Book Discussion: Germany – A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000 This book shows how the concept of the German nation developed and changed over half a millennium, demonstrating that nationalism was only one possible way … Read more
Holocaust history has experienced its own “spatial turn” in the past decade, and important studies have examined the role space played in ethnic cleansing and genocide in central Europe during the 1940s. This project shifts the analytic focus from wartime … Read more
Can and should the history of democracy in Germany be written as a success story? With her newest book, Demokratie: Eine deutsche Affaire, Hedwig Richter has generated fierce debate by claiming that democracy has a longer history in Germany than the … Read more
