Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,

Where did ethnography come from?

There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...

Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...

How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...

Using West Germany as a case study to explore European trends, the book analyzes how the Council of Europe and European Community’s ideological goals were implemented for specific national groups...

Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...

What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?

How does civil war shape state building and national identity over the long term?

Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biographies diverges drastically with the traditional bios of other more well-known Nazis...

At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...

Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?

Orbach offers a profound and complete examination of the plots to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler...

Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?

Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....

Otto “liberates Bauhaus history” with this work, drawing the focus from the handful of male artists like Klee and Breuer outward as she considers the other 1200 odd Bauhäusler...

Karcher examines a critical time in the history and development of the feminist movement in Germany...

Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...

Only in 2015, 100 years after the end of formal German rule, has the German government begun to atone for the Herero/Nama genocide...

The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...

Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies...