Civilization and the threat of liberal internationalism
August 2024
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Journal article
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Past and Present
FFR
Sacred rubble and humble shelters: German church building after the Second World War
March 2024
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Journal article
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German History
This article centres on the cultural politics behind the feverish construction of new houses of worship in West Germany, as well as the restoration of damaged cathedrals and churches, in the first two decades after 1945. At issue is how and why ecclesiastical architecture took on heightened cultural significance at the time, attracting a star-studded group of international architects. After the war, church-building resumed its leading historical role from before the Industrial Revolution as the avant-garde of innovative international architecture, although its comeback has been largely overlooked by architectural and cultural historians alike. While these changes reflected broader international trends, the German situation took on special significance in light of the Nazi legacy of defeat, destruction and dislocation, as well as the pressing need to fabricate new churches for survivors and the millions of expellees arriving in western Germany. Discussions of ecclesiastical architecture therefore touched on broader issues of German history, identity and Christian renewal, and the very form of these houses of worship reflected a unique blend of avant-garde architecture and Christian theology in the aftermath of war.
Ruin and Renewal Civilising Europe After the Second World War
November 2020
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Book
Drawing on original sources as well as individual stories and voices, this is a gripping and authoritative account of how Europe rebuilt itself - and what we, in the twenty-first century, could lose again.
History
1989 at thirty: A recast legacy
July 2019
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Journal article
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Past and Present
These days 1989 isn't what it used to be. Not so long ago the wildfire revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe during that momentous year were routinely celebrated as the grand victory of liberal democracy over Soviet-style communism. However, recent developments in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere on the continent which in various ways all invoked 1989, either as inspiration or negative foil, behove us to reconsider the effects of that fateful year in Central Europe from a different perspective. The rise of xenophobia, resurgent populist politics on both the Radical Right and the Left, as well as the spread of ‘illiberal democracy’ across Europe, the US and elsewhere have predictably generated great alarm. Plenty of commentary on the comeback of authoritarian anti-liberalism in Central Europe has claimed that we are witnessing a kind of ‘return of the repressed,’ a dangerous repudiation of the golden principles of 1989 three decades after the uprisings. But construing recent developments in Central Europe as simply an anti-1989 backlash does not get us very far, not least because the unrest of 1989 carried within it the seeds of illiberalism as well. With distance, the inheritance of the ‘revolutionary autumn’ appears more mixed and precarious, and much harder to classify than it once was. Like all revolutions, 1989 brought in its train a mixed bag of dreams and disappointments, stark ruptures and stubborn continuities, and this article revisits some of the grey and even darker tones of the inheritance.
FFR
The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947
December 2018
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Humanitarianism and the Media
The Ethics of Seeing Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
February 2018
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Book
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history.
History
The Intimacy of Revolution: 1989 in Pictures
January 2018
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Chapter
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The Ethics of Seeing Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history.
History
A Red Wind of Change: African Media Coverage of Tito’s Tours of Decolonizing Africa
January 2017
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Chapter
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Tito in Africa : picturing solidarity
Universalism and its Discontents: Humanity as a 20th Century Concept
October 2016
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Chapter
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Humanity A History of European Concepts in Practice From the Sixteenth Century to the Present
This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of “humanity” from the sixteenth century up to the present.
Fiction
Religion, Science and Cold War Anti-Communism: The 1949 Cardinal Mindszenty Show Trial
May 2016
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Chapter
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Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe
Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first scholarly effort to explore the delicate interface of religion, science and communism in Cold War Europe.
History
Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe
January 2016
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Book
Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first scholarly effort to explore the delicate interface of religion, science and communism in Cold War Europe. It brings together an international team of researchers who address this relationship from a number of national viewpoints and thematic perspectives, ranging from mysticism to social science, space exploration to the socialist lifecycle, and architectural heritage to pop culture.
Humanity's New Heritage: Unesco and the Rewriting of World History
August 2015
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Past & Present
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Heritage in the Modern World: Historical Preservation in Global Perspective
January 2015
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Book
The Warden of World Heritage: UNESCO and the Rescue of the Nubian Monuments
January 2015
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Journal article
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Past & Present
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Politics of Plenty: Consumerism and Communism
January 2014
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century.
History
The Politics of Plenty: Consumerism in Communist Societies
January 2014
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Draws on documentation released since the fall of the Soviet Union to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century.
Business & Economics
When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht
July 2013
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Chapter
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Between Mass Death And Individual Loss The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann ... by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and DirkSchumann BETWEEN MASS DEATH AND INDIVIDUAL Loss The Place of the Studies in German History.
History
Black Mountain College Studies Journal: 'Black Mountain College into the 21st Century'
January 2012
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Internet publication
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Humanity Journal Special Issue
January 2012
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Other
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Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
Socialism, Social Rights, Human Rights: The Case of East Germany
January 2012
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Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
September 2011
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Book
This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding.
Social Science
Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic
October 2010
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Book
A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and revealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged and defended by ...
History
Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination
August 2010
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Book
This volume brings together leading international historians to address the manifold issues raised in his landmark history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945.
History
Manners, Morality and Civilization: Reflections on Post-1945 GermanEtiquette Books
January 2010
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Chapter
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Histories of the Aftermath The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe
From a range of methodological historical perspectives-military, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studies-this volume explores how Europeans came to terms with these multiple pasts.
History
Private property and public culture : a forgotten chapter of East European Communist life
January 2009
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Journal article
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Histoire@Politique
Privatheit [Privacy]
January 2009
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Chapter
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Erinnerungsorte der DDR
Wolfgang Templin Das Helsinki-Abkommen Spätestens ab Mitte der siebziger Jahre waren in der DDR die verschiedenen ... Dies galt jedoch für die unterschiedlichen Milieus der DDR- Gesellschaft in geradezu gegensätzlicher
Weise.
Collective memory
Property, Peace and Honor: Neighborhood Justice in Communist Berlin
November 2008
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Journal article
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Past & Present
Building Socialism at Home: The Case of East German Interiors
February 2008
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Chapter
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Socialist Modern: East Germany
The reunification of Germany in 1989 may have put an end to the experiment in East German communism, but its historical assessment is far from over.
History
Socialist Modern East German Everyday Culture and Politics
January 2008
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Book
This book also explores the development and experience of life in East Germany, with a particular view toward addressing the question: what did modernity mean for East German state and society?
History
When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbrict
January 2008
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Chapter
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century
Germany, International Justice and the Twentieth Century
April 2005
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Journal article
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History and Memory: studies in representation of the past
Journal of Contemporary History Special Issue
January 2005
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Other
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Journal of Contemporary History
The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design
June 2004
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Book
This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.
Architecture
The Politics of Post-Fascist Aesthetics: West and East German Design in the 1950s
May 2003
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Chapter
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Life After Death Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann... experience of violence and death during the 1940s were profound and colored all aspects of life during the postwar... the connections were between the violence of the 1940s and the normality of the 1950s, remains extremely speculative. ... the late 1940s and 1950s was concentrated on the reconstruction of political and economic structures, especially in Germany.
History
Pain and Prosperity Reconsidering Twentieth-century German History
January 2003
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Book
The contributors to this book engage these questions by reconsidering Germany’s recent past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy, urban history, childbirth, medicine, racism, political ...
History
Remembrance of Things Past: Nostalgia in West and East Germany, 1980-2000
January 2003
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Chapter
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Pain and Prosperity Reconsidering Twentieth-century German History
The contributors to this book engage these questions by reconsidering Germany’s recent past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy, urban history, childbirth, medicine, racism, political ...
History
The New Fascination with Fascism: The Case of Nazi Modernism
October 2002
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Journal article
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Journal of Contemporary History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Twilight of the Idols: East German Memory and Material Culture
September 2000
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Journal article
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The Journal of Modern History
The Bauhaus as Cold War Legend: West German Modernism Revisited