Archiv für Mai 2016

Giftpfeile über der Front–Flugschriftpropaganda im und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/2/334?rss=1

Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Qeqchi Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’ (la raza mejorada), which allows them claim both tradition and authenticity as well as racial whiteness and modernity….

The Adenauer Governments Pensions Reform of 1957–a Question of Justice

The pensions reform of 1957 marked a turning point in the history of the German welfare state, ushering in a root-and-branch reorganization of the old-age pension system in order to ‘secure living standards’. The present article seeks to i…

Inauguration and political liturgy in the Hohenstaufen Empire, 1138-1215

The Gregorian reform movement in general, and events at Canossa in 1077 in particular, have been credited with tarnishing the lustre of sacral kingship within the Empire. In this paper narrative, liturgical and material sources are drawn upon, to demo…

Cultural Transfer and the Eighteenth-Century Queen Consort

Dynastic marriage in the Europe of the ancien régime is built upon the assumption that a high-born woman will leave her natal family and the territory she grew up in and travel to the court and territory of her spouse. Were these foreign-born q…

Surveillance in German History

Quelle: http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/34/2/293?rss=1

The Preussenrenaissance Revisited: German-German Entanglements, the Media and the Politics of History in the late German Democratic Republic

The ‘Renaissance of Prussianism’ (Preußenrenaissance), which began in the late 1970s and continued throughout the 1980s in the German Democratic Republic, has received considerable scholarly attention. Discussions have focused on the…

Ökonomisches Vertrauen und antisemitische Gewalt: Jüdische Viehhändler in Mittelfranken 1919–1939

<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Ökonomisches Vertrauen und antisemitische Gewalt: Jüdische Viehhändler in Mittelfranken 1919–1939</span> . By FischerStefanie . Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag . 2014 . 368 pp. 34.90€ (hardback). </span>

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Quelle: http://journals.openedition.org/labyrinthe/4371

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, Germs and Public Health in Dublin, 1862–1882

<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Summary</div>Studies of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia influenced the formation of ideas about disease transmission in Dublin between 1862 and 1882. Public health officials used …