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The Engaged Historian
On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship. From the influence of historical scholarship on world political leaders to the present-day participation of researchers in post-conflict societies and the Occupy movement, these studies afford distinctive, humane, and stimulating views on historical practice and practitioners
Holocaust Angst
Focusing on the German effort to rehabilitate its international reputation in the wake of the Holocaust, this study examines German-American relations from the 1970s through 1990.
Marx and Haiti
Although modern racism was fully developed by their time, Marx (and Engels) did not engage in a theoretical discussion of its essential features. This analytical silence is investigated in the chapter Marx and Haiti: Notes on a Blank Space. At the same time, the chapters of this volume demonstrate that and why the principles of a historical materialist analysis of society present links for a critical theory of racism. In the chapter Dehumanization and Social Death: Fundamentals of Racism, this is shown concerning the various historical shapes of racisms caused by different forms of class relations. The chapter Racismflq: Birth of a Concept connects the conceptual history of racism with the socio-historical conflicts of differently affected social groups. Finally, the chapter A Historical Materialist Theory of Racism: Introduction addresses basic elements of a Marxist analysis of racism. It elucidates the necessity of a theoretical conjunction of classist and racist discrimination as well as the historical differentiation of racisms.
The Moral and Market Economies of Bread
From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the bread market had wide-reaching and significant consequences for a society who relied on this foodstuff to live. Before 1860 the production and selling of bread was embedded into a moral economy with distinct regulations. But as the grain market expanded and new cereal varieties arrived from the empire's peripheries reformers sought to create a 'free' market through liberalizing reforms. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread shows that while ter...
Talbot's Tools
Much has been written about the decipherment, in the course of the 19th century, of ancient systems of writing, for instance the Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform script. But rarely do we learn more about the details of the researchers' methods when they were trying to solve an equation with many unknown quantities. How exactly did they proceed on their way to an understanding of the structure and meaning of the unknown signs? And which instruments were available towards the solution of such complex intellectual riddles? The publication is concerned with just that question. What was the role in the research process of the numerous notebooks which the Victorian scholar...
Westdeutsche und italienische Historiker als Intellektuelle?
Following the Second World War West German and Italian historians tried to influence the "culture of remembrance" via the mass media. But how successful was that attempt? Did they participate in the discussions surrounding the previous years of National Socialist and Fascist rule as intellectuals – or were they simple taking part in public debates? Marcel vom Lehn looks at the different ways in which the historians from these two countries contributed to their respective country ́s appraisal of the past. He shows how they used the mass media in this process, and how their expertise and private efforts worked hand in hand.
Revolution im Stall
Im Stall von 1990 erinnerte wenig an das dortige Geschehen vierzig Jahre zuvor. Neue Tiere produzierten die begehrtesten Lebensmittel der Konsumgesellschaft, Fleisch, Milch und Eier, so günstig wie noch nie. Gleichzeitig verschwanden sie hinter die Kulissen des gesellschaftlichen Lebens. In beiden deutschen Staaten sahen Agrarpolitik, Tierzucht, Tiermedizin, Agrarwissenschaft und die Bauern und Bäuerinnen vor Ort in einer Rationalisierung der Tierhaltung die vielversprechendste Möglichkeit, Anschluss an die Entwicklungen der Wohlstandsgesellschaft zu halten. Veronika Settele untersucht die Entwicklung der industrialisierten Massentierhaltung und zeigt dabei zugleich, warum sie trotz ihrer enormen ökonomischen Erfolge seit den 1970er Jahren Gegenstand einer kritischen Diskussion wurde. "Revolution im Stall" ist mit dem Förderpeis Opus Primum der VolkswagenStiftung 2020 für die beste wisschenschaftliche Nachwuchspublikation ausgezeichnet worden.
Die Ökonomie der Lust
Eine der schillerndsten Figuren im literarischen Universum des alten Indien stellt die sog. Hetäre oder Kurtisane, in Sanskrit veśyā und gaṇikā, dar. Sie tritt sowohl im Kāmasūtra, das sie in einem eigenen Kapitel über die richtige Ausübung ihres Gewerbes belehrt, als auch in der Erzählliteratur, in speziellen „Hetärengedichten“ und Schauspielen (bhaṇa) in Erscheinung. In der Studie wird aufgezeigt, wie sich die Rolle und Figur der Hetäre unter dem Einfluss der aufkommenden Geld- und Marktwirtschaft zu der einer Prostituierten wandelt und zu einer Art Sinnbild der damit einhergehenden sozialen Veränderungen wird.
Instructed and Instructive Actions
The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, initiated the study of instructed actions as a way to elucidate the embodied production of social order in real time. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative guidelines are conveyed, understood, and used for producing social actions and structures. The studies in this volume address novel technologies of instructed action and non-obvious ways in which ordinary actions turn out to be instructive for participants in immediate situations o...
Contesting Deregulation
Few would dispute that many Western industrial democracies undertook extensive deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet this narrative, in its most familiar form, depends upon several historiographical assumptions that bely the complexities and pitfalls of studying the recent past. Across thirteen case studies, the contributors to this volume investigate this “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.
