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German Studies Association Conference 2024
We are excited to be attending the GSA Annual Conference, 26-29 September, Atlanta, Georgia. If you are attending in-person, please stop by our table to meet the editor Mark Stanton, take advantage of special pricing on display copies, and pick up FREE journal samples.
To celebrate GSA 2024, we are offering a 35% discount on all German Studies titles through October 17th 2024. Use discount code GSA24 on print and eBooks ordered through our website. In addition, we are offering FREE ACCESS to our core German Studies journals; scroll down for details.
If you are interested in learning more about Berghahn's publishing program or have a project to discuss, please contact Mark Stanton to arrange for a meeting.
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Featured Titles
This Horrible Uncertainty
A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948
Quinn, E.
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor
Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver
Wisely, A.
Servants of Culture
Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
Natarajan, A.
Science on Screen and Paper
Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)
Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860
Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)
The Persistence of Race
Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism
Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937
The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings
Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.
Documenting Socialism
East German Documentary Cinema
Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)
Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
Contested Femininities
Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
Lynn, J.
After Auschwitz
The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)
In Paperback
Recognizing the Past in the Present
New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)
The Persistence of Race
Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism
Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline
Lewis, B.
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
Four-Color Communism
Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Eedy, S.
Explorations and Entanglements
Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)
East German Film and the Holocaust
Ward, E.
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Horten, G.
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Lerg, C. A. (ed.)
Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
After Auschwitz
The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)
Featured Series | Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
This Horrible Uncertainty
A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948
Quinn, E.
Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860
Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)
The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
Bildung and the Future of the Humanities
Ham, J., Kinzel, U., & Pan, D. T.-c. (eds)
Invested Narratives
German Responses to Economic Crisis
Twark, J. (ed)
Healing and Harm
Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann
Heinsen-Roach, E., Lazer, S., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Riches, D. (eds)
Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue
Weber, A. D. (ed)
Football Nation
The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society
Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)
Faith in War
Religion and the Military in Germany, c.1500-1650
Funke, N. M.
Featured Series | Studies in German History
The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and Berghahn Books are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement to transition the Studies in German History series to Open Access.
Launched in 2004, the series serves as a transatlantic forum on German and Central European history and currently has 28 volumes covering topics from the 19th-century educational system to 20th-century globalization and from violence in the Weimar Republic to coping with the Nazi past. To date, two of those volumes are Open Access, so this agreement will greatly increase the availability and accessibility of this important research. The first new Open Access series volume published April 2023.
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)
Political Friendship
Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Weaver, M.
Germany On Their Minds
German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988
Schenderlein, A. C.
End Game
The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Kowalczuk, I.-S.
Citizens into Dishonored Felons
Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933
de Groot, T.
Brewing Socialism
Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
Kloiber, A.
Featured Series | Film Europa
German Cinema in an International Context
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)
Peter Lilienthal
A Cinema of Exile and Resistance
Sandberg, C.
Moving Frames
Photographs in German Cinema
Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)
Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)
Enchanted by Cinema
Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood
Horak, J.-C. & Seyfert, A.-B. (eds)
Cinematically Transmitted Disease
Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Hales, B.
Featured Series | Visual and Media Cultures of the Cold War and Beyond
Published by Berghahn Books and the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Screened Encounters
The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
Moine, C.
Science on Screen and Paper
Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)
Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)
Berghahn Open Access
Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way. We have a growing number of Open Access texts (many offered in both ePub and .pdf format) available for direct download from our website. View the complete list of OA eBooks here.
Please note that most of our OA titles are now available as paperbacks!Berghahn History Journals
Berghahn Journals is offering FULL ACCESS to German Politics and Society until October 15th, 2024. Use promo code GSA24. View redemption instructions.
German Politics and Society
Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
Volume 42 / 2024, 4 issues per volume
German Politics and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn Journals. It is the only American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies.
Of Related Interest
Open Access!
ASPASIA
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
Senior Editor: Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Current OA volume Vol. 17)
Contributions to the History of Concepts
Editors: Gabriel Entin, CONICET /Universidad de Chile, Jan Ifversen, University of Aarhus, Silke Schwandt, Universität Bielefeld
Interim Editor: Frederik Schröer, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Germany
Current Issue Volume 19, Issue 1
Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society
Editors: Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
Current Issue: (Vol. 15, Issue 2)
European Judaism
A Journal for the New Europe
Editors: Jonathan Magonet
Current Issue: Vol. 57, Issue 1, (Mar 2024): Martin Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue for Our Times.
German Studies Blog Articles
In commemoration of German reunification
German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd. Tag der Deutschen Einheit celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens’ festival Bürgerfest. Browse our relevant titles and journals on the ramifications of a divided Germany below. NEW in Paperback! GERMAN DIVISION AS […]
The beginning of a Germany divided
August 13th marks the anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The concrete barrier physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Along with separating West Berlin from East German territory, it came to symbolize the “Iron Curtain” that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Browse relevant Berghahn titles on the history of […]
Does the Man Make the Motorcycle or the Motorcycle the Man?
Sasha Disko In celebration of World Motorcycle Day (21 June), we are featuring the following excerpt from Sasha Disko’s THE DEVIL’S WHEELS: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic. Someone, or something, sowed the flaming desire in your young male heart to become a disciple of motor sport. . . . Your desire was initially […]
Fascism and Conservation
Excerpted from Sandra Cheney’s Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975 After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices […]
Berghahn’s Best-selling Books in History
We are delighted to present a list of our History bestsellers in honor of the American Historical Association’s 2020 – 2021 Virtual Conference. Visit our Virtual AHA Booth for special opportunities for discounts and engagements. In celebration of this year’s AHA Virtual Conference, the following and all other History titles, both print and eBook, are 35% off […]
Everything you need to know for #VirtualGSA2020
We are pleased to invite you to visit our virtual stand at the German Studies Association annual meeting taking place online from 30 September to 4 October 2020. Please see below for information about special offers from Berghahn Books for titles purchased through our website. For anyone who would have liked to discuss their manuscript with us at the […]
Meet the Author: Gaëlle Fisher
Dr. Gaëlle Fisher’s recent monograph, Resettlers and Survivors: Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989, explores some of the more complex reverberations of World War II. It is the third volume in Berghahn’s growing Worlds of Memory series, published in collaboration with the Memory Studies Association. Located on the border […]
Spring Simulated Shelves
Browse our February and March 2020 releases in Anthropology, Archaeology/Heritage Studies, History, Memory Studies, and Mobility Studies and see what’s new in paperback. COVID-19 UPDATE: Our thoughts are with all of you and your families as you try to cope with the personal and professional disruptions that this pandemic has brought upon all of us. […]
The Emotional Language of Flowers
The following is an excerpt from Ute Frevert’s “The Emotional Language of Flowers,” a chapter found in FEELINGS MATERIALIZED: Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950, edited by Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, and Russell Spinney. Learn more about the book here. Statistics tell us that the average German currently spends more than one hundred Euros […]
SIMULATED SHELVES
We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Archaeology, Film, and History along with our new-in-paperback titles and new Berghahn journal issues released in October. Anthropology DISASTER UPON DISASTERExploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and PracticeEdited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. BarriosVol. 2, Catastrophes in Context […]