Central European History最新文献

{"title":"The Gespenst of Postcolonial Theory","authors":"Anne Berg","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000055","url":null,"abstract":"“What is going on in Germany?” asked Natalie Zemon Davis after Munich suspended the acclaimed play Vögel (Birds) by Wajdi Mouawad in November 2022. Davis, a renowned historian, had been deeply involved in the play's conception and production only to see it pulled for alleged antisemitism and Holocaust relativization.1 This was not an isolated example.2","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"273 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46117109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism: From Dictatorship to Populism By R. J. B. Bosworth. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 338. Cloth $32.50. ISBN: 978-0300232721.","authors":"Nicolas G. Virtue","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"328 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41549965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University By Emily J. Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 392. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 978-0226341811.","authors":"Sandra L. Singer","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000328","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"311 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42164865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politisierung der Alpen. Umweltbewegungen in der Ära der Europäischen Integration (1970-2000) By Romed Aschwanden. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. Pp. 347. Hardcover €60.00. ISBN: 978-3412521349.","authors":"M. Landry","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"348 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49140212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die Theorie der Seuche. Krankheitskonzepte und Pestbewältigung im Mittelalter By Katharina Wolff. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 445. Hardback $82.75. ISBN: 978-3515129695.","authors":"Lucy C. Barnhouse","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000134","url":null,"abstract":"Katharina Wolff ’ s monograph is an ambitious one, studying both medieval theories of plague and how the study of such theories was intertwined with the work of historians of medicine at the time of the bacteriological revolution. Wolff examines not only how medieval European societies coped with infectious disease but also the sociocultural significance of the historiography of medieval epidemics. “ Sickness, ” Wolff argues, “ happens to individuals, diseases hap-pen to societies ” (18, 272). Linking the disparate elements of her study is the argument that epidemics are always defined by those observing them, whether those observers are medieval chroniclers, modern scholars of the humanities, or scientists in either period","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"306 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44916057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two German Perspectives on a German Discussion","authors":"W. Gruner, S. Schüler-Springorum","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000067","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution results from a place of serious discomfort regarding recent public and academic discussions in Germany, where Holocaust memory and its political instrumentalization have seemed to produce a growing dogmatism, harming academic freedom. Because we both direct university research centers in Berlin and Los Angeles dedicated to the study of the Holocaust, we have decided to join forces and share our particular German perspectives on this debate. Our views are in part generational, in part personal.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"278 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43794202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms By Kira Thurman. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. Hardcover $32.95. ISBN: 978-1501759840.","authors":"Karen Painter","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000262","url":null,"abstract":"as the female sphere of domesticity” (246). I wondered, though, if and how telegraphy contributed to constructions of masculinity in communications. As Johnston notes, the history of telegraphy is “remarkably overlooked in the historiography of modern Germany” (2). This book goes a very long way to rectifying that lacuna. Hopefully, this book will receive the wide readership from historians of Germany, technology, and media that it deserves.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"314 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46875956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flaschenkinder. Säuglingsernährung und Familienbeziehungen in Deutschland und Schweden im 20. Jahrhundert By Verena Limper. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. Pp. 532. Hardcover €70.00. ISBN: 978-3412519759.","authors":"Friederike Kind-Kovács","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000195","url":null,"abstract":"Hayes was earning “outrageous sums of money” for his engagements (110)? How do we know that “applauding African American concert performers sometimes functioned as a symbolic gesture of protest against American racism” (122)? Scholars can disagree on how to interpret sources, but the material in Thurman’s book is always riveting. We learn that in 1909, “a stormy colonial debate reached parliament about a Black musician named Gustav Sabac el Cher” (91). In fact, the matter before the Reichstag was the downsizing of troops stationed in Cameroon, which provoked a lengthy speech from General Eduard von Liebert. Briefly lamenting the music budget (why did German battalions need a bass drum and why couldn’t musicians double as combat soldiers?), von Liebert mentioned a rumor that a Prussian cavalry regiment had a Black drummer and a Prussian infantry regiment had a Black “conductor or drum major.” There was, however, no debate: von Liebert (who later joined the Nazi Party) acknowledged that “race is a question normally avoided” and quickly returned to the subject of the military budget. Quibbling with details does not undermine the book’s forceful argument. For example, the sexist and racist term “pretty, exotic bird” is how one man, in 1975, recounted first seeing the Black woman who became his partner—it was not a trope in “West German magazine articles” (227)—but the fascination with sexuality and celebration of interracial unions are crucial to changes in the reception of Black musicians. The attentive reader will be surprised that musicians and institutions are reintroduced in subsequent chapters, but flawed copyediting in no way diminishes the significance of the book. Thurman’s courage to tell a different story, one suppressed for generations, will inspire musicologists and historians to listen more carefully to how race and gender were experienced in the exalted spaces of classical music.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"316 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56743062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Great Disappearing Act: Germans in New York City, 1880–1930 By Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 225. Paperback $29.95. ISBN: 978-1978823181. - Philadelphia's Germans: From Colonial Settlers to Enemy Aliens By Richard N. Juliani. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. v + 327. Cloth $120.00. ISBN: 978-1793651792. - Germans in America: A Concise History By Walter D. Kamphoefner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. vii + 301. …","authors":"Petra DeWitt","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000110","url":null,"abstract":"The Great Disappearing Act: Germans in New York City, 1880–1930 By Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 225. Paperback $38.00. ISBN: 978-1442264977. - Volume 56 Issue 2","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135726817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 By Harald Jähner. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Pp. xv + 394. Cloth $30.00. ISBN: 978-0593319734.","authors":"Jason Johnson","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000183","url":null,"abstract":"did not rush to join the “warrior community.” This was not just due to war fatigue and a growing distrust of state-provided information, but also a general dislike of Goebbels himself and the moral and material corruption of the Nazi leadership that he represented. This is an unexpected revelation in the book, that Germans, during the final months of the war, became increasingly concerned with government corruption and the inequalities within society more generally. Lohse suggests that many citizens were reacting to the failure of the Nazis’ promised social revolution. The topic of the Holocaust, specifically the dissemination and reception of information related to mass atrocities in the East is tackled in chapter 3. Journals, letters, SD reports, and POW recordings reveal that antisemitism was prevalent among civilians and soldiers and that many Germans “knew something” (74) about the killings. Rumors of mass executions were common, but stories of death camps and gas chambers were exceedingly rare. Nearly all rumored atrocities were attributed to the SS and its much-disliked leader, Heinrich Himmler. Chapter 4 investigates the popular response to the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler and the early stages of the Allied invasion of Germany. Again, reactions were mixed. Some citizens expressed their sustained loyalty to the regime, while others grew more resentful of the leadership. No meaningful insight is gained here, simply that German morale continued to decrease alongside internal regime radicalization and home-front mobilization. The final chapter continues to resist a singular view of the German experience of defeat. The tragic battles of 1945 were met largely with desperation, but an enduring faith in Hitler and his messianic qualities inspired many citizens to continue fighting. Total defeat did not slow down the rumor mill, as gossip spread about the Führer’s declining health and refugees from the East delivered stories of violent acts carried out by the advancing Red Army. In the book’s conclusion, Lohse reminds us that there is no single story of Germans at war, and that it was not her intention to “forge one out of the chorus of voices” (150). While she does not attempt to assess the human condition or make any broad sociological claims, Lohse’s study is ultimately about how individuals, and their communities, make sense of wartime tragedy and hopelessness. German citizens were heavily influenced by the Hitler regime and its propaganda, but ultimately they constructed their own reality, in large part by collecting informal information from family members, friends, colleagues, and comrades. They talked a lot about the war and actively built and negotiated narratives of their own experiences of it. Prevail until the Bitter End offers a myriad of rich firsthand accounts, many of them never “heard” before, and is accompanied by meaningful analysis. Furthermore, Lohse’s work contributes to the still emerging and highly promising field of r","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"336 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43474816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"人文科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}