Chapter One: Introduction: The Return of the Nation; David Lederer.- Chapter Two: Climate and History: Hunger, Anti-Semitism, and Reform during the Tambora Crisis of 1815-1820; Wolfgang Behringer.- Chapter Three: 1914 in Transnational Perspective; Christopher Clark.- Chapter Four: German History as Global History: The Case of Coffee; Dorothee Wierling.- Index
Wolfgang Behringer is Professor of early modern history at the
University of the Saarland, Germany. The world’s leading historian
of witchcraft beliefs, he has written and edited dozens of books on
the subject.
Christopher Clark is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History
at the University of Cambridge, UK. His works include Iron Kingdom:
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (2006; winner of the
triennial German Historians’ Prize); Kaiser Wilhelm II (2000); and
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2012).
David Lederer is Senior Lecturer for early modern European history
at Maynooth University, Ireland. His publications include Religion,
Madness and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon
(2006) and a co-edited special edition for the Journal of Social
History, 'The Politics of Suicide' (2012).
Dorothee Wierling is Emeritus Professorat the University of
Hamburg, Germany and Deputy Director of the Hamburg Institute for
Contemporary Studies. Her publications include Kaffeewelten (2012),
and Eine Familie im Krieg: Leben, Sterben und Schreiben 1914-1918
(2013).
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