Experience

Berghahn Books Inc

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bureaucracy, Work and Violence: The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

  • May 2020 - Present

  Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime’s labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced. This definitive volume provides, for the first time, a systematic study of the Reich Ministry of Labor and its implementation of National Socialist work doctrine. In detailed and illuminating chapters, contributors scrutinize political maneuvering, ministerial operations, relations between party and administration, and individual officials’ actions to reveal the surprising extent to which administrative apparatuses were involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes.

• The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Prior to Hitler’s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the Czech government and local authorities.

• Oil and Sovereignty: Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  n the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies. Yet waves of price increases and the use of the so-called “oil weapon” by a group of Arab oil-producing countries in the early 1970s demonstrated the West’s dependence on this vital resource and its vulnerability to economic volatility and political conflicts. Oil and Sovereignty analyzes the national and international strategies that American and European governments formulated to restructure the world of oil and deal with the era’s disruptions. It shows how a variety of different actors combined diplomacy, knowledge creation, economic restructuring, and public relations in their attempts to impose stability and reassert national sovereignty.

• Losing Heaven: Religion in Germany since 1945

  • Oct 2016 - Present

• The Challenges of Globalization: Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914 Hardcover

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire. The stakes for both the winners and losers of the intensifying world market played a major role in dividing German society into camps with conflicting socio-economic priorities. As foreign trade policy moved into the center stage of political debates, the German government found it increasingly difficult to pursue a successful policy that avoided harming German exports and consumer interests while also seeking to placate a growing protectionist movement.Cornelius Torp is Lecturer in the Department of History at the Martin Luther University of Halle (Germany). He is the editor of Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives (with Sven Oliver Müller, 2011) and the author of Max Weber und die preußischen Junker (1998).



www.alexskinner.com

• Specialist Translator of Academic German

  • 2004 - Present

  Translation of German texts in the Social Sciences and Humanities. To date Alex Skinner has translated 19 books and numerous articles. Alex Skinner's' work has been lauded in leading academic journals such as the American Historical Review. Translation of German texts in the Social Sciences and Humanities. To date Alex Skinner has translated 19 books and numerous articles. Alex Skinner's' work has been lauded in leading academic journals such as the American Historical Review.



NYU Press

• A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book CouncilThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire―a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it―with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution.A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust.The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.



Routledge

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pioneering Health in London, 1935-2000: The Peckham Experiment

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of the 20th century. Families from the South London neighbourhood of Peckham were invited to use the facilities of a radiantly modern building. They were encouraged to freely choose and organize their leisure activities, taking advantage of a swimming pool, a gymnasium, and a self-service cafeteria. In doing so, both their health status and interaction with other members of the nascent centre-community were closely observed by a team of physicians.The first research monograph on the history of the experiment building on archival sources, this book combines a micro-historical perspective with methods from the history of science. It shows how bio-medical holism and evolutionary theories typical of the interwar years informed research on social life in the centre. But it also reveals that the "guinea pigs", too, were trying to make sense of the research they were taking part in. The outcome was an ambiguous social laboratory that generated new insights into the power of social groups to self-organize, which were soon discussed all over the world – and continue to haunt British political debates today.



Brill

• Netherlands
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927-1992)

  • Dec 2018 - Present

  In The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927-1992) Jürgen Dinkel examines the history of the NAM since the interwar period as a special reaction of the “Global South” to changing global orders. In The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927-1992) Jürgen Dinkel examines the history of the NAM since the interwar period as a special reaction of the “Global South” to changing global orders.



Lexington Books

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Social Engineering in the Modern World - THOMAS ETZEMÜLLER

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic” Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating “sensible” citizens, disciplining bodies, and reorganizing social relationships they attempted to intervene in the lives of ordinary men. The paradox of this task was to modernize society in order to defend it against an “ambivalent modernity.” This combination of Weltanschauung [world view], social science, and technical devices became known as social engineering.The Myrdals started in the early 1930s with Sweden, and then chose the world as their working field. In 1938, Gunnar Myrdal was asked to solve the “negro problem” in the United States, and, in the 1970s, Alva Myrdal campaigned for the world's super powers to abolish all of their nuclear weapons. The Myrdals successfully established their own "modern American" marriage as a media image and role model for reform. Far from perfect, their marriage was disrupted by numerous conflicts, mirrored in thousands of private letters. This marital conflict propelled their urge for social reform by exposing the need for the elimination of irrational conflicts from everyday life. A just society, according to the Myrdals, would merge social expertise with everyday life, and ordinary men with the intellectually elite.Thomas Etzemüller's study of these two figures brings to light the roots of modern social engineering, providing insight for today's sociologists, historians, and political scholars.



Stanford University Press

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity (Cultural Memory in the Present)

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that these two supposed certainties have kept scholars from serious contemporary debate and that people must put these old arguments aside in order for debate to move forward. The emergence of a "secular option" does not mean that religion must decline, but that even believers must now define their faith as one option among many.In this book, Joas spells out some of the consequences of the abandonment of conventional assumptions for contemporary religion and develops an alternative to the cliché of an inevitable conflict between Christianity and modernity. Arguing that secularization comes in waves and stressing the increasing contingency of our worlds, he calls upon faith to articulate contemporary experiences. Churches and religious communities must take into account religious diversity, but the modern world is not a threat to Christianity or to faith in general. On the contrary, Joas says, modernity and faith can be mutually enriching.

• Theories of International Relations [Paperback]

  • 2014 - 2014

  Book Title - "Theories of International Relations"Authors - Siegfried Schieder and Manuela SpindlerPublished - London: Routledge, 2014 Book Title - "Theories of International Relations"Authors - Siegfried Schieder and Manuela SpindlerPublished - London: Routledge, 2014



Kai Hafez

• Islam in Liberal Europe: Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance

  • 2014 - 2014

  Book Title - "Islam in Liberal Europe: Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance"Author - Kai Hafez, Published - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 Book Title - "Islam in Liberal Europe: Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance"Author - Kai Hafez, Published - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014



Hans Joas

• Glaube als Option. Zukunftsmoglichkeiten des Christentums

  • 2013 - 2013

  Book Title - "Glaube als Option. Zukunftsmoglichkeiten des Christentums"Author - Hans JoasPublished - Freiburg: Herder, 2012, English version forthcoming

• The Sacredness of the Person. A New Genealogy of Human Rights

  • 2013 - 2013

  Book Title - "The Sacredness of the Person. A New Genealogy of Human Rights"Author - Hans JoasPublished - Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013



Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knobl

• War in Social Thought. Hobbes to the Present

  • 2013 - 2013

  Book Title - "War in Social Thought. Hobbes to the Present"Authors - Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knobl, Published - Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013 Book Title - "War in Social Thought. Hobbes to the Present"Authors - Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knobl, Published - Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013

• Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds

  • 2010 - 2010

  Book Title - "Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds"Author - Kai Hafez, Published - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 Book Title - "Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds"Author - Kai Hafez, Published - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010



Gerhard A. Ritter

• German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke: Letters and Documents, 1910-1977

  • 2010 - 2010

  Book Title - "German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke: Letters and Documents, 1910-1977"Author - Gerhard A. Ritter, Published - Studies in Central European Histories. Leiden: Brill, 2010 Book Title - "German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke: Letters and Documents, 1910-1977"Author - Gerhard A. Ritter, Published - Studies in Central European Histories. Leiden: Brill, 2010



Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knöbl

• Social Theory

  • 2009 - 2009

  Book Title - "Social Theory"Authors - Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knöbl Published - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 Book Title - "Social Theory"Authors - Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knöbl Published - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009



Hans Joas & Klaus Wiegandt (eds.)

• Secularization and the World Religions

  • 2009 - 2009

  Book Title - "Secularization and the World Religions"Authors - Hans Joas & Klaus Wiegandt (eds.) Published - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009 Book Title - "Secularization and the World Religions"Authors - Hans Joas & Klaus Wiegandt (eds.) Published - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009

• Do We Need Religion?

  • 2008 - 2008

  Book Title - "Do We Need Religion?"Author - Hans JoasPublished - Boulder CO: Paradigm, 2008 Book Title - "Do We Need Religion?"Author - Hans JoasPublished - Boulder CO: Paradigm, 2008

• The Cultural Values of Europe

  • 2008 - 2008

  Book Title - "The Cultural Values of Europe"Authors - Hans Joas & Klaus Wiegandt (eds.), Published - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008 Book Title - "The Cultural Values of Europe"Authors - Hans Joas & Klaus Wiegandt (eds.), Published - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008

• The Myth of Media Globalization

  • 2007 - 2007

  Book Title - "The Myth of Media Globalization"Author - Kai Hafez, Published - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007 Book Title - "The Myth of Media Globalization"Author - Kai Hafez, Published - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007



Roland Axtmann and Helmut Kuzmics

• State, Authority and National Character

  • 2007 - 2007

  Book Title - "State, Authority and National Character"Authors - Roland Axtmann and Helmut Kuzmics, Published - Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007 Book Title - "State, Authority and National Character"Authors - Roland Axtmann and Helmut Kuzmics, Published - Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007



Benjamin Ziemann

• War Experiences in Rural Germany

  • 2007 - 2007

  Book Title - "War Experiences in Rural Germany"Author - "Benjamin Ziemann"Published - Oxford: Berg, 2007 Book Title - "War Experiences in Rural Germany"Author - "Benjamin Ziemann"Published - Oxford: Berg, 2007



Cornelius Torp

• The Challenges of Globalization. Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914

  • 2006 - 2006

  Book Title - "The Challenges of Globalization. Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914"Author - Cornelius Torp, Published - New York / Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming Book Title - "The Challenges of Globalization. Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914"Author - Cornelius Torp, Published - New York / Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming



Thomas Etzemüller, Alva and Gunnar Myrda

• Social Engineering in the Modern World

  • 2005 - 2005

  Book Title - "Social Engineering in the Modern World"Authors - Thomas Etzemüller, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. Published - Lanham: Lexington, forthcoming Book Title - "Social Engineering in the Modern World"Authors - Thomas Etzemüller, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. Published - Lanham: Lexington, forthcoming