Bulletin Issue 37: Fall 2005

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

FEATURES

Performing the World: Reality and Representation in the Making of World Histor(ies)
Arif Dirlik

What Future for the West? Reflections on an Enlarged Europe and the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Timothy Garton Ash

FORUM: THE MEASURE OF ATROCITY THE GERMAN WAR AGAINST THE HEREROS

The Military Campaign in German Southwest Africa, 1904–1907
Isabel Hull

Coming to Terms with the Past
Gesine Krüger

Annihilation in Africa: The “Race War” in German Southwest Africa (1904–1908) and its Significance for a Global History of Genocide
Jürgen Zimmerer

Further Reading

GHI RESEARCH

How German Jewry Turned Bourgeois: Religion, Culture, and Social Mobility in the Age of Emancipation
Simone Lässig

The Park International: Park System Planning as an International Phenomenon at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Sonja Dümpelmann

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Teaching World History
Eckhardt Fuchs and Karen Oslund

War in an Age of Revolution
Roger Chickering

Crossing the Atlantic: European Dimensions of American History
Young Scholars Forum 2005
Thomas Adam and Christof Mauch

Raising Americans—Raising Europeans in the Twentieth Century
Dirk Schumann

German History, 1890–1930
Eleventh Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar
Richard F. Wetzell

Selling Democracy: Productivity and Propaganda in the Service of American Foreign Policy
Jonathan Skolnik and Julia Driesen

Rethinking Embourgeoisement and the Jews of Germany
Second Annual Joint Symposium of the Leo Baeck Institute and the GHI
Jonathan Skolnik

Revisiting 1806: Napoleon and German Central Europe
Midatlantic German History Seminar at the GHI
Marion Deshmukh

Animals in History
Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch

The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America
Sonja Dümpelmann

Turning Points in Environmental History
Frank Uekötter

Archival Summer Seminar
Astrid M. Eckert

Comparisons in German and American Film
Edward Dimendberg and Anton Kaes

Fellows Seminars, Spring 2005
Dirk Schumann

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2006
Franz Steiner Prize
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Kade-Heideking Fellowship
Thyssen-Heideking FellowshipInternships

NEWS

German History in Documents and Images
Art Enables Exhibition
Visit of Bochum Student Group
Beate Ruhm von Oppen Donation
Library Report
New Publications
Fellowship Recipients
Internship Recipients
Staff Changes

EVENTS

Fall 2005 Lecture Series
Events Sponsored by the GHI, 2005–06

GHI PUPLICATIONS

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