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Communication Breakdown: Sports Federations and Media Politics in the Weimar Republic 传播崩溃：魏玛共和国的体育联合会与媒体政治

IF 0.6 2区历史学

German History Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad050

Christopher Young

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Ordinary Weimar: Global Press Photography, ‘Distant Seeing’ and the Normalcy of Crisis in the 1920s 平凡的魏玛：全球新闻摄影、“远见卓识”与20世纪20年代危机的常态

IF 0.6 2区历史学

German History Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad046

Malte Zierenberg

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Transnational Propaganda and National Media Cultures in Weimar Political Thought 魏玛政治思想中的跨国宣传与民族媒介文化

2区历史学

German History Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad049

Benno Nietzel

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Introduction: Communication in the Weimar Republic 导言:魏玛共和国的通讯

2区历史学

German History Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad045

Christopher Young, Malte Zierenberg

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Currywurst & Co.: Die Geschichte des Fast Food in Deutschland 咖喱香肠等:德国快餐的历史

IF 0.6 2区历史学

German History Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad040

P. Panayi

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Transnational Imaginations of Socialism: Town Twinning and Local Government in ‘Red’ Italy and the GDR 社会主义的跨国想象:“红色”意大利和德意志民主共和国的城镇结对和地方政府