Roger Fieldhouse and Richard Taylor (eds), E.P. Thompson and English Radicalism; Cal Winslow (ed.), E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics
Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/194?rss=1
Archiv für Januar 2016
Engineering the European Volksgemeinschaft: Social Engineering, Pedagogy and Fascism in the case of the Swiss Alfred Zander
This article examines transnational social engineering through a biographical study of Alfred Zander, a Swiss member of a humanist and internationalist pedagogical movement known as New Education and later a founding member of Swiss fascism and a volu…
Jerry Davila, Dictatorship in South America
Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/206?rss=1
Architecture and Urban Planning as Social Engineering: Selective Transfers between Germany and Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s
This article considers selective transfers of knowledge between Swedish and German architects and urban planners from the early 1930s to the mid-1940s. It contextualizes such transfers with regard to transnational practices of social engineering in this period. By analysing mutual observations by protagonists working in institutions such as the DAF Reichsheimstättenamt or the Swedish state commission on housing, Bostadssociala utredningen, it argues that transfers were motivated by a shared conviction that architecture and city planning could contribute to an ‘ordering’ of society. Experts in both countries were committed to the ideal of an organic community, which, to them, appeared to be threatened by modern mass society, but could be restored by spatial interventions based on objective, scientific knowledge. Due to this overarching frame of reference, architectural concepts could easily be cleared of their respective ideological context, allowing for cross-border communication. Transnational planning paradigms such as the ‘neighbourhood unit’ could be made to conform with political projects as different as the ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ in Nazi Germany and the ‘People’s Home’ (folkhemmet) in Social Democratic Sweden.
Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews
Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/191?rss=1
Polly Jones, Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/1/199?rss=1
Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina
10.1080/14608944.2015.1127879<br/>Tony Collins
World society, international society and the periphery: British abolitionists and the post-slave state of Haiti in the early nineteenth century
10.1080/09557571.2015.1118997<br/>Cristian Cantir
Literate Laywomen, Male Medical Practitioners and the Treatment of Fertility Problems in Early Modern England
<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>This article examines the choices made by women in the literate classes in England in the seventeenth century with regards to the treatment of their fertility problems…
Paul Weindling, Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
<span class=“paragraphSection“>WeindlingPaul, <strong><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust</span></strong>, London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. xviii + 312. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4725 7993 5.</span>