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The history of consumption is a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this collection represent a variety of approaches, discussing products, corporate strategies, government policies, and ideas about consumption.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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