Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that...
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject...
Praise for the German Edition: "This publication will spark a discussion about the role of the Catholic Church leadership in the GDR." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
From 1945 to 1989, relations between the communist East German state and the Catholic Church were contentious and sometimes turbulent. Drawing on extensive Stasi materials and other government and party archives, this study provides the first systematic overview of this complex relationship and offers many new insights into the continuities, changes, and entanglements of policies and strategies on both sides. Previously...
Praise for the German Edition: "This publication will spark a discussion about the role of the Catholic Church leadership in the GDR." - Frankfurter A...
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography's multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in Ger...
German Histories and Pacific Histories reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the "Pacific Worlds." It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges.
German Histories and Pacific Histories reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the "Paci...
