Articles in English

In this Issue

Lena Kaufmann, Niklaus Remund

Swiss-Chinese Entanglements

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Transnational Economic Collaborations

Debjani Bhattacharyya, Nils Güttler, Lena Kaufmann, Brian Larkin

›Forms of Mixing‹: Contemporary History and Sociocultural Anthropology

A Conversation with Debjani Bhattacharyya and Brian Larkin

Madlen Kobi, Adam Przywara

Circular Economy as Human-Material Relation

Understanding the Reuse of Building Materials through Historical Sources and Ethnographic Data

Anna von der Goltz

›Black Is Beautiful‹

Radical Chic, Chromatic Politics, and Constructions of Race in the Campaigns of the West German Christian Democrats in the 1970s

Marc Volovici

The Language of Eichmann in Jerusalem

Nazi German and Other Forms of German in the 1961 Trial

Lynn L. Wolff

The Power of Language

The ›Wörterverzeichnis‹ of H.G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941–1945

Hannah Pollin-Galay

The Verbal Inheritance of Genocide

The Holocaust Through One Word: Shabreven

Miriam Chorley-Schulz

Anti-Monolingualism of Hannah Arendt – or, the Thesis of Taytsh

Thinking about German through Yiddish

Antero Holmila, Pertti Ahonen

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Many Faces of Finlandization and Some Potential Lessons for Ukraine

Michael Rembis

›We Had Very Good Times Together‹

A Mad People’s History of Life on Asylum Wards in the Early-Twentieth Century United States

Claire Shaw

Take Care of Your Hearing!

Fighting Deafness in the Stalinist 1930s

Nicholas Watson

Access Activism

The Politicization of Wheelchairs and Wheelchair Users in the Twentieth Century

Esme Cleall

Decolonising Deaf History

Harlan Lane, Postcolonialism, and Critical Colonial History

Olmo Gölz

The Wrestler's Strength and Humility

On Gholamreza Takhti, Masculinity, and the Search for Authenticity in a ›West-Infested‹ Iran

Jörg Arnold

›Gladiators for Women‹?

The British Miners, Muscular Masculinity and the Struggle for Workplace Rights, 1977 to 1984/85

Jan-Markus Vömel

Pathos and Discipline

Islamist Masculinity in Turkey, 1950–2000

Christiane Berth, Heike Wieters

›Wonder Foods‹ to End World Hunger?

International Organizations, NGOs, and Industrial Actors in Global Nutrition, 1940s to 1970s

Tom Scott-Smith

›Ethnographic Skepticism‹

A Conversation with Tom Scott-Smith

Chunjie Zhang

Chinese Rural Realism

Rereading Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth (1931)

Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Anouk Smeekes

Nostalgia and Populism

An Empirical Psychological Perspective

Makoto Harris Takao

Beyond Nostalgia and the Prison of English

Positioning Japan in a Global History of Emotions

Joanna Wawrzyniak

›Hard Times but Our Own‹

Post-Socialist Nostalgia and the Transformation of Industrial Life in Poland

In this Issue

The 50th Issue

Felix A. Jiménez Botta

From Antifascism to Human Rights

Politics of Memory in the West German Campaigns Against the Chilean and Argentinean Military Regimes, 1973–1990

Ofer Ashkenazi

Hidden in Plain Sight

The Nakba and the Legacy of the Israeli Historians’ Debate

Lawrence Douglas

Eyes Scratched In

Reflections on The Bramble Bush by Karl Llewellyn (1930)

Jan-Holger Kirsch

Obituary for Axel Schildt (1951-2019)

Editorial - 1/2019: Offenes Heft

Irial Glynn

A Gradual Relinquishment of National Sovereignty? A Comparative Analysis of Europe’s Response to Boat Migrants in Search of Asylum

(Reprint)

Editorial - 1/2018: Offenes Heft

Ewald Frie

1918/19: 100 Years On

Open Futures

Ruth Oldenziel

Mode of the Past or Promise for the Future?

Cycling in China and the Sustainability Challenge, 1955–Present

Shawn W. Miller

Automotive Enclosures

The ›Nature‹ of Rio de Janeiro’s Streets and the Elite Domination of the Urban Commons, 1900–1960

Christopher Neumaier, Helmuth Trischler, Christopher Kopper

Visions – Spaces – Conflicts

Mobility and Environment in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Massimo Moraglio

Time, Speed and Western Movies

Revisiting Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Bret Edwards

Aeromobile Sprawl

Mass Air Travel and its Socio-Environmental Impact in 1970s Canada

Norman Domeier

Secret Photos

The Cooperation between Associated Press and the National Socialist Regime, 1942–1945

Editorial - 2/2017: Offenes Heft

Frank Bösch

Refugees Welcome?

The West German Reception of Vietnamese ›Boat People‹

Scott H. Krause

The Presentation of a Cold Warrior

Willy Brandt’s My Road to Berlin (1960)

Editorial - 1/2017: Offenes Heft

Jakob Skovgaard

›To Make a Statement‹

The Representation of Black Consciousness in Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom (1987)

Detlef Siegfried

Aporias of the Cultural Boycott

Anti-Apartheid Movement, ANC and the Conflict Surrounding Paul Simon’s Album Graceland (1985–1988)

Steven L.B. Jensen

Embedded or Exceptional?

Apartheid and the International Politics of Racial Discrimination

Jakob Skovgaard

Subpolitics and the Campaign against Barclays’ Involvement in South Africa

(Reprint)

Rob Skinner

»Every Bite Buy a Bullet«: Sanctions, Boycotts and Solidarity in Transnational Anti-Apartheid Activism

(Reprint)

Harriet Scharnberg

The A and P of Propaganda

Associated Press and Nazi Photojournalism

Editorial - 1/2016: Offenes Heft

Dieter Plehwe, Matthias Schmelzer

Marketing Marketization

The Power of Neoliberal Expert, Consulting, and Lobby Networks

Rudolf Kučera

Making Standards Work

Semantics of Economic Reform in Czechoslovakia, 1985–1992

Alexander Engel

The Bang after the Boom: Understanding Financialization

Ralf Ahrens

Theories for Historians. Economics, Economic Sociology, and the History of Marketization

Introduction

Sebastian Teupe

Everyday Transactions and Great Transformations

Markets and Marketization from the Perspective of New Economic Sociology

Andrea Germer

Adapting Russian Constructivism and Socialist Realism

The Japanese Overseas Photo Magazine FRONT (1942–1945)

Sarah Goodrum

A Socialist Family of Man

Rita Maahs' and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler's Exhibition Vom Glück des Menschen

Editorial - 1/2015: Offenes Heft

Quinn Slobodian

Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles

West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam, 1968–1982

Stefanie Eisenhuth, Scott H. Krause

Inventing the ›Outpost of Freedom‹

Transatlantic Narratives and the Historical Actors Crafting West Berlin’s Postwar Political Culture

David E. Barclay

A »Complicated Contrivance«. West Berlin behind the Wall, 1971–1989

(Reprint)

Editorial - 1/2014: Offenes Heft

Santanu Das, Gerhard Hirschfeld, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Boris Kolonitskii, Jay Winter

Global Perspectives on World War I

A Roundtable Discussion

Mayumi Hayashi

Residential Care for Older People in Contemporary Britain and Japan

Recent Research Trends and Outcomes

Pat Thane

Women and Ageing in the Twentieth Century

(Reprint)

Anna Ivanova

Shopping in Beriozka

Consumer Society in the Soviet Union

Jens Gieseke

Social Inequality in State Socialism

An Outline

Patryk Wasiak

Debating Consumer Durables, Luxury and Social Inequality in Poland during the System Transition

(Reprint)

Sonia Combe

Confiscated Histories

Access to ‘Sensitive’ Government Records and Archives in France

Editorial - 1/2013: Offenes Heft

Maria Couroucli, Vangelis Karamanolakis

Renegotiations of Twentieth-Century History

Access to ‘Sensitive’ Government Records and Archives in Greece

Annette Vowinckel

Comment: Chickens and Eggs – an Expanded View

Klaus Nathaus, C. Clayton Childress

The Production of Culture Perspective in Historical Research

Integrating the Production, Meaning and Reception of Symbolic Objects

Stefanie Middendorf

Comment: (Popular) Culture as Product – Contingencies of Cultural Change

James Sumner

‘Today, Computers Should Interest Everybody’

The Meanings of Microcomputers

Niels Brügger

Web History and the Web as a Historical Source

Christian Göbel

Information Technology and the Future of the Chinese State: How the Internet Shapes State-Society Relations in the Digital Age

(Reprint)

Editorial - 1/2012: Offenes Heft

Franz Mauelshagen

The ‘Anthropocene’

A Case for a Climate History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Eliane Ursula Ettmüller

Caricature and Egypt’s Revolution of 25 January 2011

Frank Uekötter

Green Nazis? Reassessing the Environmental History of Nazi Germany

(Reprint)

Sandrine Kott

International Organizations – A Field of Research for a Global History

Celia Donert, Janou Glencross

Gendering Universalisms in International History

Emma Rothschild

Arcs of Ideas. International History and Intellectual History

(Reprint)

Annegret Fauser

Cultural Musicology: New Perspectives on World War II

Yaron Jean

‘Silenced Power’

Warfare Technology and the Changing Role of Sounds in Twentieth-Century Europe

Monika Röther 

Pop Songs for the Tape Recorder, LPs for the Record Player? The Market Launch of Tape Recorders in West Germany and the Copyright Debate on Young Consumers’ Practice of Tape-recording in the 1950s and 1960s

(Reprint)

Timothy S. Brown

Music as a Weapon? ›Ton Steine Scherben‹ and the Politics of Rock in Cold War Berlin

(Reprint)

Astrid M. Eckert

‘Greetings from the Zonal Border’

Tourism to the Iron Curtain in West Germany

Editorial - 1/2011: Offenes Heft

Uta Andrea Balbier

Billy Graham in West Germany

German Protestantism between Americanization and Rechristianization, 1954–70

Elena Dragomir

Perceptions of Social Security in Communist Romania

Editorial - 1/2010: Offenes Heft

Stefan Link

Rethinking the Ford-Nazi Connection

(Reprint)

Editorial - 1/2009: Offenes Heft

Michael E. O’Sullivan

West German Miracles

Catholic Mystics, Church Hierarchy, and Postwar Popular Culture

Devin O. Pendas

‘Political Tyranny and Ideological Crime’

Rereading ‘Anatomy of the SS State’

Jeffrey K. Olick

Turning Points and Myths of German Memory

Andrew Stuart Bergerson

All Politics is Local

Revisiting William Sheridan Allen’s Northeim

A. Dirk Moses

The Holocaust and Genocide

(Reprint)

Kiran Klaus Patel

Welfare in the Warfare State: Nazi Social Policy on the International Stage

(Reprint)

Mihran Dabag

Modern Societies and Collective Violence: The Framework of Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies

(Reprint)

Hope Harrison

A Cold War Museum for Berlin

Editorial - 2/2008: Offenes Heft

Muriel Blaive

Utopian visions

The ‘Cold War’ and its political aesthetics

Ignacio Farías

Destination Berlin: Orderings of City-Identity in Contemporary Tourist Guidebooks

Editorial - 3/2007: Offenes Heft

Łukasz Stanek

Methodologies and Situations of Urban Research

Re-reading Henri Lefebvre’s ’The Production of Space’

Editorial - 1-2/2007: Offenes Heft

Jacco Pekelder

Towards Another Concept of the State: Historiography of the 1970s in the USA and Western Europe

(Reprint)

Editorial - 2/2006: Offenes Heft

Benjamin Zachariah

Responses to Empire

‘Indian’ Perspectives from the Twentieth Century

Alexander J. Motyl

Thinking About Empire

(Reprint)

Ilya Gerasimov/Serguei Glebov/Alexander Kaplunovskii/Marina Mogilner/Alexander Semyonov

In Search of a New Imperial History

(Reprint)

Mark R. Beissinger

Rethinking Empire in the Wake of Soviet Collapse

(Reprint)

Holger Nehring

Politics, Symbols and the Public Sphere

The Protests against Nuclear Weapons in Britain and West Germany, 1958-1963

Editorial - 2/2005: Offenes Heft

Beatrice Heuser

Wars since 1945

An Introduction

Motti Golani

From Civil War to Interstate War and Back again

The War over Israel/Palestine, 1945–2000

Dirk Bönker

Military History, Militarization, and the „American Century“

Andrew Spicer

What Cannot Be Said

„Silent Dust“ (1949) and the Malevolent Veteran

Biray Kolluoglu-Kirli

From History of Civilization to World History

Rethinking the Boundaries of Europe

John Horne

War and Conflict in Contemporary European History, 1914–2004

David Rey

Laughing at the Dictator

Franco and Franco’s Spain in the Spanish Blockbuster „Mortadelo y Filemón“

Alexander Eisenschmidt, Jonathan Mekinda

Architecture as a Document of Historical Change

Three Examples from Post-war Europe

Editorial - 3/2004: Europäisierung der Zeitgeschichte?

Editorial - 2/2004: Mediengeschichte(n)

Editorial - 1/2004: Zeitgeschichte heute – Stand und Perspektiven

Mary Fulbrook

Approaches to German Contemporary History since 1945

Politics and Paradigms