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(2025)As Germany’s most important port, Hamburg was also a key colonial metropolis. For centuries, the ‘Gateway to the World’ served as a gateway to the colonial world. The city maintained trade relations with colonial powers ...
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(2025)On literary representations of an emotion whose central significance for the history of tragedy and the tragic play has scarcely been explored: hatred. Hatred does not belong to the realm of fluid, dialogical speech, but ...
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(2025)Around 1900, the telephone opened up entirely new possibilities for communicating over long distances. This unfamiliar medium intensified both practical and academic engagement with speech, hearing and the conditions of ...
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(2025)A unique account of the violence and suffering at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In November 1943, Renata Laqueur, a Jewish woman, was arrested in Amsterdam along with her husband, Paul Goldschmidt. In mid-March 1944, ...
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(2025)German-Togolese relations after 1960 are being examined in depth for the first time. In the 1880s, the Wilhelmine Empire established a ‘German Protectorate of Togo’, which was regarded at the time as a ‘model colony’. This ...
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(2025)How did people in the early modern period inscribe their houses? How were tomb inscriptions designed? Teresa Schröder-Stapper examines pre-modern inscriptions for the first time with a focus on their significance as an ...
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(2025)Saul is ‘God’s wrong choice’ (Botho Strauß); he embodies the attempt to establish a secular power – and its initial failure. Saul is a major figure of the Old Testament. He is the first king of the people of Israel, anointed ...
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(2025)How women from Turkey expanded their scope for political action between West Berlin and Turkey – a new perspective on migration, gender and political movements. Migration has profoundly transformed German society. Until ...
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(2025)A collective biography of four leading figures of German left-wing communism, who challenged the political systems of their time with their revolutionary-democratic stance. Caught between social utopia and political practice, ...
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(2025)How does the interplay of form and time shape Goethe’s dramatic, lyrical and narrative texts? This volume provides answers to this question. Johann Wolfgang Goethe transcends the understanding of form prevalent in his time. ...
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(2025)How provenance research into colonial collections is linked to the history of colonialism. The extensive collections from colonial contexts held in German museums form a central theme in current debates on how to deal with ...
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(2025)An impressive biography marked by political struggle and persecution, spanning from the German Empire to the Federal Republic. Siegfried Aufhäuser is regarded as the most prominent figure in the independent white-collar ...
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(2025)Monocultures characterise today’s forests. What is the connection here with forestry science and its mapping methods? How did the public react to the conversion of forests? Why are so many forests monocultures today? In ...
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(2025)Braunschweig beyond the familiar squares and magnificent buildings: drawings by an unknown artist reveal in detail the appearance and life of the city 260 years ago. Braunschweig had become a royal seat in the mid-18th ...
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(2025)A society on its improbable path to modernity: the book examines social structures and their transformation, linking this to media theory and self-reflection in social philosophy. The nature of modern society in Europe at ...
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(2025)Blumenberg’s historiographical project embodies a barely concealed ‘ethos’: ‘not to lose sight of what is human’ means rejecting the ‘absolutism of the present moment’, and recognising precisely in this a philosophical ...
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(2025)A contribution to interdisciplinary anthropological research that explores the intersections of ethics and aesthetics (Baumgarten), pedagogy (Sulzer) and pragmatics (Kant). Roland Spalinger examines the epistemological ...
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(2025)How can we counter the rise in authoritarian attitudes and the loss of trust within European societies? Experts and writers provide survey-based answers. The global financial crisis, Covid, Russia’s aggression in Ukraine: ...
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(2025)Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the ‘camp on the move’ claimed thousands more lives. One of the defining features of the end of the war in Germany in 1945 was an evacuation policy directed at regional level ...
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(2025)How have time and prose been interrelated since 1750? And do they become productive in literary theory as concepts that define one another more precisely in poetological and epistemological terms? Michael Gampers’ study ...
