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This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts, and trace the present and future of the East German economy, suggesting possible outcomes.

These essays provide a comparison of nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, examine facets of the political, cultural, and social history of inclusion and exclusion in both countries, and sharpen our understanding of the symbolic construction and the social and political practices of 'us' and 'them'.

This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, originally published in 2004, is a multi-author work that looks at all aspects of German-American relations in the years from Germany's defeat in World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany's reunification.

The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading 'rising powers' of the time - were both more similar and more different than is widely understood.

The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading 'rising powers' of the time - were both more similar and more different than is widely understood.

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, originally published in 2004, is a multi-author work that looks at all aspects of German-American relations in the years from Germany's defeat in World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany's reunification.

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, originally published in 2004, is a multi-author work that looks at all aspects of German-American relations in the years from Germany's defeat in World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany's reunification.

This collection offers new insights into the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations during the era of detente (1969-1980). Considering topics such as the European Community, the Helsinki process, and the G-7 summits, its essays show that a common alliance strategy has always been a difficult undertaking, often the result of bitter confrontation and painful compromises.

The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare.

Approaching the history of criminology as a history of science and practice, these essays examine the discourse on crime and criminals that surfaced as part of different discourses and practices, including the activities of the courts, parliamentary debates, media reports, and the writings of moral statisticians, jurists, and medical doctors.

Presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. The volume will interest all students of war and society in the modern era.

The essays in this book, written by some of the leading experts in the field and covering over a hundred years of economic history, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits.

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment - ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism - presenting these connected issues as a global phenomenon, with chapters concerning China, the USSR, Europe, North America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

This is a collection of essays by international scholars which attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare. It focuses on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.

This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices, offering a broad array of case studies from nine different countries on five continents. Its essays highlight the diversity of claims and movements and of the ways in which societies have tried to right past wrongs.

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period. They explore the consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyse this conflict's military significance, the attempts to plan for another general war and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.

This book addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the USA and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Issues include the rights of women and minorities, National Socialism and the emergence of the concept of social rights.

This book examines the use of national and international law to prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century state-sponsored genocide and mass murder. Its various essays reconstruct the historical setting of crimes sponsored by Nazi Germany and discuss the limitations placed on the national and international judicial forums responsible for prosecuting German perpetrators.

This volume shows how medieval history is being reshaped by leading historians in Germany and the United States in the light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual, language and memory. This book marks a significant step in the reconvergence of these two historiographical traditions.

The Ostpolitik of Chancellor Willy Brandt not only redefined Germany's relation with its Nazi past but also altered the global environment of the Cold War. This book examines the years 1969-1974, when Brandt broke the Cold War stalemate in Europe with the practice of Ostpolitik, with significant impact on world history.

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period. They explore the consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyse this conflict's military significance, the attempts to plan for another general war and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.

Sixteen international scholars explore the twin problems of electoral politics and social dislocation in the course of examining Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era.

This book, a unique international collaboration, presents various perspectives on the Genoa Conference of 1922. The authors present new findings on such matters as the sensational Rapallo Treaty between Germany and Russia; the strategy of the small neutral powers; and United States policy on European debts.

These essays provide a comparison of nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, examine facets of the political, cultural, and social history of inclusion and exclusion in both countries, and sharpen our understanding of the symbolic construction and the social and political practices of 'us' and 'them'.

This book brings together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationship among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Political thinkers were faced with a battery of new terms - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' among them - with which to make sense of their era.

1968: The World Transformed provides an international perspective on the most tumultuous year of the Cold War.

An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult circumstances.

This is a collection of essays by international scholars which attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare. It focuses on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.

This volume presents perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. It reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world, and addresses political, military, and diplomatic issues no less than the cultural and intellectual consequences.