German and European Studies

This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTIQ* perspective.

Writing and Rewriting the Reich offers a comprehensive history of German women journalists throughout the Nazi era.

Patrick O’Neill approaches five of Kafka’s novels and short stories by considering the many translations of each work as a single, multilingual “macrotext.”

The Persistence of the Sacred examines how Catholic religious practices endured over a century of conflict, revolution, and dramatic social upheaval.

Colonial Geography explores how spatial thinking shaped the creation and government of the German imperial colony of East Africa.

China in the German Enlightenment examines the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory.

States of Liberation examines gay persecution and liberation in both East and West Germany during the Cold War.

Uniform Fantasies explores the intimate entanglements between military politics and queer sexual politics in Germany during the decades leading up to the First World War.

The Rebirth of Revelation explores the different and important ways religious thinkers across Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism modernized the concept of revelation from 1750 to 1850.

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how German-Jewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered explores the legacy and consequences of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second World War.

The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Exploring notions of justice and morality, this book offers a new interpretation of everyday life in the ghettos during the Second World War.

Marked by a period of massive structural change, the 1970s in Europe saw the collapse of traditional manufacturing. The essays in this collection question aspects of the narrative of decline and radical transformation.