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When Environmental History Goes Public in China

Na Li

Introduction Environmental history in China originates from its older sibling disciplines, such as historical geography, archeology, agroecology, agroforestry, and history. The field has gradually gathered a small community of scholars since

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(Post-)colonial Myths in German History Textbooks, 1989–2015

Florian Helfer

strongly influenced how history textbooks approach the topic. This article presents a case study of two textbook series between 1989 and 2015 in the context of the North Rhine-Westphalian history curriculum. The past three decades are especially

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The European Conceptual History Project (ECHP)

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After a complex integration process which has taken more than half a century, most Europeans—and non-Europeans—no longer identify Europe with simply an economic common market; yet the final political status of the European Union is still an open question. In general, Europe is usually regarded as the birthplace of a set of values claiming universal validity and serving as the basic political reference for citizens and institutions throughout the world. The emergence and spread of such significant concepts as civilization, democracy, liberalism, parliamentarism, (human) rights, or tolerance, for example, are generally associated with modern European history.

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New Feminist Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth Century

Melissa Feinberg

few decades, those established narratives have proved quite resistant to change. General history surveys, whether of a country, a continent, or the world, are almost invariably structured around the actions of male elites. Women may be present in these

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Militaristic Discourse in Secondary Education History Textbooks during and after the Soeharto Era

Hieronymus Purwanta

In many national curricula militaristic narratives in history textbooks tend to represent the domination of society by the army. Recent research into Pakistan history textbooks, for example, illustrates that this country’s historical narrative is

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Conceptual History and Translation

An Interview with Melvin Richter

Vicente Oieni, João Feres Júnior, and Melvin Richter

This interview was conducted during the VII International Conference of the History of Concepts: Transatlantic Dialogues, that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6-9, 2004, and appeared for the first time in Anales of the Iberoamerikanska Institutet. 7/8: 13-26.

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“Homosexual People Do Not Stand Outside of Socialist Society”

Eingaben and the History of Homosexuality in East Germany

Jason Johnson

leadership that he might leave the gdr' s ruling party. This and other remarkable archival sources, however, remain largely unused—invisible to us today—with regard to the history of homosexuality in East Germany. The theme of “invisibility” itself is

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Tailoring Truth

Memory Construction and Whitewashing the Nazi Past from Below

Mikkel Dack

recent personal history under the National Socialist regime. Recorded in screening questionnaires, biographies, and sworn testimonies, millions of job applicants denied or justified, in writing, all past Nazi affiliations and emphasized their anti

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The German Mountain Troops and Their Opponents, 1943 to the Present

Nathan Stoltzfus

criminals.” In an interesting contrast, a German Administrative Court ruled in September 2019 that the AfD party leader Björn Höcke could indeed be called a “fascist.” 7 The history of Mountain Troop war crimes touches on transnational relations within the

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Uncanny History

Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World

Charles Stewart

In this article I explore the poetics of history in the post-Ottoman world by examining how people configure the connections between events past, present, and future. Mental maps of time exist everywhere ( Zerubavel 2003 ), and they do not come in