New Books in German Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Germany about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Rail...
Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...
49 min
652
Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
50 min
653
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Hol...
Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,
54 min
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Han F. Vermeulen, "Before Boas: The Genesis of ...
Where did ethnography come from?
100 min
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Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Fai...
Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,
47 min
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Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
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Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psyc...
Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...
54 min
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Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race ...
How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?
82 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
660
Amy Carney, "Marriage and Fatherhood in the Naz...
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...
38 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pe...
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...
57 min
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Brittany Lehman, "Teaching Migrant Children in ...
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...
66 min
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Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontation...
Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...
38 min
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Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Resc...
What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?
62 min
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Jasper Heinzen, "Making Prussians, Raising Germ...
How does civil war shape state building and national identity over the long term?
77 min
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Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the L...
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...
44 min
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Chiara Russo Krauss, "Wundt, Avenarius and Scie...
At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...
63 min
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Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
670
Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Eamon Dol...
Orbach offers a profound and complete examination of the plots to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler...
61 min
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Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
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?
63 min
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Andrew Wright Hurley, "Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghos...
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....
33 min
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Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirit...
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...
71 min
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Katharina Karcher, "Sisters in Arms: Militant F...
Karcher examines a critical time in the history and development of the feminist movement in Germany...
52 min
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Elizabeth R. Baer, "The Genocidal Gaze: From Ge...
Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...
79 min