The Third World in the Global 1960s (Volume 8: Protest, Culture and Society)
Edited by Samantha Christiansen & Zachary A. Scarlett
Foreword by Arif Dirlik

Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known as the Global South – Asia, Africa, and Latin America – have yet to receive the requisite attention they deserve. This volume inserts the Third World into the study of the 1960s by examining the local and international articulations of youth protest in various geographical, social, and cultural arenas. Rejecting the notion that the Third World existed on the periphery, it situates the events of the 1960s in a more inclusive context, building a richer, more nuanced understanding of the Global 1960s that better reflects the dynamism of the period.

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Nuklearkrise, NATO-Doppelbeschluss und Friedensbewegung

Hg. von Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke,
Wilfried Mausbach und Marianne Zepp (unter Mitarbeit v. Laura Stapane)
(Schöningh Verlag: Paderborn, 2012)
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Points of Contact, 1250-1914

Edited by Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke and Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov
(New York: Berghahn Books, Volume 15 of Studies in German History, forthcoming July 2013)

The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations.

This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans’ perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated.

The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany’s protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.

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