Maiken Umbach
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1148855 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maiken Umbach |
| PRENOMES | Maiken |
| SOBRENOME | Umbach |
| ASSINATURA | UMBACH M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6860-2102 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Fragmentary Jewish photo archives as sources for holocaust scholarship
Many Jews documented their lives under Nazi terror, flight and exile in ego-documents, such as letters, diaries, and private photographs. These sources not only record experiences: many were also gestures of defiance against exclusion, persecution, and racial stereotyping. Most existing studies of such sources are based on particularly rich family archives. But well-rounded collections are rare. More typically, private papers of Holocaust victims…
Teaching with images
Based on a sample of the most commonly used textbooks and online teaching resources, we find that photos play a central but deeply problematic role in Holocaust education in the UK. The impact of photos on a generation of ‘primarily visual learners’ is significant. But an over-reliance on a set of problematic stock photos, inadequate or erroneous captioning, and a lack of prompts for a critical analysis of photos create problems. Their combined e…
Private photos and Holocaust testimony
This article explores the legibility of photos taken by Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Many museums have collected private photos from survivors, and use them to illustrate Holocaust testimony. But photos and testimonies are not always neatly aligned; private photos can also confound audience expectations. We focus on four case studies, comprising photos taken in Poland, Germany, and the UK, and interviewed survivors about their significance…
Despina Stratigakos. Hitler’s Northern Utopia
Ideologies in Action
The Ethics of Seeing Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
It is terribly clichéd to say that a book tackles a neglected subject. And yet, this one does—and this constitutes the source both of significant strengths and weaknesses. A serious consideration of photography as a source for historians of modern Germany is urgently needed. This is not just due to the continued logo-centrism in much of the historical profession. Cultural historians regularly draw on visual, material and even auditory cultures. A…
Ideologies in Action
Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
The political is personal
The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, however, difficult for the researcher to capture. Here we take c.25,000 learner comments (along with several hundred image uploads) from a Massive Open Online Course, run in conjunction between the Universi…
Is There a British Approach to German History
Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933–1945
This article explores the significance of photography and photo-album making as practices that many Germans used to record their lives during the Third Reich. Millions of photos not only offer insights into everyday life under National Socialism: mass photography itself had a transformative effect, turning seemingly mundane actions into performances for the camera and into conscious acts of self-representation. The article also considers the rela…
Introduction
History conjures up an image of the past and transports it into our present. Photographs both facilitate and, at times, markedly determine this historical process, especially for the twentieth century. For better or worse, they have irrevocably shaped the way we imagine the characters and sites of modern history. From infamous dictators to mass political rallies, from radical protests to everyday leisure pursuits: photographs form powerful frames…
Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century
German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924
This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism, which first emerged in late 19th‐century Germany, and remained influential throughout the inter‐war years and beyond. Its supporters saw themselves as a new elite, ideally placed to tackle the many challenges facing the young and rapidly industrializing German nation‐state. They defined themselves as bourgeois, and acted as self‐appointed champions of a modern consciousness. Focusing on figures…
Twenty-Five Years--Where is German History Now
As our two founding editors write in this issue, at its inception, German History fulfilled a dual purpose. First, it arose from the need to find a ‘home’ for a growing body of scholarship on German history produced and debated in the United Kingdom, not least under the aegis of the German History Society. Second, the journal was set up with a certain sense of mission, designed to showcase an innovative brand of German history writing, which was …
The German Colonial Imagination
German History continues its series of virtual round-table discussions with this forum on the German colonial imagination, a topic very much at the centre of current historical controversy.By European standards, the period of formal German colonialism was extremely brief.Yet work inspired by cultural and literary studies has suggested that a 'colonial imagination' was much more deeply rooted in German society than the brevity of the political exp…
Hijacked Heimats
This article analyses instances in which ultra-nationalism and local and regional identity politics proved compatible, and even mutually constitutive. Focusing on Germany and Spain under Hitler and Franco, the authors suggest that both regimes imagined the nation as a space composed of distinctive regional parts. They uncover a particular ideological affinity between fascist or quasi-fascist views of the state and the notion of regional diversity…
Imagining Germany from Abroad
Journal Article Imagining Germany from Abroad: The View from Britain and the United States: A Joint Preface Get access Paul Betts, Paul Betts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maiken Umbach, Maiken Umbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ken Ledford Ken Ledford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 26, Issue 4, …
A Joint Preface
All nation-states are creations of physical topography, historical circumstance, political claims, and cultural imagination. A country's identity may be the result of its material place, legal self-understanding, and (invented) national traditions, but it is also defined by certain founding myths and historical associations born of dreams and distance. The histories of the United States, Liberia, and Israel are obvious examples, in that their ter…
The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self
The End of the Old Reich
1806: The End of the Old Reich Get access German History, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 455–474, https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355406gh383fa Published: 01 July 2006
Vernacular Modernism
Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sites—both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early pha…
A Tale of Second Cities
THE CITY IS EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING.”1 This may not be a fair summary of modern history, but it is not a bad summary of current historiography. Cities have long featured in historical writing as the venues where key episodes of political and social history unfolded. Under the auspices of the spatial turn, however, the city’s material reality has become a major subject of historical investigation. The built environment is read as a source in its…
German Federalism
Foreword: H.Schulze Notes on the Contributors Introduction: German Federalism in Historical Perspective M.Umbach Federal Habits: The Holy Roman Empire and the Continuity of German Federalism J.Whaley History and Federalism in the Age of Nation-State Formation M.Umbach Federalism and the Heimat Idea in Imperial Germany A.Confino Political Unity and Linguistic Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Germany M.Durrell Federalism and the Nazi State J.Noakes …
Memory and Historicism
This article examines how the juxtaposition between the two rival approaches to the past, history and memory, was configured in and through the built environment in the decades around 1900. It argues that memory was not, as some contemporary polemicists suggested, the opposite of academic historicism. It is better understood as a logical continuation of historicism's inherent deconstructivist tendencies
Introduction
History conjures up an image of the past and transports it into our present. Photographs both facilitate and, at times, markedly determine this historical process, especially for the twentieth century. For better or worse, they have irrevocably shaped the way we imagine the characters and sites of modern history. From infamous dictators to mass political rallies, from radical protests to everyday leisure pursuits: photographs form powerful frames…
Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933–1945
This article explores the significance of photography and photo-album making as practices that many Germans used to record their lives during the Third Reich. Millions of photos not only offer insights into everyday life under National Socialism: mass photography itself had a transformative effect, turning seemingly mundane actions into performances for the camera and into conscious acts of self-representation. The article also considers the rela…
Hijacked Heimats
This article analyses instances in which ultra-nationalism and local and regional identity politics proved compatible, and even mutually constitutive. Focusing on Germany and Spain under Hitler and Franco, the authors suggest that both regimes imagined the nation as a space composed of distinctive regional parts. They uncover a particular ideological affinity between fascist or quasi-fascist views of the state and the notion of regional diversity…
Private photos and Holocaust testimony
This article explores the legibility of photos taken by Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Many museums have collected private photos from survivors, and use them to illustrate Holocaust testimony. But photos and testimonies are not always neatly aligned; private photos can also confound audience expectations. We focus on four case studies, comprising photos taken in Poland, Germany, and the UK, and interviewed survivors about their significance…
The Vernacular International
This article proposes a reconceptualisation of regionalism, nationalism and globalisation as simultaneous and causally connected phenomena, which first peaked in the early decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on figures such as Hermann Muthesius, Fritz Schumacher and others active in the Deutscher Werkbund, it examines how competition in the global market inspired a search for modern yet uniquely national forms that derived their 'authentic…
The political is personal
The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, however, difficult for the researcher to capture. Here we take c.25,000 learner comments (along with several hundred image uploads) from a Massive Open Online Course, run in conjunction between the Universi…
Memory and Historicism
This article examines how the juxtaposition between the two rival approaches to the past, history and memory, was configured in and through the built environment in the decades around 1900. It argues that memory was not, as some contemporary polemicists suggested, the opposite of academic historicism. It is better understood as a logical continuation of historicism's inherent deconstructivist tendencies
The Politics of Sentimentality and the German Fürstenbund , 1779–1785
This article examines the history of the German Fürstenbund prior to the Prussian take-over of the scheme in 1785. In charting the union's initial conception as a small-state alliance designed to resist both Prussian and Austrian expansionism, the article reveals the cultural dimension of imperial diplomacy. Exclusive concentration on the straightforward diplomatic sources produced by Prussian-style bureaucracies has led historians to underrate t…
Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and England
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The Politics of Sentimentality and the German Fürstenbund , 1779–1785
This article examines the history of the German Fürstenbund prior to the Prussian take-over of the scheme in 1785. In charting the union's initial conception as a small-state alliance designed to resist both Prussian and Austrian expansionism, the article reveals the cultural dimension of imperial diplomacy. Exclusive concentration on the straightforward diplomatic sources produced by Prussian-style bureaucracies has led historians to underrate t…
Visual culture, scientific images and German small-state politics in the late enlightenment
VISUAL CULTURE, SCIENTIFIC IMAGES AND GERMAN SMALL-STATE POLITICS IN THE LATE ENLIGHTENMENT Get access Maiken Umbach Maiken Umbach Gonville and Caius CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 158, Issue 1, February 1998, Pages 110–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/158.1.110 Published: 01 February 1998
The Vernacular International
This article proposes a reconceptualisation of regionalism, nationalism and globalisation as simultaneous and causally connected phenomena, which first peaked in the early decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on figures such as Hermann Muthesius, Fritz Schumacher and others active in the Deutscher Werkbund, it examines how competition in the global market inspired a search for modern yet uniquely national forms that derived their 'authentic…
Classicism, Enlightenment and the ‘Other’
Cultural historians have been slow to respond to the pictorial turn. They often find images too ambiguous to use as sources in their own right. This problem is aggravated by two characteristics shared by early modern and postmodern visual culture: both transgress boundaries of genre (such as the text/image divide), and both tend to be notoriously fluid and plural in terms of their ‘message’. The nineteenth–century Idealist notion of ‘art’, by con…
German Federalism
Foreword: H.Schulze Notes on the Contributors Introduction: German Federalism in Historical Perspective M.Umbach Federal Habits: The Holy Roman Empire and the Continuity of German Federalism J.Whaley History and Federalism in the Age of Nation-State Formation M.Umbach Federalism and the Heimat Idea in Imperial Germany A.Confino Political Unity and Linguistic Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Germany M.Durrell Federalism and the Nazi State J.Noakes …
Memory and Historicism
This article examines how the juxtaposition between the two rival approaches to the past, history and memory, was configured in and through the built environment in the decades around 1900. It argues that memory was not, as some contemporary polemicists suggested, the opposite of academic historicism. It is better understood as a logical continuation of historicism's inherent deconstructivist tendencies
Vernacular Modernism
Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sites—both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early pha…
A Tale of Second Cities
THE CITY IS EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING.”1 This may not be a fair summary of modern history, but it is not a bad summary of current historiography. Cities have long featured in historical writing as the venues where key episodes of political and social history unfolded. Under the auspices of the spatial turn, however, the city’s material reality has become a major subject of historical investigation. The built environment is read as a source in its…
The End of the Old Reich
1806: The End of the Old Reich Get access German History, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 455–474, https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355406gh383fa Published: 01 July 2006
The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self
The German Colonial Imagination
German History continues its series of virtual round-table discussions with this forum on the German colonial imagination, a topic very much at the centre of current historical controversy.By European standards, the period of formal German colonialism was extremely brief.Yet work inspired by cultural and literary studies has suggested that a 'colonial imagination' was much more deeply rooted in German society than the brevity of the political exp…
Hijacked Heimats
This article analyses instances in which ultra-nationalism and local and regional identity politics proved compatible, and even mutually constitutive. Focusing on Germany and Spain under Hitler and Franco, the authors suggest that both regimes imagined the nation as a space composed of distinctive regional parts. They uncover a particular ideological affinity between fascist or quasi-fascist views of the state and the notion of regional diversity…
Imagining Germany from Abroad
Journal Article Imagining Germany from Abroad: The View from Britain and the United States: A Joint Preface Get access Paul Betts, Paul Betts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maiken Umbach, Maiken Umbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ken Ledford Ken Ledford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 26, Issue 4, …
A Joint Preface
All nation-states are creations of physical topography, historical circumstance, political claims, and cultural imagination. A country's identity may be the result of its material place, legal self-understanding, and (invented) national traditions, but it is also defined by certain founding myths and historical associations born of dreams and distance. The histories of the United States, Liberia, and Israel are obvious examples, in that their ter…
Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century
German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924
This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism, which first emerged in late 19th‐century Germany, and remained influential throughout the inter‐war years and beyond. Its supporters saw themselves as a new elite, ideally placed to tackle the many challenges facing the young and rapidly industrializing German nation‐state. They defined themselves as bourgeois, and acted as self‐appointed champions of a modern consciousness. Focusing on figures…
Twenty-Five Years--Where is German History Now
As our two founding editors write in this issue, at its inception, German History fulfilled a dual purpose. First, it arose from the need to find a ‘home’ for a growing body of scholarship on German history produced and debated in the United Kingdom, not least under the aegis of the German History Society. Second, the journal was set up with a certain sense of mission, designed to showcase an innovative brand of German history writing, which was …
Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933–1945
This article explores the significance of photography and photo-album making as practices that many Germans used to record their lives during the Third Reich. Millions of photos not only offer insights into everyday life under National Socialism: mass photography itself had a transformative effect, turning seemingly mundane actions into performances for the camera and into conscious acts of self-representation. The article also considers the rela…
Introduction
History conjures up an image of the past and transports it into our present. Photographs both facilitate and, at times, markedly determine this historical process, especially for the twentieth century. For better or worse, they have irrevocably shaped the way we imagine the characters and sites of modern history. From infamous dictators to mass political rallies, from radical protests to everyday leisure pursuits: photographs form powerful frames…
Is There a British Approach to German History
Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
The political is personal
The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, however, difficult for the researcher to capture. Here we take c.25,000 learner comments (along with several hundred image uploads) from a Massive Open Online Course, run in conjunction between the Universi…
Ideologies in Action
The Ethics of Seeing Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
It is terribly clichéd to say that a book tackles a neglected subject. And yet, this one does—and this constitutes the source both of significant strengths and weaknesses. A serious consideration of photography as a source for historians of modern Germany is urgently needed. This is not just due to the continued logo-centrism in much of the historical profession. Cultural historians regularly draw on visual, material and even auditory cultures. A…
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