Jürgen Martschukat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1469485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Martschukat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Martschukat |
| SIGNATURE | MARTSCHUKAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Voluntariness in a Global Perspective
The Power of Voluntary Activity
This special issue explores voluntary activities from a global perspective. Questioning theirassumed universality and Western-centric foundations, the contributions examine voluntaryactivity as a historically contingent social practice that carries different meanings and conse-quences across time and space. Case studies from England, Lebanon, India, Slovenia, and Swit-zerland demonstrate how voluntary activities can both challenge and reinforce e…
The Lockean Subject
This article critically revisits John Locke’s concept of the liberal subject by examining its en-tanglement with voluntary action, property, and colonial domination. Situating Locke’s politicalthought within the dual context of 17th-century resistance to absolutist authority and colonialexpansion, Jürgen Martschukat argues that the Lockean subject was shaped through and le-gitimized by systems of unfree labor, land appropriation, and racialized h…
What does voluntariness do to participation? Mitmachen in New Deal America and National Socialist Germany, 1933−1945
The politics of voluntariness in modern history
International audience
Libra R. Hilde. Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
Journal Article Libra R. Hilde. Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century. Get access Libra R. Hilde. Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 407. Paper $37.50. Jürgen Martschukat Jürgen Martschukat Erfurt University, Germany Email: juergen.martschukat@uni-erf…
L’ère du fitness
Fitness
Männlichkeit
Age of Fitness
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Introduction
The age of fitness
The article explores the power of fitness in recent American history. It argues that the concept of ability is crucial to understanding the power of fitness, and examining the history of fitness is pivotal to a critical analysis of ableism. As the article shows, modern fitness is more than the physical condition required to succeed in sports; it also means having and shaping a body that represents the willingness and ability to achieve self-impro…
Executing Freedom
This book breaks new ground. It expands the study of capital punishment and its recent history beyond the analysis of political and legal struggles, and explores how the death penalty is embedded in a wide cultural configuration. Daniel LaChance calls his book a history of “the cultural life of capital punishment,” and even though he also explores the death penalty's representation in the arts and popular culture, his primary understanding of cul…
The Pursuit of Fitness
This article explores the power of fitness in American history since the American Revolution and shows how the modern concept of fitness demands activity, agency, and constant self-improvement. It begins by demonstrating how this understanding of fitness began to take shape from the mid-nineteenth century as liberal, competitive, and Darwinist thinking gained ground and intensified. With the end of the New Deal order in the 1970s, fitness acquire…
Is the Death Penalty Dying
Introduction: transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment: national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition Austin Sarat and Jurgen Martschukat Part I. What Is a Penalty of Death: Capital Punishment in Context: 1. The green, green grass of home: capital punishment and the penal system from a long-term perspective Pieter Spierenburg 2. Did anyone die here? Legal personalities, the supermax and the politics of abolition Co…
Violence and Visibility in Modern History
America's Death Penalty
By placing capital punishment in the United States within a global and historical perspective, this volume seeks to complicate the predominant perception of today’s death penalty as an expression of American exceptionalism. Taking the global situation into account certainly means that the United States “looks less unusual than is generally assumed,” as Randall McGowen states in his introduction (p. 14). He rightly points to the criticism raised b…
The Necessity for Better Bodies to Perpetuate Our Institutions, Insure a Higher Development of the Individual, and Advance the Conditions of the Race.” Physical Culture and the Formation of the Self i…
This article explores the significance of sports and physical exercise in the turn-of-the-century culture and society of the U.S. It depicts how physical fitness became a decisive feature of collective and individual self-perception and was understood as being at the core of a successful shaping of both the self and of the American body politic. I concentrate in particular on paradigms and strategies of human resources management to exemplify the…
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
M. Watt Espy is a legend among historians and sociologists of the death penalty in America. Since 1970, he has endeavored to collect information on all legal executions in the United States and the respective European colonies before 1776. In their book, Howard D. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb use Espy's work as their main source to define and analyze long-term trends and variations in the use of capital punishment in America from colonial times to W…
His chief sin is being a Negro. Next he whipped a white man. Next he married a white woman.“
Backmatter
Inhalt
Strafgewalten und Zivilisationsentwürfe in den USA um 1900
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
M. Watt Espy is a legend among historians and sociologists of the death penalty in America. Since 1970, he has endeavored to collect information on all legal executions in the United States and the respective European colonies before 1776. In their book, Howard D. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb use Espy's work as their main source to define and analyze long-term trends and variations in the use of capital punishment in America from colonial times to W…
The Art of Killing by Electricity
In July 1896, an article in the Scientific American praised “The Progress of Invention during the Past Fifty Years.” The author, Edward W. Byrn, celebrated “a splendid, brilliant campaign of brains and energy, rising to the highest achievement amid the most fertile resources.” New technological devices of incredible richness and diversity had been invented, immense progress and marvelous growth had been achieved, and people felt overwhelmed by a …
The Pursuit of Fitness
This article explores the power of fitness in American history since the American Revolution and shows how the modern concept of fitness demands activity, agency, and constant self-improvement. It begins by demonstrating how this understanding of fitness began to take shape from the mid-nineteenth century as liberal, competitive, and Darwinist thinking gained ground and intensified. With the end of the New Deal order in the 1970s, fitness acquire…
The Necessity for Better Bodies to Perpetuate Our Institutions, Insure a Higher Development of the Individual, and Advance the Conditions of the Race.” Physical Culture and the Formation of the Self i…
This article explores the significance of sports and physical exercise in the turn-of-the-century culture and society of the U.S. It depicts how physical fitness became a decisive feature of collective and individual self-perception and was understood as being at the core of a successful shaping of both the self and of the American body politic. I concentrate in particular on paradigms and strategies of human resources management to exemplify the…
Introduction
The age of fitness
The article explores the power of fitness in recent American history. It argues that the concept of ability is crucial to understanding the power of fitness, and examining the history of fitness is pivotal to a critical analysis of ableism. As the article shows, modern fitness is more than the physical condition required to succeed in sports; it also means having and shaping a body that represents the willingness and ability to achieve self-impro…
Different Restorations
Different Restorations
Journal Article Different Restorations: Reconstructions and “Wiederaufbau” in Germany and the United States: 1865, 1945, and 1989. Ed. by Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat. (Providence: Berghahn, 1996. x, 422 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57181-086-2.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Is…
Der „Maasstab für die geistige Bildungsstufe eines Volkes und die Moralität eines Zeitalters“ Die Todesstrafe in Diskurs und Praxis im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Geschichte schreiben mit Foucault
The Art of Killing by Electricity
In July 1896, an article in the Scientific American praised “The Progress of Invention during the Past Fifty Years.” The author, Edward W. Byrn, celebrated “a splendid, brilliant campaign of brains and energy, rising to the highest achievement amid the most fertile resources.” New technological devices of incredible richness and diversity had been invented, immense progress and marvelous growth had been achieved, and people felt overwhelmed by a …
Diskurse und Gewalt
Am 2. Mai 1735 wurde Jürgen Hinrich Wiechers durch die Straßen Hamburgs zum Richtplatz geführt. Wiechers hatte einen „greulichen Frevelmord“ an seiner Schwägerin begangen, und dies in deren eigenem Wohnhaus. Zum Zeichen der besonderen Schande war er nun in eine haarne Decke gewickelt, und das Beil, mit dem er die Tat begangen hatte, hing um seinen Hals. Zahlreiche Menschen jeden Alters, jeden Standes und beiderlei Geschlechts beobachteten und beg…
Edison and the Electric Chair (review)
Reviewed by: Edison and the Electric Chair Jürgen Martschukat (bio) Edison and the Electric Chair. By Mark Essig. New York: Walker, 2003. Pp. 358. $26. With few exceptions, historians widely neglected the death penalty as a subject of their studies until just a few years ago. But recently the death penalty has been scrutinized more often in order to shed light on historically variable cultures and societies and their quandaries, and thus on a fie…
His chief sin is being a Negro. Next he whipped a white man. Next he married a white woman.“
Backmatter
Inhalt
Strafgewalten und Zivilisationsentwürfe in den USA um 1900
Rationalitäten der Gewalt. Staatliche Neuordnungen vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert - eine Einführung
Autoren und Autorinnen
Rationalitäten der Gewalt
Moderne Gesellschaften beruhen auf dem Selbstverständnis, Gewalt einzuhegen, zugleich sind das Recht und die Pflicht zur Gewaltanwendung Grundprinzipien moderner Staatlichkeit. Gewalt, Ordnung und Staatlichkeit sind demnach konstitutiv aufeinander bezogen, doch ihr prekäres Verhältnis erscheint zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts umstrittener denn je. Konzepte wie Rettungsfolter, gerechte Kriege, Ausnahme oder Sicherheit verweisen zugleich auf neue Ra…
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
M. Watt Espy is a legend among historians and sociologists of the death penalty in America. Since 1970, he has endeavored to collect information on all legal executions in the United States and the respective European colonies before 1776. In their book, Howard D. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb use Espy's work as their main source to define and analyze long-term trends and variations in the use of capital punishment in America from colonial times to W…
The Necessity for Better Bodies to Perpetuate Our Institutions, Insure a Higher Development of the Individual, and Advance the Conditions of the Race.” Physical Culture and the Formation of the Self i…
This article explores the significance of sports and physical exercise in the turn-of-the-century culture and society of the U.S. It depicts how physical fitness became a decisive feature of collective and individual self-perception and was understood as being at the core of a successful shaping of both the self and of the American body politic. I concentrate in particular on paradigms and strategies of human resources management to exemplify the…
America's Death Penalty
By placing capital punishment in the United States within a global and historical perspective, this volume seeks to complicate the predominant perception of today’s death penalty as an expression of American exceptionalism. Taking the global situation into account certainly means that the United States “looks less unusual than is generally assumed,” as Randall McGowen states in his introduction (p. 14). He rightly points to the criticism raised b…
Violence and Visibility in Modern History
Is the Death Penalty Dying
Introduction: transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment: national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition Austin Sarat and Jurgen Martschukat Part I. What Is a Penalty of Death: Capital Punishment in Context: 1. The green, green grass of home: capital punishment and the penal system from a long-term perspective Pieter Spierenburg 2. Did anyone die here? Legal personalities, the supermax and the politics of abolition Co…
The Pursuit of Fitness
This article explores the power of fitness in American history since the American Revolution and shows how the modern concept of fitness demands activity, agency, and constant self-improvement. It begins by demonstrating how this understanding of fitness began to take shape from the mid-nineteenth century as liberal, competitive, and Darwinist thinking gained ground and intensified. With the end of the New Deal order in the 1970s, fitness acquire…
Executing Freedom
This book breaks new ground. It expands the study of capital punishment and its recent history beyond the analysis of political and legal struggles, and explores how the death penalty is embedded in a wide cultural configuration. Daniel LaChance calls his book a history of “the cultural life of capital punishment,” and even though he also explores the death penalty's representation in the arts and popular culture, his primary understanding of cul…
Introduction
The age of fitness
The article explores the power of fitness in recent American history. It argues that the concept of ability is crucial to understanding the power of fitness, and examining the history of fitness is pivotal to a critical analysis of ableism. As the article shows, modern fitness is more than the physical condition required to succeed in sports; it also means having and shaping a body that represents the willingness and ability to achieve self-impro…
I can’t breathe«
I can't breathe«
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