Conference report: Amsterdam as Haven for Religious Refugees in the Early Modern Period
Conference location: Ritman Research Institute
Embassy of the Free Mind
Conference location: Ritman Research Institute
Embassy of the Free Mind
CfP: Black German Disability Politics (German Studies Association, Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023)
CfP: Blood, Borders, and the Body: Shifts in how Bodies are Policed, Controlled, and Regulated (German Studies Association, Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023)
Research on celebration of the Carnival tradition in different times and places has provided a rich lens into fields ranging from political and social history to the history of everyday life and questions about intangible cultural heritage.
August 7-11, 2023 | Location: Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
We invite applications from educators of different professional (e.g. secondary school teachers, lecturers involved in teacher training, educators at memorials and other commemorative initiatives) and national backgrounds to attend the first EHRI pedagogical Seminar. The event will offer an opportunity for educators to expand their skills when teaching about the Holocaust in different settings and familiarize them with EHRI’s digital services.
Call for Papers: Affektive Verstörungen: Christian Kracht's oeuvre
Swiss Studies Network (SSN)
Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association
October 5-8, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Call for Papers: Carceral Spaces in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
The Broad of Trustees of the Journal of Women's History is proud to announce that the prize for the best paper in women's history authored by a graduate student has returned. Given the pandemic, we are happy to feature this prize once again. Article-length essays in any chronological and geographical field are eligible; we especially encourage submissions with a focus beyond the United States or Western Europe. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes, and should follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style.
Kira Thurman.
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 368 pp.
$32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5984-0.
Reviewed by Jeremy Zima (Wisconsin Lutheran College) Published on H-German (January, 2023) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Matthias B. Lehmann.
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2022. 400 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-3030-7.
Erik Grimmer-Solem.
Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 668 pp.
$44.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48382-7.
Adrian Daub.
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 253 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-73773-7; $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-73787-4.
Jean-Michel Johnston. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $80.75 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-259894-3; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-885688-7.
Reviewed by Robert Radu (Universität Bonn) Published on H-German (October, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Helen Roche. The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 544 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-872612-8.
Reviewed by Tim Mueller (Chester and Fourth) Published on H-German (September, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58077
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii + 262 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51914-1.
Reviewed by Tobias Huff (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Published on H-German (August, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
William L, Patch. Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 340 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42411-0.
Reviewed by James Chappel Published on H-German (July, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56137
Corinna Treitel. Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 404 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63839-2.
Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter (University of Birmingham) Published on H-German (May, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Hope M. Harrison.
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Illustrations. 2019. 478 pp.
$34.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-04931-4.