German Studies

This book examines how German-speaking women of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds represent Africa and Blackness, foregrounding the challenges Black women face in defining and portraying Blackness, African identities, and Africa on their terms.

Originally published in 1894, Antisemitism features a series of interviews with prominent figures across Europe, revealing attitudes towards anti-Jewish hatred during a pivotal moment in its pre-Nazi development.

Berlin's Third Sex reveals a vibrant subculture of sexual minorities in early twentieth-century Berlin, documenting same-sex attraction and gender non-conformity as sources of fulfilment and belonging amid oppression.

Born Again explores the historical roots of fundamentalism using key figures of philosophy, literature, and ethics to challenge blind faith and promote moral and political consciousness.

This book demonstrates the integral role music played in Nazi statecraft and ideology, from the personal obsessions of the Nazi leadership to the harrowing use of musical sadism in the Holocaust.

By Consent Alone reveals how medieval German literature responded to the evolving laws of marriage and consent in medieval Europe.

This book explores the fraught relationship between religion, politics, and Holocaust memory from an autobiographical perspective.

Drawing on archival material, this collection analyses German unification and European integration as interconnected processes.

This book explores the active involvement of Russian exiles in the Second World War, with thousands of émigrés fighting alongside Hitler.

One Word Shapes a Nation examines the cultural, political, social, and economic influences on German integration politics, the field of public policy that shapes attitudes toward immigrants and refugees.

This book profiles men in Germany and beyond who followed Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and adopted his term "urning" as a personal queer identity in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

Entangled Emancipation examines the struggle to redefine the gender order and women’s rights in East and West Germany after the Second World War.

This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers’ groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation.

Drawing from Soviet archives, Stalin’s Gamble traces the role played by the Soviet Union in the origins of the Second World War.

A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.