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Special Theme: Solidarity and Care | |
| Solidarity and Care: A Research Area of the GHIL (Andreas Gestrich) | 4 |
| Pauper Letters and Petitions for Poor Relief in Germany and Great Britain, 1770–1914 (Andreas Gestrich and Steven A. King) | 12 |
| Petitions to the Council of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main, 1765–1809 (Daniela Heinisch) | 26 |
| Solidarity with Children? Towards a History of Adoption (Benedikt Stuchtey) | 43 |
| Poverty Research from Below: Letters and Petitions by the Poor (Anke Sczesny) | 57 |
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| The First World War as a ‘Rupture’ in the European History of the Twentieth Century: A Contribution to the Hermeneutics of Not-Understanding (Lucian Hölscher) | 73 |
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Book Reviews | |
| Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven (eds.), Religion and Politics in the Middle Ages: Germany and England by Comparison (Levi Roach) | 88 |
| Johannes Fried, Canossa: Entlarvung einer Legende. Eine Streitschrift (Kathleen G. Cushing) | 94 |
| Michael van Dussen, From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages (Peter Hilsch) | 99 |
| Martha White Paas, The Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619–23: An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets (Ulrich Rosseaux) | 104 |
| Eva Giloi, Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750–1950 (Thomas Biskup) | 107 |
| Roland Wenzlhuemer, Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization (David Paull Nickles) | 114 |
| Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Adelige Moderne: Großgrundbesitz und ländliche Gesellschaft in England und Böhmen 1848–1918 (William D. Godsey) | 120 |
| Matthew S. Seligmann, The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901–1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany (Andreas Rose) | 125 |
| Thomas Rohkrämer, Die fatale Attraktion des Nationalsozialismus: Über die Popularität eines Unrechtsregimes (Matthew Stibbe) | 132 |
| Vera K. Fast, Children’s Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport (Benigna Schönhagen) | 138 |
| Tobias Seidl, Führerpersönlichkeiten: Deutungen und Interpretationen deutscher Wehrmachtgeneräle in britischer Kriegsgefangenschaft (MacGregor Knox) | 143 |
| Clayton J. Whisnant, Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945–69 (Benno Gammerl) | 149 |
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Conference Reports | |
| Missionaries at War: The Impact of Global Conflict on Christian Missions in the Twentieth Century (John Stuart) | 155 |
| Mixed Courts: Dynasty, Politics, and Religion in the Early Modern World (André Bochynski and Tobias Zober) | 161 |
| The European Welfare State in a Global Context (Valeska Huber and Nicole Kramer) | 167 |
| Social Planning in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Societies (1920s–1960s) (Valeska Huber) | 173 |
| Forward from the Past: The Kindertransport from a Contemporary Perspective (Aaron Jochim) | 177 |
| The Territorial State after 1989: Decline, Transformation, or Persistence? (Thorsten Holzhauser and Andreas Lutsch) | 182 |
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Library News | |
| Recent Acquisitions | 194 |