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Focuses on the autocratic regimes with totalitarian features and the factors that boosted their change into consolidated and democratic constitutional states.

Nur wenige Philosophen und Sozialwissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts durften einen vergleichbaren geistigen Einfluss auf die Debatten in Wissenschaft und Offentlichkeit gewonnen haben wie Hannah Arendt.

Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals eine ausfuhrliche zeitgeschichtliche Darstellung des Prozesses der SED-Entmachtung und der Demokratisierung bis zur Marzwahl 1990 vor. Erganzt wird der Text durch zahlreiche Diagramme, mit denen die Stimmen der Bevolkerung quantitativ erfasst und ausgewertet werden.

Evaluating eye-witness interviews and Stasi documents simultaneously, this study analyses the changing methods of governmental control and repression within the context of individual experiences since the beginning of the Honecker era.

Analyses how political ideologies are represented in the discourses, visions, programmes and propagandistic efforts of extremist organisations.

Does Germany and Europe still have a social formation that continues the tradition of the bourgeoisie after the civil era? This title examines fields of expertise, which were characterised as bourgeois in 19th century research.

Examines the historical development and specific developments of national status by comparing Germany and Italy.

Looks at the influence of middle-class and middle-class-based social reform movements concerned with welfare state-building in the US and in Germany from 1880 to 1940. This book considers the interaction with poverty as elementary for the constitution of the middle class as a distinct social group.

Using the example of the Moravian Church to examine the role that concepts of self and space play in creating a global community, this book traces the elaborate network of organization, communication, and collective memory that nurtured ties between settlements and missions spread around the globe.

A study of the practice of piety of the learned middle class in Protestant south Germany. It shows that the special mixture of Lutheran Pietism, middle class living conditions and gender produced a new middle class culture.

Die Geschichte des Judenhasses war lang, brutal und gipfelte in der Vernichtung von über sechs Millionen Juden durch die Nationalsozialisten. Nach der Schoah war der Antisemitismus in Europa tabu, verschwand aber nicht aus den Denkmustern. Vielmehr zeigte er sich in seiner stereotypen Gestalt recht bald wieder. Das Buch behandelt in chronologischer Form die verschiedenen Ausprägungen und Entwicklungen des Judenhasses in Europa. Sie reichen von Vertreibung, Gettoisierung, Pogromen und der Schoah bis zum alltäglichen Antisemitismus. Die Ereignisse werden dabei im jeweiligen historischen, ideologischen und literarischen Kontext verortet.

Investigates the transformations of the Faust-figure within the early modern Faustbooks, that have founded the Faust-legend.

A study of astronomical and cosmological diagrams from the High and early Late Middle Ages that shows that the form of the diagram not only generated a specific meaning but also conveyed the nature and scope of contemporary knowledge about the cosmos.

Die Beitrage widmen sich verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen der Herrschaftsbildung und der regionalen Verdichtung von Herrschaft im Mittelalter aus den Bereichen mittelalterlicher Kunst- und Baugeschichte, aus den Literaturwissenschaften und der Quellenkunde, aus der Archaologie und der komparatistischen.

Among the most popular books of the 18th century was "Vorbereitung zur WeltGeschichte fur Kinder" (1779) (Preparing Children for World History) by August Ludwig von Schlozer (1735-1809). The historian believed that children should become scholars at an early age. His history book was not only meant to educate his sons but also his daughters.

Combining the methods of history and art history, this book gives fresh insight into the social position of scholars in medieval Italy and France and discusses the roots of group portraiture.

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different traditions in terms of how each understands the idea of universal human rights. The contributors to this volume represent legal-constitutional, historical, bio-ethical, philosophical, and social science reflections on what the two nation states share, and what distinguishes their understanding of universal human rights. The rise of neo-populist and authoritarian nationalist impulses in Europe and the Americas, the differing responses of the two liberal democratic republics provide an insight into how each nation state still affirms a long-standing commitment to universal human rights. No other work in German or English currently provides a comparison between the two countries and across many disciplines.