{"title":"Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust Edited by Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, and Michael A. Grodin. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. Pp. xx + 391. Hardback $155.00. ISBN: 978-1789207842.","authors":"Sari J. Siegel","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000316","url":null,"abstract":"to the general field of modern history. By daring to write this history of infant feeding as a combined history of knowledge and its transfer, of its material “ things ” and their use, and of the involved historical actors and their daily feeding practices, Verena Limper offers a very innovative approach to the history of the bottle-fed child.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"318 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44777191","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":"Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990 By Julia E. Ault. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 300. Hardback $99.99. ISBN: 978-1316519141.","authors":"Scott Moranda","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43104624","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 Eichmann Trial Reconsidered Edited by Rebecca Wittmann. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 272. Hardback $75.00. ISBN: 978-1487508494.","authors":"Norman J. W. Goda","doi":"10.1017/S000893892300016X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000893892300016X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"342 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43126620","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 Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 By David A. Harrisville. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 328. Hardback $34.95. ISBN: 978-1501760044.","authors":"D. R. Snyder","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000341","url":null,"abstract":"“vignette” and “Verortnung” (location). The former discusses exemplary artefacts or representations of global thinking, such as the British propaganda film World of Plenty (1943), the New York spherical monument Unisphere (1964), McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World (1979), or Ökolopoly, the 1983 board game. The latter discusses the changing cultural meanings of the “world” in each period of time, from “one world,” which needs to be healed, in the mid-1940s (51), to “many worlds” in the 1990s (530). As Kuchenbuch states, “when people spoke and still speak about globality, it does not have to mean the same thing” (569). The strength as well as the weakness of this monograph lies in its rich and often confusing structure. On the one hand, it proposes a new historical methodology that manages to deal at once with material, social, cultural, and political aspects of history, while trying to avoid the lacunas of each type of history. As a result, it should almost be viewed as an experiment in historiography. On the other hand, the structure is not very easy to navigate, to say the least, and is one of the causes of the book’s length. For example, chapter 4, titled, “A Media-Historical Intermediate Step” (“Medienhistorischer Zwischenschritt”) is an unexpected methodological interlude which reviews theories in media studies and critical cartography. Breaks in the general flow of Kuchenbuch’s historical narrative make reading the book a challenge. In addition, the chapter and section headings are not very informative, since many are quotes from historical sources and thus cannot be understood before reading the relevant sections. As a result, the book is better read as a unified whole, from start to finish. Despite these issues, Welt-Bildner is an impressive interdisciplinary monograph that will be useful to anyone interested in the history of globalism (and glocalism), the history of twentieth-century media, Peters and Fuller, and new and innovative forms of historiography.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"333 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47586369","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":"Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II By Alexandra Lohse. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 978-1501759390.","authors":"M. Dack","doi":"10.1017/s0008938923000158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938923000158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"335 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44369588","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":"Holocaust Memory and Postcolonialism: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Debate","authors":"Frank Biess","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000109","url":null,"abstract":"German commemorative culture is clearly in flux. Over the last year or so, a series of seemingly never-ending controversies have made it abundantly clear that, more than seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of National Socialism and the Holocaust is not only very much present in contemporary Germany but also remains deeply contested. The list of controversies is familiar to everybody who has followed German public debates over the last three years: first the debate over the planned appearance of the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe at the 2020 Ruhr-Trienale in the spring of 2020; then the publication of the German translation of Michael Rothberg's book Multidirectional Memory in March 2021 and the heated controversy around A. Dirk Moses's “catechism” blog article a few months later; and finally, the recent debate about antisemitism at the documenta art exhibition curated by an Indonesian artist collective.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"270 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46904375","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":"After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR Edited by Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, and Patrice G. Poutrus. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. viii + 324. Cloth $145.00. ISBN: 978-1789208528.","authors":"Marcus Colla","doi":"10.1017/S0008938923000146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938923000146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"353 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45814085","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 Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s000893892300050x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s000893892300050x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"f1 - f7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43736304","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 Scheitern der kybernetischen Utopie. Die Entwicklung von Überwachung und Informationsverarbeitung im MfS By Christian Booß. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. Pp. 400. Hardback €30.00. ISBN: 978-3525352120. - Mit der Post in die Zukunft. Der Bildschirmtext in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1977 bis 2001 By Hagen Schönrich. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021. Pp. viii + 348. Hardback €96.00. ISBN: 978-3506760425.","authors":"Briana J. Smith","doi":"10.1017/s000893892300033x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s000893892300033x","url":null,"abstract":"Vom Scheitern der kybernetischen Utopie. Die Entwicklung von Überwachung und Informationsverarbeitung im MfS By Christian Booß. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. Pp. 400. Hardback €30.00. ISBN: 978-3525352120. - Mit der Post in die Zukunft. Der Bildschirmtext in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1977 bis 2001 By Hagen Schönrich. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021. Pp. viii + 348. Hardback €96.00. ISBN: 978-3506760425. - Volume 56 Issue 2","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"1 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":"135726813","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":"Caught in the Net: Fish, Ships, and Oil in the GDR-Poland Territorial Waters Dispute, 1949–1989","authors":"A. Tompkins","doi":"10.1017/S0008938922001029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938922001029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The 1945 Potsdam Agreement established a new border between Poland and Germany at the so-called “Oder-Neisse line,” but it left unsettled the question of the maritime boundary on the Baltic Sea. Until 1989, the water border remained a matter of dispute between the German Democratic Republic and the Polish People's Republic socialist allies otherwise at pains to demonstrate unity in geopolitical matters—especially with regard to their shared “border of peace and friendship.” In the intervening decades, East German fishermen and Polish ship captains repeatedly ran afoul of the invisible water border, the importance of which increased as UN conventions on the Law of the Sea affected fishing, shipping, drilling, and security matters. This article examines the diplomatic dispute over territorial waters in relation to its environmental dimensions and social consequences, demonstrating how the challenges of governing transnational space in a water environment greatly complicated everyday life for water users as well as the border work of both states.","PeriodicalId":45053,"journal":{"name":"Central European History","volume":"56 1","pages":"173 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47288471","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}