Archiv für Januar 2016

Per Hogselius, Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Gas Dependence

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/201?rss=1

Formula Pinochet: Chilean Lessons for Russian Liberal Reformers during the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

Numerous references to the Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet run through Soviet and Russian political discourse from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Official representations of Pinochet, a carefully constructed bogeyman of Soviet domestic and fo…

Spencer Mawby, Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-69

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/197?rss=1

A Case of Diplomatic Symbiosis: France, Israel and the Former French Colonies in Africa, 1958-62

This article deals with the interesting three-way relationship between Israel, France, and the former French colonies in Africa located south of the Sahara during the years 1958–62. The main argument of the paper is that in French Africa Israel …

Maria Mitchell, The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/192?rss=1

Between Empire and Nation: A Micro-Historical Approach to Japanese Repatriation and the Korean Economy During the US Occupation of Korea, 1945-6

After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, nearly a million Japanese people initiated a massive repatriation movement back to Japan from former imperial Japanese territories in Manchuria and Korea. Utilizing a micro-historical approach to examine Ja…

The Dark Side of Transnationalism Social Engineering and Nazism, 1930s-40s

This article introduces the special section on the history of social engineering and Nazism during the 1930s and 1940s. It sketches the object of social engineering, the historiographical debates surrounding it, the place of Nazism in this discussion …

The Gospel of Enthusiasm: Salesmanship, Religion and Colonialism in Australian Department Stores in the 1920s and 1930s

This article considers the nexus between Christian religious practices and the emerging commercial institution of the department store in interwar Australia. It argues that interwar sales managers used religious ritual and language as transitional beh…

Mitchell B. Lerner (ed.), A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/202?rss=1

Hitlers Africa in the East: Italian Colonialism as a Model for German Planning in Eastern Europe

Since Hannah Arendt’s essay on the ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’ in 1951, there has been a vivid scholarly debate about a nexus between Imperial Germany’s colonial endeavours in Africa and the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. …