Archiv für Januar 2014

Serhii Plokhy, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires

Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/44/1/175?rss=1

The Eastern Front in World War II

Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/44/1/103?rss=1

Frank Tallett and D. J. B. Trim, eds, European Warfare 1350-1750

Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/44/1/190?rss=1

Brother or Other? East European Students in Soviet Higher Education Establishments, 1948-1956

After World War II, bilateral agreements within the Eastern bloc brought youth from the newly established satellite states of Eastern Europe to study in higher education establishments in the USSR. Designed to impart Soviet knowledge and practices in …

Danielle Kostroun, Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns

Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/44/1/162?rss=1

Negotiating Integration in Berlin’s Waxing Studios: Brazilian Migrants‘ Gendered Appropriation of Urban Consumer Spaces and ‚Ethnic‘ Entrepreneurship

Current discussions on immigration in Germany emphasize the economic benefits of migrant economies and ethnic entrepreneurship, pointing to the positive effects on the ‘integration’ of migrants into the German labour market and into German…

Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany: Parallel Societies in a Hostile Environment

This article explores the relationship between Displaced Persons (DPs) and Germans in the postwar decade, focusing mostly on Ukrainian DPs. It shows how their almost complete separation from the German population led to well developed parallel societi…

Migration and Urban Transformations: Frankfurt in the 1960s and 1970s

This article investigates the intersections of urban transformations and migration in the 1960s and 1970s, in the case of Frankfurt am Main. The socio-political and spatial transformations of the city, which began in the course of the guest worker reg…

The Oder-Neisse Line as a Place of Remembrance for Germans and Poles

This article takes the Oder region as an example to demonstrate the way in which memories of the Second World War and the postwar years are cultivated by residents of the region, and furthermore, how the place of remembrance of the Oder–Neisse l…

Anti-colonialism in a Post-Imperial Environment – The Case of Berlin, 1914-33

The period between the two world wars was formative for the emergence of anti-colonialism on a conceptual and organizational level. This article takes a closer look at the role Berlin played in that process during the First World War and the Weimar er…