German Historical Institute London Bulletin

Volume 43 (2021), No. 2 (November issue)

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CONTENTS

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An Empire of Shaming: Laughter as Identity Politics in Nazi Germany – Martina Kessel	3
The Realm of Cloacina? Excrement in London’s Eighteenth Century Waste Regime – Franziska Neumann	30

Review Article
Democracy in Germany: Way of Life, Path to (Auto)Westernization, and Global Political Phenomenon – Matthew Stibbe	57
Rethinking Locality and Social Change: Contributions to East– West German History – Frank Kell	72

Book Reviews
Andreas Fahrmeir (ed.), Deutschland: Globalgeschichte einer Nation – John Breuilly	82
Phyllis G. Jestice, Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty: Women and Rule in Tenth-Century Germany – Knut Görich	88
Peter Hess, Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540: Visions of a Nation in Decline – Thomas Ertl	94
Leigh T. I. Penman, The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal – Wolfgang E. J. Weber	98
Christoph Ketterer, To Meddle with Matters of State: Political Sermons in England, c.1660–c.1700 – Grant Tapsell	101
Jürgen Overhoff, Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790): Aufklärer, Pädagoge, Menschenfreund. Eine Biografie / Robert B. Louden, Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education: Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment – Jana Kittelmann	106
Tobias Delfs, Die Dänisch-Englisch-Hallesche Indienmission des späten 18. Jahrhunderts: Alltag, Lebenswelt und Devianz – Olga Witmer	111
Martin Kämpchen, Indo-German Exchanges in Education: Rabindranath Tagore Meets Paul and Edith Geheeb – Razak Khan	116
Monica Black, A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany – Daniel Cowling	120
Joachim Schlör, Escaping Nazi Germany: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England – Sarah Schwab	125
Dora Osborne, What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture – Annika Wellmann	130

Conference Reports
The Politics of Old Age: Old People and Ageing in British and European History (Middle Ages to the Present) – Christina von Hodenberg	136

Noticeboard	140