Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany (Series)

Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany is where the pressures of the present moment meet urgent pasts; where critical perspectives shape scholarly investigations; where novel ways of writing invigorate historical scholarship. Global in scope, Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany offers a forum for Open Access projects on diverse periods as well as from an array of disciplines and their intersections, including cultural studies, environmental studies, gender/sexuality studies, history, literary studies, media studies, museum studies, performance studies, trans studies, and visual studies.

Series Editors

Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Art History, Dept. of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Helmut Puff, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Dept. of History, University of Michigan

Editorial Board

Kerstin Barndt, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Kathleen Canning, Dean of the Humanities, Rice University; former series editor
Rita Chin, Dept. of History, University of Michigan
Tracie Matysik, Dept. of History, University of Texas - Austin
Mark Roseman, Dept. of History, Program in Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Eli Rubin, Dept. of History, Western Michigan University
Annemarie H. Sammartino, Dept. of History, Oberlin College
Scott Spector, Dept. of History and Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Kira Thurman, Dept. of History, University of Michigan
Tara Zahra, Dept. of History, University of Chicago
Angela Zimmerman, Dept. of History, George Washington University

Submissions

Authors or teams of authors interested in submitting their work for possible publication in the series are requested to send materials as email attachments rather than via postal mail. Please send a message plus attachments to the Press editor for the series, Haley Winkle, haleywin@umich.edu.

Kindly include a prospectus, c.v., table of contents, and three sample chapters, preferably the first three chapters of the work. Please refer to the University of Michigan Press proposal guidelines at this link. Please be aware that we do not consider translations or dissertations.

 

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Out of Line

Reading and Writing Protest in West Germany, 1968

How the politics of print transformed protest in West Germany's Global Sixties

Just Language

Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence

A new analysis of linguistic violence and resistance in the works of German-Jewish authors

The Photographic Fix

Memory, Ideology, and the First World War in the Weimar Republic

The construction of public memory and commemoration through wartime photographs

Building the East German Myth

Historical Mythology and Youth Propaganda in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989

Icon Dresden

Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token

What makes a city innocent?

Little Tools of Knowledge

Historical Essays on Academic and Bureaucratic Practices

Socialist Subjectivities

Queering East Germany under Honecker

Reexamining how East Germans constructed their present and future subjectivities

Interrogating Integration

Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany

Examining integration discourse through the lens of public debates and sporting events in Germany

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942

An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

Uncanny Creatures

Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture

How dolls have fascinated writers, thinkers, and artists alike in Modern German culture

Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

Queer Livability

German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing

Reveals how queer and trans life writers use narrative strategies to create the possibility for a livable queer life

Moderate Modernity

The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy

A history of “Germany’s most modern newspaper” through the rise of the Nazis and the collapse of Germany’s first democracy

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization

The Arts of Democratization

Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany

How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

Spaces of Honor

Making German Civil Society, 1700-1914

Traces the development of German civil society through collective actions of honor

Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism

Switzerland, 1800–1900

Debt as a social relation at the intersection of history and anthropology in the precarious economies of nineteenth-century liberalism

Marking Modern Movement

Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic

The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies

Anti-Heimat Cinema

The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape

Jewish filmmakers inspire New German Cinema within the discursive landscape of the German “Heimat”

Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

Comparative context for understanding the experience of the German Jewry in the wake of Nazi plundering, racism, and genocide

Sex between Body and Mind

Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
 

Imperial Fictions

German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State

Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany