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German Studies
Interviews with scholars of Germany about their new books.
October 22, 2024
Frederick Barbarossa
For all of his importance as a medieval ruler, there are surprisingly few biographies in English of the German emperor Frederick Barbarossa (c. 1122-1…
October 21, 2024
Marx's Ethical Vision
Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital ha…
October 18, 2024
Becoming Hitler
Few would dispute that Hitler's ideas led to war and genocide. Less clear however, is how and when those ideas developed. In his latest book, Becoming…
October 16, 2024
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2023) exam…
October 15, 2024
Children are Everywhere
Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how d…
October 8, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
Over 150 years ago, Marx published the first volume of Capital, a systematic and voluminous account of capitalism, from the economic bedrock all t…
October 6, 2024
The Eastern Front
Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its sca…
October 5, 2024
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the mom…
September 30, 2024
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world s…
September 28, 2024
The Enlightenment
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents…
September 27, 2024
Between the Wires
Waitman Wade Beorn's book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) tells for the first time…
September 25, 2024
The Fall of Berlin
In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the…
September 24, 2024
Lost Music of the Holocaust
Scores sewn into coat linings, instruments hidden in suitcases, sheet music stashed among dirty laundry, concertos written on discarded food wrappers …
September 23, 2024
The Far-Right Threat in German Politics
The recent elections in eastern Germany, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to win a parliamentary election at t…
September 21, 2024
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan Europ…
September 21, 2024
Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury
Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of Edinb…
September 18, 2024
The German Stranger
Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish emigrant to the United States, an author, professor and political philosopher. Born in 1899 in Kirchhain in the Kingdo…
September 16, 2024
Capital
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Th…
September 12, 2024
The Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Prince…
September 5, 2024
Fate Unknown
In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great…