Publications of the German Historical Institute Series

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The German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. is a center for advanced study and research whose purpose is to provide a permanent basis for scholarly cooperation between historians from the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. The Institute conducts, promotes, and supports research in both American and German political, social, …
An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933
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2.00 · 2 Ratings · published 1991 · 2 editions
The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fat…

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    Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1991 · 5 editions
    One of the largest twentieth century summit meetin…

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    Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich
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    3.79     · 14 Ratings · published 1992 · 4 editions
    Contending with Hitler is a distillation of recent…

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    Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1992 · 3 editions
    This collection of essays presents the most recent…

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    Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 6 editions
    Although Weber's path-breaking work on the Protest…

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    A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933
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    0.00     · published 1993 · 3 editions
    A Past Renewed portrays the generation of German-s…

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    American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955
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    0.00     · published 1994 · 3 editions
    This volume of twenty-three essays by German and A…

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    Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 3 editions
    Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Thi…

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    Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: German Émigrés and American Political Thought after World War II
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    0.00     · published 1995 · 3 editions
    This book explores the influence of Hannah Arendt'…

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    German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917
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    0.00     · published 1995 · 3 editions
    The volume summarizes recent scholarship on German…

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    People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1995 · 3 editions
    This volume contains empirical studies on German i…

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    Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period
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    0.00     · published 1995 · 4 editions
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    In and out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany
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    3.33     · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions
    This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-…

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    Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 2 editions
    The dismissal of civil servants on racist or polit…

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    Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500–1950
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 8 editions
    A study of the development of prisons, hospitals a…

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    Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1997 · 7 editions
    This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and …

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    On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871
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    3.62     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 5 editions
    On the Road to Total War is a collection of essays…

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    Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America since 1776
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1997 · 3 editions
    These essays analyze how German and American views…

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    Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1998 · 4 editions
    In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies…

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    The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years
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    4.25     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions
    This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes …

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    1968: The World Transformed
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    3.30     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 2 editions
    1968: The World Transformed provides an internatio…

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    Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
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    4.00     · 6 Ratings · published 1998 · 6 editions
    The history of consumption is a prism through whic…

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    Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871–1914
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    3.29     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 3 editions
    The essays in Anticipating Total War explore the d…

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    Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918
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    3.90     · 20 Ratings · published 2000 · 6 editions
    This volume analyzes the First World War in light …

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    Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2002 · 3 editions
    Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative develo…

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    Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography
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    3.73     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 7 editions
    Medieval Concepts of the Past shows how the histor…

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    Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1998 · 7 editions
    This book addresses key issues in the historical s…

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    Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850
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    2.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1998 · 5 editions
    Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the Ge…

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    Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950–1971
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    This study links two fundamental political structu…

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    The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919–1939
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    The essays in this compelling collection examine t…

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    Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
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    3.60     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 8 editions
    This collection of essays does not perceive the im…

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    International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1999 · 7 editions
    The essays in this book examine the long history o…

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    America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives
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    0.00     · published 2003 · 5 editions
    Presenting new perspectives on the Vietnam War, it…

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    Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism
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    Bringing together the work of historians and polit…

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    The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1968: A Handbook, Vol. 1: 1945-1968
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    This multi-author work reviews all aspects of Germ…

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    The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990: Volume 2, 1968-1990: A Handbook
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    The close association between the United States an…

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    A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945
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    3.73     · 15 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    Presenting the results of a fifth, and final, conf…

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    Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933–1945
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2003 · 6 editions
    Originally published in 2005, Soldiers of Labor is…

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    Berlin - Washington, 1800–2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities
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    0.00     · published 2005 · 3 editions
    This 2006 collection examines the urban spaces of …

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    Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective
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    Presenting recent research spanning the late eight…

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    From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk: Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918–1945
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    3.00     · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 12 editions
    Fearing that the future of the nation was at stake…

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    Environmental Histories of the Cold War
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · published 2010 · 9 editions
    Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores t…

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    The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence
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    The United States and Germany during the Twentieth…

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    The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · published 2004 · 7 editions
    When American and British troops swept through the…

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    The German Minority in Interwar Poland
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    4.50     · 6 Ratings · published 2012 · 7 editions
    The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes wh…

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    The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866
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    In the early modern period, all German cities were…

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    Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History
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    This collection of essays explores the impact that…

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    German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 5 editions
    This study brings to life the community of trans-A…

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    German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era
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    This study of Civil War–era politics explores how …

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    GIs in Germany: The Social, Economic, Cultural, and Political History of the American Military Presence
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    The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehe…

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    The East German Economy, 1945–2010: Falling Behind or Catching Up?
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    By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (…

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    The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 2015 · 7 editions
    The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the…

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    Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism
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    Paying for Hitler's War: The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe
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    During World War II, Germany occupied much of cont…

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    Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century
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    From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bre…

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    Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s
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    Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War
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    As wars and other conflicts increase on a worldwid…

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    Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany
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    The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand…

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    Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland: Upper Silesia, 1848–1960
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    In the bloody twentieth-century battles over Centr…

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    Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961–1990
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    As the largest national group of guest workers in …

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    Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914
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    Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbol…

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    War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
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    The histories of modern war and childhood were the…

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    Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936
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    In 1936, Nazi Germany and militarist Japan built a…

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    Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age
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    How do groups of people fashion shared identities …

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