Volume XLIII, No. 2 November 2021
ARTICLES
An Empire of Shaming: Laughter as Identity Politics in Nazi Germany by Martina Kessel 3 The Realm of Cloacina? Excrement in London’s Eighteenth-Century Waste Regime by Franziska Neumann 30
REVIEW ARTICLES
Democracy in Germany: Way of Life, Path to (Auto)Westernization, and Global Political Phenomenon by Matthew Stibbe 57
Rethinking Locality and Social Change: Contributions to East–West German History by Frank Kell 72
BOOK REVIEWS
Andreas Fahrmeir (ed.), Deutschland: Globalgeschichte einer Nation (John Breuilly) 82
Phyllis G. Jestice, Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty: Women and Rule in Tenth-Century Germany (Knut Görich) 88
Peter Hess, Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540: Visions of a Nation in Decline (Thomas Ertl) 94
Leigh T. I. Penman, The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal (Wolfgang E. J. Weber) 98
Christoph Ketterer, To Meddle with Matters of State: Political Sermons in England, c.1660–c.1700 (Grant Tapsell) 101
Jürgen Overhoff, Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790): Aufklärer, Pädagoge, Menschenfreund. Eine Biografie / Robert B. Louden, Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education: Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment (Jana Kittelmann) 106
Tobias Delfs, Die Dänisch-Englisch-Hallesche Indienmission des späten 18. Jahrhunderts: Alltag, Lebenswelt und Devianz (Olga Witmer) 111
Martin Kämpchen, Indo-German Exchanges in Education: Rabindranath Tagore Meets Paul and Edith Geheeb (Razak Khan) 116
Monica Black, A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany (Daniel Cowling) 120
Joachim Schlör, Escaping Nazi Germany: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England (Sarah Schwab) 125
Dora Osborne, What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture (Annika Wellmann) 130
CONFERENCE REPORT
The Politics of Old Age: Old People and Ageing in British and European History (Middle Ages to the Present) by Christina von Hodenberg 136
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