@book{Schenck2022, author = {Schenck, Marcia C.}, title = {Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World}, series = {Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series}, journal = {Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-031-06775-4}, issn = {2634-6273}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1}, pages = {XXVII, 377}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.  This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds.  Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world.}, language = {en} } @book{CarlaUhinkFreitagAntonClaveetal.2023, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Freitag, Florian and Anton Clav{\´e}, Salvador and B{\"o}ger, Astrid and Cl{\´e}ment, Thibaut and Lukas, Scott and Mittermeier, Sabrina and Molter, C{\´e}line and Paine, Crispin and Schwarz, Ariane and Staszak, Jean-Francois and Steinkr{\"u}ger, Jan-Erik and Widmann, Torsten}, title = {Key concepts in theme park studies}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-031-11131-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-11132-7}, pages = {XIX, 361}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and methods that have been used to study theme parks in various academic disciplines and reviews the major contexts in which theme parks have been studied. By providing the necessary backgrounds, theories, and methods to analyze and understand theme parks both as a business field and as a socio-cultural phenomenon, this book will be a great resource to students, academics from all disciplines interested in theme parks, and professionals and policy-makers in the leisure and entertainment as well as the urban planning sector.}, language = {en} } @book{CarlaUhinkRollinger2023, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Chrstian}, title = {The Tetrarchy as Ideology}, series = {Heidelberger althistorische Beitr{\"a}ge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) ; 64}, journal = {Heidelberger althistorische Beitr{\"a}ge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) ; 64}, editor = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian}, publisher = {Franz Steiner}, address = {Stuttgart}, isbn = {978-3-515-13400-2}, pages = {382}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The 'Tetrarchy', the modern name assigned to the period of Roman history that started with the emperor Diocletian and ended with Constantine I, has been a much-studied and much-debated field of the Roman Empire. Debate, however, has focused primarily on whether it was a true 'system' of government, or rather a collection of ad-hoc measures undertaken to stabilise the empire after the troubled period of the 3rd century CE. The papers collected here aim to go beyond this question and to present an innovative approach to a fascinating period of Roman history by understanding the Tetrarchy not as a system of government, but primarily as a political language. Their focus thus lies on the language and ideology of the imperial college and court, on the performance of power in imperial ceremonies, the representation of the emperors and their enemies in the provinces of the Roman world, as well as on the afterlife of Tetrarchic power in the Constantinian period.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-57777, title = {Poverty in ancient Greece and Rome}, editor = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Cecchet, Lucia and Machado, Carlos}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-22114-0}, doi = {10.4324/9780367221157}, pages = {x, 305}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social - as well as economic - capital. Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a diverse and complex analysis of life in antiquity, from the archaic to the late antique period. The sections on Greece, Rome, and Late Antiquity offer in-depth studies of ancient life, integrating analysis of socio-economic dynamics and cultural and discursive strategies that shaped this crucial element of ancient (and modern) societies. Themes like social cohesion and control, exclusion, gender, agency, and identity are explored through the combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, presenting a rich panorama of Greco-Roman societies and a stimulating collection of new approaches and methodologies for their understanding. The book offers a comprehensive view of the ancient world, analysing different social groups - from wealthy elites to poor peasants and the destitute - and their interactions, in contexts as diverse as Classical Athens and Sparta, imperial Rome, and the late antique towns of Egypt and North Africa. Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Discourses and Realities is a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology. In addition, topics covered in the book are of interest to social scientists, scholars of religion, and historians working on poverty and social history in other periods.}, language = {en} } @book{CarlaUhink2020, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo}, title = {Representations of classical Greece in theme parks}, publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-4742-9784-4}, pages = {X, 263}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @book{Kay2021, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Empire of destruction}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, address = {New Haven}, isbn = {978-0-300-23405-3}, pages = {xxi, 376}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing - showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the war. Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis' pan-European racial purification programme. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Empire of Destruction considers Europe's Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany's ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. Combining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror, this is a vital and groundbreaking work.}, language = {en} } @book{Kay2021, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Empire of destruction}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, address = {New Haven}, isbn = {978-0-300-23405-3}, pages = {xix, 376}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis? pan-European racial purification program.00Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Kay considers Europe?s Jews alongside all other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma, and the Polish intelligentsia. He shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany?s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. This groundbreaking work combines the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-50816, title = {Navigating Socialist Encounters}, editor = {Burton, Eric and Dietrich, Anne and Harisch, Immanuel R. and Schenck, Marcia C.}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Oldenburg}, isbn = {978-3-11-062354-3}, doi = {10.1515/9783110623543}, pages = {406}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-50028, title = {The First World War as a Caesura?}, series = {Gewaltpolitik und Menschenrechte ; 3}, journal = {Gewaltpolitik und Menschenrechte ; 3}, editor = {Pschichholz, Christin}, publisher = {Duncker \& Humblot}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-428-18146-9}, pages = {247}, year = {2020}, abstract = {During the phases of mobile warfare, the ethnically and religiously very heterogeneous population in the border regions of the multi-ethnic empires suffered in particular. Even if the real military situation in the course of the war hardly gave cause for concern, the image of disloyal ethnic and national minorities was widespread. This was particularly the case when ethnic groups lived on both sides of the border and social and political tensions had already established themselves along ethnic or religious lines of conflict before the war. Displacements, deportations and mass violence were the result. The genocide of the Armenian population is the most extreme example of this development. This anthology examines the border regions of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires during the First World War with regard to radical population policy and genocidal violence from a comparative perspective in order to draw a more precise picture of escalating and deescalating factors.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-48377, title = {Cultures of intelligence in the era of the World Wars}, series = {Studies of the German Historical Institute London}, journal = {Studies of the German Historical Institute London}, editor = {Ball, Simon James and Gassert, Philipp Leonhard and Gestrich, Andreas and Neitzel, S{\"o}nke}, publisher = {Oxford}, address = {University Press}, isbn = {978-0-19-886720-3}, pages = {xii, 393}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Cultures of Intelligence analyses the intelligence services of Germany, Britain, the USA, and France in the first half of the twentieth century. It asks whether there were national traditions in intelligence, or whether each of the sophisticated Western intelligence powers was part of a transnational intelligence culture? The book is a contribution to the cultural turn in intelligence studies. Its underlying purpose is to place intelligence in its proper historical and comparative context. As such it is also a contribution to the history of political culture and its study.}, language = {en} }