Böcker i Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany-serien

Being visible as a Jew in Weimar Germany often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity - and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish.

Looks at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the metaphor of a healthy 'national body' - propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations - continued to shape post-1945 discussions about the state of national culture.

Highlights the contradictory and competing impulses that ran through the project to democratize postwar society and casts a critical eye toward the internal biases that shaped the model of Western democracy. In so doing, contributions probe critical questions that we continue to grapple with today.

Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy.

The common understanding is that honour belongs to a bygone era, whereas civil society belongs to the future and modern society. Heikki Lempa argues that honour was not gone or even in decline between 1700 and 1914, and that civil society was not new but had long roots that stretched into the Middle Ages.

Studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers' contemplations of "Heimat" - a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity - this book analyses their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968.

While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.

A study of the temperament of Prussian conservatives, and their approaches to social problems and the lower classes

Presents an exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of 'race' after the Holocaust. This title looks at ethnic drag (Ethnomaskerade) as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested 'Germanness' in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions.

Explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts.

Reveals the relationship between the rise of political violence in West Germany to the unprecedented growth of consumption

In the first half of the 20th century the German-speaking world became the international centre of medical-scientific sex research - and the birthplace of sexology and psychoanalysis. This is the first book to closely examine encounters among this era's German-speaking researchers across their emerging professional and disciplinary boundaries.

Explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political advocacy, counselling, and public education. It was destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines its legacy, combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials.

Explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Cold War. This insightful study illuminates the complex relationships among literary and other writings on the one hand, and economic, social, and political processes and material dimensions on the other.

Recount the ways in which this drama - ""Gender in Transition"" - played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period from 1750 to 1830. This work examines the effects of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.

Tells the story of the women who fought for a voice in the construction of a German state system

Presents a study of the creation of youth drug culture in Hamburg during the 1960s and 1970s and an exploration of the paradoxes of modernization. Placing Hamburg's drug scene within national and international contexts, this book examines the ways in which mass consumerism created complicated forms of resistance to state power and cultural norms.

The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production