Die SPD und die NS-Vergangenheit 1945–1990
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Die SPD und die NS-Vergangenheit 1945–1990</span>. By MeyerKristina. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2015. 550 pp. €42.00 (hardback).</span>
Archiv für September 2016
Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin</span>. By VasudevanAlexander. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell. 2015. xiii + 242 pp. $39…
Konfliktaustragung im norddeutschen Raum des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Konfliktaustragung im norddeutschen Raum des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts</span>. By DirksFlorian. Göttingen: V & R unipress. 2015. 341 pp. €50.00 (hardback).</span>
Täter und Komplizen in Theologie und Kirchen 1933-1945
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Täter und Komplizen in Theologie und Kirchen 1933-1945</span>. Edited by GailusManfred. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2015. 260 pp. £18.77 (paperback).</span>
Gewalt und Widerstand in der politischen Kultur des späten Mittelalters (Vorträge und Forschungen 80)
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Gewalt und Widerstand in der politischen Kultur des späten Mittelalters (Vorträge und Forschungen 80)</span>. Edited by KintzingerMartin, RexrothFrank and RoggeJörg. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2015. 372 pp. €56.00 (hardback).</span>
Populäre Geschichte im Kaiserreich: Familienzeitschriften als Akteure der deutschen Geschichtskultur 1890–1913
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Populäre Geschichte im Kaiserreich: Familienzeitschriften als Akteure der deutschen Geschichtskultur 1890–1913</span>. By ReuschNina. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 2015. 400 pp. €39.99 (paperback).</span>
Experiment Einheit: Zeithistorische Essays
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Experiment Einheit: Zeithistorische Essays</span>. Edited by SabrowMartin and KochAlexander. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2015. 168 pp. €16.00 (paperback).</span>
Der Freud Komplex: Eine Geschichte der Psychoanalyse in Deutschland
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Der Freud Komplex: Eine Geschichte der Psychoanalyse in Deutschland</span>. By KaudersAnthony. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. 2014. 399 pp. €23.99 (hardback).</span>
Pandora’s Post Box: Empire and Information in India, 1854–1914 *
<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>This essay examines the historical relationship between empire and information in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British Asia through a new examination of the imperial post. It argues that the creation of an Indian penny post in 1854 set in motion an information revolution which impacted regionally on literate and illiterate Indian subjects of the British Empire, on Indian publishers, and on colonial administrators. What historians have so far written about Britain’s imperial post has largely presented it as an instrument of modern colonial state-building. When it has merited attention as an engine of social communication it has been mistakenly judged an outright failure. But, as this essay argues, a study of the imperial post reveals Britain’s colonial state, within the wider context of a very illiberal British imperialism in Asia, trying to behave like a liberal one. While its desire for control and surveillance pulled it in one direction, Victorian notions of free trade, which in turn demanded an unrestricted circulation of information, pulled it in another. These contradictory impulses have largely been ignored in a literature more often focused on the authoritarian aspects of British rule after 1850; yet, as this study suggests, they are fundamental to comprehending both the history of the imperial post and the everyday foundations of Britain’s imperial authority in India.</span>