German History has just published its December issue, which has a special focus on national narrative and public memory. View the full table of contents and abstracts here:
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Articles
The Written Word in Carolingian-Style Fiscal Administration under King Henry I, 919 – 936 David S. Bachrach 399
‘Wo sind wir? ’ Orientalism, Gender and War in the German Encounter with Romania David D. Hamlin 424
The European Discourse in Germany, 1939 – 1950: Three Case Studies Christian Bailey 453
The Black Market in History and Memory: German Perceptions of Victimhood from 1945 to 1948 Laura Hilton 479
Reflections
Beyond the National Narrative: Implications of Reunification for Recent German History Konrad H. Jarausch 498
Forum
Asia, Germany and the Transnational Turn Bradley Naranch, Jennifer L. Jenkins, Kris Manjapra, Hoi-eun Kim, Young-Sun Hong and Corinna R. Unger 515
Discussion
The Rule of Law on Trial Jonathan Sperber 537
Review Article
Weimar was Weimar: Politics, Culture and the Emplotment of the German Republic Benjamin Ziemann 542
Book Reviews
Music Scholasticism and Reform: Salian Germany, 1024–1125. By T.J.H. McCarthy. (William Flynn) 572
Der Oberrheinische Revolutionär: Das buchli der hundert capiteln mit XXXX statuten. Edited by Klaus H. Lauterbach. (Tom Scott). 574
Ein ‘Medium zum Frieden’. Die Normaljahrsregel und die Beendigung des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. By Ralf-Peter Fuchs. (Peter Schröder) 575
Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort. Edited by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Robin Barnes. (Patrick Hayden-Roy) 577
Krieg und Umbruch in Mitteleuropa um 1800: Erfahrungsgeschichte(n) auf dem Weg in eine neue Zeit. Edited by Ute Planert. (Michael Rowe) 579
The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806. Edited by Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson. (Katherine B. Aaslestad) 581
Die Märzministerien. Regierungen der Revolution von 1848/49 in den Staaten des Deutschen Bundes. By Eva Maria Werner. (Frank Lorenz Müller) 583
The Making of a German Constitution: A Slow Revolution. By Margaret Barber Crosby. (Kenneth F. Ledford) 585
Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848–1884. By Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. (Christian S. Davis) 587
Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany. By Lynn K. Nyhart. (Pascal Eitler) 588
Der veränderbare Körper. Jüdische Turner, Männlichkeit und das Wiedergewinnen von Geschichte in Deutschland um 1900. By Daniel Wildmann. (Chad Ross) 589
Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand. By Benjamin Carter Hett. (Jochen Hung) 590
Kristallnacht 1938. By Alan E. Steinweis. (Christian Goeschel) 592
Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation. Edited by Beate Meyer , Hermann Simon and Chana Schütz. (Christoph Kreutzmüller) 593
The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution. By Eric Ehrenreich. (Michael Hau) 594
Arbeit und Gewalt. Das Au ß enlagersystem des KZ Neuengamme. By Marc Buggeln. (Nikolaus Wachsmann) 595
Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States. Edited by Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore. (Marjorie Lamberti) 597
The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism. Edited by Richard Bodek and Simon Lewis. (Rüdiger Graf) 598
Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Edited by Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick. (Catherine Epstein) 600
Bringing Culture to the Masses: Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR. By Esther von Richthofen. (April A. Eisman) 602
Angestellt im VEB. Loyalitäten, Machtressourcen und soziale Lagen der Industrieangestellten in der DDR. By Renate Hürtgen. (Christiane Reinecke) 603
Power and Society in the GDR 1961–1979: The ‘Normalisation of Rule’? Edited by Mary Fulbrook. (Annemarie Sammartino) 604
Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power. By Patrick Major. (Diethelm Prowe) 605
Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945–1965. By Brian Puaca. (Benita Blessing) 606
Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence, and Identity. By Sarah Colvin. (Joachim C. Häberlen) 608
The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present. By Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. (James E. Bjork) 610