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Murder Scenes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Murder Scenes

Examining the social effects of criminal investigation in Weimar-era Berlin

Colonizing Leprosy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Colonizing Leprosy

By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Kalaupapa Settlement in Moloka'i and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Michelle Moran shows not only how public health policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home. Although medical personnel at both sites considered leprosy a colonial disease requiring strict isolation, Moran dem...

Becoming a Nazi Town
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Becoming a Nazi Town

Local cultural activities played a key role in altering Germany’s political landscape between the world wars

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.

Suicide in Nazi Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Suicide in Nazi Germany

The Third Reich met its end in the spring of 1945 in an unparalleled wave of suicides. Goeschel analyses the Third Reich's self-destructiveness and the suicides of ordinary people and Nazis in Germany from 1918 until 1945, including the mass suicides of German Jews during the Holocaust.

Germany's Ancient Pasts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Germany's Ancient Pasts

In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic past and proclaim chauvinistic notions of cultural and racial superiority. But was this powerful and violent version of the distant past a nationalist invention or a direct outcome of earlier archaeological practices? By exploring the myriad pathways along which people became familiar with archaeology and the ancient past—from exhibits at local and regional museums to the plotlines of popular historical novels—this broad cultural history shows...

Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany

An exploration of anti-Semitic behaviors in the German empire in the pre-WWI period

Individuality and Modernity in Berlin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Individuality and Modernity in Berlin

Moritz Föllmer offers a pioneering analysis of individuality and its importance to metropolitan society in twentieth-century Berlin.

Fritzie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Fritzie

One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the woman’s calling card, which read simply, “I am Fritzie Mann.” Yet Fritzie’s identity, as revealed in this compelling history, was anything but simple, and her death—eventually ruled a homicide—captured public attention for months. In Fritzie, historian Amy Absher reveals how broader cultural forces, including gendered violence, sexual liberation, and evolving urban conditions in the American West, shaped the course of Mann’s life and contributed to her tragic death. Frieda “Fritizie” Mann had several identities ...

Germany's Wild East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Germany's Wild East

This examination of the elements of colonial relationships is new in paperback