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How should we understand Hitler as a factor in the history of the Third Reich? Featuring critical commentary by experts from the English-speaking world, this volume presents the latest in German research on Hitler. Yearbook, English, 3rd quarter In , the Nazi regime stood at the apex of its military power, ruling nearly the entire European continent.

Volume 2 of the four-volume work contains nearly documents from German and Russian archives, most of them previously unpublished. It covers political, economic, military, cultural, and scientific issues. From the very beginning reproductive rights and thereby motherhood of African-American women have been subject to interference from the outside and a matter of public debate. During the time of slavery African-American women were seen as commodities of value also and especially because of their ability to reproduce. Zu Stars des Krieges wurden sie zwischen und in der umfangreichen Fliegerliteratur stilisiert.

Erinnerungskultur; Manfred von Richthofen; Ernst. Technology was a critical factor in all battlefields of the First World War. Particularly on the German side, air force fighters, such as Oswald Boelcke, Manfred von Richthofen and Ernst Udet, became folk heroes. They were stylized as war heroes in the extensive aviator literature published from to The study examines how the fliers became projection screens for the imagination of the general public.

Series Zeitalter der Weltkriege 20 Ca. Through the analysis of archival and published sources and memoir literature it provides an analysis of the impact of this exchange on the armies of both countries and on the Turkish civil society. The volume presents a concise, problem-oriented overview of the most important phases of the Third Reich. In addition, Echternkamp examines contemporary research on Nazism, which has taken on new force with the debate surrounding the Volksgemeinschaft.

Series Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte 45 Ca. This study presents the Treaty of Versailles in a new light. Contrary to the conventional view, in no previous peace treaty in modern times did an appeal to law play as prominent a role as occurred following the First World War. The study examines the reasons for and consequences of this normative reference and, for the first time, recalls the importance of arguments and actors focused on international law during the —20 negotiations.

Series Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte 42 S. His records, previously hidden in Moscow, open new insights for world war researchers on the themes of the secret service, press policies, and the major figures at the Supreme Headquarters. Michael Epkenhans, Gerhard P. Edition, German, 4th quarter Series Zeitalter der Weltkriege 18 Ca.

This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. Volume 2 addresses the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich between January and August Edition, English, 4th quarter Volume 1 addresses the persecution of the German Jews between and , revealing how the disenfranchisement and social isolation of the Jews was driven forward, and which role terror, state calculations, and the indifference of very many Germans played.

Between October and the spring of , most Jews were deported out of the German Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia — ostensibly to forced labor, and after the summer of , to the old-age ghetto Theresienstadt. From all of Europe, deportation trains streamed to the extermination camps in occupied Poland. Edition, German, 1st quarter Von an wurden Juden aus ganz Europa nach Auschwitz gebracht — und die meisten von ihnen unmittelbar nach der Ankunft ermordet. Starting in , Jews were brought to Auschwitz from all of Europe — and most of them were murdered immediately upon arrival.

The volume documents events at this epicenter of Nazi murder of the Jews, and the death marches of the final months of the war. In , the SS began to liquidate the concentration camps; over a third of the prisoners did not survive the marches. With courage born of desperation, Jewish fighters began their resistance in April in the Warsaw ghetto. This was the best known but only one of many Jewish resistance activities against the National Socialist policy of annihilation.

This volume addresses the different forms and facets of Jewish resistance, such as the partisan war, underground movements, camp uprisings, assistance for escapes, and cultural resistance. This volume documents the persecution of the Jews in the three sovereign states of Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria between and The series seeks to provide an international platform for new approaches to the study of modern Jewish history.

Covering the period from the Enlightenment to the 21st century the series focuses on cutting edge work in social, cultural, economic and political history and seeks to explore new venues in the understanding of modern Jewries in their historical contexts, encouraging a multi-layered exploration of topics which transcend the analytical boundaries of ethnicity, nation and religion.

The series embraces monographs and challenging research oriented anthologies dedicated to a deeper understanding of essential themes in the main fields of Jewish Studies like Jewish Thought, Migration, Biography, Israel and the Mid East, Holocaust Studies, the History of Memory, and Identity. The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War.

Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world. Anhand umfangreicher Selbstzeugnisse werden ihre Schicksalswege zwischen Polen, Russland und den zentralasiatischen Sowjetrepubliken rekonstruiert. The book tells the touching story of the Dutch resistance group led by left wing teacher Joop Westerweel who managed to save some Jews from the Nazi persecution.

Joop Westerweel paid with his life for his activities. Other members of the group ended up in concentration camps. Kolonialismus; Antisemitismus; Rassismus; Holocaust. They came as refugees, prisoners, and forced laborers to a country that most of them considered an ambivalent place to flee German mass murder. Based on extensive self-reports, the book reconstructs their fateful journey from Poland to Russia and to the central Asian Soviet republics.

This is the extraordinary story of survival by Jewish doctors of Auschwitz. Despite impossible odds many doctors survived an average of twenty months. Most prisoners survived only fifteen weeks. How was survival possible? From survivor memoirs and archives the author presents a theory based on the interrelationship between four interlocking components; the will to live, the essentials of life, specific personal traits and defence mechanisms.

The book is a compilation of texts by prestigious scholars from different disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. At the same time, the remaining East bloc states, especially the USSR, were moving politically and economically toward the West. The year was dominated by the Berlin Crisis, which culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall.

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A host of documents reveal the struggle to find economic and military measures to counter a blockade of access to Berlin. Other salient topics were the Eichmann trial and competition with East Germany in Africa. In , the West German government continued its efforts to reform tax policy and the penal code as well as marital and family law. Despite the strains in international relations at the start of the Kohl administration, the discussions between East and West Germany did not come to a standstill.

A growing number of East German citizens sought to secure emigration papers through the permanent mission and the Prague embassy. The unexpected immigration wave from the former Soviet Union has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany up from the ies. Jews will continue to live in Germany. But what does it mean to live a Jewish life in present Germany? How is it reflected in culture? Who are the new Jewish elites, and how successful is the fight against old and new forms of anti-Semitism?

Encounters in Germany] Begegnungen in Deutschland. In Anbetracht des Wissens um die nationalsozialistischen Gewaltverbrechen sind Begegnungen zwischen Juden und Nicht-Juden nach heute nur schwer vorstellbar. Given what we know about Nazi crimes of violence, it is hard for us to imagine encounters between Jews and non-Jews after Yet many connections developed between Holocaust survivors, refugees, hangers-on, observers, and profiteers.

The volume examines relationships in civil society between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans from a historical and cultural historical perspective. Debates and Discourses about former SS-members — ]. Jahrhunderts so breit diskutiert. Psychiatriegeschichte; Psychotherapiegeschichte; Ostdeutschland; Westdeutschland. Schizophrenia was the most widely discussed psychiatric disorder during the second half of the 20th century.

This study examines the changing concepts of schizophrenia among psychiatrists and in the general population, the changing role of psychoanalysis in this process, and the crisis in the mental health profession triggered by these changes. History of psychiatry; history of psychotherapy; East Germany; West Germany. Despite the fact that the SS as an organization was responsible for the very worst of the Nazi crimes, most of its members were able to quietly integrate into West German society without any impediments.

Beyond the confines of their integration, however, there were recurrent public debates and controversies. The study examines the history of scientific publishing houses with identical names in East and West Germany during the period of German division. It elucidates German—German relations in the post-war period based on the example of the publishing industry, offering a nuanced view of the connections and interactions of political, cultural, and economic motivations and interests of the actors and systems.

Book sciences; publishing; divided Germany. Historiker und Juristen zeichnen ein facettenreiches Bild dieser oft vergessenen Geschichte. Regions have played a diverse part in the sovereignty strategies of specific national actors since the early 19th century. Since the end of the Cold War, they have become a preferred frame of reference in responding to current globalization processes — especially in the global South. This monograph introduces the reader to the often-fragmented interdisciplinary knowledge base on topics of regionality, including associated projects. The history of Germany since is, among other things, a history of migration and integration, as illustrated by the flight and expulsion of populations following the Second World War, the mass desertion of East Germans to the West, the construction of the Berlin Wall in , the importation of guest workers, and the arrival of war refugees in the s.

Historians and legal scholars outline this often-neglected history. Series Dialektik des Globalen. The book opens new perspectives on the global Cold War by looking at social and economic planning. Despite the rival visions of the world that they put forward, social regulating ideas and practices were also at the core of a common project of modernity. This volume will show how social and economic knowledge circulated globally and how it was reinterpreted and appropriated in various national and local contexts.

Official and non-state European actors deployed soft power activities to advance a variety of foreign goals in the international tumultuous scenario of the Cold War. In , Soviet Premier Khrushchev triggered the Berlin crisis. The three Western Allies and West Germany sought to contain the crisis without having to play the nuclear card.

Based on the documentary record released only a few years go by the Four Powers, Harald van Neus analyzes the history of this secret organization, which remained active until Harald van Nes, Freiburg i. Cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after is in the focus of this volume, providing fresh insight into little known connections and cooperation in different artistic fields ranging from photography and architecture to popular music and theatre.

The volume offers an overview on the role culture played in international politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally. Cultural diplomacy; Cold War; Arts; International relations. The early s were marked by numerous sources of international tension. New methodological approaches for studying the history of emotions help analyze the strategies used by major foreign policy players to deal with confrontation. European integration; history of emotions; international history.

Series Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte 44 Ca. How do schools and public history influence each other? Cases studies focusing on school and public history around the world shed light on the intricate relationships between schools, students, teachers, policy makers and public historians.

From why Robben Island is not included in South African curriculum to how German schools shape Holocaust memory, the case studies offered in this book sheds light on a current topic. This volume approaches migration from a conceptual perspective. It explores notions, images and realities of migration in their cultural and discursive frameworks, focusing on theoretical assumptions and political implications.

Revisiting established analytical tools in the study of migration, the interdisciplinary contributions engage with new approaches and point to the importance of conceptual nuance extending beyond academic discourse. Public history studies how experts process history for the general public, be it in museums, on television, or on stage. This volume describes the depiction and dissemination of history on YouTube and analyzes its mass media effects. Series Medien der Geschichte 1 Ca. Based on information about more than Viennese Jewish officials, the book examines issues related to the self-characterization and outside characterization of Jews in Vienna.

This pioneering handbook is presenting Israel in its intellectual controversies regarding Zionism, the making of the State of Israel and contemporary Israeli society. In more than a dozen of thematic sections, a wide range of perspectives is covered. Reference Work, English, 2nd quarter The volume contributes to a better understanding of Iranian history since , with a focus on societal change and its reflection in intellectual discourse.

The papers explore the attitudes of Iranians toward modernity and tradition before and after the revolution of With insights from Oriental studies, history, sociology, literature and social anthropology, the volume offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on Bewusstsein and Sein. This book features previously unpublished innovative essays on early Chinese chronology, astronomy, and historiography by the late David S.

Nivison was instrumental in developing early China Studies in the United States and is well-known for revising the date of the Zhou conquest of Shang and for his theory that Western Zhou kings employed two calendars. Edition, English, 2nd quarter Series Library of Sinology 1 Approx.

For the first time, this volume provides an analysis of Maoist justice based on original case files, furnishing vivid details that give profound insight into Chinese legal, political, and social history. Taken together, the essays by Michael Schoenhals, Jeremy Brown, Xu Lizhi, and Wang Haigung, among others, represent a valuable revision to prior research. Chinesische Medizin; Volksrepublik China. Based on more than a decade of interviews with Chinese physicians, the author describes the cultural transformation of Chinese medicine. Behind the myth of a monolithic system, a differentiated picture emerges, marked by difference in professional trajectories, class origin, gender, migration, and region, and their relationships to education, pharmacy, Maoist-era institutions, forced regulation, and commercialization.

Focusing on local actors, this book explores a type of relation that is highly ambiguous and constantly variable. Colonial History; Asia; Intercultural Transfer. This volume is resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. The following themes are covered: Contributors include scholars in America, Asia, and Europe. Osteuropa; Geschichte; Kultur; Deutsche.

For many centuries Jews and Germans were economically and culturally of significant importance in Eastern Europe. Both groups had a similar background of origin and spoke related languages: This volume aims to explore the entanglements and interdependences of Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe from the late middle ages to the 20th century. Moreover, the perception of Jews as Germans in this region is discussed in detail. Historical development processes and current manifestations of languages are a reflection of social and cultural circumstances, especially in a multilingual region.

Kulturpolitik; Tanz; Oper; Jazz; Laienkultur. In this volume, 15 essays by Eastern European historians and musicologists examine high culture in the Soviet Union. They analyze engagement with literary, artistic, and musical heritage as a deliberate social practice for fostering meaning. The essays focus on day-to-day activities and processes that were often barely noted by the protagonists themselves.

Cultural policy; dance; opera, jazz; lay culture. Collection, German, 2nd quarter Untersucht werden die historischen und kulturellen Prozesse dieses multiethnischen Raums, die sowohl von Austausch als auch von Abgrenzung und Konflikten bestimmt sind. This Yearbook focuses geographically on the Danube catchment area and the Carpathian mountain range.

It investigates historical and cultural processes in this multiethnic area, which were determined by cultural exchange as well as separation and conflict. This volume concentrates on the literary ramifications of the resettlement of German authors from Romania to West Germany after Migration; Romanian-German literature; exile literature; Romanian-German authors.

After the Soviet occupation of northern Bukovina in , German minority families were resettled. Along with them, Romanians, Ukrainians, and others ended up in German reception camps. Long negotiations with the Romanian authorities took place about their repatriation. This book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the democratic reconfiguration of the European and non-European cultural and political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is the traumatic experience of its designers among whom Voltaire, Kant, Herder, the Schlegel brothers and Goethe, resp.

Literature, democracy, cosmopolitanism, trauma. How have women experienced and written about war? The centennial of World War I and renewed interest in the devastating German colonial conflicts inspire us to revisit both well-known and rare texts written by German-speaking women about these violent struggles. This volume examines narratives of war beyond the arenas of combat and deepens our understanding of the gendered experience of war as it intersects with issues of race, class and nation. German colonialism; World War I; women; German.

Italien; Kulturgeschichte; Trauer; Tod. Demonstrating feelings of grief was of great importance in the elite culture of liberal Italy. At the same time, mourning the dead flew in the face of societal trends toward secularization. The study analyzes the background of this ambivalent situation of conflict, examines the role of religion and nation in relation to death, discusses the relationship between body and emotions, and shows how grief was expressed across space.


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Hammerstein, Uni of Connecticut, Storrs; B. Kosta, Uni of Arizona, Tucson; J. The articles take a decidedly interdisciplinary look at the opus of the French philosopher, sociologist and pioneer of spatial analysis Henri Lefebvre — His works are reflected upon from theoretical and practical perspectives by authors from various fields literature, history, philosophy, sociology, ethnology closely examining text references from Lefebvre.

Natur als Basis des menschlichen Lebens stellt sich sowohl als Ressource als auch als Bedrohung dar. As the basis for human life, nature presents itself as both resource and threat. This has occurred through cultural, scientific, and technical practices as well as through religion, philosophy, and magic.

The volume explores these aspects across epochs and large cultural regions. Historical anthropology; cultural history; nature and religion; mastering nature. Collection, English, 4th quarter Monograph, English, 4th quarter Series Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology 5 Ca. Die Untersuchung befasst sich mit den Medien der Visualisierung politischer Vorstellungen und zeigt, welche Motive und Traditionen hierbei von Bedeutung waren und welches Publikum man erreichen wollte.

The English occupiers of France in the late phase of the Hundred Years War based their claims to the French crown not only on military conquest but also took great pains to depict it visually. The study examines the media for the visual depiction of political ideas and shows the major motivations and traditions in this effort and their intended audience. Hundred Years War; cultural transfer; book illumi-. Das Buch untersucht in historischer Perspektive, wie sie zustande kamen.

Why is a meter the same length everywhere? While this may seem to be a banal question, standardized measures and weight are hardly self-evident. This history of measurement standards concentrates on Western Europe between and while taking political, administrative, economic, and scientific aspects into consideration. Diese Diskussion ist fast so alt wie die Idee des humboldtschen Gymnasiums selbst. Is Latin instruction still appropriate in our time? The question is as old as the idea of the Humboldt Gymnasium itself. To this day, Latin is still part of the educational canon in Germany.

By examining political decision-making and educational philosophy, this study exposes the German conceptions of society that emerge from the Latin instruction debate. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet blockade, a well-sourced study of British crisis policy is being published for the first time, and it yields surprising new insights.

Cold War; crisis management; foreign policy. How does terrorism affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network.

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Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network, it investigates early modern European drama and its global dissemination. The Nazi regime established special courts, particular after the beginning of the war, and these courts were notorious for the speed and harshness of their decisions.

Drawing primarily on archival materials, the monograph presents a detailed record the work of one special court, from its creation to its demise, including legal decisions and personnel. The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies Philology, Art, and History in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures. Expanded edition of 10 French private texts from different regions, with a lot of new comments on spelling, morphology, syntax and lexicon.

The linguistic form of the original handwritten texts is strictly respected; graphical aids have been added to enhance their readability. Recent decades have witnessed the dramatic growth of an organized secularist movement that serves the needs of and advocates for the nonreligious. This volume brings together the latest research on organized secularism in the US, including its history, institution building, activist and political strategies, and its social functions in the lives of secularist individuals and families.

Secularism; social movements; atheism; secularization. Cragun, University of Tampa, L. Fazzino, University of Nevada, and C. Series Religion and Its Others 6 pp. This book offers an engaging study of the making of History of religions as an academic discipline in late 19th and early 20th century Europe. By studying the work of Alfred Loisy — , French Catholic Modernist priest and later Professor of History of religions, and his interactions with contemporary scholars, it explores the maturation of the field and how it helped to define a new sense of identity in a rapidly secularizing society.

This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Combining a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed study of 20 years of the reporting practice of the committees, the book finds several inconsistencies and argues that the committees should consider publishing a joint general comment on their approach to religion. Bachelard Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts, invoking places, persons, emotions, and fantasies.

This book, with photographs from Maurice Weiss, demonstrates how the relations between houses, work, and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalim and modernity. Work in Global and Historical Perspective 5 Approx. Mit Blick in die Vergangenheit beleuchtet dieser Band soziale und politische Ambivalenzen des Gesundheitsdiskurses.

Public health is confronting new challenges as a result of new technologies and shifting boundaries between health and illness. Looking at past history, this volume examines societal and political ambivalences in health care discourse. The issues discussed include public health ethics, controlling epidemics, health education media, and genderspecific health promotion. In the 19th century, protectorates and similar forms of imperial rule created asymmetrical power structures, in which sovereign states became the playthings of their protector.

Yet the status of protectorate guaranteed more autonomy than a colonial status and became a separate category in international law. The study examines how why these forms of rule came into being and their impact on notions of sovereignty. As a central cartel organization, besides controlling price and production policy, the RhenishWestphalian Coal Syndicate governed mining sales. Starting from its foundation in , the Syndicate built a powerful sales organization for this purpose. Konjunkturforschung; Raumforschung; Demographie; Arbeitsmarkt. Starting from the initial founding in , it includes the post-war re-founding and reorientation of the Institute, its redirection in the new millennium through , and describes the changing economic, political, and scientific contexts of the times.

Economics research; spatial research; demography; labor market. This study analyses how the rules and regulations that governed employment dismissal, promotion and remuneration of bureaucrats in the Grand-Duchy of Baden during the first half of the 19th century brought these features about. In doing so, the study builds on an extensive set of archival materials. In innovativer Weise werden Sicherheitsforschung und Marketinggeschichte, Kultur- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte miteinander verbunden.

For the first time, this richly sourced corporate historical study examines in depth the marketing strategies of West German weapons producers during the Cold War. A history of marketing with a uniquely wide and innovative focus, it undertakes a broad methodological and comparative analysis, thus interlinking security research with marketing, cultural, and economic history. Economic history; corporate history; military history; armaments.

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Das Buch nimmt diese ersten Zwangsmigrationen des Krieges in den Blick und betrachtet dabei die Unternehmen aus den Evakuierungsgebieten: Wie autonom agierten sie angesichts der Ausnahmesituation? Eine umfassende Bibliographie rundet den Band ab. The modern economy — including its structure and growth, as well as crises and shortcomings — has been heavily shaped by the development of corporations since the late 18th century.

Plumpe presents the broad contours of corporate development in Germany at the intersection between the public and private spheres, and discusses central research issues in the light of new considerations. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography. Shortly after the Second World War began, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the border regions between Germany and France were evacuated. The book examines this first forced migration of the war with a focus on the companies in the evacuation zones.

To what extent could they act autonomously under these exceptional circumstances? Based on this question, the study goes on to analyze the workings of German and French war-time society. During the era of the Cold War and decolonization, the economic foreign policy of both German states was fundamentally influenced by political strategic aims. As non-colonial powers, both East and West Germany benefited from an unburdened past.

The volume illustrates this history based on the examples of German economic relations in the Middle East and Africa, as well as South and East Asia. Die Sklaverei wird hier erstmalig systematisch globalgeschichtlich dargestellt. Michael Zeuske has fully revised and substantially expanded this perennial work. For the first time, the global history of slavery is presented systematically and in historical context, including an analysis of all its forms on all continents, and its respective designations.

It develops a comprehensive history of slavery on a broad empirical base, from its beginnings until the present day. This volume is the first handbook of regional history, which does not take on a specific regional focus but instead, explores over-arching connections and features of the discipline.

It presents the history of the discipline, spatial concepts, areas of intellectual interest, forms of access, and thematic fields all with references to specific historical regions and shows the commonalities between individual regional histories. Reference Work, German, 3rd quarter In the late 19th century, the human diet underwent a revolutionary transformation.

What has remained largely unconsidered is that these changes also had critical effects on non-eating e. For the first time, the volume examines the multi-faceted history of non-eating. Many of the essays touch upon major areas of societal conflict. Cognitive history concerns how humans in the past used their cognitive abilities in order to understand the world around them. The objective of this introduction is to analyse the theoretical basis for a cognitive approach to history, discuss the fundamental concepts of cognitive history that can provide new insights into how people in history perceived their world as a result of an interaction between mind and its environment.

Geschichtsschreibung; schriftlose Quellen; historische Erkenntnis. Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Historiography; unwritten sources; historical discovery. Non-restrictive DRM — allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous users per campus or institution. WBIS Online presents original sources on 6 million historical personalities.

Men and women, families and groups from all sectors of society and of all professions, from the sciences, politics, culture and economics are presented here. WBIS Online encompasses biographical data on people from all countries and regions of the world. WBIS Online provides information on men and women from the 4th millennium BC to the present, published in reference works from the 16th century until today. Whether you are a historian, sociologist, cultural and literary scholar or theologian: WBIS Online is the perfect tool for researchers who work on biographical topics.

No single library or search engine includes biographical information on so many historical personalities. From on, direct scanning will improve the quality of the sources. Three tried and tested search options Basic, Biographical and Bibliographical Search allow for a simple and precise research in the database. For further information, please visit our website at degruyter. The yearbook Antike und Abendland is a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of topics related to Antiquity and the history of its reception.

Die Zeitschrift richtet sich an die internationale Fachwelt und an eine breite Leserschaft. Nowadays, the APF differs from other journals specializing in papyrus studies, on account of its papers literary papyri, Christian texts, papers on documents, judicial articles, Coptic texts and documents, demotica, interpretations and resources.

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The Byzantinische Zeitschrift is the leading journal in the field of Byzantine Studies. Each issue of the journal contains a large bibliographic section. Abteilung serves as the standard bibliography in Byzantine Studies. Chinese Archaeology is an annual periodical that publishes translations of the most important archaeological reports, preliminary findings, and research articles published in all major mainland Chinese journals that year.

De Gruyter is responsible for the sales and distribution of the journal outside of China. Founded by Carl Heinrich Becker in , the Journal Der Islam provides a forum for the study of the history and culture of the Middle East before the age of modernisation in the 19th century, from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia. Articles present the latest research in the humanities and social sciences based on literary traditions, and archival, material, and archaeological evidence.

Andreas Fahrmeir, Hartmut Leppin Hrsg. Der Aufsatzteil behandelt Aspekte aus allen Teilbereichen der Geschichtswissenschaft; eine regionale oder epochale Begrenzung gibt es nicht. InternationalPublic History is a major stimulus to the field of public history, which has been growing all over the world both as an academic discipline and as a self-identity for its practitioners, and provides a much-needed publishing venue for those engaged in the field.

Its e-format offers readers a rich experience through multimodal enhancement. The article section encompasses aspects of all historical sub-disciplines — there is no regional or epochal restriction. An extensive section of book reviews, review articles on current trends and debates, and a list of works submitted for review keep the reader fully up to date on the latest state of German and international historical research.

The Economic History Yearbook is a forum for scientific discussion about economic development, the logic of the market, as well as the social and cultural contexts of economic activity from the 16th century to the present. Geographically, it focuses on Europe and especially on Germany, emphasizing comparative perspectives. The journal contains contributions on the history of theology since the Enlightenment. In addition to the various directions of Protestant theology and philosophy of religion, theological and religiousphilosophical tendencies in Roman Catholicism and Judaism are considered.

It also includes historical contributions on the development of theology in other European countries as well as in North America.


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  5. The Journal of Ancient History aims to provide a forum for scholarship covering all aspects of ancient history and culture from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity roughly the ninth century BCE through the sixth century CE. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles concerning the history and historiography ancient and modern of the ancient Mediterranean world and of neighboring civilizations in their relations with it. The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History seeks to encourage and stimulate the study of the history of the ancient Near East, which is broadly defined to include areas from Iran to the western Anatolian coast and the Black Sea to Southern Arabia from its prehistoric foundations to the Late Antique period.

    The journal bears out its interdisciplinary character by including a variety of relevant disciplines, such as church history, social history, cultural history, art history, literary history, history of ideas, history of music and archeology. Klio is one the oldest journal in the German Altertumswissenschaften. It publishes articles on the history of ancient Greece and Rome, including their relations to the ancient Near East, and also covers specialist areas such as epigraphy, papyrology, archaeology, and numismatics.

    Brief book reviews provide an overview of the latest publications in the field. The MGZ reflects the topical breadth and methodological diversity of modern military historiography, exploring the connections between the military, culture, and society from multiple viewpoints. Millennium pursues an interdisciplinary international approach transcending epochal boundaries to research the First Millennium AD. The editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines — contributions from art and literary studies are published alongside historical, theological and philosophical contributions on the Latin, Greek and the Oriental cultures.

    Philologus is one of the oldest and most respected periodicals in the field of Classical Studies. It publishes articles on Greek and Latin literature, historiography, philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, reception, and the history of scholarship. The journal aims to contribute to our understanding of Greco-Roman culture and its lasting influence on European civilization.

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    Manche Forscher datieren die Schlacht bereits auf Im Herbst waren laut der arabischen Tradition nur Caesarea und Jerusalem noch nicht von den Muslimen besetzt. Antiochia kapitulierte am Kaiser Herakleios hatte Antiochia rechtzeitig vor der Eroberung verlassen und war nach Edessa gereist. Wie drastisch die Auswirkungen der langen Kriege waren, zeigt sich im Golangebiet. Von den aus dem 5. Erst unter den Mamluken, also nach rund einem halben Jahrtausend, befanden sich im selben Gebiet wieder Siedlungen. Islamische Eroberung der Levante.

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