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{"title":"Welt-Bildner. Arno Peters, Richard Buckminster Fuller und die Medien des Globalismus, 1940-2000 By David Kuchenbuch. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. Pp. 623. Hardback €70.00. ISBN: 978-3412521110.","authors":"Zef Segal","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"332 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43318546","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":"Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 By Jean-Michel Johnston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 281. Cloth £75.00. ISBN: 978-0198856887.","authors":"Heidi J. S. Tworek","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000365","url":null,"abstract":"did not necessarily eliminate discrimination and led to new difficulties. The progressive Black Mountain College in North Carolina welcomed Jews, but its efforts to create a truly democratic educational institution were diminished by racist and sexist policies. The New School in New York was a lifeline for many Jews and offered more opportunities for women as both faculty and students. But like Black Mountain, it began with an unrealistic business plan and almost ended in bankruptcy. Even separate research institutions created to compensate for inadequacies of the modern research university had limitations. Levine writes of the marginalization of women at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. More troubling is the question she raises about whether things might have unfolded differently if researchers at such institutions in Germany had been embedded in universities. Would their critical voices have helped the German universities resist Nazism? That hardly seems likely but is worth considering. In the brief concluding chapter, the reader is propelled forward into the post-World War II decades. Levine uses her sober analysis of the history of the modern research university and its alternatives to question the purpose and viability of current iterations of the research university and research institutions. She asks us to question much of what we have taken for granted about the structures of these institutions and lays down much fruitful ground for debate. As for technicalities, the book is thoroughly and extensively documented, although the vast comprehensive online bibliography still leaves out some of the sources used and quoted in the text and includes others that are never mentioned or cited. The copyeditors deserve high praise as there were very few errors and only one deserves mention. In the famous photo from Clark University on page 59, G. Stanley Hall is wrongly identified as Sigmund Freud. Freud is not “front row, center” but rather is sitting to Hall’s right!","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"312 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42417462","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":"Vom Gast zum Gastwirt? Türkische Arbeitswelten in West-Berlin By Stefan Zeppenfeld. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021. Pp. 430. Hardback €39.00. ISBN: 978-3835350229.","authors":"Lauren K Stokes","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000353","url":null,"abstract":"strong racial stock. The latter charge ironically came partly from their reading of Arendt’s careless comments concerning Jewish councils. And Arab writers agreed that Israel exploited the Holocaust in order to hide its own crimes. These charges have their true believers and scholarly apologists to this day. Indeed, Michael Berkowitz’s essay in the volume debunks, yet again, the notion of a Zionist-Nazi alliance, an idea fueled in part by Eichmann’s insistence at trial that he admired Zionist aims and tried to further them. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan’s essay on 1960s student movements in West Germany and the U.S. might be the volume’s most open-ended. For the New Left, which misread Arendt’s thesis of Eichmann’s unthinking banality, “Eichmann” became the architype for the postcolonial perpetrator of racist and imperialist crimes ranging from the American South to Vietnam – the ubiquitous petit bourgeois servant of atrocity reborn in the bureaucracy. Problems with this assessment were many. One was that this universalization of “Eichmann” was never applied to communist societies where the apparatchiks were more in keeping with Arendt’s conceptions of totalitarianism. Another was that, for protest movements, Eichmann’s crimes were divorced from their essential core, namely the destruction of Europe’s Jews. Stripped of their specificity, they could be applied willy-nilly, including against Israel, an expanding bête noire of the global left. Together, the essays in Wittmann’s fine volume reflect the long reach of the Eichmann trial. Yet ironically, they also reflect the persistent reach of Arendt’s reading of the trial, for Arendt’s assessment, flawed though it was, influenced and still influences how the Jerusalem proceedings were understood in everything from international law to postmodern assessments of power. In that sense, the essays reflect that Eichmann’s ashes, though scattered at sea after his execution in 1962, were scatted further than the Israelis ever intended. His trial is truly one without end.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"344 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42689570","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":"CCC volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"b1 - b4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44057658","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":"Spaces of Honor: Making German Civil Society, 1700–1914 By Heikki Lempa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 243. Cloth $80.00. ISBN: 978-0472132638.","authors":"Ann Le Bar","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000237","url":null,"abstract":"creation of dedicated plague hospitals that became more common in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, relying on miasma theory, continued to be the norm through the late nineteenth century. In a discussion of a rabies outbreak in Augsburg, Wolff points out the difference between the social and medical responses to a disease with clearly traceable infection patterns, and those to plague, more mysterious and therefore likely to have religious causation attributed to it. Although Wolff points out that miasma theory, not stigma, was responsible for the quarantine of convalescent residents of plague hospitals, she still treats segregation of the leprous as a norm from which Nürnberg departed. Chapters 5 and 7, bracketing the conclusion, are more clearly linked to each other than to the rest of the book. Chapter 5 provides a brief history of microbiology “from idea to science” (225), via biographical sketches. It asks provocatively what it might mean for a selfconsciously future-oriented discipline to look more thoughtfully to its past and to define that past more expansively. However, it occludes the history of the diffusion of ideas in favor of individual researchers and their discoveries. Max von Pettenkofer’s ideas about hygiene are described as making him “a figure between eras” (247-248). This approach to periodization seems to me to limit and undermine some of the work Wolff does elsewhere in connecting ancient and medieval theories and ignoring divisions sometimes made between the medieval and the early modern. This section, in contrast, seems to focus on paradigm shifts despite not locating them in precise historical moments. Chapter 7 argues that broadly based social responses to plague and epidemic disease were more normative in premodern societies than in our own. Wolff avoids direct comparisons between past and present but seems to suggest that the modern quest for certainty in the face of pandemic disease may be less accommodating to the needs of individuals and societies than medieval acceptance of ambiguity was. As the foregoing aims to make clear, Wolff’s work is conceptually ambitious. And in its case studies using archival sources, it is extremely impressive. But it is weakened in places by its failure to engage with relevant scholarship. Despite the analysis of plague treatises in chapter 3, Ann Carmichael’s work (“Universal and Particular: The Language of Plague, 1348– 1500,” Medical History Supplement 27 (2008): 17-52) is not cited. In several places, Wolff treats medieval leprosy as an epidemic combated with policies of segregation. Such ideas are far more prevalent in the historiography than in medieval Europe itself, and much valuable work since the influential study of Carole Rawcliffe (Leprosy in Medieval England [2006]) has dismantled such narratives. Perhaps most strikingly, in a work centrally concerned with both plague and public health in medieval Europe, neither Guy Geltner nor Monica Green appears in the ","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"307 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46458566","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":"“Migration Background” versus “Nazi Background”: (German) Debates on Post-Nazism, Post-Migration, and Postcolonialism","authors":"D. Rupnow","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000092","url":null,"abstract":"The politics of history and memory culture have recently been the topic of increased discussion again—and this discussion has by no means been cool-headed, but hot, with a high potential for conflict. An argument is ongoing in the public sphere over which (hi)stories are present and visible and which are not, who is being recognized and who is not, as well as what is being forgotten, repressed, or tacitly accepted in this context. Corresponding to this general development, a debate is currently ongoing in the German press that has been dubbed “Historikerstreit 2.0,” or “the historians’ debate reloaded.” The controversy was initially sparked by a discussion about the Cameroonian intellectual Achille Mbembe, his position toward the State of Israel, and his involvement with the BDS movement, before continuing on to a discussion about Michael Rothberg's book Multidirectional Memory when it was published in a German translation. Finally, the debates deepened with the controversy surrounding Dirk Moses's polemics concerning an ostensible “German catechism” with regard to Holocaust commemoration.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"294 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44733559","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":"Politiker und Impresario. Landeshauptmann Dr. Franz Rehrl und die Salzburger Festspiele By Robert Kriechbaumer. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2021. Pp. 564. Cloth €55.00. ISBN: 978-3205212614.","authors":"T. Kirk","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"323 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46837122","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":"Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919 By Eliza Ablovatski. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 302. Cloth £75.00. ISBN: 978-0521768306.","authors":"Ingrid Sharp","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000304","url":null,"abstract":"larger field continues to grow and yield new insights that expand our understanding of the past and its connection to the present. As a result, this compilation is strongly recommended reading for scholars of modern Germany, the Holocaust, the history of science and medicine, as well as for medical professionals and educators who will find echoes of the past in their contemporary practice. The overall emphasis on linkages, be they faint resonances or concrete continuities, extends the volume’s appeal to scholars of memory and trauma studies, and certain contributions would make the volume a valuable resource for specialists in Jewish studies, women’s and gender studies, law, and art theory.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"321 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43470691","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 Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon By Glenda Sluga. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 369. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 978-0691208213.","authors":"Matthew Levinger","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"309 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43088783","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":"Remembering to Change the World—Organizing Transnationally against Atrocity","authors":"Damani Partridge","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000079","url":null,"abstract":"When I first visited Auschwitz, I visited it as an analyst, a cultural anthropologist accompanying a group of mostly Turkish, Turkish-German, Palestinian, and Palestinian-German youth participating in a federally and locally sponsored program meant to teach them about German history and to address their own antisemitism.1 I was there as an observer who could not help but be dislodged from my professional role and deeply moved by flakes of bone on the ground, and sites of intimate, state-sponsored murder: a shooting wall where guards killed at close range; the collection and smell of the human hair of the murdered a wheelbarrow used to carry human ashes produced after the gas chamber in crematoria. I was moved also by the tears and horror of these same youth, also traumatized by the remains of state-sponsored mass murder. Although the program that led them to Auschwitz was meant to teach them democracy, I wondered about the extent to which actually existing democracy, using its tool of democratization, has the adequate means, humility, or desire to transform itself or to start anew from the position of the mass murdered, the slave, or the noncitizen. What unexpected lessons would it then learn?","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"283 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49438298","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}