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  • Practices of Reunification

    The Continuation of Refugee Life After 1945

    Edited by Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl ...
    Series series Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
    The volume explores the role of refugees and displaced persons (DPs) in Europe after 1945. It expands conventional narratives about post-National Socialist societies, which are characterized by victim myths, narratives of Trümmerfrauen (rubble women), and the reconstruction of supposedly homogeneous societies.Using analyses informed by new approaches in cultural studies and digital humanities, the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The End of Empires

    Edited by Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror

    Mediations Through Migrations

    Edited by Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl ...
    Series series Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
    The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Globalization and the City

    Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present

    Edited by Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl, Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber ...
    Series series Interdisziplinäre Forschung
    The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts

    Edited by Philipp Strobl, Aneta Podkalicka ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development of skiing around the world during the crucial post-war years.With its global lens, Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts highlights both commonalities and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Beyond Totalitarianism

    Stalinism and Nazism Compared

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the ... Read more

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  • Histories of the Holocaust

    by Dan Stone ...
    The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to understanding the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all. There is, then, an urgent need to synthesize and evaluate the complex historiography on the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Rain of Ash

    Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

    by Ari Joskowicz ...
    A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justiceJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and ... Read more

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  • Cold War Cultures

    Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

    Edited by Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger, Annette Vowinckel ...
    The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Getting History Right

    East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War

    by Mark A. Wolfgram ...
    How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular culture, such as film, television, radio, and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Black Earth

    The Holocaust as History and Warning

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE... ... Read more

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  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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