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As wars and other conflicts increase on a worldwide scale, the alleged ''new wars'' of the present day have taught that military victory does not necessarily result in a sustained state of peace. Rather, societies in conflict experience a ''status mixtus'' - a transformative period that includes substantial changes in economy, politics, society and culture. Focusing on these decades of reconstruction in Europe and North America, this book examines the transformation of state systems, international relations, and normative principles in international comparison. By putting the postwar decade after 1945 into a long-term historical perspective, the chapters illuminate new patterns of transition between war and peace from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Experts in the field show that states and societies are never restituted from a ''zero hour''. They also demonstrate that foreign and domestic policy are intermixed before and after peace breaks out.

Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s is an interdisciplinary anthology addressing the political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s, thereby making a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s.

In the borderland of Upper Silesia between 1848 and 1960, the local population resisted attempts by nationalist activists to compel them to become loyal Germans or Poles, a divide dictated by the two languages they spoke. This study of that resistance will appeal to scholars of European history and nationalism.

Drawing on a diverse array of Turkish- and German-language sources, this book explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children in West Berlin from 1961 to the early years after reunification. Sarah Thomsen Vierra sheds new light on the relationship between belonging, identity, and everyday life.

Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800-1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and German modernity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using a variety of tourist propaganda. By promoting an image of 'grounded modernity', Bavarian tourism reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science.

This study of the 1930s German-Japanese alliance employs sources in both languages to reveal the role of mass media in shaping and promoting an ideology which, by creating a niche for Japan in the Nazi worldview, convinced German Nazis to identify with non-Aryans and non-Germans to become adherents of Hitler.

In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany from 1770-1914, Jeffrey T. Zalar exposes the myth that the clergy defined Catholic reading habits. He shows that readers disobeyed the book rules of their church and read diverse literature, even works from the Index of Forbidden Books.

International scholars review decades of postwar reconstruction in international comparison from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, demonstrating how foreign domestic policy cannot be separated.

Ideal for legal historians and scholars interested in the evolution of legal systems, Habermas offers a fresh look at thievery in the German countryside in the nineteenth century and shows how these instances influenced the emergence of the modern legal system and a new conception of property emerged.

This volume throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation.

Exploring the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914, these essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite some predictions of long, cataclysmic wars, the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century were not foreseen.

The essays in this 1997 book analyse how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images reflect the contemporary relations, often foreshadow future trends, and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, and stereotypes influenced perceptions.

This volume throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation.

1968: The World Transformed provides an international perspective on the most tumultuous year of the Cold War.

The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised.

An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

This is a collection of essays by international scholars which attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare. It focuses on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.

This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles explore the influence of German scholarship and institutions on the American education system. The book provides an overview for scholars, students and interested general readers.

This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporating much new research.

Bio-bibliographical entries on eighty-eight German-speaking refugee historians, documenting their scholarly contributions, historical interests, and impact on the post-war American historical profession.

This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. The authors ask what these two capitals have meant for the nation and explore the relations between architecture, political ideas, and social reality.

Sixteen international scholars explore the twin problems of electoral politics and social dislocation in the course of examining Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era.

This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference of 1922. The authors present new findings on such matters as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and United States policy on European debts.

This volume presents perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. It reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world, and addresses political, military, and diplomatic issues no less than the cultural and intellectual consequences.

In this volume empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s are placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration.

A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias.

The essays in this 1997 book analyse how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images reflect the contemporary relations, often foreshadow future trends, and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, and stereotypes influenced perceptions.

Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession before and after 1945. The essays look at ten prominent historians whose lives and work spanned the period from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period. They explore the consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyse this conflict's military significance, the attempts to plan for another general war and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.

These essays provide a comparison of nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, examine facets of the political, cultural, and social history of inclusion and exclusion in both countries, and sharpen our understanding of the symbolic construction and the social and political practices of 'us' and 'them'.