Far from the image of an apolitical, clean Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War.
The bulwark or antemurale myth whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms.
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations.
Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use.
Of the three categories that Raul Hilberg developed in his analysis of the Holocaust perpetrators, victims, and bystanders it is the last that is the broadest and most difficult to pinpoint.
Well before the far-right resurgence that has most recently transformed European politics, Austria s 1999 parliamentary elections surprised the world with the unexpected success of the Freedom Party of Austria and its charismatic leader, Jorg Haider.
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century.
Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War.
Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations.
Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive authenticity that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments.
In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany s fate, and the separation of the country the result of the nascent Cold War emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement.
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them.
Offers essential perspectives on the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and explores the troubling implications of the American tendency to fight wars without end.
Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change.
On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past.
For all of its apparent simplicity a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts.
Although entanglement has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender.
Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked nostalgia to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc.
Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schonebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs.
As in a number of France s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions.
After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party Ennahdha allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women s right to abortion to be expressed.
As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories.
Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled peaceful reunification in 1990.
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz.
From its emergence out of the ashes of World War II through to the economic and political challenges of today, Austria has embodied many of the contradictions of recent European history.
Empire forestry the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world.
The origin of Covid in gain-of-function lab research that began in the US and continued in China, and its levelling-down of the West into a coming Syndicate-led, reset world government.
Twenty-five years on from the heinous events, Andrew Wallis uncovers the life and crimes of the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi.
Journey to the mysterious Avon valley, home of Stonehenge, with a Christchurch pensioner and our pagan ancestor from 2200 BC, and witness prehistory come alive.
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully examines the origins of racial thinking and the relationship between race and culture, asking us to recognise that racial thinking is not the only way of understanding ourselves and the world around us.
With capitalism entering its worst ever and possibly final crisis, Henryk Grossman, the neglected 20th century Marxist who explained the inevitability of such a ''final breakdown'' most convincingly, is more relevant than ever - and must be rehabilitated.
Sisters of the infamous 'Princes in the Tower', the daughters of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV survived the reign of Richard III and even thrived into the Tudor Age.
In September 1560, Amy Robsart, wife of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, was found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs, at the age of twenty-eight.
