Chris Millington and Kevin Passmore (eds), Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918-1940
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Archiv für Juni 2016
A Smashing Success? The Paradox of Hungarian Cultural Imperialism in Nazi New Order Europe, 1939-42
This article investigates the flooding of the Yugoslav film market by Hungarian features between 1939 and 1941, the impact of which continued well into 1942. This torrent and the simultaneous expansion of Hungary’s domestic market substantially …
Music and Protest: The Case of the 1960s and its Long Shadow
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Into the Tiger’s Den: Japan and the Tripartite Pact, 1940
This article reconsiders the birth of the Axis alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy. Most scholarship correctly suggests that the Tripartite Pact was aimed at the United States of America. But existing scholarship largely neglects what is a surp…
German Child Distress, US Humanitarian Aid and Revisionist Politics, 1918-24
This article explores Weimar Germany’s strategic use of German child distress to win US popular support for a revision of the Versailles treaty. Through the early 1920s German officials deliberately publicized the innocent suffering of German children…
At the Intersection of Modernities: Migrants as Agents of Economic and Cultural Change
This article analyzes the infusion of North American ideas, culture and experience into the Soviet society, and depicts immigrants as agents of social and cultural change. Having embodied North American representations of modernity, they introduced ne…
Samuel Kalman, French Colonial Fascism: The Extreme Right in Algeria, 1919-1939
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Banknotes from the Underground: Counterfeiting and the International Order in Interwar Europe
In December 1925, a group of Hungarian nationalists were caught trying to put into circulation a large quantity of counterfeit francs in a bid to weaken the French economy and fund irredentist action in Central Europe. This article uses this plot and …
‚Keeping with Contemporary Times: Social Tourism and West German Youth Hostel Organizations, 1950s-80s
This article examines the organizations that ran youth hostels in West Germany from the 1950s to 1989. It analyses whether they reconfigured their aims and practices against the backdrop of the cultural, social and political transformations that West …
The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class Under the British Mandate, 1920-39
The Palestinian-Arab middle class under the Mandate may be characterized as bourgeois and educated, similarly to bourgeois classes that have developed in the West in the Modern era. The bourgeois characteristics of the Palestinian-Arab middle class, a…