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Reconsidering Europeanization
This pertinent and highly original volume explores how ideas of Europe and processes of continental political, socio-economic, and cultural integration have been intertwined since the nineteenth century. Applying a wider definition of Europeanization in the sense of "becoming European", it will pay equal attention to counter-processes of disentanglement and disintegration that have accompanied, slowed down, or displaced such trends and developments. By focusing on the practices, agents, and experience of Europeanization, the volume strives to bring together the history of ideas and the history of human actions and conduct, two approaches that are usually treated separately in the field of European studies.
The Cultural Histories of Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1
This book focuses on two commercial radio stations, Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1, which were popular institutions in Western Europe throughout the Long Sixties, working across media and broadcasting transnationally. It argues that the existence of an overarching ‘dispositif ’ of commercial radio stations enabled them to operate on various dimensions and differentiated them from other broadcasters. The book therefore answers current calls in media history to look beyond national and single-medium borders and contributes to the cultural and media history of Western Europe.
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938. Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism, rural exoticism, gender, and ethnic diversity, the book offers a fresh perspective on Central European art and visual culture. It pays particular attention to Austria, a country often ignored in histories of modernism in Central Europe, yet one where the countryside gained high visibility as a part of modern culture between the wars. Examples from Czechoslovakia and Hungary also play an important role in comparison and challenge the national...
Let's historize it!
Die Historisierung von Jugendmedien steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen. Nicht nur in der deutschen, auch in der internationalen Geschichtswissenschaft werden Jugendmedien kaum als eigene Gattung wahrgenommen. Der vorliegende Band hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, Jugendmedien des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals in ihrer Historizität und Beschaffenheit als generative Kräfte, als Akteure, in den Blick zu nehmen. Was sind Jugendmedien überhaupt? Welche Inhalte und Funktionen haben sie? Und vor allem: Wie werden sie von ihren jugendlichen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern wahrgenommen und angeeignet? Die einzelnen Beiträge betrachten gedruckte Medien wie Fanzines und jugendbewegte Kommunikationsorgane, zudem audiovisuelle Formate wie spezifische Wort- und Musikprogramme des Jugendfunks, den legendären Beat Club von Radio Bremen, aber auch jugendliche Hackersubkulturen und ihre Computernutzung.
A Taste for Purity
In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization, this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India, where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized, new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the connections among these developments and ma...
Counting on Computers
Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist ambitions for a computerised future and how computer technology was imagined to reshape education and socialist society in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It delves into the positive visions of a computerised future embraced by the country's one-party leadership, and examines how these visions influenced educational policy and curricula as computers were introduced into workplaces and schools. The book provides readers with a comprehensive perspective on the historical development of computer education in the GDR, highlighting the crucial links between the integration of computers in different sectors of the educational system, as well as in society and the socialist economy at large. By uncovering this lesser-known aspect of East German history, the book sheds light on the intricate and multifaceted relationship between technology, ideology, and education.
Creative Urban Milieus
'Creative Urban Milieus' is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical relationship between culture and the economy in such cities as Berlin, New York, Helsinki, London, Venice, and many others.
Industrial Cities
Ob Birmingham, Rotterdam oder Wolfsburg: Industriestädte haben nicht nur völlig unterschiedliche Gesichter, sie unterliegen auch einem bemerkenswerten zeitlichen Wandel. Die Autoren behandeln die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Industriestadt als europäisches Phänomen. Aus soziologischer, historischer, geografischer und medialer Perspektive erörtern sie unterschiedliche historische Modelle und Typen von Industriestädten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, diskutieren die Frage nach der Zukunft von monostrukturellen Industriestädten sowie mediale Repräsentationsformen industrialisierter Städte. Mit Beiträgen vonChristoph Bernhardt, Hans-Peter Dörrenbächer, Simon Gunn, Christine Hannemann, Martina Heßler, Martin Jemelka, Henry Keazor, Robert Lewis, Timo Luks, Rebecca Magdin, Jörg Plöger, Richard Rodger, Rolf Sachsse, Adelheid von Saldern, Ondrej Sevecek, Judith Thissen und Clemens Zimmermann.
Jugend im Kalten Krieg
Die Konfrontation der politischen Blöcke nach 1945 hatte für Dekaden erhebliche Auswirkungen, nicht zuletzt auf die Jugend, ihre Formen der Vergemeinschaftung und Organisation. In Ost und West gehörten bis zur Perestroika Ende der 1980er Jahre Jugendliche zu einer umkämpften Gruppe, der als Teil der Systemkonkurrenz politisch erhebliche Aufmerksamkeit zukam. Unter dem zunehmenden Einfluss der Massenkultur veränderte sich zudem das Freizeitleben der Jugendlichen. Gleichzeitig etablierten seit den 1960er Jahren Jugendliche innerhalb internationaler Protest-, Ostermarsch- und Friedensbewegungen neue Formen des Protestes. Durch diese neuen Konstellationen verloren die Offerten der Jugendbew...
