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The Fourth Reich
The first history of postwar fears of a Nazi return to power in Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.
Exiled Among Nations
Explores how religious migrants engage with the phenomenon of nationalism, through two groups of German-speaking Mennonites.
From Peoples Into Nations
Peoples of Eastern Europe -- Ethnicity on the edge of extinction -- Linguistic nationalism -- Nationality struggles : from idea to movement -- Insurgent nationalism : Serbia and Poland -- Cursed are the peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe -- The reform that made the monarchy unreformable : the 1867 compromise -- 1878 Berlin Congress : Europe's new ethno-nation states -- The origins of National Socialism : fin de siecle Hungary and Bohemia -- Liberalism's heirs and enemies : socialism vs. nationalism -- Peasant utopias : villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow -- 1919 : a new Europe and its old problems -- The failure of national self-determination -- Fascism takes root : Iron G...
German History Unbound
What is German history? Where did it take place? And what role did Germans living outside of Central Europe play in it? This polycentric history offers a new vision: It uses communities of Germans, from Austria to Chile to Russia, to rethink our narratives of modern German history. Focusing on the great plurality of Germans, and their interconnections around the world, it pointedly de-centers the nation-state while arguing that resisting its dominance in our historical narratives has high intellectual and political stakes. For within an unbound German history there are characteristics, clues, models, and precedents that can do much to undermine the return of violent, exclusionary nationalism. To that end, this book calls for a greater integration of mobilities, migration flows, different ways of belonging, and transcultural places into our narratives of Germans' histories. Ultimately, it reveals how embracing a range of narratives can help us to better understand people's actions, intentions, and motivations in particular historical moments.
Unity is Strength
Migration has been one of the most pressing societal issues throughout history. Immigrant associations play a crucial role in understanding this phenomenon. They channel migration streams, influence the assimilation of their members, and serve as representatives of the entire immigrant group in society. However, they remain an understudied subject, particularly in historical research. To address this gap, this study examines German immigrant associations in New York from the 1890s to the 1930s. Through an innovative combination of statistical and textual analyses, it explores the class composition of these associations, their intricate system of mutual aid, and their political activities. Th...
The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad
The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad examines the German Nazi Party’s actions around the world in the 1930s and 1940s. The book particularly focuses in on the formation and development of the Auslandsorganization der NSDAP (AO) (Nazi Party/Foreign Organization), the party branch charged with the task of connecting with foreign fascist movements and, especially with Germans living abroad. The authors follow the creation of the AO and its development in Germany, along with its actions throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, before finally focusing on Latin America. The Latin American case is then presented in both general and particular aspects, including countries such as Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. The study draws on many primary sources and is extensively referenced; an index with 700 references related to the action of Nazism in the American continent is presented, including the American and Canadian cases. This volume will be of interest to researchers of the history of Nazism and Latin America.
Constructing a German Diaspora
This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for their own and the fatherland’s benefits. Did these ideas fall on fertile ground abroad? In the light of extreme social, political, and religious heterogeneity, diaspora construction did not redeem the all-encompassing fantasies of its engineers. But it certainly was at work, as nationalism "went global" in many German ethnic communities. Three thematic areas are taken as examp...
Die auswärtige Kulturpolitik des Freistaats Bayern 1945-1978
Der Freistaat Bayern verfügte nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit seinen kulturellen Schätzen über ein vielfältig einsetzbares Mittel, um angesichts der Beschränkungen durch Besatzungsstatut und Grundgesetz auch jenseits der Landesgrenzen zu agieren. Ausgehend von seinem Selbstverständnis als international vernetzter Kulturstaat im Zentrum Europas knüpften die staatlichen Akteure zwischen 1945 und 1978 ein dichtes Netz an Außenbeziehungen. Mit der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik als Instrument der Außen-, der Föderalismus- und der Außenwirtschaftspolitik entwickelte sich ein Politikfeld, das in der vorliegenden Studie auf einer breiten Quellengrundlage analysiert wird. Wer waren die Handlungsträger, welche Leitbilder verfolgten sie und welche Netzwerke konnten sie aktivieren? Was waren Mittel und Strategien, welche Räume wurden anvisiert? Erstmals steht hier nicht der Bund im Zentrum der Forschungen zur auswärtigen Kulturpolitik, sondern mit dem Freistaat Bayern ein Faktor, der mit dezidiertem Gestaltungswillen im Rahmen des Mehrebenensystems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland die Außenbeziehungen mitprägte.
Botschafter der Demokratie
Anna Kaitinnis untersucht unter Heranziehung transformationstheoretischer Ansätze Zusammenhänge zwischen auswärtiger Kulturarbeit und externer Demokratieförderung am Beispiel des Goethe-Instituts in Argentinien (1982-1989) und Chile (1988-1994). Von ihren Erkenntnissen leitet sie konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für die auswärtige Kulturarbeit des Goethe-Instituts in Ländern ab, die sich in einem Demokratisierungsprozess befinden. Diese Empfehlungen sind ebenfalls für andere Akteure auswärtiger Kulturarbeit wie auch für zukünftige Konzeptionen einer Auswärtigen Kulturpolitik gewinnbringend.
