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German Historical Institute London Bulletin

Vol 40 (2018), No. 2

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CONTENTS

 
   

Articles

 
Hard Times: The Economic Activities of American Consuls on the North Sea Coast under the Continental System (Margrit Schulte Beerbühl) 3
Policing the Ports: The Regional Dimensions of Eighteenth-Century Customs Activity in England and Wales (Spike Sweeting) 32
   

Review Article

 
Cultures of the Edge? The Place of the Coast in Maritime Historiographies of Britain (Hannes Ziegler) 68
   

Book Reviews

 
Ingrid Rembold, Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888 (Lutz E. von Padberg) 91
Georg Schmidt, Die Reiter der Apokalypse: Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges ;  
Georg Schmidt, Der Dreißigjährige Krieg (Peter H. Wilson) 94
Cornel Zwierlein, Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750 (Maria Fusaro) 98
Shane Nagle, Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany: A Comparative Study from 1800 to 1932 (Andreas Boldt) 102
Panikos Panayi, The Germans in India: Elite European Migrants in the British Empire (Razak Khan) 107
Jasper Heinzen, Making Prussians, Raising Germans: A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866–1935 (Hartwin Spenkuch) 112
Franziska Meifort, Ralf Dahrendorf: Eine Biographie (Keith Robbins) 119
Christoph Nonn and Tobias Winnerling (eds.), Eine andere deutsche Geschichte 1517–2017: Was wäre wenn ... (Falko Schnicke) 125
   

Responses

 
Response to Mr Barkow’s Review of Theresienstadt 1941–1945 (Jeremy Adler) 132
Reply to Jeremy Adler (Ben Barkow) 139
   

Conference Reports

 
European Democracies: Origins, Evolutions, Challenges. A Workshop in Memory of Peter Blickle (Hannes Ziegler) 140
Understanding Brexit: Britain and Europe in the Twentieth Century (Nikolai Wehrs) 147
Contested Borders? Practising Empire, Nation, and Region in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Christina Neuberger and Larissa Kraft) 154
‘Splendid Isolation’? Insularity in British History (Margarete Tiessen) 160
Fourteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History (Hannes Ziegler) 168
   
Noticeboard 174
   

Library News

 
Recent Acquisitions 181