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German Historical Institute London Bulletin

Vol 36 (2014), No. 2

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CONTENTS

Articles

Creative Misunderstandings: Circulating Objects and the Transfer of Knowledge within the Personal Union of Hanover and Great Britain (Dominik Collet) 3
Coffee Worlds: Global Players and Local Actors in Twentieth-Century Germany (Dorothee Wierling) 24

Book Reviews

Andreas Bihrer, Begegnungen zwischen dem ostfränkisch–deutschen Reich und England (850–1100): Kontakte—Konstellationen—Funktionalisierungen—Wirkungen (Jinty Nelson) 49
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070–1309 (Karl Borchardt) 56
Florian Schui, Rebellious Prussians: Urban Political Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors (Peter-Michael Hahn) 62
Jeff Bowersox, Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871–1914 (Winfried Speitkamp) 65
Jennifer Drake Askey, Good Girls, Good Germans: Girls’ Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany (Juliane Jacobi) 69
Christian Bailey, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow: German Visions of Europe, 1926–1950 (Florian Greiner) 75
Dorothea McEwan, Fritz Saxl—Eine Biografie: Aby Warburgs Bibliothekar und erster Direktor des Londoner Warburg Institutes (Pablo Schneider) 81
Francis Graham-Dixon, The Allied Occupation of Germany: The Refugee Crisis, Denazification and the Path to Reconstruction (Camilo Erlichman) 86

Conference Reports

Writing the Lives of the Poor (T. G. Ashplant) 92
Intelligence in World History, c.1500–1918 (Tobias Graf) 98
Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation, and Consequences of Dominican Legislation (Claudia Hefter) 103
War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars: Local and Global Perspectives (Mischa Honeck, Susanne Quitmann, and Stina Barrenscheen) 108
Remembering (Post)Colonial Violence: Silence, Suffering, and Reconciliation (Alexander Bräuer) 113

Noticeboard

117

Library News

Recent Acquisitions 128