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

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Uncanny Creatures

Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture

By Christophe Koné
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Art History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Queer Livability

German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing

By Ina Linge
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Jochen Hung
Subjects: German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Sara Pugach
Subjects: German Studies, African Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Caroline Kita
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Spaces of Honor

Making German Civil Society, 1700-1914

By Heikki Lempa
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism

Switzerland, 1800–1900

By Mischa Suter
Subjects: German Studies, History, Economics
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Susan Funkenstein
Subjects: German Studies, Theater and Performance, Dance, Art, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Ofer Ashkenazi
Subjects: German Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By Christoph Kreutzmüller & Jonathan R. Zatlin
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Katie Sutton
Subjects: History, Gender Studies, German Studies, Psychology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Todd Kontje
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

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

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Passing Illusions

Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

By Kerry Wallach
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by “passing” as non-Jews

 

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

By Cathy Gelbin & Sander Gilman
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought

 

Bodies and Ruins

Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present

By David F. Crew
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII

The Jazz Republic

Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

By Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Subjects: German Studies, Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

The War in Their Minds

German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany

By Svenja Goltermann
Translated by Philip Schmitz
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Disability Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War

Three-Way Street

Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

By Jay Howard Geller & Leslie Morris
Subjects: History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

Stop Reading! Look!

Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book

By Pepper Stetler
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Literary Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Examines the connections between the emergence of Weimar photographic books and modern conceptions of photographic meaning

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