The focus of this book is the complex network of relationships between Jews and Protestants in the bourgeois educational culture of the 19th centur...

The authors of the volume deal with the precipitation of political ideologies in the discourses, visions, programs and propaganda efforts of extrem...

Memories of mass crime constitute parameters for universal ethics. Memories of the Holocaust account for this. A paradigmatic meaning has been atta...

Like its European sisters Gallia / La France / Marianne, Britannia or Italia, the personification of "Germania" goes back to antiquity. As the embo...

Few philosophers and social scientists of the 20th century are likely to have had an intellectual influence on the debates in science and the publi...

In the course of the tolerance legislation, elementary schools for Jewish children in the Habsburg Empire were established from 1782. In Galicia, t...

In the long 19th century, the "bourgeois age", the bourgeoisie asserted their claims to political power, their economic and social order and their ...

With up to 3,500 prisoners, Brandenburg-Görden was one of the four largest prisons in the GDR. Using this case study, the study examines the functi...

In the eyes of many German and French doctors, the First World War represented an immense field of observation that had to be evaluated practically...

The first part of the volume contains four essays on the development of German economic and corporate historiography in the 20th century and how th...

This book is a reconstruction of the hidden psychology of the 68 students' movement and its aftermath in Germany. The radical self-identification w...

A comparison of the political changes that took place in the German Democratic Republic, in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary in the years 1989/19...

The rise of literary history is closely associated with the rise of the modern national states, an "imaginary" parallel that catastrophically peake...