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  • African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

    by Sara Pugach ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students started coming to the East in 1951 as invited guests who were offered scholarships by the East German government to prepare them for primarily technical and scientific careers once they returned home to their own countries. Drawn from previously ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Africa in Translation

    A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945

    by Sara Pugach ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    The study of African languages in Germany, or Afrikanistik, originated among Protestant missionaries in the early nineteenth century and was incorporated into German universities after Germany entered the “Scramble for Africa” and became a colonial power in the 1880s. Despite its long history, few know about the German literature on African languages or the prominence of Germans in the discipline ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • After the Imperialist Imagination

    Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies

    Edited by Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, Adam Blackler ...
    Series Book 3 - Transnational Cultures
    «After the Imperialist Imagination underscores that imperialism’s hold on Germans’ sense of the global is not yet exhausted, but places greater weight on contestations than its predecessor. I commend the volume for making a noteworthy contribution to a thriving constellation of fields.» (Katrin Sieg, German Studies Review, 45.3, October 2022, pp. 611–613)The precursor to this book, Sara ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

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  • German Colonialism

    A Short History

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    Translated by Sorcha O'Hagan ...
    Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World

    Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany

    by Marcia C. Schenck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.This book draws on more than 260 life history ... Read more

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  • Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany

    by Dennis Sweeney ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of trade unions, Saar employers were revered for their system of factory organization, which was both ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Black Germany

    The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960

    by Robbie Aitken, Eve Rosenhaft ...
    This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II. Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft follow the careers of Africans arriving from the colonies, examining why and where they settled, their working lives and their political activities, and giving unprecedented attention to gender, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

    Edited by Liesbeth van de Grift, Amalia Forclaz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governance in the interwar years. The post-war need to secure and intensify food production, to protect contested border areas, to improve rural infrastructure and the economic viability of rural regions and to politically integrate rural populations, gave rise ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Broken Promises

    The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

    by Fritz Bartel ...
    A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Atlantic Realists

    Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States

    by Matthew Specter ...
    In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Against the World

    Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

    by Tara Zahra ...
    A brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today’s battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global inequality.Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women’s rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Imperial Germany 1871-1918

    Edited by James Retallack ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of Germany
    The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent; its science and technology, education, and municipal administration were the envy of the world; ... Read more

    $36.89 USD