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September 2004
October 2003
March 2000
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
October 2003
November 2000
Rights sold: Belarusian
September 1998
Rights sold: Czech, French, Italian
March 2004
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
In this volume, twenty-five authors from various fields and continents offer a much-needed assessment of the economic dimensions of the Cold War. Case studies and macroanalyses converge to reflect the balance sheets of the two main adversaries. They explore why the »economic war« between the rival blocs was waged from the outset with blunt weapons and unwilling »comrades-in-arms«, why merchants were more persevering than the Cold War warriors, and why »Third World« countries paid the highest price of all.
September 2010
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
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
February 2008
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
Limits to Killing in Today's Wars
War cannot be waged without killing. Yet even in antiquity, rules and customs of wartime conduct defined the limits to violence on the battlefield and, more recently, have been codified in international accords. But as legal scholar Gerd Hankel asserts, today’s wars differ fundamentally from those fought when the Hague and Geneva Conventions were negotiated. International accords and humanitarian law fail to deal adequately with the grey zones that have become characteristic of today’s war zones.
March 2011
October 2002
The Bourgeoisie in Post-1945 Germany
For the authors of the 1949 edition of the classic German encyclopedia Der Kleine Brockhaus, the relevance of the bourgeoisie remained unquestioned in the post-war period: »In the Western European countries, it is a mass social strata of decisive importance for the public realm.«
March 2005
October 2010
Between Militancy and the Middle-Class: The Self-understanding and Practices of the Extreme Right
»Klärner…offers a discerning assessment of the right-wing scene’s prospects of succeeding. He makes innovative use of the methodological instruments of research on social movements to situate these developments in a broader societal context.« — Armin Pfahl-Traugber, Mitteilungen des DÖW Vienna
September 2008
February 2009
October 2001
1968 as Myth, Cipher, and Cesura
In the history of the »old« (pre-1990) Federal Republic of Germany, presumably no other year is as controversial as 1968. For some, it symbolized a far-reaching disintegration of values, one which still awaits redress. For others, it was the initial step towards establishing a long overdue civil society in Germany.
October 2000
Verena Becker and German National Security Authorities
In this topical book, historian Wolfgang Kraushaar retraces a case that raises fundamental questions about how far democracies should go in combating terrorism.
October 2010
February 2009
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
March 1999
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
March 2001
Awarded the prize Geisteswissenschaften International for complete funding of the German-English translation
April 2010
In this volume, twenty-five authors from various fields and continents offer a much-needed assessment of the economic dimensions of the Cold War. Case studies and macroanalyses converge to reflect the balance sheets of the two main adversaries. They explore why the »economic war« between the rival blocs was waged from the outset with blunt weapons and unwilling »comrades-in-arms«, why merchants were more persevering than the Cold War warriors, and why »Third World« countries paid the highest price of all.
September 2010
Warriors and Scholars: Herbert Marcuse and Cold War Culture
* Fraenkel Prize 2009 from the Wiener Library in London for an outstanding work in twentieth-century history
* Humboldt Prize 2009 from Humboldt University Berlin, honoring excellent studies by young scholars
September 2010
October 2002
March 2007
October 1999
Trust and Violence: An Attempt to Understand a Unique Constellation in Modernity
* Awarded the translation funding prize Geisteswissenschaften International 2008* Shortlisted in the category »Non-fiction / Essay«, Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008
* First place 2008, best book in the category »Food for Thought«, historical journal Damals
* Second place, April 2008, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR / SZ)
February 2008
Rights sold: Chinese, French, Polish, World English
September 2006
»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
February 2009
October 1997
Rights sold: Italian
February 2009
The Bourgeoisie in Post-1945 Germany
For the authors of the 1949 edition of the classic German encyclopedia Der Kleine Brockhaus, the relevance of the bourgeoisie remained unquestioned in the post-war period: »In the Western European countries, it is a mass social strata of decisive importance for the public realm.«
March 2005
Prosperity Conflicts : Social Issues from the Center of Society
»Vogel demonstrates… most impressively the extent to which today’s center has developed away from what used to be referred to as the ›equalized middle class society‹.« — Reinhard Scholzen, Bundespolizeigewerkschaft
February 2009
February 2009
In this volume, twenty-five authors from various fields and continents offer a much-needed assessment of the economic dimensions of the Cold War. Case studies and macroanalyses converge to reflect the balance sheets of the two main adversaries. They explore why the »economic war« between the rival blocs was waged from the outset with blunt weapons and unwilling »comrades-in-arms«, why merchants were more persevering than the Cold War warriors, and why »Third World« countries paid the highest price of all.
September 2010
Volksgemeinschaft as Self-Empowerment: Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919 to 1939
- Awarded the translation funding prize Geisteswissenschaften International, December 2008
- First place, Audience Choice, Historical Book 2008, H-Soz-u-Kult, historians’ internet forum
- Fourth place, August 2007, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR / SZ)
March 2007
Rights sold: World English
April 2003
Rights sold: World English
Intelligence Service, Political Elite, and Murder Squad: The Security Service of the Reichsführer SS
March 2003