Wilfried Mausbach

Philipp Gassert

David B. Morris

Professor of History Emeritus Heidelberg University Founding Director Detlef Junker

Detlef Junker

A Handbook

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990

Martin Klimke

Belinda Davis

Carla MacDougall

A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years, and this volume offers an important contribution. These meticulously researched essays offer new perspectives on the Cold War and global relations in the 1960s and 70s through the perspective of the youth movements that shook the U.S., Western Europe, and beyond. These movements led to the transformation of diplomatic relations and domestic political cultures, as well as ideas about democracy and who best understood and promoted it. Bringing together scholars of several countries and many disciplines, this volume also uniquely features the reflections of former activists.

Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Christoph Becker-Schaum

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

The Nuclear Crisis

Martin Thunert

Papers of a conference held October 5-8, 2006 in Heidelberg.

Transatlantic Perspectives

State and Market in a Globalized World

Andreas W. Daum

Lloyd C. Gardner

Publisher's description: "This book presents new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. The volume reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world: in domestic settings of numerous nation-states, combatants and non-combatants alike, as well as in transnational relations and alliance systems. The volume thereby covers a wide geographical range-from Berkeley and Berlin to Cambodia and Canberra. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues no less than cultural and intellectual consequences of 'Vietnam'. The authors also set the Vietnam War in comparison to other major conflicts in world history; they cover over three centuries, and develop general insights into the tragedies and trajectories of military conflicts as phenomena of modern societies in general. For the first time, 'America's War' is thus depicted as a truly global event whose origins and characteristics deserve an interdisciplinary treatment."

Comparative and International Perspectives

America, the Vietnam War, and the World

Wilfried Mausbach

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