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German Studies Association Conference 2023
We are excited to be attending the GSA Annual Conference, 5-8, 2023, Montréal, Canada. 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 2023, we are offering a 35% discount on all German Studies titles through October 22nd 2023. Use discount code GSA23 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
That Sinking Feeling
On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk
Risk and Security in Germany since the 1970s
Inside Party Headquarters
Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Guardians of Concepts
Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980
Gender in Germany and Beyond
Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert
Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
The Burden of German History
A Transatlantic Life
After Liberation
Towards a Sociology of the Shoah
Selected Essays
In Paperback
Testimonies of Resistance
Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
The Politics of Personal Information
Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937
The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings
The History of Thyssen
Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century
German Division as Shared Experience
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
France and the German Question, 1945–1990
Escapees
The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
East German Film and the Holocaust
Driving Modernity
Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Antisemitism in Galicia
Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Featured Series | Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
What Remains
Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf
Views of Violence
Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Reluctant Skeptic
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
Bildung and the Future of the Humanities
Money in the German-speaking Lands
Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
Invested Narratives
German Responses to Economic Crisis
Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue
Football Nation
The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society
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.
Citizens into Dishonored Felons
Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933
Germany On Their Minds
German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988
End Game
The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Brewing Socialism
Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
The Second Generation
Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians
With a Biobibliographic Guide
Gustav Stresemann
The Crossover Artist
Germany On Their Minds
German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988
Explorations and Entanglements
Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
The Ethics of Seeing
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
Books for Courses
Berghahn Books offers resources for both remote and in-person teaching situations and provides practical and inexpensive ways to access our eBook library. Learn more here.
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, 2023. Use promo code GSA23. View redemption instructions.
German Politics and Society
Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
Volume 41 / 2023, 4 issues p.a.
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 Special Forum on Socialist Masculinities (Vol. 16)
Contributions to the History of Concepts
Editors: Gabriel Entin, CONICET/Universidad de Chile; Jan Ifversen, University of Aarhus, Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Development; Silke Schwandt, Universität Bielefeld
Current Issue Vol. 18, Issue 2
Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society
Editors: Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
Current Issue: Beyond Representation: The Visual Analysis of History Textbooks and Other Educational Media. (Vol. 15, Issue 1)
European Judaism
A Journal for the New Europe
Editors: Jonathan Magonet
Current Issue: Vol. 56, Issue 2
Latest German Studies Blog Articles
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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. Easily access critical research material with […]
The beginning of a Germany divided
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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
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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
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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 […]