Dieter Langewiesche

Marina Cattaruzza

Stefan Dyroff

A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. That alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are at the core of this volume. This "territorial revisionism" came to include all manner of political and military measures that attempted to change existing borders. Taking into account not just interethnic relations but also the motivations of states and nationalizing ethnocratic ruling elites, this volume reconceptualizes the history of East Central Europe during World War II. In so doing, it presents a clearer understanding of some of the central topics in the history of the war itself and offers an alternative to standard German accounts of the period and East European national histories.

Goals, Expectations, Practices

Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War

Jürgen Osterhammel

Paul Nolte

English summary: Since the publication, in 1975, of its first volume, Geschichte und Gesellschaft has established itself as one of the leading journals for social history in the world. This collection of articles, by acting and former editors of the journal, takes stock of approaches to the history of society and sketches visions for the future. German description: Seit dreiaig Jahren ist Geschichte und Gesellschaft die Zeitschrift fur historische Sozialwissenschaft. Aus diesem Anlass erortern aktive und fruhere Herausgeber die Zukunft von Gesellschaftsgeschichte im internationalen Rahmen. Einige Beitrage werfen einen Blick auf klassische Themen der Gesellschaftsgeschichte, andere reformulieren die Grundlagen einer Geschichte sozialer Strukturen und Praktiken nach dem cultural turn und angesichts der Herausforderung durch eine globale Geschichtsbetrachtung. Eine dritte Gruppe behandelt das Verhaltnis zu Nachbardisziplinen der Geschichtswissenschaft, vor allem zur Politikwissenschaft und zur Okonomie. Ein vierter Schwerpunkt des Bandes liegt schliealich auf Staatsentwicklung und gesellschaftlichem Wandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Dieter Langewiesche

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