This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices by offering case studies from nine countries on five continents. The contributors examine the problems of material restitution, criminal justice, apologies, recognition, memory, and reconciliation in national contexts as well as in comparative perspective. Among the topics discussed are the claims for reparations for slavery in the United States, West German restitution for the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the Khmer...
This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices by offering case studies from nine countries on five co...
We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin is the first study to trace the rituals, practices, perceptions, and sensibilities surrounding death in the context of Berlin's multiple transformations over the decades between Germany's defeat in World War I and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Evocatively illustrated and drawing on a rich collection of sources, Monica Black reveals the centrality of death to the evolving moral and social life of one metropolitan community. In doing so, she connects the intimacies of everyday...
We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin is the first study to trace the ritual...
This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions in the volume have to do with the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare. Among the topics covered in the volume are the global dimensions of warfare, logistics, universal military...
This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one anot...
Studies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist world economy.
Studies the ties between America and Bremen in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of merchant capital in making an industrial-capitalist wo...
When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archives. These records were subsequently used in war crimes trials and published under Allied auspices to document the German road to war. In 1949, the West Germans asked for their return, considering the request one of the benchmarks of their new state sovereignty. This book traces the tangled history of the captured German records and the extended negotiations for their return into German custody. Based on meticulous research in British, American,...
When American and British troops swept through the German Reich in the spring of 1945, they confiscated a broad range of government papers and archive...
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, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for those who had once lived in the German Empire. Rather than becoming more cohesive over time, Poland s ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from...
The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires the Russian, Habsburg, and German were forced ...
In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined city as a coherent social body in a protected place, the urban environment had to be physically separate from the surrounding countryside. This separation was crucial to guaranteeing the city's commercial, political, and legal privileges. Fortifications were therefore essential for any settlement to be termed a city. 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...
In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined city as a coherent social body in a pro...
The end of the Second World War opened a new era for science in public life. Heisenberg in the Atomic Age explores the transformations of science s public presence in the postwar Federal Republic of Germany. It shows how Heisenberg s philosophical commentaries, circulating in the mass media, secured his role as science s public philosopher, and it reflects on his policy engagements and public political stands, which helped redefine the relationship between science and the state. With deep archival grounding, the book tracks Heisenberg s interactions with intellectuals from Heidegger to...
The end of the Second World War opened a new era for science in public life. Heisenberg in the Atomic Age explores the transformations of science s pu...
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...
This study of Civil War-era politics explores how German immigrants influenced the rise and fall of white commitment to African-American rights. Inter...