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German Historical Institute London Bulletin

 
 
 

Volume 42 (2020), No. 1

May Issue
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CONTENTS

 

Roundtable

 

Multidirectional Memory? National Holocaust Memorials and (Post-)Colonial Legacies edited by Stefanie Rauch

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Review Article

 

Heimat: Between Past and Present, Intimacy and Nightmare by Juliane Brauer

26

 

 

Exhibition Review

 

‘Very British: A German Point of View’, exhibition at Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, 10 July 2019 to 8 March 2020, and at Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, 9 June 2020 to January 2021 by James Krull

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Book Reviews

 

Anne Foerster, Die Witwe des Königs: Zu Vorstellung, Anspruch und Performanz im englischen und deutschen Hochmittelalter (Levi Roach)

47

Duncan Hardy, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346–1521 (Anja Thaller)

52

Dieter Berg, Oliver Cromwell: England und Europa im 17. Jahrhundert (Thomas Pert)

56

Charlotte Backerra, Wien und London, 1727–1735: Internationale Beziehungen im frühen 18. Jahrhundert (Andrew C. Thompson)

61

Megan Maruschke, Portals of Globalization: Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833–2014 (Felix Mauch)

66

Oded Y. Steinberg, Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era (Chris Manias)

72

Anand Toprani, Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Rüdiger Graf)

76

Georg Koch, Funde und Fiktionen: Urgeschichte im deutschen und britischen Fernsehen seit den 1950er Jahren (Kinga S. Bloch)

81

Mathias Haeussler, Helmut Schmidt and British–German Relations: A European Misunderstanding (Guido Thiemeyer)

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Conference Reports

 

From the Ruins of Preservation: A Symposium on Rethinking Heritage through Counter-Archives (Mirjam Brusius)

90

Medieval History Seminar (Paul Schweitzer-Martin)

97

100 Histories of 100 Worlds in One Object (Mirjam Brusius)

103

Global Royal Families: Concepts, Cultures, and Networks of International Monarchy, 1800–2020 (Paige Emerick)

112

 

 

Noticeboard

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