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The Eugenic Fortress
The ever growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation states, while this monograph asks why an ethnic minority, the Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in interwar Romania. The Eugenic Fortress investigates and unpacks the eugenic movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, and focuses on its conceptual and methodological evolution during the interwar period. Further on, the book analyzes the gradual process of politicisation and radicalisation at the hands of a second generation of Saxon eugenicists in conjunction with the rise of an equally indigenous fascist movement. The Saxon case study offers valuable insights into why an ethnic minority would seek to re-entrench itself behind the race-hygienic walls of a 'eugenic fortress', as well as the influence host and home nations had upon its design. Georgescu's work is ground breaking in the sense that the history of this uprooted community is usually handled with sensitivity and serious (and critical) research into Transylvanian Saxon involvement with Nazism has been energetically resisted.
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
The volume discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. Thus, it addresses one of the key questions of the new political system in post-imperial East Central and Southeast Europe. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective (capital – province, urban political elites – rural voters) to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies with a special interest in the predominantly ethnic Romanian population.
Oastea Dodului
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Briefwechsel
Der Göttinger Philosoph Michael Hißmann (1752-1784), der nicht nur, aber auch seiner materialistischen Positionen wegen ein besonderes Interesse der Philosophiegeschichte verdient, pflegte ein weitgespanntes Netz von Korrespondenzen mit Freunden und Kollegen. Der erst kürzlich wiederaufgefundene Nachlass Hißmanns ermöglicht jetzt eine umfassende Dokumentation dieses Briefwechsels. Zu Hißmanns Briefpartnern gehörten mit Christian Garve, Christian Konrad Wilhelm Dohm, Karl Franz von Irwing und Jakob Mauvillon herausragende Vertreter der intellektuellen Prominenz des späten 18. Jahrhunderts. Beispielhaft lassen sich an diesem Briefkorpus nicht allein die Alltagskultur eines prekären Gelehrtenlebens im späten 18. Jahrhundert nachvollziehen, sondern auch die wissenschaftspolitischen Dimensionen eines radikalaufklärerischen Programms nachzeichnen.
Transilvania
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