Publications
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Wir haben ja alle Deutschland nicht gekannt: Das Deutschlandbild der Deutschen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik
(2016)
After 1918 Germany had to find a new definition for its identity on a political and social level as well as to rediscover itself as a unity in terms of geography and culture. This process can be described as „Inner ...
Von Aachen bis Akkon
(2023)
Published on the occasion of Hubert Houben’s 70th birthday, this volume focuses on border crossings as one of the topics dear to the jubilarian. By starting from a concept of borders as a social construct, the authors look ...
Von Aachen bis Akkon
(2023)
Published on the occasion of Hubert Houben’s 70th birthday, this volume focuses on border crossings as one of the topics dear to the jubilarian. By starting from a concept of borders as a social construct, the authors look ...
»Es ist nur ein Dorf«. Schwetzingen mit den Augen Leopold Mozarts
(2020)
This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, honours Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), who was not only a musician, composer and teacher, but also a well-informed observer of his time. His letters contain ...
Wir haben ja alle Deutschland nicht gekannt: Das Deutschlandbild der Deutschen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik
(2016)
After 1918 Germany had to find a new definition for its identity on a political and social level as well as to rediscover itself as a unity in terms of geography and culture. This process can be described as „Inner ...
Baden-Baden, Sommerhauptstadt Europas
(2024)
Between the mid-1840s and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the spa town of Baden-Baden emerged as Europe's leading fashion destination and a significant intercultural hub. On both sides of the Rhine, the city gained a ...
»Es ist nur ein Dorf«
(2020)
This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, honours Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), who was not only a musician, composer and teacher, but also a well-informed observer of his time. His letters contain ...
Game | World | Architectonics
(2021)
In its current digital, pictorial and viral ubiquity, architecture no longer has to be bodily present, but has a mediating role. As a medial hinge it folds different disciplines of media and art onto the realm of the ...
Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914–1930)
(2020)
Pietro Gasparri (1852–1934) was a famous jurist, a valued university professor and an able papal diplomat. He headed the Secretary of State and the Roman Curia from November 1914 to January 1930, during a crucial period ...
"From the Australian Bush to the International Jungle"
(2023)
After World War I, membership in the League of Nations represented an important step for the British Dominions on the road to foreign policy independence. The internationalism of the League of Nations was not a purely ...
Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik
(2023)
The publishing house and bookshop Treuttel & Würtz was a hub of European exchange par excellence around 1800. While the publishing house targeted a transcultural elite audience with publications by Johann Wolfgang von ...
Lords of the Mountains
(2024)
With his authoritative monograph, Lords of the Mountains. Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan, Harald Hauptmann brought decades of research in the Karakoram region of northern Pakistan to an impressive ...
The ‘White’ Mask and the ‘Gypsy’ Mask in Film
(2022)
The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the ‘gypsy’ phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of ‘gypsy’ representations in film since the birth of the medium ...
Verwandtsein und Herrschen
(2020)
Catherine de Médicis war fast 30 Jahre lang eine zentrale politische Figur der französischen Monarchie. Ihre Autorität beruhte auf ihrer Position als Königinmutter. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, was Verwandtsein für sie ...
Il Regno di Sicilia e i suoi confini
(2025)
The label “border” can encompass a wide range of phenomena: geographical limits, political boundaries, areas under military control, and porous zones of interaction. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, viewing ...
Mittelalterliche Stadtgeschichte(n)
(2024)
The title 'Medieval urban history/stories' evokes the dual meaning of the word as an event and as a narrative. On the one hand, it is about the event itself, and on the other, about what is reported and narrated about this ...
Entre mers—Outre-mer
(2018)
The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Nonetheless, connections between seas (entre mers) and the imagination of lands „beyond the Sea“ (Outre-mer) have only ...
Ein Haus für Herkules
(2021)
Dedicated to housing courtly architectural models, Landgrave Karl founded the so-called Modellhaus at the beginning of the 18th-century, an unusual building which went on to become one of the most admired sights of its ...
Antiziganismus im baden-württembergischen Staatsapparat 1945–1970
(2024)
Even after 1945, Sinti and Roma were confronted with marginalisation and discrimination, as antigypsyist prejudice structures continued to guide action, especially at state level. This study examines the state apparatus ...
Welt-Wissen und kartografische Repräsentation
(2025)
This interdisciplinary study explores the controversially discussed question of whether and how geographical and cultural knowledge from the Arab-Islamic world was utilised by European mapmakers. The contextual analysis ...