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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.

This collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. The authors ask what these two capitals have meant for the nation and explore the relations between architecture, political ideas, and social reality.

By expanding the study of German resistance to the Nazis to include the efforts of Jews, women, workers, and young people, David Clay Large has written a book which is essential to the consideration of this complex period. Includes personal testimony from the likes of Willy Brandt.

This book explores the influence that Hannah Arendt's and Leo Strauss' experience of inter-war Germany had on their perception of American democracy. The contributors analyse how their emigre experience both influenced their American work and also had an impact on the formation of the discipline of political science in postwar Germany.

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.

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 essays in this 1997 book analyse how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images reflect the contemporary relations, often foreshadow future trends, and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, and stereotypes influenced perceptions.

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.

This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions and constraints that informed decision-making by the politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement.

This volume discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate between American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations.

Exploring the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914, these essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite some predictions of long, cataclysmic wars, the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century were not foreseen.

This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles explore the influence of German scholarship and institutions on the American education system. The book provides an overview for scholars, students and interested general readers.

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.

This collection of essays does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale.

This book represents the cooperative effort of American and German scholars to systematically study the similarities and differences in the understanding of Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German states. The book stimulates efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world.

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.

Exploring the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914, these essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite some predictions of long, cataclysmic wars, the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century were not foreseen.

This volume throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation.

The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised.

In this volume empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s are placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration.

This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles explore the influence of German scholarship and institutions on the American education system. The book provides an overview for scholars, students and interested general readers.

This is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporating much new research.

This volume throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation.

This collection comprehensively and critically addresses fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany. The central focus is on the professionalisation of modern medicine and the medicalisation of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme.

In this volume empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s are placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration.

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 collection of essays that focuses on the women refugees of the Nazi period who fled to different countries all over the world. It describes their important role in the survival of their families, their everyday life, and their adaptive skills in the various places of exile and emigration.

A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias.

The essays in this 1997 book analyse how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images reflect the contemporary relations, often foreshadow future trends, and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, and stereotypes influenced perceptions.

Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession before and after 1945. The essays look at ten prominent historians whose lives and work spanned the period from the 1930s to the 1960s.