Published February 2021
More than Mere Spectacle
Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Van Gelder, K.
More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapted to actual circumstances. It takes the flexibility of their format as the key to understanding their lasting relevance.
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Published December 2006
Mozart
The First Biography
Niemetschek, F.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. L. (eds)
Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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Published March 2022
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined
A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State
Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)
Understanding the dynamics between nationalisms and internationalisms allows evaluating ongoing processes and intervening in current debates. Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since the eighteenth century to assess how spaces of politics have been debated and redefined in different European political cultures.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Habermas, R. (ed)
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2002
The Peirce Seminar Papers
Volume V: Essays in Semiotic Analysis
Shapiro, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies
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Published January 1995
The Peirce Seminar Papers
Volume II: An Annual of Semiotic Analysis
Shapiro, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies
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Published September 2007
Pious Pursuits
German Moravians in the Atlantic World
Gillespie, M., & Beachy, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published February 2024
Political Friendship
Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Weaver, M.
Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 2010
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Paletschek, S. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2000
Productive Men and Reproductive Women
The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment
Gray, M.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2001
Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914
Stolleis, M.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published May 2024
Quotas
The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945
Miller, M. L. & Szapor, J. (eds)
Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published October 2024
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Münch, O.
Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Jewish Studies
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Published March 2019
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)
Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2002
Rebellious Families
Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Kok, J. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)
In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published March 2020
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918
Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published July 2024
Reversible America
Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters
Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.
Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 2013
The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800
Eisenberg, C.
Subjects: History (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century
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Published August 2021
The Russian Cold
Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow
Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)
Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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Published June 2024
Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905
Pavel N. Miliukov and the Moscow School
Bohn, T. M.
Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published June 2024
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880
Török, B. Z.
The science of Statistik (statistics) by the Habsburg state in the long 19th century was adapted to the political growth of imperial power. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 connects the disciplinary history of German sciences of the state to the integration of territories into the Habsburg state’s evolution.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published May 2023
Servants of Culture
Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
Natarajan, A.
Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during the second half of the 19th century. At the time, socio-political players claimed to want to improve the living and working conditions of these migrants but as Natarajan demonstrates these efforts resulted in an increase in surveillance and a restriction of freedoms for women and servants in Viennese history.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2014
Shaping the Transnational Sphere
Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s
Rodogno, D., Struck, B. & Vogel, J. (eds)
In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period complex processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in Western Europe and North America. These processes created new forms of specialized expertise that grew in demand and became indispensible in fields like sanitation, incarceration, urban planning, and education.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2017
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Published May 2024
Social History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Rürup, M.
Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2008
A Social History of Spanish Labour
New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender
Piqueras, J., & Sanz Rozalén, V. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published February 2006
The Society of the Cincinnati
Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America
Hünemörder, M.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published July 2024
The Soul of the Nation
Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain
Alonso, G. & Hernández Burgos, C. (eds)
Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain, particularly following the crisis of 1808 when the Catholica Monarchy put the role of the Church at the heart of political cultural Debates. The Soul of the Nation seeks to unravel this complex and oppositional history between Catholic values and modern political regimes.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2014
Sounds of Modern History
Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Morat, D. (ed)
Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published June 2017
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)
This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published June 2022
Spanish Laughter
Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain
Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)
Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published January 2006
A Stranger in Paris
Germany's Role in Republican France, 1870-1940
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2017
Subjects, Citizens, and Others
Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918
Gammerl, B.
Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2009
Supervision and Authority in Industry
Western European Experiences, 1830-1939
Eeckhout, P. Van den (ed)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Thinking Europe
A History of the European Idea since 1800
Andrén, M.
This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 1998
Towards Emancipation
German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Diethe, C.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2013
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914
Werner, A.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 18th/19th Century History (General)
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Published September 2013
Trieglaff
Balancing Church and Politics in a Pomeranian World, 1807-1948
Thadden, R. von
“The story [the author] tells is rich and fascinating…[He] traces very effectively the economic evolution of Junker agriculture across the generations…I learned a lot from the book.” · Jonathan Steinberg, author of Bismarck. A Life
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2016
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Bach, U. E.
Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2014
Understanding Multiculturalism
The Habsburg Central European Experience
Feichtinger, J. & Cohen, G. B. (eds)
The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2017
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future
Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Wolffhardt, T.
During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of Mackenzie, and his massive survey of India.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2014
What Is History For?
Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
Assis, A. A.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2010
Who Abolished Slavery?
Slave Revolts and Abolitionism
A Debate with João Pedro MarquesDrescher, S. & Emmer, P. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published May 2003
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies
German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Eley, G. & Retallack, J. (eds)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published October 1995
Women of Prague
Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Iggers, W.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2012
Women of Two Countries
German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890
Bank, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century
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Published July 2020
Working in Greece and Turkey
A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940
Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)
The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published March 2022
The World beyond the West
Perspectives from Eastern Europe
Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)
Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published October 2019
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)
In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies
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Published December 2016
Xenocracy
State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864
Gekas, S.
Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain’s liberal reforms, the Ionian State’s economic deterioration anticipated the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published January 1998
A Year of Revolutions
Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848
Lewis, H. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs
The History of a National Idea
Jezernik, B.
Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I
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