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Publications de l'Institut historique allemandSéries

Cette série propose des recherches savantes approfondies issues de la collaboration entre historiens allemands et américains. Elle explore les histoires politiques, sociales, économiques et culturelles complexes des deux nations. Une attention particulière est accordée à la migration transatlantique et à l'histoire des relations internationales, soulignant les rôles cruciaux joués par l'Allemagne et les États-Unis.

German merchants in the nineteenth-century Atlantic
The German minority in interwar Poland
Beyond the Racial State
Two cultures of rights
An interrupted past
The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

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  • The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

    • 276pages
    • 10 heures de lecture
    3,7(3)Évaluer

    The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create “living space,” Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or behavioral grounds. It also pursued a parallel, albeit smaller, program to mobilize supposedly Germanic residents of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union – so-called Volksdeutsche or ethnic Germans – as the vanguard of German expansion. This study recovers the intersection of these two projects in Transnistria, a portion of southern Ukraine that, because of its numerous Volksdeutsche communities, became an epicenter of both Nazi Volksdeutsche policy and the Holocaust in conquered Soviet territory, ultimately asking why local residents, whom German authorities identified as Volksdeutsche, participated in the Holocaust with apparent enthusiasm.

    The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

  • An interrupted past

    • 246pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,0(1)Évaluer

    The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

    An interrupted past

  • Two cultures of rights

    • 294pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    2,0(1)Évaluer

    This book addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights, and social rights in the United States and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. The essays address issues such as the struggle for the rights of women and minorities (including African Americans, Jews, and Asians), National Socialism and the dismantling of civil rights, and the emergence of the concept of social rights. What becomes clear are the unique features that distinguish German from American history and that these differences have been created by both social movements and dissimilar cultures of rights.

    Two cultures of rights

  • "Soldaten der Arbeit"

    3,0(1)Évaluer

    »Soldaten der Arbeit« ist die erste Gesamtdarstellung des nationalsozialistischen Arbeitsdienstes für Männer, den zwischen 1933 und 1945 über drei Millionen Deutsche durchliefen. Das Buch stellt zudem in einem asymmetrischen Vergleich die NS-Organisation dem zeitgleich eingerichteten Arbeitsdienst der USA, dem Civilian Conservation Corps, gegenüber. In beiden Institutionen spiegeln sich die Antworten der deutschen Diktatur und der amerikanischen Demokratie auf die Weltwirtschaftskrise der Dreißiger Jahre in besonderem Maße wider. Die methodisch innovative Arbeit analysiert auch wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen und Transfers wie die Übernahme einiger Elemente der nationalsozialistischen Sozialpolitik durch die amerikanische Administration. Das Buch wurde von der Landeskonferenz der Rektoren und Präsidenten der Berliner Hochschulen mit dem Tiburtius-Anerkennungspreis 2003 und von der Auschwitz-Stiftung Brüssel mit dem »Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz« ausgezeichnet.

    "Soldaten der Arbeit"

  • On the road to total war

    • 719pages
    • 26 heures de lecture
    3,6(8)Évaluer

    On the Road to Total War is a collection of essays that attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare (which terrorizes citizens and soliders alike). International scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects and on the societal impacts of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification. Mass mobilization of people and resources and growing nationalism led to this totalization of war in nineteenth-century industrialized nations.

    On the road to total war

  • Between sorrow and strength

    • 390pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Between Sorrow and Strength is a collection of essays that focuses on women refugees of the Nazi period who fled to different countries all over the world. Written by historians and contemporary eyewitnesses, the essays and reports in this volume illuminate refugee women's side of the story--their important role in the survival of their families, their everyday life, and their adaptive skills in the various places of exile and emigration. Scholarly insights and eyewitness perspectives are united in a fruitful and unique way.

    Between sorrow and strength

  • Genoa, Rapallo, and European reconstruction in 1922

    One of the largest twentieth century summit meetings, the Genoa Conference of 1922, was also a notable failure, due to the gulf between the Allies and Germany, between the West and Soviet Russia, and among the World War I victors and their small allies. This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference: its leadership, goals, and outcome. The authors present new findings on such questions as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and the policy of the United States toward European debts. Readers will find contrasting as well as complementary views in this volume.

    Genoa, Rapallo, and European reconstruction in 1922

  • America, the Vietnam War, and the World

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    This volume presents perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. It reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world, and addresses political, military, and diplomatic issues no less than the... číst celé

    America, the Vietnam War, and the World

  • The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

    • 275pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    Using wartime records and postwar West German and Soviet investigative materials, this book probes the local dynamics of the German occupation and the collaboration in the Holocaust in southern Ukraine. Through the lens of a regional study, it contributes to recent scholarly interest in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

    The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

  • Business in the age of extremes

    • 249pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism, and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism. Based on new archival research, the essays gathered here ask how the business community became involved in the political process and describes the consequences arising from that involvement. Particular attention is given to the responses of individual businesspeople to changing political circumstances and their efforts to balance the demands of their consciences with the pursuit for profit.

    Business in the age of extremes

  • Anticipating total war

    • 506pages
    • 18 heures de lecture
    5,0(1)Évaluer

    The essays in Anticipating Total War explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914. The concept of "total war" provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups, and educators on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these "anticipations of total war," virtually no one realized the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century.

    Anticipating total war

  • In and out of the Ghetto

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    3,4(3)Évaluer

    This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporating much new research. Individually, the essays probe the central questions of Jewish development within the territorial states, secular and clerical, and in both rural and urban environments. The authors grapple with such relevant issues as cultural identity, representation, toleration, and minority/majority relations.

    In and out of the Ghetto

  • Transatlantic images and perceptions

    • 383pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    These essays analyze how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images--found in travelogues, private letters, diaries, diplomatic reports, newspaper articles, and movies--that resulted from each encounter frequently reflected the contemporary relations, often foreshadowed future trends, and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, stereotypes, and pragmatic forces influenced each society's perceptions.

    Transatlantic images and perceptions

  • The East German economy, 1945 - 2010

    4,2(5)Évaluer

    This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.

    The East German economy, 1945 - 2010

  • From nurturing the nation to purifying the Volk

    • 326pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    2,8(4)Évaluer

    Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake following the First World War, German policymakers vastly expanded social welfare programs to shore up women and families. Just over a decade later, the Nazis seized control of the state and created a radically different, racially driven gender and family policy. This book explores Weimar and Nazi policy to highlight the fundamental, far-reaching change wrought by the Nazis and the disparity between national family policy design and its implementation at the local level. Relying on a broad range of sources --including court records, sterilization files, church accounts, and women s oral histories -- it demonstrates how local officials balanced the benefits of marriage, divorce, and adoption against budgetary concerns, church influence, and their own personal beliefs. Throughout both eras individual Germans collaborated with, rebelled against, and evaded state mandates, in the process fundamentally altering the impact of national policy.

    From nurturing the nation to purifying the Volk

  • Soldiers of labor

    • 460pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    A systematic comparison between the Nazi Labor Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

    Soldiers of labor

  • The East German Economy, 1945-2010

    • 259pages
    • 10 heures de lecture

    This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.

    The East German Economy, 1945-2010

  • The Struggle for the Files

    The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives After the Second World War

    • 444pages
    • 16 heures de lecture
    4,2(6)Évaluer

    The book delves into the complex history of German government records seized by American and British troops in 1945, which later played a crucial role in war crimes trials. It explores the West German government's efforts to reclaim these documents by 1949, symbolizing a key aspect of their emerging sovereignty. Through thorough research in multiple archives, it uncovers the significance of these files in shaping German historical narrative and the diplomatic negotiations surrounding their return, highlighting a critical yet often overlooked facet of early West German international relations.

    The Struggle for the Files

  • Exiled Among Nations

    5,0(1)Évaluer

    How do migrants and refugees fashion group identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious nomads selectively engaged with nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies.

    Exiled Among Nations

  • German influences on education in the United States to 1917

    This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles prove the various influences of German scholarship and institutions on the development of the American system of education from kindergarten to university. The book provides an overview for the benefit of scholars, students and the interested general reader. As a cooperative effort of German and American scholars the volume is intended to stimulate further exploration of these themes on both continents.

    German influences on education in the United States to 1917

  • Money and Security

    Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950 1971

    • 292pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    The study explores the interconnectedness of the transatlantic security system and the international monetary system throughout the Cold War. It examines how these two frameworks influenced each other, shaping global politics and economics during a pivotal historical period. The analysis provides insights into the strategic decisions made by nations and the implications for international relations, highlighting the complex interplay between security and economic stability.

    Money and Security

  • A past renewed

    A Past Renewed portrays the generation of German-speaking refugee historians who settled in the United States after fleeing Hitler's Europe. Bio-bibliographical entries on eighty-eight refugee historians document their scholarly contributions, historical interests, and impact on the American historical profession after 1945. Besides material on noted historians of modern Europe such as Felix Gilbert, Hajo Holborn, and Hans Rosenberg, the catalog includes information on many other historians influential in the fields of Jewish history, Renaissance history, the history of Roman and Canon Law, Chinese history, and the history of medicine. A Past Renewed provides a valuable reference work for scholars interested in the academic emigration from Nazi Germany, historiographical developments in the United States in the postwar era, the collective contribution of refugee historians to the American historical profession, and the lives and works of individual refugee historians.

    A past renewed

  • Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland

    • 347pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    In the borderland of Upper Silesia between 1848 and 1960, the local population resisted attempts by nationalist activists to compel them to become loyal Germans or Poles, a divide dictated by the two languages they spoke. This study of that resistance will appeal to scholars of European history and nationalism.

    Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland

  • Paths of continuity

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession before and after 1945. The essays look at ten prominent historians whose lives and work spanned the period from the 1930s to the 1960s. Their response to the Nazi regime ranged from open resistance to willing collaboration. Ironically, however, much of the impetus for scholarly innovation after 1945 came from historians with earlier ties to the antiliberal "folk history" of the Nazi era. All in all, this insightful collection of essays provides fresh insight into the development of West German historical scholarship since 1945.

    Paths of continuity

  • Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss

    • 220pages
    • 8 heures de lecture

    This book explores the influence of Hannah Arendt's and Leo Strauss' background in pre-World War II Germany on their perception of American democracy. The contributors analyze how their ^D'emigr^D'e experience both influenced their American work and also impacted on the formation of the discipline of political science in postwar Germany. Arendt's and Strauss' experiences thus aptly illustrate the transfer and transformation of political ideas in the World War II era.

    Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss

  • People in transit

    • 451pages
    • 16 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. The essays here demonstrate that the three types of migration are indeed fundamentally interrelated. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration.

    People in transit

  • Medicine and modernity

    • 252pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. The central focus is on the professionalization of modern medicine and the medicalization of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme. Other topics include: hospitals in early nineteenth century society, Social Darwinism, state-run health insurance, eugenics, social control, Nazi experimentation, and the postwar medical leadership.

    Medicine and modernity

  • Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany from 1770-1914, Jeffrey T. Zalar exposes the myth that the clergy defined Catholic reading habits. He shows that readers disobeyed the book rules of their church and read diverse literature, even works from the Index of Forbidden Books.

    Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914

  • Money and Security

    • 292pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    The book explores the interconnectedness of the transatlantic security and international monetary systems during the Cold War. It examines how these two frameworks influenced each other, shaping political and economic strategies. By analyzing historical events and policies, the study sheds light on the complexities of international relations and security dynamics in a pivotal period of global history.

    Money and Security

  • Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750 - 1850

    3,0(1)Évaluer

    This book represents the cooperative effort of American and German scholars to systematically study the similarities and differences in the understanding of Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German states. The book stimulates efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world.

    Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750 - 1850

  • Weber's protestant ethic

    • 411pages
    • 15 heures de lecture
    5,0(1)Évaluer

    Although Weber's path-breaking work on the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has received much attention ever since it first appeared in 1904-5, recent research has uncovered important new aspects. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws new light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's work, debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the seventeenth century with Weber's interpretation. Revisiting Weber's thesis serves to deepen our understanding of Weber as much as it will stimulate further research.

    Weber's protestant ethic

  • The Defortification of the German City, 1689 1866

    • 302pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    Exploring the transformation of German cities, this book delves into their evolution from fortified walls to open spaces between 1689 and 1866. It examines the socio-political and architectural changes that accompanied this shift, highlighting the impact on urban life and the significance of defortification in shaping modern cityscapes. Through detailed analysis, it reveals how these metamorphoses reflect broader historical trends and the changing perceptions of security and community in urban environments.

    The Defortification of the German City, 1689 1866

  • Identity and intolerance

    • 466pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance. Identity and Intolerance attempts to show how German and American societies have historically confronted and currently confront matters of national, racial, and ethnic inclusion and exclusion. The comparative perspective sheds light on the specific links among the cultural construction of nationhood and otherness, the political modes of integration and exclusion, and the social conditions of tolerance and intolerance.

    Identity and intolerance

  • A Past Renewed

    A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    The book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives and contributions of German-speaking historians who sought refuge in the United States from Nazi Europe. It delves into their intellectual journeys, the challenges they faced in adapting to a new culture, and how their experiences shaped their historical narratives. Through personal stories and academic insights, it highlights their lasting impact on American historiography and the preservation of European history.

    A Past Renewed

  • Thieves in court

    • 362pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

    Thieves in court

  • Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany

    • 282pages
    • 10 heures de lecture
    3,7(3)Évaluer

    Drawing on a diverse array of Turkish- and German-language sources, this book explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children in West Berlin from 1961 to the early years after reunification. Sarah Thomsen Vierra sheds new light on the relationship between belonging, identity, and... číst celé

    Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany

  • GIs in Germany

    • 378pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    3,0(4)Évaluer

    These fifteen essays offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany since World War Two.

    GIs in Germany

  • Soldiers of Labor

    Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933 1945

    • 462pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    3,0(1)Évaluer

    This book offers a detailed analysis of the Nazi Labor Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps, highlighting their similarities and differences in structure, purpose, and impact. It explores how each organization aimed to address unemployment and promote national pride during challenging economic times. The comparison sheds light on the political and social contexts that shaped these programs, providing insights into their roles in their respective societies. Through this examination, readers gain a deeper understanding of labor initiatives in the 20th century.

    Soldiers of Labor

  • Kampf um die Akten

    • 534pages
    • 19 heures de lecture
    5,0(1)Évaluer

    Ausgezeichnet mit dem Hedwig-Hintze-Preis und dem Friedrich-Meinecke-Preis, behandelt die Studie die Rückgabeverhandlungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik und den Westalliierten über beschlagnahmtes deutsches Archivgut. Hunderte Tonnen an Schriftgut aus den Archiven der Reichsministerien, militärischen Stellen und Parteiorganisationen waren nach dem Krieg in alliierte Hände gefallen. Die Geschichte der Aktenrückgabe ist ein bisher vernachlässigtes Kapitel der politischen Emanzipation der Bundesrepublik. Diese Verhandlungen waren nicht nur ein weiteres Thema der jungen bundesdeutschen Außenpolitik, sondern symbolisierten auch den Versuch, verlorene Souveränität zurückzugewinnen. Zudem ist die Aktenrückgabe eine Auseinandersetzung um die Deutungsmacht deutscher Geschichte. Der temporäre Verlust der diplomatischen Akten für die (west)deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft und der ungehinderte Zugang für amerikanische und britische Historiker führten zu einem Streit um die legitimen Sprecher in der Deutung deutscher Geschichte. Die Studie beleuchtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Rückgabeverhandlungen und den Anfängen westdeutscher Zeitgeschichtsforschung und hebt insbesondere die transnationale Dimension der Diskussion hervor.

    Kampf um die Akten