Mit der vorliegenden Publikation legt die Göttinger Akademie den zweiten und abschließenden Band vor, mit dem sie den Ertrag einer Vortragsreihe über kulturelle Reichweiten im 15.
The teaching of history in South African and Japanese schools has attracted sustained criticism for the alleged attempts to conceal the controversial aspects of their countries' past and to inculcate ideologies favourable to the ruling regimes.
Lange Zeit waren kroatische Nationalisten, unter ihnen Anhänger des faschistischen Ustaša-Regimes, eine der aktivsten Exilgruppen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
The historical youth movement cannot be underestimated in its influence on some generations in the twentieth century, at the turn of the century around 1900 and also in the following decades, even after 1945.
This interdisciplinary study examines the poetic and political representation of the Palatine Marriage in London in 1613 by analysing the vast number of English and Neo-Latin festive / nuptial poetry and prose written on the occasion of the marriage of Count Palatine Frederick V (1596-1632) and Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), stylised and represented as heroes and paragon figures of Protestant Europe.
Neben einem Bedürfnis nach Individualisierung der Form der Eheschließung ist derzeit ein zunehmendes Auseinanderfallen des staatlichen und des religiösen Eheverständnisses festzustellen.
Die Identität von Regierenden und Regierten: dieses Leitbild von Bürgergesellschaft als politisch-sozialer Einheit prägte den Übergang des schweizerischen Kantons Zürich zur modernen Erwerbsgesellschaft.
When we are online, we learn about history in very specific ways - the characteristics of networked media heavily influence the content and structure of historical narratives.
This is the first text on historiography to adopt a comparative, global perspective for the modern era looking not only at developments in the West but at other historiographical traditions in East Asia, India, the Middle East, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa as well.
Am Beispiel Englands rekonstruiert das Buch den Jahrhunderte überspannenden Prozess der Kommerzialisierung, der die moderne Marktgesellschaft hervorbrachte.
Johann Carl Bertram Stüve (1798–1872) war Bürgermeister und Deputierter der Stadt Osnabrück und in den Jahren 1848–1850 Innenminister des Königreichs Hannover.
In this study, Marcus Köhler describes the development of ethnography in Russia in terms of a differentiation of a separate scientific discipline at the threshold between imperial expansion, scientific zeal and new initiative.
At the Meißner meeting in 1963 – a youth camp and traditional festival, and an occasion for critical self-reflection and debate over the definition of their democratic position – young people from the youth movement associations of the post-war years met with participants of the Free German Youth Day of 1913 – a once-in-a-century event.
"Bonna Perl am grünen Rheine" (Bonn, pearl of the green Rhine) – the title of the book is taken from a student song that is more than 100 years old and describes the halcyon, wine-imbued life of the student.
Simon Dubnow's "Jewish History for Children" comprises the entire history of the Jewish people from its beginnings and up to the 1930s and is now available for the first time in German.
Changes in the organisational structure of the Federal Republic of Germany can be observed at all democratic decision-making levels – at the local level, at federal state level and at federal level.
How have the Nazi period and the Shoah been presented in history textbooks for secondary schools published since 1950 in Germany, the United Kingdom, French-speaking Belgium and France ?
The harsh critique on the private audience for the Adschubeys – daughter and son in law of Nikita Khrushchev – on 7th March 1963 was met by John XXIII with a simple, but explosive phrase: "Such a little blessing doesn't do any harm".
Auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Wirksamkeit hält der niederländische Theologe, Publizist und Politiker Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) im Jahr 1898 die berühmten Stone Lectures in Princeton.
