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Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines European museums’ efforts to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge …
The Jazz Republic
The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores …
The War in Their Minds
Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German …
African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975
This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students started coming to the East in 1951 …
Bodies and Ruins
Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of …
Uncanny Creatures
Germany held a monopoly on the manufacture and export of bisque toy dolls in Europe before WWI. Yet, dolls’ omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern …
Life, Earth, Colony
Life, Earth, Colony explores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), famous for developing the foundations …
Queer Livability
This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express …
The German Patient
The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the metaphor of a healthy 'national body' - propagated by the Nazis as …
A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies
The German-speaking world has spawned some of the most extreme contrasts between products of culture--the endlessly fascinating, if clichéd, Beethoven-Hitler dichotomy--and thus …