Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook
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Edited by:
Johannes Paulmann
Gegründet im Jahr 2000 widmet sich das Jahrbuch der Europäischen Geschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur jüngeren Zeitgeschichte. Die große zeitliche Breite, thematische Vielfalt und methodische Offenheit zeichnen das Jahrbuch von Beginn an aus und machen es zu einem zentralen Ort wissenschaftlicher Debatten. Das bleibt künftig so. Mit dem Jahrgang 2014 verändert sich das Jahrbuch aber in mehrfacher Hinsicht:
- Das Jahrbuch erscheint mit der Ausgabe 2014 im Open Access.
- Jeder Band setzt einen thematischen Schwerpunkt.
- Das Forum bietet Platz für geschichtswissenschaftliche Reflexionen und Debatten.
- Jeder Beitrag des Jahrbuchs durchläuft ein strenges Peer-Review-Verfahren.
- Das Jahrbuch erweitert seinen Namen zum "Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte. European History Yearbook". und druckt künftig deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge, seit 2015 ausschließlich englischsprachige.
Ab "Jahrgang 2014" im Open Access!
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The present issue of the European History Yearbook showcases research initially presented at the annual Mainz-Oxford graduate workshop "European History Across Boundaries from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century". The essays shed the straightjacket of national history and cross boundaries and borders. They do so by discussing the transcultural, transnational, and transimperial scopes of their research. Methodologically speaking, the European history that the authors have been researching and writing draws on comparative history, the study of transfer processes and entanglements, and the histoire croisée, among others. The contributions are not only interested in writing European history across boundaries but also in decentering Europe. Individual papers deal with Central America, East Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. They take the readers far away from the imperial metropolises of Berlin, Madrid, or London - and yet still tell a story about these European imperial centres and societies.
Der erste Band des Jahrbuchs hat das Schwerpunktthema "Europa - eine Bilanz des 20. Jahrhunderts".
· Forum für Experten aus den europäischen Ländern zu Themen, Problemen und Grundsatzfragen der europäischen Geschichte,
· Podium für die Diskussion von Forschungstrends und Forschungsergebnissen aus Europa und Übersee,
· Arena für Originalbeiträge vorwiegend jüngerer Wissenschaftler.
Der Europagedanke an der europäischen Peripherie (Beiträge von António Martins da Silva, David Allan, Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen, Sergey Glebov, Ivan Parvev)
Weitere Beiträge:
West-Ost-Kommunikation im 17. Jahrhundert in ihrem Kontext (Anuschka Tischer); Die Zeitschrift Paneuropa 1924-1938 (Ina Ulrike Paul); Die politische Lage Deutschlands beim Übergang zum Hitler-Regime im Spiegel der chinesische Presse (Kai Hu)
Europa-Institute und Europa-Projekte:
Das Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main (Marie Theres Fögen) Europa digital. Der Kartenserver IEG-MAPS am Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz (Andreas Kunz)
Auswahlbibliographie von Matthias Schnettger
Schwerpunktthema: Akademische Migrationen und Austauschprozesse seit dem Spätmittelalter (Beiträge von Matthias Asche, Jana Fietz, Ljubinka Trgovcevic, Francesco Marin, Natalia Tikhonov)
Andere Beiträge: Europa im Bann des Mittelalters. Wie Geschichte und Gegenwart unserer Lebenswelt die Perspektiven der Mediävistik verändern (Michael Borgolte); Shared memory: Erinnerung an deutsch-französische Annäherungen (Barbara Stambolis)
Forschungsberichte: Die europäische Arbeiterbewegung und ihre Historiker (Stefan Berger); Neuerscheinungen zu Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi (Ina Ulrike Paul) Bericht über Europa-Studien in China (Quancheng Song)
Auswahlbibliographie: Europa-Schrifttum 2004 (Matthias Schnettger).
Schwerpunktthema: Die Balkankriege des ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts Holm Sundhaussen: Wie „balkanisch“ waren die „Balkankriege“ des 20. Jahrhunderts? Florian Keisinger: „Near Eastern, near Western Question”: Die Balkankriege 1912/13 in der englischen und irischen Presse Valery Kolev: The Bulgarian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1920.
Volume 14 focuses on the theme ‘1813 and its Sequelae’ to explore the culture of remembrance during the final phase of Napoleonic rule in various European states. Additional essays are devoted to the First World War and the euro-political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel. A general appraisal of the now completed Handbook of European History completes the volume.
With its international perspective and by situating itself “beyond the market and state,” this volume promises to generate many new insights for readers. Space and territorialization, global integration and statehood, law and international organizations – these dimensions of the global commons enrich our perspectives on the Cold War, decolonization, and North-South conflicts.
The subject of transnational lives has only recently gained importance in historical research. With its transnational approach to “mobility and biography,” this volume brings together research on aspects of mobility and biography across different times and spaces to open up new interdisciplinary perspectives. Networks, movements and the capacity to become socially or spatially mobile in and across Europe are not only analysed as structural factors, but rather seen as connected to concrete practices of mobility among different groups in the spheres of business, politics and the arts: from Jewish merchants via legal and financial advisors all the way to musicians.
The present volume aims at outlining a new field of research with regard to the history of diplomacy: the material culture of diplomatic interaction in early modern and modern times. The material culture of diplomacy includes all practices in foreign policy communication in which single artifacts, samples of artifacts, or else the whole material setting of diplomatic interaction is supposed to be constitutive for creating an intended effect in terms of diplomatic objectives. The chapters of this volume focus on intercultural diplomacy in different regions of the world wherein diplomatic actors of various kinds might have been confronted by a whole universe of unfamiliar artifacts and artifact-related practices. Most of them concentrate on gift giving as a diplomatic practice that offers multiple insights in the complex dynamics of diplomatic relations between representatives of culturally highly diverse political entities. In doing so, they gainfully apply different theoretical approaches of material culture as an interdisciplinary field of study to the investigation of diplomatic cultures across the globe. As a result, it becomes obvious that future research into the history of diplomacy should take into account material practices much more thoroughly than has been done before.
Throughout history, houses have been an economic resource as much as a means of social, political and cultural agency. From the early modern period to the 20th century, the multifaceted capital of houses linked individuals, families and societies in specific ways. The essays collected here probe the material texture of past societies concerning the inheritance, value, sale or maintenance of houses as well as the symbolic meanings that houses conveyed.
The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.
Dress is a key marker of difference. It is closely attached to the body, part of the daily routine, and an unavoidable means of communication. The clothes people wear tell stories about their allegiances and identities but also about their exclusion and stigmatization. They allow for the display of wealth and can mercilessly display poverty and indigence. Clothes also enable people to play with identities and affinities: for instance, individuals can claim higher social status via their clothes. In many ways, dress is thus open to manipulation by the wearer and misinterpretation by the observer.
Authorities—whether religious or secular, local or regional—have always aimed at imposing order on this potential muddle. This is particularly true for the early modern era, when the world became ever more complex. In Europe, the composition of societies diversified with the emergence of new social groups and increasing migration and travel. Thanks to intensified long-distance trade and technological developments, new fashionable clothes and accessories entered the market. With the emergence of a consumer culture, it was now the case that not only the extremely wealthy could afford at least the occasional indulgence in luxury items and accessories.
Over recent years, research has focused on a variety of areas related to dress and appearance in the context of early-modern political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations both within Europe and related to its entanglement with other parts of the world. Nevertheless, a significant compartmentalization in the research on dress and appearance remains: research is often organized around particular cities and territories, and much research is still framed by modern national boundaries. This special issue looks at dress and its perception in Europe from a transcultural perspective and highlights the many differences that clothing can express.
In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use "cultural sovereignty" as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since the beginning of the 20th century.
