Wissenschaftliche Publikationen
Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht der selbstständigen Publikationen von Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg sowie ehemaliger und aktueller Mitarbeiter, Doktoranden und Habilitanden der Curt-Engelhorn Professur. Zu den meisten Veröffentlichungen sind kurze Inhaltsbeschreibungen und Rezensionen verfügbar.
Manfred Berg: Das gespaltene Haus. Eine Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von 1950 bis heute
In den 1950er Jahren galten die USA als Vorbild einer stabilen Demokratie, in der ein breiter Konsens über die gesellschaftliche und politische Ordnung herrschte. In den 1960er Jahren jedoch zerbrach dieser Konsens in den Auseinandersetzungen über den Vietnamkrieg, den Rassenkonflikt und die Kulturrevolution der Radical Sixties. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten veränderten Globalisierung, Einwanderung, Wertewandel und Medienrevolution die amerikanische Gesellschaft dramatisch, führten aber gleichzeitig zu unerbittlichen Kulturkämpfen und einem lange unterschätzten Polarisierungs- und Radikalisierungsschub, der insbesondere das konservative Milieu erfasste. Heute stehen sich rote und blaue Staaten, Republikaner und Demokraten, Konservative und Liberale als unversöhnliche Feinde gegenüber. Die amerikanische Demokratie ist zum Krisenfall geworden. Wer die Krise der amerikanischen Demokratie und ihre jüngere Geschichte verstehen will, dem bietet dies Buch umfassende historische Orientierung.
Erschienen am 15. Juni 2024.
Hardcover - 544 Seiten - Klett-Cotta
ISBN: 978-3-608-98408-8
Manfred Berg & Günther Leypoldt (eds.): Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production. Exploring the nexus between authority and trust is crucial to understand the loss of legitimacy experienced by political, social, and cultural institutions not only in the United States but in Western democracies at large.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
American Culture Studies, vol. 30
Taschenbuch - 282 Seiten - transcript
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5189-8
Manfred Berg: Lynchjustiz in den USA
Lynchjustiz bis heute verbunden mit Rassismus, Terror und Gewalt, mit dem berühmt-berüchtigten Ku-Klux-Klan und dem amerikanischen Süden kostete im Lauf der amerikanischen Geschichte Zehntausende Menschen das Leben. Im Namen der »Gerechtigkeit«, der »Selbstverteidigung des Volkes« und der »Vorherrschaft der weißen Rasse« wurden Menschen geteert und gefedert, gefoltert, gehängt oder verbrannt. Mehr oder weniger organisierte Gruppen, die den Anspruch erhoben, im Namen lokaler Gemeinschaften und einer höheren Gerechtigkeit zu handeln, nahmen sich das Recht heraus, angebliche Verbrecher zu bestrafen. Manfred Berg erzählt die Geschichte der Lynchjustiz von ihren Anfängen in der Kolonialzeit und während der Revolution bis in die Gegenwart. Die rassistische Lynchjustiz gegen schwarze Amerikaner nimmt breiten Raum ein, aber der Historiker erinnert auch an andere, lange Zeit vergessene Opfergruppen wie Mexikaner und Chinesen. Er berichtet vom Widerstand gegen die Lynchjustiz und untersucht, warum sie um die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts aufhörte und welches Erbe sie in der amerikanischen Kultur hinterlassen hat. Wer verstehen will, warum das staatliche Gewaltmonopol in den USA eine vergleichsweise geringe Akzeptanz findet und die USA die drakonischste Strafjustiz der westlichen Welt praktizieren, aber auch welche Kontinuitäten zwischen dem Lynchen und der Praxis der Todesstrafe bestehen, findet in diesem Buch Antworten.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Gebundene Ausgabe - 274 Seiten - Hamburger Edition
ISBN: 978-3-86854-273-8
Manfred Berg & Cornelis A. van Minnen (eds.): The U.S. South and Europe: Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New Directions in Southern History
The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural forcenot only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst for the nation's only civil war, and later, as a battleground in violent civil rights conflicts. Once considered isolated and benighted by the international community, the South has recently evoked considerable interest among popular audiences and academic observers on both sides of the Atlantic.
In The U.S. South and Europe, editors Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg have assembled contributions that interpret a number of political, cultural, and religious aspects of the transatlantic relationship during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors discuss a variety of subjects, including European colonization, travel accounts of southerners visiting Europe, and the experiences of German immigrants who settled in the South. The collection also examines slavery, foreign recognition of the Confederacy as a sovereign government, the lynching of African Americans and Italian immigrants, and transatlantic religious fundamentalism. Finally, it addresses international perceptions of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement as a framework for understanding race relations in the United Kingdom after World War II. Featuring contributions from leading scholars based in the United States and Europe, this illuminating volume explores the South from an international perspective and offers a new context from which to consider the region's history.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Gebundene Ausgabe - 307 Seiten - University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 978-0-8131-4308-8
Manfred Berg: Geschichte der USA
Das Buch informiert konzise und kompetent über die Geschichte der USA von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart sowie über die prägenden Entwicklungen der neueren US-Geschichtswissenschaft. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Einführung stehen die „klassischen“ Themen der amerikanischen Geschichte: der Kulturkontakt und Konflikt mit den Ureinwohnern, die Westexpansion, die Sklaverei, Rassenbeziehungen und ethnische Vielfalt, die Einwanderung, der religiöse Pluralismus, die Gründung und Entwicklung der föderalen Republik, die Ausbildung der Demokratie, die Entwicklung der modernen Industrie- und Konsumgesellschaft sowie der Aufstieg der USA zur globalen Supermacht.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte Bd. 42
Gebundene Ausgabe - 233 Seiten - Oldenbourg, München
ISBN: 978-3-486-70482-2
Manfred Berg & Simon Wendt (eds.): Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective
This book takes a first step toward globalizing the history of lynching. Covering fourteen countries and five continents, it demonstrates that lynching has neither been a uniquely American phenomenon, nor did it exclusively target racial and ethnic minorities. Instead, what appears to be common to vigilantism and extralegal punishment around the globe is the ideology of popular justice, the idea that lynching represents a form of communal self-defense against crimes that are unchecked by the state. The multidisciplinary and multiregional approach of this volume will lay the groundwork for a more thorough understanding of mob violence and extralegal punishment in the United States and the world.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Gebundene Ausgabe - 272 Seiten - Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-230-11588-0
Manfred Berg &Simon Wendt: Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaption
Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were racial beliefs of Western origin? Did similar belief systems emerge in non-Western societies independently of Western influence? And how did these societies adopt and adapt Western racial beliefs once they were exposed to them? Up to this point, the few monographs or edited collections that exist only provide students of the history of racism with tentative answers to these questions. More importantly, the authors of these studies tend to ignore transnational processes of exchange and transfer. Yet, as this volume shows, these are crucial to an understanding of the diffusion of racial belief systems around the globe.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Gebundene Ausgabe - 372 Seiten - Berghahn Books, New York und Oxford
ISBN: 978-0-85745-076-0
Manfred Berg: Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America
Lynching has often been called „America's national crime“ that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, „Judge Lynch“ holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory. In Popular Justice, Manfred Berg explores the history of lynching from the colonial era to the present. American lynch law, he a gues, has rested on three pillars: the frontier experience, racism, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of grassroots democracy. Berg looks beyond the familiar story of mob violence against African American victims, who comprised the majority of lynch targets, to include violence targeting other victim groups, such as Mexicans and the Chinese, as well as many of those cases in which race did not play a role. As he nears the modern era, he focuses on the societal changes that ended lynching as a public spectacle.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Gebundene Ausgabe - 212 Seiten - Ivan R. Dee, Chicago
ISBN: 978-1-566-63802-9
Manfred Berg & Bernd Schaefer (eds): Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies Are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past
This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices by offering case studies from nine countries on five continents. The contributors examine the problems of material restitution, criminal justice, apologies, recognition, memory, and reconciliation in national contexts as well as in comparative perspective. Among the topics discussed are the claims for reparations for slavery in the United States, West German restitution for the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge’s mass murders in Cambodia, and the struggles of the indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand. The book highlights the diversity of the ways societies have tried to right past wrongs as the demand for historical justice has become universal.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Gebundene Ausgabe - 328 Seiten - Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876834
Manfred Berg & Andreas Etges (eds.): John F. Kennedy and the 'Thousand Days': New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration
Although it lasted only for a 'Thousand Days', the presidency of John F. Kennedy is considered a defining moment in recent American history. Despite countless attempts by historians, journalists and cultural critics, the Kennedy myth, carefully crafted during his lifetime and eagerly nurtured after his violent death, lives on. The enduring notion that America might have been spared many of the traumatic events of the 1960s and 1970s, if only John F. Kennedy had lived, poses a continuing challenge to historians to reassess his foreign and domestic policies. In this volume scholars from the United States, Germany and Great Britain, mostly representatives of a younger generation, take a fresh look at key topics such as Kennedy's policies toward Europe, the Third World, the civil rights struggle, and poverty. Contrary to his often grandiose rhetoric of vigorous leadership and „new frontiers“ and despite his considerable skills at managing foreign and domestic crises, the essays emphasize that President John F. Kennedy acted largely within the consensus of Cold War liberalism.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Gebundene Ausgabe - 303 Seiten - Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-8253-5303-2
Manfred Berg, Stefan Kapsch & Franz Streng (eds.): Criminal Justice in the United States and Germany: History, Modernization, and Reform Strafrecht in den Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland: Geschichte und neuere Entwicklung
Criminal justice is a salient and controversial political issue in both Germany and the United States. Public perception is often dominated by media sensationalism and dramatized images of popular culture, while experts tend to focus on institutions and procedures. This volume brings together contributions from German and American scholars representing various disciplines, including criminology, criminal law, political science, sociology, and history. The essays address both broader social issues, such as race, gender, and the death penalty, and specific problems of administering criminal justice, including sentencing, corrections, or electronic monitoring. Their unifying themes are the dynamics of legal and social change and the quest for reform to make the criminal justice system both fairer and more efficient. Some of the essays invoke a comparative perspective, while others focus on national case studies.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Gebundene Ausgabe - 222 Seiten - Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-8253-5273-8
Manfred Berg: The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the United States’ largest and oldest civil rights organization. After many years of neglect and faultfinding by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Berg reveals the group’s eminently political character as he assesses both its historical achievements and its failures. He suggests that while the NAACP did make significant gains in furthering the progress of America’s black citizens at the grassroots level, its national agenda should not be discounted. Berg challenges criticisms of recent years that the NAACP’s goals and methods were half-hearted, ineffective, and irrelevant and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that has done much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Gebundene Ausgabe - 352 Seiten - University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813028329
Manfred Berg & Philipp Gassert: Deutschland und die USA in der Internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift für Detlef Junker
Die Geschichtswissenschaft hat sich in den vergangen Jahrzehnten stark internationalisiert. Kommunikation und Kooperation über Ländergrenzen, nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg noch die Ausnahme, sind längst zur Routine geworden. Das gilt insbesondere für das deutsch-amerikanische Verhältnis, wo der beispiellose Einfluss, den die Vereinigten Staaten auf die Bundesrepublik ausübten, zur Bildung enger wissenschaftlicher Netzwerke geführt hat. Daher ist es kein Zufall, dass deutsch-amerikanische Themen in der Internationalen Geschichte eine herausragende Rolle spielen. Dieser Band bietet einen Querschnitt durch das breite Spektrum der methodischen Ansätze, Fragestellungen und Themen, mit denen sich die Forschung auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks in jüngster Zeit beschäftigt hat. Zugleich stellen einige der 29 Beiträge weiterführende Überlegungen zu Theorie und Methode sowie zur historiographischen Entwicklung der Internationalen Geschichte an.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Gebundene Ausgabe - 598 Seiten - Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 3515084541
Manfred Berg & Martin H. Geyer (eds.): Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany
This book addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights, and social rights in the United States and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. The essays address issues such as the struggle for the rights of women and minorities (including African Americans, Jews, and Asians), National Socialism and the dismantling of civil rights, and the emergence of the concept of social rights. What becomes clear are the unique features that distinguish German from American history and that these differences have been created by both social movements and dissimilar cultures of rights.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Gebundene Ausgabe - 294 Seiten - Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521792665
Manfred Berg: The Ticket to Freedom: Die NAACP und das Wahlrecht der Afro-Amerikaner
Rezensionen:
Journal of American History
The Ticket to Freedom is a first-rate study of the struggle for voting rights waged by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over several decades. Manfred Berg has utilized much of the relevant published secondary literature and also made extensive use of archival materials, especially the NAACP collection at the Library of Congress. In addition, he has drawn upon some interviews with key civil rights personnel. Following an introductory section that outlines various forms of political discrimination aimed at African Americans, the book, as concerns the period 1910–1940, proceeds to discuss the establishment and consolidation of the NAACP, the question of voting rights and political discourse, and the topics of voter mobilization and party politics. There then comes a section on the race question and political change, 1940–1955, and finally a section on political reform and social movement, 1955–1970. The subject matter is set in the context of national and international politics.
Berg takes up some of the key issues that separated the NAACP from other civil rights organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Nation of Islam, and other manifestations of black nationalism. The book acknowledges the contributions made to the struggle for voting rights by the more radical, direct action–focused organizations but emphasizes the effective work done by the NAACP, which could rely on greater continuing stability, greater access to funding sources, and a larger membership than any other civil rights group, which meant having a substantial national presence.
At the same time, Berg draws attention to the bureaucratic tendencies that existed in the NAACP leadership. The book notes the historic role played by W. E. B. Du Bois, perceptively discusses the splits from the association that occurred in 1934 and 1948, and takes account of the reality that the NAACP, at least most of its influential leaders, sought to work within the premises of capitalist society. During the era of McCarthyism, the NAACP generally did not challenge repression unless directly aimed at itself or at African American civil rights, at the same time subscribing to the anticommunism that rationalized the suppression of dissent. In a volume of such broad scope omissions are to be expected, but the interesting discussion of the 1964 Freedom Summer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party would have been strengthened by reference to the differences that emerged around the issue of legal representation for the freedom activists. A basic point made in the volume is that, although the winning of electoral rights signified a major victory, the victory was incomplete in the absence of widespread change in the social and economic conditions of black Americans.
Numerous scholars beyond the United States have ably focused upon the African American struggle, recognizing its international significance and centrality to the American experience. Berg's book is in the forefront of the work emerging from such scholarship and merits the attention of readers everywhere concerned with the valiant battle for racial justice.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Sondereinband - 499 Seiten - Campus Fachbuch
ISBN: 3593365340
Manfred Berg, Michael Hönicke, Raimund Lammersdorf & Anneke de RudderMacht und Moral: Beiträge zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Außenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Knud Krakau
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Gebundene Ausgabe - 328 pages - LIT
ISBN: 3825843025
Manfred Berg & Geoffrey Cocks (eds.): Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. The central focus is on the professionalization of modern medicine and the medicalization of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme. Other topics include: hospitals in early nineteenth century society, Social Darwinism, state-run health insurance, eugenics, social control, Nazi experimentation, and the postwar medical leadership.
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Gebundene Ausgabe - 242 Seiten - Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0-521-56411-5
Manfred Berg: Gustav Stresemann. Eine politische Karriere zwischen Reich und Republik
Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Taschenbuch - 136 pages - Muster-Schmidt Verlag
ISBN: 3788101415
Manfred Berg: Gustav Stresemann und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Weltwirtschaftliche Verflechtung und Revisionspolitik 1907–1929
Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
Taschenbuch - 438 pages - Nomos Universitätsschriften
ISBN: 3789020877
Cîmpean, Raluca Lucia: JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama (Film and History)
One of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century, John F. Kennedy has been the subject of countless books, documentaries, and portrayals both on television and in feature films. Whether depicting his exploits during World War II (PT-109), capturing crucial moments during his presidency (Thirteen Days), or providing a fictionalized account of his assassination (Executive Action), films continue to portray Kennedy and his legacy.
In The JFK Image: Profiles in Docudrama, Raluca Lucia Cimpean examines John F. Kennedy’s representations in motion pictures, focusing on how the late president’s image has been constructed to keep the myths of the Kennedy era and Camelot alive. The volumeexplores those myths through docudramas, which combine the aesthetic and narrative codes of documentaries with those of fiction to portray the characters and events of the Kennedy era as classic battles between good and evil. Beginning with an examination of the docudrama and its uses, this book analyzes the Kennedy image—with its focus on the New Frontier, Camelot, and revisionist approaches—and then provides in-depth examinations of such films as JFK, In the Line of Fire, and The Rat Pack.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Taschenbuch - 300 Seiten - Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă
ISBN: 978-606-17-0491-0
Franz, Manuel: "Fight for Americanism". Preparedness-Bewegung und zivile Mobilisierung in den USA 1914–1920
Als in Europa der Erste Weltkrieg ausbrach, fürchteten viele Amerikaner um die Souveränität der USA. Unter der Parole »Preparedness« formierte sich bald eine lautstarke Bewegung, deren selbsterklärtes Ziel es war, die Öffentlichkeit über Fragen der nationalen Sicherheit aufzuklären. Manuel Franz zeigt, wie Lobbyorganisationen die sicherheitspolitische Debatte zwischen 1914 und 1920 nutzten, um den Nationalismus in der amerikanischen Zivilgesellschaft zu befeuern. Damit nimmt er nicht nur die kaum noch im historischen Gedächtnis präsente Preparedness-Bewegung neu in den Blick, sondern spürt auch einer der ideengeschichtlichen Wurzeln illiberalen Denkens in den USA nach.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Taschenbuch - 322 Seiten - transcript
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5521-6
Friedrich, Michael: Reaktionen der Vereinigten Staaten auf japanische Kriegsverbrechen, 1941–1946
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Mikrofiche - 414 Bl.
Honeck, Mischa: We Are the Revolutionists. German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking Forty-Eighters, refugees of the failed European revolutions of 1848–49, fueled apprehensions about the nation’s future. Reaching America did not end the foreign revolutionaries’ pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it.
In We Are the Revolutionists, Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America’s abolitionists. Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Boston this cooperation helped them find new sources of belonging in an Atlantic world unsettled by massive migration and revolutionary unrest.
Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German émigrés into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad. Forty-Eighters and abolitionists, Honeck argues, made creative use not only of their partnerships but also of their disagreements to redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity in a transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Taschenbuch - 236 Seiten - Georgia University Press
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3823-1
Honeck, Mischa: Our Frontier Is the World. The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy
Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country's largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America's complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad.
Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting's global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Gebundene Ausgabe - 374 Seiten - Cornell University Press
ISBN: 978-1-5017-1618-8
Lingen, Kerstin von: "Crimes against Humanity". Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945
Das Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) hat Kerstin von Lingen den Czempiel-Preis für die beste postdoktorale Monografie aus der Friedensforschung verliehen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Pressemitteilung des HSFK. Transnationale Debatten unter Juristen haben das humanitäre Völkerrecht entscheidend geformt. Die Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt stand seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Zentrum und gipfelte im Konzept von „Crimes against Humanity“, das im Internationalen Militärtribunal von Nürnberg erstmals zum Tatbestand erhoben wurde. Kerstin von Lingen zeichnet diesen Weg nach – von den frühen völkerrechtlichen Debatten unter Juristen über die Haager Friedenskonferenzen und die Verhandlungen von Versailles nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs. Angesichts immer höherer Opferzahlen und ansteigender Massengewalt gegen Zivilisten wirkte der Zweite Weltkrieg wie ein Katalysator: Das Konzept „Crimes against Humanity“ wurde in London in Gremien geschärft, deren Akten für dieses Buch erstmals ausgewertet wurden. „Crimes against Humanity“ wurde nach 1945 neben dem Genozid-Vorwurf zum wichtigsten juristischen Werkzeug unserer Zeit, um Massengewalt gegen Zivilisten zu ahnden.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Gebundene Ausgabe - 386 Seiten - Ferdinand Schöningh
ISBN: 978-3-506-78775-0
Lorenz, Sophie: „Schwarze Schwester Angela“ – Die DDR und Angela Davis. Kalter Krieg, Rassismus und Black Power 1965–1975
Die afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtlerin Angela Davis erlangte in den 1960er Jahren Bekanntheit als Black Power-Ikone und galt als internationale Leitfigur der studentischen Protestbewegungen um 1968. Die Beziehungen zwischen Angela Davis und der DDR sowie die umfangreiche Solidaritätskampagne der DDR für Davis haben dabei jedoch bislang kaum Beachtung gefunden. Sophie Lorenz zeigt, welche Bedeutung Angela Davis in der DDR vor dem Hintergrund des Kalten Krieges zugeschrieben wurde. Sie beleuchtet damit nicht nur Davis` Rolle als Akteurin der Global Sixties neu, sondern erweitert die Historiografie zu Rassismus-Debatten in der BRD um eine ostdeutsche Perspektive.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Taschenbuch - 304 Seiten - transcript
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5031-0
Milde, Anja: "Liberal oases in conservative hell": blacks, gays, and the struggle for equality
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Mikrofiche - 359 Bl.
Santoro, Anthony: Exile & Embrace. Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty
With passion and precision, Exile and Embrace examines the key elements of the religious debates over capital punishment and shows how they reflect the values and self-understandings of contemporary Americans. Santoro demonstrates that capital punishment has relatively little to do with the perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and victims, as is typically the case in debates pro and con about the death penalty, but on ourselves and on the mechanisms that we use to impose or oppose the death penalty.An important book that will appeal to those involved in the death penalty debate and to general religious studies and American studies scholars, as well.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Taschenbuch - 308 Seiten - Northeastern University Press
ISBN: 978-1-55553-817-0
Riffel, Andreas: Greasers, Gringos und Gräueltaten im mexikanisch-amerikanischen Krieg 1846–1848
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Online - 594 Seiten
DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00021795
Track, Lara: Frieden und Frauenrechte im Kalten Krieg. »Women Strike for Peace« und die amerikanische Frauenrechtsbewegung im Spiegel transnationaler Kooperationen, 1961-1990
Als der Kalte Krieg die Welt an den atomaren Abgrund brachte, formierte sich in den USA das Aktivistinnen-Netzwerk »Women Strike for Peace« (WSP). Von Frauen getragen, protestierte die WSP gegen Atomwaffentests und forderte Frieden im Namen künftiger Generationen. Lara Track analysiert das Verhältnis der WSP zur zeitgenössischen Frauenrechtsbewegung und zeigt auf, welchen entscheidenden Einfluss transnationale Vernetzung auf die Zusammenarbeit sozialer Bewegungen hatte. Damit erschließt sie nicht nur die Geschichte des bisher kaum im historischen Gedächtnis verankerten Frauenfriedensnetzwerks bis 1990, sondern verdeutlicht auch, wie Aktivistinnen gemeinsam für Frieden und Frauenrechte einstanden.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
340 Seiten - transcript
ISBN: 978-3-8376-7093-6
