Foreign Rights
Welcome to the Rights section of our website. The Hamburger Edition, the publishing company of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, presents the results of empirical and theoretical research and debates on key issues in the social sciences and historiography. If you are interested in acquiring foreign rights to any of our books, we will be delighted to provide further information or a reading copy. Click here to download the current Foreign Rights Guide (pdf) with upcoming publications and recent highlights. Information on further backlist titles of interest is available here (pdf).
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Highlights
Workaday Violence: Female SS Guards at Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder Koslov retraces the work of female civilians employed by the SS as concentration camp guards in Lublin/Majdanek. Her reconstruction of motives and mechanisms probes how »ordinary« women could quickly adapt to a microcosm of violence, in which brutality was a ubiquitous element of workaday life.
September 2009
The Federal Republic of Germany as a Concept: The Legitimation of a Political Order
That West Germany’s success story and its narrative of identity was essentially a product of its prospering economy was long a widely-held conviction: supposedly, the post-war state profited from the Cold War and had no need of an »intellectual concept« as a framework for its self-understanding.
September 2009
Campaign Rally or Blog?: German Election Campaigns in the Digital Age
Most German political parties made extensive use of platforms from Facebook to Twitter for the first time in the run-up to the 2009 federal elections. But, asks media expert and historian Andreas Elter in this timely book, what were the real impacts and the main goals of these strategies?
March 2010
Nazi Germany’s attack on and occupation of the Soviet Union created a space in which other kinds of »conquests« could occur: the many forms of sexual encounters involving Wehrmacht soldiers or SS men and local women. This comprehensive study dispels the myth that military leaders, in adhering to Nazi ideology that officially condemned relations between »Aryans« and allegedly »racially inferior« Eastern Europeans, strictly repressed soldiers’ sexuality.
April 2010
The Leipzig Trials: German War Crimes and Their Legal Consequences after World War I
»[T]his is a pioneering study, and an essential monograph for anyone working on the many important issues of war crimes and the laws of war.« ––Alan Kramer, Trinity College Dublin
March 2003
»Rolf provides a brilliant analysis of the way mass celebrations were designed, planned, and orchestrated at the party center and then transformed, modified, and reinterpreted on the peripheries of the Soviet Union. [….] The most valuable part, from a comparative point of view at least, is the section in which the author provides an assessment of the export of Soviet 'celebration culture' to the 'peoples’ democracies' of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945.«---Balázs Apor, Kritika, Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
March 2006
Rights sold: Russian
Trust and Violence: An Attempt to Understand a Unique Constellation in Modernity
* Awarded the translation funding prize Geisteswissenschaften International 2008* Shortlist in the category »Non-fiction / Essay«, Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008
* First place 2008, category »Food for Thought«, historical journal Damals
* Second place, April 2008, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR / SZ)
February 2008
Rights sold: French, Polish, World English
Vandalism as an Everyday Phenomenon
»In this slim, elegantly argued volume…Lorenz examines a phenomenon that has always existed and has always been subject to diverse interpretations. […] One can hardly praise Maren Lorenz’s succinct book enough for having dissected these discursive mechanisms.«---Thomas Wörtche, Freitag
February 2009
Repressed Terror: History and Perceptions of Soviet Special Camps in Germany
Verdrängter Terror is the first historical study of Soviet special camps in Germany that offers a comprehensive account of the objectives of the camp system, the conditions and realities of internment, and the way German society has dealt with—and ignored—these sites of Stalinist terror to the present day.
March 2010
War without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam
Shortlisted in the category non-fiction/essay for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2008
Best Historical Book of 2008, historical journal Damals
Best Historical Book 2008, Non-European History, H-Soz-u-Kult, historians’ internet medium
First place in November 2007, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR / SZ)
April 2009
Rights sold: Danish, US-English, World English