Bücher der Reihe Studies in History, Memory and Politics

In this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany¿s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto interpretations of some important events. The outbreak of violence in Rwanda 1904 was neither an anti-colonial Hutu uprising nor the result of a royal court intrigue against German rule, but instead a response to raids, the White Father missionaries had carried out against the local population. German colonialism in Rwanda was much less benevolent than it is today recalled in Rwanda, because its main edge was directed against the population in the North whose collective memory has been marginalized in the royal abanyiginya narrative, under colonial rule and after the genocide. Other chapters deal with the link between colonial boundaries and ethnic conflict and the counter-intuitive consequences of the German/Namibian settlement about colonial atrocities against the Herero and Nama.

The achievements of Western democracies (equality, rule of law, social justice) are met with growing disdain. A hierarchical system, largely derived from the nation-state model, pits the (scorned) elites against the (disdained) people. Social give and take does not happen anymore, the situation is being made worse by social media.

The book focuses on the Polish social policy in the period 1918-1939, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions, and primarily on the practical activities. The subject matter scope of the research covers labour and employment issues, social insurance, social welfare and health care system.

The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as 'tyranny', were presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and literature in Italy, France, England, Scotland, German countries, and Poland-Lithuania.

The first comprehensive, non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology.

This book is a comprehensive work on the covert operations of the Spanish secret services throughout the 18th century. It is the fruit of a thorough study of what is known today as the intelligence cycle. The Spain of the 18th century, despite its decline on the European scene, continued to be a geopolitical actor on a global scale.

The book discusses the Polish-Ukrainian conflict over Lviv. Both nations desired to strengthen their standing in a war-ravaged Europe. Fighting broke out in what had previously been a shared city, ending with a Polish victory. The book also describes the ethnic cleansing of Jews and the memories that still haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Central Europe, 1914-1918. A broad vista of the lives of the inhabitants of the border zones between Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary during the Great War. The ordinary man's struggle to survive against the background of political and military affairs during the First World War, and in the comparative European context.

A monograph on the social history of meat in Poland under the Communist regime (1945-1989). The analysis includes, among other things, problems of meat demand and supply in post-war Poland, abuses in meat production and distribution, and the role of meat in the everyday life of Polish families.

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of such factors as the weakness of cities, political dominance.

Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse der ersten gemeinsamen Tagung von polnischen und deutschen Wissenschaftlern, die den Bestanden der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, die in der Jagiellonen-Bibliothek aufbewahrt werden, gewidmet wurde.

This book describes the tragedy of a border society that had no place inside the boundaries of a nation-state after 1945. The story takes place in Gdansk-Pomerania, which was a difficult homeland. The book presents the fate of Pomeranians and the residents of Gdansk who had to prove their national usefulness before they joined the post-war life.

This collection of articles summarises results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations.

The book deals with the fate of Poles from Poznan, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania, who served in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army in France

The book is a compendium of the latest research findings in Eurasian space and central Europe at the turn of early Metal ages which fundamentally change the view on the prehistory of European community. Migrations played a key role in intercultural processes and resulted in arise of the Bronze Age civilization and the first Golden Age in Europe.

The book reflects on the functioning of the public space in the nineteenth-century city on the example of Warsaw. Delving into the everyday realities and the symptoms of modern political life in the streets and squares, the author describes the conditions of a properly functioning public space, including the impact of the political regime.

Die interdisziplinäre Studie zu den (Wieder-)Aufbauprojekten des Berliner und Posener Schlosses verdeutlicht die unterschiedlichen Intentionen von Erinnerungsimplantaten. Die Autoren untersuchen die historische und kunstgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Schlösser mit Blick auf den Verlauf der Entscheidungsprozesse und der begleitenden Pressedebatten sowie schließlich auf die öffentliche Wahrnehmung der Bauten. Während das Berliner Projekt sich unter weitgehender Ausblendung der politischen zumindest ansatzweise auf die kulturelle Tradition Preußens beruft und als ein wichtiges Image-Projekt Deutschlands fungiert, hat das Posener fast ausschließlich eine lokale und politische Dimension, die nur im Kontext der Konkurrenz polnischer Städte um nationale Bedeutung zu verstehen ist.

This book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities in Poland and Ukraine, depopulated as result of ethnic cleansing and deportation. Based on more than 150 personal interviews, it describes a common fate of many post-war European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape.

This book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history as well as to legitimation of power and creation of social trust with the use of propaganda. It focuses on the contemporary history of Eastern Europe.

This book explores the fear management in Stalinist Poland. The main concept is interpreted as a top-down manipulation with media information referring to propaganda figures of 'German threat', 'American capitalist' or 'war provoker'. Using the methodology of history of emotions, the author examines social reception of the fear management policy.

This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of World War II. It draws on four case studies: Kalkow-Godow, Michniow, Jedwabne and Markowa, to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to discover milieux de memoire. The state also uses local histories to bolster its moral capital.

Dieses Buch versammelt Artikel, die in ihrer Ursprungsversion auf einer internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz vorgestellt wurden, die vom Institut für Polnische Philologie der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Posen sowie vom Institut für Slavistik der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in Posen organisiert wurde. Der Konferenzband trägt der Vielfältigkeit des deutsch-polnischen Beziehungsgeflechts Rechnung und vereint literaturwissenschaftliche, sprachwissenschaftliche und historische Beiträge. Unter den Autorinnen und Autoren sind Polonisten, Germanisten, Slawisten, Historiker sowie ein Vertreter aus der Philosophie.

Based on extensive archival research and the newest jurisprudence in international law, this book inquires which of the events in Germany's colonies fulfil the criteria of genocide under current international law and whether there was a link between these events and the policies of the Third Reich in Central and Eastern Europe during World War II.

Focusing mainly on Poland and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book looks at the critics of modernity, those who saw doom in the innovations and discoveries of their time and a degenerating civilization. This trend of gloomy forecasts and distaste for modern civilization has left its mark on the European culture of our times.

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the "invisible hand of the market" as a panacea for underdevelopment.