Holger Nehring
Biographic Data
| ID | 998927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holger Nehring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holger |
| FAMILY NAME | Nehring |
| SIGNATURE | NEHRING H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace
Protests against NATO’s plans to station US missiles on European soil created a crisis for the alliance in the last years of the Cold War. An account of the complicated bargaining among the United States and its European allies at that time has striking parallels with the present
Friedensbewegungen und Kriegserinnerungen: Deutschland im europäischen Kontext
Dieser Essay bietet eine vergleichende Analyse (west-)deutscher Friedensbewegungen mit jenen anderer westeuropäischer Länder seit 1945. Er konzentriert sich dabei insbesondere darauf, wie die Friedensbewegungen Fragen von Frieden und Krieg diskutierten und jeweils auf die politische Kultur Bezug nahmen. Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass die Stärke deutscher Friedensbewegungen in Beziehung zur politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik keine Ausnahme dars…
Round Table: The New Cold War
First paragraph: The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is having profound repercussions in Britain, not least on our cultural and intellectual life. However, although the media has presented this unfolding crisis in exhaustive detail, no one could reasonably argue that there has been much depth to the general treatment. From the outset, media coverage has been superficial and woefully lacking in objectivity, with briefings by President Zelensky and oth…
The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield
Recent historical research has analysed the Cold War as an ‘imaginary war’, an interpretation that poses specific challenges for displaying the conflict in museums. In contrast to well-established representations of the First and Second World Wars in exhibitions, we find that the nature of the Cold War in Europe and the North Atlantic has made it difficult to tell stories of victimhood, heroism and military valour. Moreover, the memory and herita…
Challenging the Myths of the Scottish Sixties: Student Protests in the Wake of ‘1968’ at the University of Stirling
This article challenges two myths about the British and Scottish Sixties: first, that there was no real student radicalism in Scotland in the long 1960s, and second that this radicalism was confined to narrow groups of the extreme left. Rather than focusing on processes of cultural change and their manifestations, this essay conceptualises ‘1968’ as a series of political contestations over the form of university governance and, by implication, go…
Energy and War. Debates about Nuclear Energy in Early-Cold War West Germany
This essay examines the perceptions of the dangers and possible benefits connected with nuclear energy in early Cold War West Germany. In the Federal Republic of Germany in particular, discussions about the military use of nuclear energy prefigured the tropes which were to resurface in the environmental movements of the 1970s and 1980s. The civilian use of nuclear energy was, by contrast, increasingly seen as the harbinger of peace. This essay se…
The Age of Hiroshima
The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories
This introductory essay elucidates the purpose and major themes of the special issue. The contributors to the issue provide an in-depth look at the Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs (usually referred to as just Pugwash) to explore important themes in Cold War history. Among other topics covered in the issue are the impact of Pugwash in many countries, the nature of its organization, and the distinctive way in which it worked, as w…
W ilfried L oth . Die Rettung der Welt: Entspannungspolitik im Kalten Krieg, 1950–1991
Wilfried Loth’s Die Rettung der Welt, which the title claims is about nothing less than “saving the world,” provides a history of attempts at détente between the Eastern and Western blocs during the Cold War, from around 1950 to 1989–1990. It is the revised and updated edition of Loth’s earlier book with the less dramatic title Helsinki, 1. August 1975: Entspannung und Abrüstung (1998), which was translated into English as Overcoming the Cold War…
The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective: A Survey
Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spain's Indignados and the wider Occupy movement. In t
Goodbye To All That? The Story of Europe since 1945, by Dan Stone
Dan Stone’s book is as much a history of the present as it is a history of Europe since 1945. It seeks to tell the story of how we got where we are today from the end of war in 1945. Its intellectual starting-point is the contemporary debate about neoliberalism and austerity, about the rise of far-right populism across Europe, and about what seems likely to be the break-up of European unity. It is a history of Europe for, and of, our own times—a …
Timothy Scott Brown, West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Antiauthoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978
Schwellenmacht: Bonns heimliche Atomdiplomatie von Adenauer bis Schmidt, by Stephan Geier
Nuclear weapons were at the heart of the Cold War. But what role did nuclear weapons play in the diplomacy and foreign policy of countries that could neither be classified as superpowers, such as the United States and the Soviet Union, nor great powers, such as France or the United Kingdom? This book, a detailed and wide-ranging study by Stephan Geier, traces the nuclear diplomacy of the Federal Republic of Germany from its foundation in 1949 int…
The politics of socialism and the West German “1968”
This article discusses the place of a politics of socialism around the West German “1968.” In order to do so, it focuses on a network of activists who cannot be adequately described as either student protesters or a cultural avant-garde and who are often neglected in the Anglophone literature as well as more mainstream accounts of the German “1968.” This article zooms in on activists linked to the left wing of the SPD, in particular its former fr…
Lora Wildenthal. The Language of Human Rights in West Germany
The history of human rights is one of the most innovative fields in twentieth-century history. More recent work has highlighted the ambiguity and ambivalence of ideas, discourses, and languages of human rights. Interestingly, however, only few scholars (among them most notably Jan Eckel) have examined this problematic with respect to Germany. Its conjoined histories of genocidal violence and peace, dictatorship and democracy, barbarism and civili…
Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970
This book focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s in order to answer this question. Britons and West Germans had been fierce enemies in the Second World War, but after 1945 a substantial number of activists in both countries imagined themselves to be part of a common movement against nuclear armaments and for peace and security. Politics of Security tells the s…
Gandhi in the West: The Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest, by Sean Scalmer
It is important to be aware of what Sean Scalmer, the author of this book, does not do. The book’s wide-ranging title promises more than is actually delivered. This is really a study of the reception of Gandhian non-violent civil disobedience among British pacifists and some sections within the African-American civil rights movement from the 1940s to the early 1960s. If ‘the West’ is a useful category of analysis at all, this rather small sample …
Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War, by Frank Costigliola
"Entrüstet Euch!": Nuklearkrise, Nato-Doppelbeschluss und Friedensbewegung
Als die Straße bebte: Der Kampf um den Frieden in den 1980er Jahren. Unter dem Motto »Nein zur Nachrüstung« kamen im Herbst 1983 mehr als eine Million Menschen zusammen, um gegen den NATO-Doppelbeschluss und die Stationierung von Cruise Missiles und Pershing II-Raketen in der Bundesrepublik zu demonstrieren. Das Thema beherrschte wie kein anderes die politische und gesellschaftliche Debatte dieser Zeit. Welche Dynamiken entwickelte der Konflikt? …
Confronting America. The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy
This study seeks to explore how the French and Italian communist parties responded to the role of the United States in (West) European reconstruction in the wake of the Second World War and during the Cold War, from the mid-1940s to the rise of Eurocommunism in the 1970s. Alessandro Brogi’s study is not, however, a history of French and Italian communism from the perspective of political and social history. Instead, Brogi is interested in delinea…
Diskussionslust: Eine Kulturgeschichte des 'besseren Arguments' in Westdeutschland
The focus of historical research on the Federal Republic has now moved to the 1970s and 1980s, as more recent decades are mined for new sources. What is lost through such a decadological approach is demonstrated by Nina Verheyen’s prize-winning book on the cultural history of ‘discussions’ in West Germany from the late 1940s into the 1970s. It is empirically important and conceptually innovative, and shows that the novelty of historical findings …
What was the Cold War
We Now Know is the title of John Gaddis’s much-discussed overview of Cold War history that was published in 1997.1 Gaddis has a point, although perhaps not in the way that he intended. It is unlikely that many new sources will come to light that will dramatically change the ways in which we approach the Cold War. As Vojtech Mastny, one of the historians with the best insider knowledge of Soviet and Warsaw Pact archives, observed a few years ago: …
Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
Changing the World, Changing Oneself. Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s
Do all paths lead to Moscow? The Nato dual-track decision and the peace movement – a critique
This article presents elements of a novel approach to the study of social movements in a Cold War context. Using peace activism in West Germany during the 1980s as a case study, this article argues for a conceptualisation of social movement activism that moves beyond the ideological divides of the Cold War and a functional understanding of politics. Instead, this article highlights the multi-layered, fractured and contested nature of activism and…
National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957–1964
This article examines the politics of communication between British and West German protesters against nuclear weapons in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The interpretation suggested here historicises the assumptions of ‘transnational history’ and shows the nationalist and internationalist dimensions of the protest movements' histories to be inextricably connected. Both movements related their own aims to global and international problems. Yet th…
The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957–64
This article compares the ways in which Cold War culture in general and 'nuclear culture' in particular framed British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons campaigns in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Rather than interpreting the movements as protests against nuclear weapons only, this article suggests that the movements mounted a more fundamental resistance against the Cold War's effects on international relations, politics and society. In order…
What was the Cold War
We Now Know is the title of John Gaddis’s much-discussed overview of Cold War history that was published in 1997.1 Gaddis has a point, although perhaps not in the way that he intended. It is unlikely that many new sources will come to light that will dramatically change the ways in which we approach the Cold War. As Vojtech Mastny, one of the historians with the best insider knowledge of Soviet and Warsaw Pact archives, observed a few years ago: …
Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century
Journal Article Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century Get access Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century, by Jay Winter (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2006; pp. 261. £16.99). Holger Nehring Holger Nehring University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages 236–238, https://doi.org/10.…
Conflicted Memories. Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Until quite recently, historians who attempted to write the history of post-1945 Europe from a transnational perspective were not usually greeted with much enthusiasm by their colleagues or the wider public. Despite the growing importance of European integration, most contemporary historians have tended to focus on national developments. ‘Europe’, for the most part, tended to be a subject for those historians (mostly of a Christian Democratic ilk…
Westernization’: A new paradigm for interpreting West European history in a Cold War context
The purpose of this review article is to discuss a new paradigm for interpreting transatlantic relations in the period between the late 1940s and the early 1970s. By focusing on the role of ideology in the Cold War and on the agencies through which it was transmitted, this paradigm highlights the importance of national traditions in the experience of the Cold War. Yet at the same time it does not abandon the unifying framework of the Cold War alt…
The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories
This introductory essay elucidates the purpose and major themes of the special issue. The contributors to the issue provide an in-depth look at the Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs (usually referred to as just Pugwash) to explore important themes in Cold War history. Among other topics covered in the issue are the impact of Pugwash in many countries, the nature of its organization, and the distinctive way in which it worked, as w…
Introduction: A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century
The introduction to this special issue on peace in twentieth-century Europe develops a novel interpretation of twentieth-century European history. Rather than focusing on the question of the impact of war and violence within European societies, it seeks to examine what we can gain from exploring how peace was established and maintained in the wake of wars in various European societies. In particular, it focuses on the manifold ways in which diffe…
The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield
Recent historical research has analysed the Cold War as an ‘imaginary war’, an interpretation that poses specific challenges for displaying the conflict in museums. In contrast to well-established representations of the First and Second World Wars in exhibitions, we find that the nature of the Cold War in Europe and the North Atlantic has made it difficult to tell stories of victimhood, heroism and military valour. Moreover, the memory and herita…
Civility’ in history: Some observations on the history of the concept
This article investigates a number of conceptual and empirical issues relating to the ambiguity of the concept ‘civility’. By asking what kind of problems ‘civility’ was a response to, it highlights the ambiguity of the concept in a long-term historical context and demonstrates this in a number of key areas for twentieth-century European history: the relationship between civility and violence, civility and the un-making of death, civility and rec…
The Era of Non-Violence: ‘Terrorism’ and the Emergence of Conceptions of Non-Violent Statehood in Western Europe, 1967–1983
This article aims to reveal the changing semantics of violence in the three West European societies most affected by 'terrorism' from the late 1960s to the early 1980s: Italy, France and Germany. Specifically, this article traces the emergence, the trajectory and the impact of a coding of debates concerning political legitimacy during this period, which revolved primarily along the binary opposition of violence and non-violence. Its focus is on t…
The politics of socialism and the West German “1968”
This article discusses the place of a politics of socialism around the West German “1968.” In order to do so, it focuses on a network of activists who cannot be adequately described as either student protesters or a cultural avant-garde and who are often neglected in the Anglophone literature as well as more mainstream accounts of the German “1968.” This article zooms in on activists linked to the left wing of the SPD, in particular its former fr…
Psychotherapist reactions to the suicide of a patient
A patient's suicide may evoke the therapist's personal grief and influence professional competence or suicide prevention skills. The incidence of suicide by patients in therapy is examined and empirical studies of therapist response--which commonly includes grief, guilt, self-blame, anger, fear, and self-doubt--are reviewed. Bereavement theories and support programs are described
Westernization’: A new paradigm for interpreting West European history in a Cold War context
The purpose of this review article is to discuss a new paradigm for interpreting transatlantic relations in the period between the late 1940s and the early 1970s. By focusing on the role of ideology in the Cold War and on the agencies through which it was transmitted, this paradigm highlights the importance of national traditions in the experience of the Cold War. Yet at the same time it does not abandon the unifying framework of the Cold War alt…
National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957–1964
This article examines the politics of communication between British and West German protesters against nuclear weapons in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The interpretation suggested here historicises the assumptions of ‘transnational history’ and shows the nationalist and internationalist dimensions of the protest movements' histories to be inextricably connected. Both movements related their own aims to global and international problems. Yet th…
The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957–64
This article compares the ways in which Cold War culture in general and 'nuclear culture' in particular framed British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons campaigns in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Rather than interpreting the movements as protests against nuclear weapons only, this article suggests that the movements mounted a more fundamental resistance against the Cold War's effects on international relations, politics and society. In order…
Politics and the 'Environment’ in Twentieth-Century Germany
Decentering America
Global Debates about Taxation
The Era of Non-Violence: ‘Terrorism’ and the Emergence of Conceptions of Non-Violent Statehood in Western Europe, 1967–1983
This article aims to reveal the changing semantics of violence in the three West European societies most affected by 'terrorism' from the late 1960s to the early 1980s: Italy, France and Germany. Specifically, this article traces the emergence, the trajectory and the impact of a coding of debates concerning political legitimacy during this period, which revolved primarily along the binary opposition of violence and non-violence. Its focus is on t…
Introduction: Constitutions, Civility and Violence
GermanFrenchVerfassungen, Zivilität und Gewalt – EinleitungIm letzten halben Jahrhundert ist das historische Interesse an Verfassungen (die einst als Kern der Nationsbildung in vielen Ländern galten) ein Stück weit zurückgetreten gegenüber anderen, scheinbar dynamischeren Themen wie Klasse, Interessengruppen oder dem weiteren sozialen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Wandel. 2008 scheint die Debatte über Verfassungen sowohl in Europa als auch andern…
Introduction: A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century
The introduction to this special issue on peace in twentieth-century Europe develops a novel interpretation of twentieth-century European history. Rather than focusing on the question of the impact of war and violence within European societies, it seeks to examine what we can gain from exploring how peace was established and maintained in the wake of wars in various European societies. In particular, it focuses on the manifold ways in which diffe…
Philosophie der Burgerlichkeit: Die lieberalkonservative Begrundung der Bundesrepublik
Apart from the burgeoning research on Carl Schmitt and his pupils in the Federal Republic, the intellectual history of West German conservatism is still by and large uncharted territory. This is at least in part due to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been built on the assumption that, after the crushing of Junker power and with the democratic reconstruction of Federal Republic from the ashes of World War II, there no longer …
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Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of ‘the Environment’ as Politics in West Germany, 1949–1982
Environmental issues have gained a growing prominence in West European politics over the recent years: their scope is considered to be global, and our awareness of these issues transcends national boundaries, for example when the mass media discuss the global impact of climate change. Yet thinking along those lines is relatively novel. While traces of it can be detected in more remote periods of history, earlier political and media discussions ra…
NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945. Edited by Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton and James McKay
Journal Article NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945. Edited by Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton and James McKay. Get access NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945. Edited by Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton and James McKay. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2009. xii + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-22109-3, £55. Holger Nehring Holger Nehring University of Sheffield Search for other wo…
Conflicted Memories. Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Until quite recently, historians who attempted to write the history of post-1945 Europe from a transnational perspective were not usually greeted with much enthusiasm by their colleagues or the wider public. Despite the growing importance of European integration, most contemporary historians have tended to focus on national developments. ‘Europe’, for the most part, tended to be a subject for those historians (mostly of a Christian Democratic ilk…
Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century
Journal Article Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century Get access Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century, by Jay Winter (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2006; pp. 261. £16.99). Holger Nehring Holger Nehring University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages 236–238, https://doi.org/10.…
Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
Changing the World, Changing Oneself. Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s
Do all paths lead to Moscow? The Nato dual-track decision and the peace movement – a critique
This article presents elements of a novel approach to the study of social movements in a Cold War context. Using peace activism in West Germany during the 1980s as a case study, this article argues for a conceptualisation of social movement activism that moves beyond the ideological divides of the Cold War and a functional understanding of politics. Instead, this article highlights the multi-layered, fractured and contested nature of activism and…
Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–1970
Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–1970." Contemporary British History, 25(2), pp. 325–326
Civility’ in history: Some observations on the history of the concept
This article investigates a number of conceptual and empirical issues relating to the ambiguity of the concept ‘civility’. By asking what kind of problems ‘civility’ was a response to, it highlights the ambiguity of the concept in a long-term historical context and demonstrates this in a number of key areas for twentieth-century European history: the relationship between civility and violence, civility and the un-making of death, civility and rec…
Wir sind das Volk! Wir sind ein Volk! Geschichte der deutschen Wiedervereinigung * Deutschland einig Vaterland. Die Geschichte der Wiedervereinigung
Anniversaries of historical events are not only commemorative events; they are also feasts for book publishers trying to serve an ever growing market for accessible books on contemporary history. Hence, the twentieth anniversary of 1989/90 generated bookshelf upon bookshelf full of books, big tomes written for large audiences, small booklets written for smaller audiences, local histories, global accounts and books that fit many categories in betw…
Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s
"Entrüstet Euch!": Nuklearkrise, Nato-Doppelbeschluss und Friedensbewegung
Als die Straße bebte: Der Kampf um den Frieden in den 1980er Jahren. Unter dem Motto »Nein zur Nachrüstung« kamen im Herbst 1983 mehr als eine Million Menschen zusammen, um gegen den NATO-Doppelbeschluss und die Stationierung von Cruise Missiles und Pershing II-Raketen in der Bundesrepublik zu demonstrieren. Das Thema beherrschte wie kein anderes die politische und gesellschaftliche Debatte dieser Zeit. Welche Dynamiken entwickelte der Konflikt? …
Confronting America. The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy
This study seeks to explore how the French and Italian communist parties responded to the role of the United States in (West) European reconstruction in the wake of the Second World War and during the Cold War, from the mid-1940s to the rise of Eurocommunism in the 1970s. Alessandro Brogi’s study is not, however, a history of French and Italian communism from the perspective of political and social history. Instead, Brogi is interested in delinea…
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