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This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment - ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism - presenting these connected issues as a global phenomenon, with chapters concerning China, the USSR, Europe, North America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.

This volume discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate between American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations.

This book addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the USA and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Issues include the rights of women and minorities, National Socialism and the emergence of the concept of social rights.

When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated government papers and archives, records which were subsequently used in war crimes trials. In 1949, the West Germans asked for their return, and this book traces the tangled history of the captured German records.

The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg and German - were forced to live together in one new state after the First World War. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed 'Germans' as a single homogeneous group of people.

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.

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.

This collection of essays that focuses on the women refugees of the Nazi period who fled to different countries all over the world. It describes their important role in the survival of their families, their everyday life, and their adaptive skills in the various places of exile and emigration.

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.

This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to defortified places between 1689 and 1866. Using a wealth of original sources, the book discusses one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city's centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city.

This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices, offering a broad array of case studies from nine different countries on five continents. Its essays highlight the diversity of claims and movements and of the ways in which societies have tried to right past wrongs.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism.

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 2000 volume analyses the First World War in light of the concept of 'total war'. Leading scholars explore the efforts of soldiers, statesmen and civilians to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. Around 22 million US servicemen have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century.

Based on an examination of the merchant elite of the city-republic of Bremen and the trans-Atlantic ties they established in trading with the United States in the nineteenth century, this study illuminates the role of merchant capital in the making of an industrial-capitalist world economy.

This study of Civil War-era politics explores how German immigrants influenced the rise and fall of white commitment to African-American rights. Intertwining developments in Europe and North America, Alison Clark Efford describes how the presence of naturalized citizens affected the status of former slaves and identifies 1870 as a crucial turning point. That year, the Franco-Prussian War prompted German immigrants to re-evaluate the liberal nationalism underpinning African-American suffrage. Throughout the period, the newcomers' approach to race, ethnicity, gender and political economy shaped American citizenship law.

The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare.

Using wartime records and postwar West German and Soviet investigative materials, this book probes the local dynamics of the German occupation and the collaboration in the Holocaust in southern Ukraine. Through the lens of a regional study, it contributes to recent scholarly interest in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. Around 22 million US servicemen have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century.

Countries under German hegemony during World War II were a vital source of supplies for Hitler's war machine. Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study which explores their different experiences through case studies of twelve occupied, neutral or allied nations.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism.

This book examines the use of national and international law to prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century state-sponsored genocide and mass murder. Its various essays reconstruct the historical setting of crimes sponsored by Nazi Germany and discuss the limitations placed on the national and international judicial forums responsible for prosecuting German perpetrators.

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.

A fundamental reassessment of the ways that racial policy worked and was understood under the Third Reich. Leading scholars explore race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

A study of the unprecedented mobilization and transformation of conservative movements on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars chart how and why countless new political organizations emerged as a self-styled 'silent majority' in defence of the existing order against a perceived left-wing threat.

A fundamental reassessment of the ways that racial policy worked and was understood under the Third Reich. Leading scholars explore race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

Countries under German hegemony during World War II were a vital source of supplies for Hitler's war machine. Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study which explores their different experiences through case studies of twelve occupied, neutral or allied nations.