Everyday Communism: New Social History of the German Democratic Republic

Konrad Jarausch, ed., Dictatorship as Experience. Toward a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999), 388 pp., £14.00 (pb), ISBN 1-57181-182-6.Thomas Lindenberger, ed., Herrschaft und Eigensinn in der Diktatur (Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999) 367 pp., €39.90 (hb), ISBN 3-412-13598-4.Annegret Schüle, ‘Die Spinne’. Die Erfahrungsgeschichte weiblicher Industriearbeit im VEB Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001), 398 pp., €18.00 (pb), ISBN 3-934565-87-5.Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds., The Workers' and Peasants' State. Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945–71 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 272 pp., £15.99 (pb), ISBN 0-7190-6289-6.Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary. Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema 1949–1989 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 331 pp., £19.50 (pb), ISBN 0-8078-5385-2.

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Recent Work on the History and Culture of Religion and DressThe Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith, by Lynne Hume. Dress, Body and Culture Series. New York and London, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013. 175 pages. $29.95 US (paper).Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism, by Sally Dwyer-McNulty. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiii, 257 pp. $39.95 US (cloth).A Cultural History of Jewish Dress, by Eric Silverman. Dress, Body and Culture Series, New York and London, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013. xxv, 259 pp. $39.95 US (paper).Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America, edited by Emma Tarlo and Annelies Moors. New York and London, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013. xvii, 294 pp. $29.95 US (paper).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.ach.50.2.317 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 317-325

Author(s):

Linda Arthur Bradley ◽

Torsten Homberger

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

North America ◽

Cultural History ◽

Recent Work ◽

Religious Life ◽

University Of North Carolina ◽

American Catholicism ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of

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Colonial Bureaucracies, American Identity, and the Roots of Isolationism: Transnational Histories and the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Cathleen Cahill. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xv + 368 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8079-3472-5. - Susan Harris. God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 257 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-974010-9. - Christopher McKnight Nichols. Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 464 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04984-0.

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s153778141300008x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 260-268

Author(s):

Robert D. Miller

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

Social History ◽

The United States ◽

The Philippines ◽

Harvard University ◽

Oxford University ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

Global Age ◽

History Of

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Recent Work on the History and Culture of Religion and DressThe Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith, by Lynne Hume. Dress, Body and Culture Series. New York and London, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013. 175 pages. $29.95 US (paper).Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism, by Sally Dwyer-McNulty. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiii, 257 pp. $39.95 US (cloth).A Cultural History of Jewish Dress, by Eric Silverman. Dress, Body and Culture Series, New York and London, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013. xxv, 259 pp. $39.95 US (paper).Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America, edited by Emma Tarlo and Annelies Moors. New York and London, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2013. xvii, 294 pp. $29.95 US (paper).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.50.2.317 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 317-325

Author(s):

Linda Arthur Bradley ◽

Torsten Homberger

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

North America ◽

Cultural History ◽

Recent Work ◽

Religious Life ◽

University Of North Carolina ◽

American Catholicism ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of

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Almanacs, Street Names, and Symbolic Gestures: Producing the Cuban Nation in Daily Life - Marial Iglesias Utset. A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898–1902. Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xi + 232 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3398-8; $26.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8078-7192-8.

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s153778141300011x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 273-276

Author(s):

Shannon Rose Riley

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Cultural History ◽

Daily Life ◽

University Of North Carolina ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of ◽

Symbolic Gestures ◽

The U.S

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From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery, by Seymour Drescher (New York: New York University Press, 1998); Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, by Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius, by Richard B. Allen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname, by Rosemarijn Hoefte (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998).

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417503000033 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 45 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Kristin Mann

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

Social History ◽

Comparative Studies ◽

New York University ◽

University Of Florida ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of ◽

Atlantic Slavery

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Verdicts of History: The Left in the Spanish Civil WarThe Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution, by Burnett Bolloten. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xxxii, 1074 pp. $59.95 US.Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939, by Helen Graham. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xii, 327 pp. $54.50 US.Anarchosyndicalism, Libertarian Communism and the State. The CNT in Zaragoza and Aragon, 1930-1937, by Graham Kelsey. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Pubhshers and the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 1991. ix, 312 pp. $112.00 U.S.Anarquismo y revolución en la sociedad rural aragonesa, 1936-1938, by Julián Casanova. Madrid, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1985. 368 pp. $15.00 U.S.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.29.3.545 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 545-554 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wayne Thorpe

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

Civil War ◽

Social History ◽

Spanish Civil War ◽

The State ◽

Socialist Party ◽

International Institute ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Chapel Hill

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Jerrold Hirsch. Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers'Project. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 293. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/110.1.175 ◽

2005 ◽

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Cultural History ◽

University Of North Carolina ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of

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The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949–1989. By Joshua Feinstein. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 2002. Pp. xiii+331. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Journal of Modern History ◽

10.1086/497782 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 77 (3) ◽

pp. 857-859

Author(s):

Andrew Stuart Bergerson

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Daily Life ◽

University Of North Carolina ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

German Cinema ◽

East German

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Cuba Through A New Lens

New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids ◽

10.1163/13822373-90002484 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 81 (3-4) ◽

pp. 265-270

Author(s):

Jean Stubbs

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

National Identity ◽

Cultural History ◽

Economic History ◽

Cuban Revolution ◽

New Haven ◽

Yale University ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of ◽

The City

[First paragraph]The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered. Samuel Farber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. x + 212 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Cuba: A New History. Ric hard Gott . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 384 pp. (Paper US$ 17.00)Havana: The Making of Cuban Culture. Antoni Kapcia. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2005. xx + 236 pp. (Paper US$ 24.95) Richard Gott, Antoni Kapcia, and Samuel Farber each approach Cuba through a new lens. Gott does so by providing a broad-sweep history of Cuba, which is epic in scope, attaches importance to social as much as political and economic history, and blends scholarship with flair. Kapcia homes in on Havana as the locus for Cuban culture, whereby cultural history becomes the trope for exploring not only the city but also Cuban national identity. Farber revisits his own and others’ interpretations of the origins of the Cuban Revolution.

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What Is and to What End Does One Study the History of East German Literature?

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2018.133.3.594 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 133 (3) ◽

pp. 594-609

Author(s):

Wolfgang Emmerich ◽

Nicole G. Burgoyne ◽

Andrew B. B. Hamilton

Keyword(s):

German Democratic Republic ◽

Literary History ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

Berlin Wall ◽

Literary Scholarship ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

East German ◽

The Right

East german literary history is a case study of how political and cultural institutions interact. the state's cultural regime mo-nopolized the right to publish within its borders and demanded that the nation's new art describe contemporary life or its precedents. Even authors seen in the West as dissidents understood themselves, more often than not, as pursuing that goal and the broader aims of socialism with their work. During the lifespan of the German Democratic Republic, this political albatross weighed on all literary scholarship. Even now, whatever their feelings toward the socialist state, scholars, critics, and readers are bound to approach a text from East Germany as an artifact of its political culture—and rightly, because the political sphere encroached heavily on the artistic. But since German unification, the rise and fall in the stock of so many East German authors has directly resulted from political revelations, raising a number of troubling questions. Though historical distance seemed to have sprung up as abruptly as the Berlin Wall had come down, to what extent does scholarship from the German Democratic Republic represent only a heightened case of what is always true of literary history— namely, that political motivation colors critical evaluation? Is it possible to consider a work of literature with no recourse to the social and political circumstances under which it was written? And would it even be desirable to do so?

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