NGHM reads | 10 | Detlev Peukert: Die Weimarer Republik (1987)
Detlev Peukert's 1987 study reframed Weimar not as democracy's failure, but as modernity's self-inflicted crisis. The tenth title on our reading list — and still essential reading. — Translated from nghm.hypotheses.org
NGHM reads | Eric J. Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes (1994)
Can a century that one has lived through oneself be captured by the means of historiography, and if so, at what price? Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, the tenth title on the NGHM reading list from the…
NGHM reads | Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms (1976)
What can we learn from the words of a Friulian miller about the world of the late sixteenth century, and why from his words in particular? Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms, the next title on the NGHM reading list, is one of the classic texts of…
NGHM reads | Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Silencing the Past (1995)
What happens to a revolution that the dominant thinking of its time considered 'unthinkable'? Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past. Power and the Production of History, the eighth title on the NGHM reading list and this time assigned to the field…
NGHM reads | Mark Wyman: DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945–51 (1989/1998)
What happens to millions of people whose suffering under persecution and violence-induced mobility does not end with the conclusion of the war in 1945, but instead enters its own distinct, difficult-to-grasp next phase? Mark Wyman's DPs: Europe's…
NGHM reads | Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir (1975)
How did the spectacle of torture become the silent routine of the cell? Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir, the fifth title on the NGHM reading list and an example from the field of social-theoretical foundations, answers this question with a…