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This 2000 volume analyses the First World War in light of the concept of 'total war'. Leading scholars explore the efforts of soldiers, statesmen and civilians to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. Around 22 million US servicemen have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century.

Based on an examination of the merchant elite of the city-republic of Bremen and the trans-Atlantic ties they established in trading with the United States in the nineteenth century, this study illuminates the role of merchant capital in the making of an industrial-capitalist world economy.

This study of Civil War-era politics explores how German immigrants influenced the rise and fall of white commitment to African-American rights. Intertwining developments in Europe and North America, Alison Clark Efford describes how the presence of naturalized citizens affected the status of former slaves and identifies 1870 as a crucial turning point. That year, the Franco-Prussian War prompted German immigrants to re-evaluate the liberal nationalism underpinning African-American suffrage. Throughout the period, the newcomers' approach to race, ethnicity, gender and political economy shaped American citizenship law.

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.

Using wartime records and postwar West German and Soviet investigative materials, this book probes the local dynamics of the German occupation and the collaboration in the Holocaust in southern Ukraine. Through the lens of a regional study, it contributes to recent scholarly interest in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. Around 22 million US servicemen have been stationed in Germany since WWII, and their presence has contributed to one of the few successful American attempts at democratic nation building in the twentieth century.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism.

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.

Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s is an interdisciplinary anthology addressing the political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s, thereby making a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s.

A fundamental reassessment of the ways that racial policy worked and was understood under the Third Reich. Leading scholars explore race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

A study of the unprecedented mobilization and transformation of conservative movements on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars chart how and why countless new political organizations emerged as a self-styled 'silent majority' in defence of the existing order against a perceived left-wing threat.

A fundamental reassessment of the ways that racial policy worked and was understood under the Third Reich. Leading scholars explore race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.

Countries under German hegemony during World War II were a vital source of supplies for Hitler's war machine. Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study which explores their different experiences through case studies of twelve occupied, neutral or allied nations.

A study of the unprecedented mobilization and transformation of conservative movements on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars chart how and why countless new political organizations emerged as a self-styled 'silent majority' in defence of the existing order against a perceived left-wing threat.

This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, it pays particular attention to receiving societies in the Global South and to the long-term consequences of 'refugee crises'.

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.

Arguing that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany, but in a different guise from before World War I, this volume sheds fresh light on the question of how Adolf Hitler and his followers came to power and were able to gain widespread support.

Analyses the intellectual side of the American war effort against Nazi Germany, showing how conflicting interpretations of 'the German problem' shaped American warfare and postwar planning.

How do migrants and refugees fashion group identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious nomads selectively engaged with nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies.