Archiv für Oktober 2012

Twentieth Century Flick: Business History in the Age of Extremes

Business history has long prospered in its institutional niche while remaining on the outer rim of contemporary history. The recent boom in German business history, though, has shown that the insights gained from economic and business studies add sign…

Peter Hayes and John K. Roth (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/47/4/902?rss=1

‚Serve to Save‘: Gender, Citizenship and Civil Defence in Britain 1937-41

In the 1930s the British government developed a system of air raid precautions as a measure against the aerial warfare which was increasingly becoming a feature of contemporary conflict. The air raid precautions system devised by the British governmen…

Ernst Rohm versus General Hans Kundt in Bolivia, 1929-30? The Curious Incident

The role of German officers in the Bolivian military was domestically and internationally controversial in the interwar period. The most prominent of these officers, General Hans Kundt, played a major role in Bolivian history and politics. From 1929&n…

Re-territorializing the ‚Guilty City‘: Nationalist and Right-wing Attempts to Nationalize Budapest during the Interwar Period

In addition to successive Hungarian governments’ revisionist agenda and the re-education of the population in a Christian and national spirit, the symbolic takeover of Budapest spaces was another priority of Hungarian nationalist policy during t…

Donald Bloxham and Robert Gerwarth (eds), Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/47/4/894?rss=1

The Australian Catholic Church and the Public Sphere: World Youth Day 2008*

World Youth Day 2008 was the largest public religious gathering in Australian history, which proudly celebrated Catholicism in the streets of Sydney. This article argues that the organization and outcomes of World Youth Day 2008 were significantly sha…

New Literary Observer | 117 (2012)

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/nlo/issue/2012-10-11.html

Managing great powers in the post-Cold War world: old rules new game? The case of the global war on terror

Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.

Managing great powers in the post-Cold War world: old rules new game? The case of the global war on terror

Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-28, Ahead of Print.