Arnd Bauerkämper
Biographic Data
| ID | 197250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnd Bauerkämper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnd |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauerkämper |
| SIGNATURE | BAUERKÄMPER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Präsentismus in der Militärgeschichts-schreibung – Chancen und Grenzen am Beispiel der Gewalt gegen zivile Feindstaatenangehörige im Ersten Weltkrieg
Taking present-day issues as a point of departure has inspired and promoted studies in military history. As this contribution demonstrates, however, straight analogies between current and past constellations and contexts are to be avoided. Moreover, terms and concepts such as »human rights« and »civil society« need reflection and explanation before they can be applied in military historiography. A case study of the internment of civilian »enemy a…
Wartime internment in camps as a global practice and experience
This double special issue examines internment camps in the First and Second World Wars as exceptional wartime social institutions which were intended to isolate and segregate groups considered threatening or undesirable but also had the unintended effect of becoming zones of knowledge transfer. The studies of internment in the world wars presented here connect to a broader historiography around cultures of confinement, carceral practices, and cam…
Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands
Fascism and Capitalism
Buchbesprechungen
Christian Goeschel. Mussolini and Hitler
On April 28, 1945, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, the Duce, was shot dead by partisans in the small town of Dongo on the shores of the Lake Como. On the following day, he and his mistress Clara Petacci were hanged upside down in Milan. Angry Italians mutilated the corpses. The news of the Duce’s death confirmed Adolf Hitler in his intention to commit suicide. Hitler’s death on April 30,1945, finally sealed the fate of the long-standing …
Nazism Across Borders
Historical studies of fascism have seen a revival in the last two decades. Apart from new investigations into the ideological claims and utopian visions of fascism, its transnational dimensions have increasingly received scholarly attention. Beyond comparative approaches (which remain valuable), historians have traced and analysed mutual perceptions as well as cross-border exchanges and transfers between fascist movements and regimes. At the same…
Fascism without Borders
Fascism Without Borders
It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement. While a true “Fascist International” has never been established, European fascists shared common goals and sentiments as well as similar worldviews. They also drew on each other for support and motivation, even though relations among them were not fre…
Nicholas J. Schlosser. Cold War on the Airwaves
On the early morning of June 15, 1953, the broadcast station Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) in Berlin reported that workers in the Soviet zone of the city were planning to go on strike. Although the ruling communist party in the East’s German Democratic Republic (GDR), the State Socialist Unity Party (SED), had announced that it would abandon Stalinization policies and embark on a “New Course” on June 11, it emphasized that the current high …
German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective
The Twisted Road to Democracy as a Quest for Security
The article provides a distinct interpretation of the ‘twisted road to democracy’ based on the idea of the ever ambivalent nature of contingency. The account relates pre-1945 developments to the history of Germany, in particular of the Federal Republic after the Second World War. It argues that the winding path to democracy in twentieth-century Germany cannot be understood without due recognition of the underlying quest for security. Abhorrence o…
Burned Bridge
The fiftieth anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall in August 2011 has resulted in a flurry of new publications on the history of the border between the two German states during the Cold War. Most studies, however, have dealt with the forced separation of East and West Berliners on 13 August 1961 as well as its prehistory. Moreover, historiography has concentrated on the impact of the erection of the Berlin Wall on diplomatic relations an…
Deutsch-Chinesische Annäherungen
Kulturtransfer und Barrieren zwischen China und Deutschland in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
Transnational Fascism
In recent debates about transnational and inter-cultural approaches in historiography, crossborder relations have usually assumed a positive connotation for mutually enriching the parties involved. However, research on bilateral relationships between Italian Fascism and German National Socialism and of fascist movements in other European states demonstrate that transnational exchange is normatively ambivalent, i.e. it can comply with our aims, wi…
After the 'Socialist Spring'. Collectivization and Economic Transformation in the GDR
Europe as Social Practice
The article starts with analyzing the inherent comparative frameworks influencing the way Europe is usually mapped with regard to historical regions. Such regions have been frequently devised in terms of dualistic spatial and temporal concepts contrasting central vs. peripheral and “progressive” vs. “backward” entities. Rejecting these concepts, the study advocates a reconsideration of the spatial dimension in terms of “entangled history”/history…
Die Geschichte des Dorfes
This book is a major scholarly achievement. Troßbach and Zimmermann take villages as units of settlement that have combined individual households with the regulation of communal affairs, and dense internal relations with external exchange and exogeneous influences. They trace and explain the emergence and transformation of villages in central Europe from the fifth century to the present. Although the word villa became the conventional designation…
Not Dusk, but Dawn
This article focuses on the evolution of social history in pre- 1989 West Germany and the GDR and, on the basis of this overview, identifies new, innovative historiographical trends on (re-)writing social history in unified Germany. It is argued that, for many decades, West German historiography had been characterized by sharp debates between the more established advocates of investigations into social structures and processes, on the one hand, a…
Not Dusk, But Dawn
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
A New Consensus? Recent Research on Fascism in Europe, 1918–1945
The article surveys historical research on European fascism since the 1980s. On the basis of some general considerations on the fruitfulness of theories of fascism as well as on the exhaustive controversies about the ‘nature’ of the phenomenon, the contribution provides an overview and evaluation of recent scholarship on the ideology, dynamics and style of fascist movements and regimes. Moreover, fascism’s ambivalent relationship to modernity rec…
Die Sozialgeschichte der DDR
Sozialpolitik im "real exisitierenden" Sozialismus ist mehr gewesen als Plaste und Elaste. Arnd Bauerkämper bietet Einblicke in Alltagskultur und staatliche Machtausübung, schärft den Blick für die Freiräume und Zwänge in der staatssozialistischen Gesellschaft. Zusammen mit den EdG-Bänden von Scholtyseck und Heydemann liegt nun die DDR-Geschichte in der Reihe vollständig vor.
A New Consensus? Recent Research on Fascism in Europe, 1918–1945
The article surveys historical research on European fascism since the 1980s. On the basis of some general considerations on the fruitfulness of theories of fascism as well as on the exhaustive controversies about the ‘nature’ of the phenomenon, the contribution provides an overview and evaluation of recent scholarship on the ideology, dynamics and style of fascist movements and regimes. Moreover, fascism’s ambivalent relationship to modernity rec…
Transnational Fascism
In recent debates about transnational and inter-cultural approaches in historiography, crossborder relations have usually assumed a positive connotation for mutually enriching the parties involved. However, research on bilateral relationships between Italian Fascism and German National Socialism and of fascist movements in other European states demonstrate that transnational exchange is normatively ambivalent, i.e. it can comply with our aims, wi…
The Twisted Road to Democracy as a Quest for Security
The article provides a distinct interpretation of the ‘twisted road to democracy’ based on the idea of the ever ambivalent nature of contingency. The account relates pre-1945 developments to the history of Germany, in particular of the Federal Republic after the Second World War. It argues that the winding path to democracy in twentieth-century Germany cannot be understood without due recognition of the underlying quest for security. Abhorrence o…
Contesting Agriculture
Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany. Hans C. Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 354 pp
Die »radikale Rechte« in Großbritannien
Die " radikale Rechte" in Grossbritannien
De la réforme foncière à la collectivisation en Allemagne orientale
Cet article analyse les conséquences de la politique agraire sur la structure de la société rurale dans la zone d'occupation soviétique, puis en RDA, de 1945 à 1952. À l'expropriation des grands propriétaires (Junker) stipulée par la réforme agraire de 1945 et à l'éviction systématique des gros paysans entreprise à partir de 1948-1949 s'oppose dans les années cinquante la formation d'un groupe de nouveaux paysans soutenus économiquement et social…
Dictatorship As Experience
"Junkerland in Bauernhand?" Durchfuhrung, Auswirkungen und Stellenwert der Bodenreform in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone
Collectivization and Memory
Contesting Agriculture
Contesting Agriculture
Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany. Hans C. Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 354 pp
Die Sozialgeschichte der DDR
Sozialpolitik im "real exisitierenden" Sozialismus ist mehr gewesen als Plaste und Elaste. Arnd Bauerkämper bietet Einblicke in Alltagskultur und staatliche Machtausübung, schärft den Blick für die Freiräume und Zwänge in der staatssozialistischen Gesellschaft. Zusammen mit den EdG-Bänden von Scholtyseck und Heydemann liegt nun die DDR-Geschichte in der Reihe vollständig vor.
A New Consensus? Recent Research on Fascism in Europe, 1918–1945
The article surveys historical research on European fascism since the 1980s. On the basis of some general considerations on the fruitfulness of theories of fascism as well as on the exhaustive controversies about the ‘nature’ of the phenomenon, the contribution provides an overview and evaluation of recent scholarship on the ideology, dynamics and style of fascist movements and regimes. Moreover, fascism’s ambivalent relationship to modernity rec…
Not Dusk, But Dawn
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Die Geschichte des Dorfes
This book is a major scholarly achievement. Troßbach and Zimmermann take villages as units of settlement that have combined individual households with the regulation of communal affairs, and dense internal relations with external exchange and exogeneous influences. They trace and explain the emergence and transformation of villages in central Europe from the fifth century to the present. Although the word villa became the conventional designation…
Not Dusk, but Dawn
This article focuses on the evolution of social history in pre- 1989 West Germany and the GDR and, on the basis of this overview, identifies new, innovative historiographical trends on (re-)writing social history in unified Germany. It is argued that, for many decades, West German historiography had been characterized by sharp debates between the more established advocates of investigations into social structures and processes, on the one hand, a…
After the 'Socialist Spring'. Collectivization and Economic Transformation in the GDR
Europe as Social Practice
The article starts with analyzing the inherent comparative frameworks influencing the way Europe is usually mapped with regard to historical regions. Such regions have been frequently devised in terms of dualistic spatial and temporal concepts contrasting central vs. peripheral and “progressive” vs. “backward” entities. Rejecting these concepts, the study advocates a reconsideration of the spatial dimension in terms of “entangled history”/history…
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
Transnational Fascism
In recent debates about transnational and inter-cultural approaches in historiography, crossborder relations have usually assumed a positive connotation for mutually enriching the parties involved. However, research on bilateral relationships between Italian Fascism and German National Socialism and of fascist movements in other European states demonstrate that transnational exchange is normatively ambivalent, i.e. it can comply with our aims, wi…
Deutsch-Chinesische Annäherungen
Kulturtransfer und Barrieren zwischen China und Deutschland in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Burned Bridge
The fiftieth anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall in August 2011 has resulted in a flurry of new publications on the history of the border between the two German states during the Cold War. Most studies, however, have dealt with the forced separation of East and West Berliners on 13 August 1961 as well as its prehistory. Moreover, historiography has concentrated on the impact of the erection of the Berlin Wall on diplomatic relations an…
The Twisted Road to Democracy as a Quest for Security
The article provides a distinct interpretation of the ‘twisted road to democracy’ based on the idea of the ever ambivalent nature of contingency. The account relates pre-1945 developments to the history of Germany, in particular of the Federal Republic after the Second World War. It argues that the winding path to democracy in twentieth-century Germany cannot be understood without due recognition of the underlying quest for security. Abhorrence o…
German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective
Fascism without Borders
Fascism Without Borders
It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement. While a true “Fascist International” has never been established, European fascists shared common goals and sentiments as well as similar worldviews. They also drew on each other for support and motivation, even though relations among them were not fre…
Political science (25 works) · History (16 works) · European history and politics (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economic history (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · German (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · German History and Society (8 works)