Books written by Renate Bridenthal

  • Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History

    The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others.

  • The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States

    This chapter is a slightly revised version of the following article, “Befitting Bedfellows: Yakuza and the State in ... On a particular yakuza boss named Kunisada Chūji, see Abe Akira, Edo no autorō: Mushuku to bakuto (Tokyo, 1999), ...

  • Becoming Visible: Women in European History

    Thematic emphases in this text include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers, sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries, and the...

  • When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany

    This collection of essays analyzes the experience of women in Weimar and Nazi Germany--the first a period of crisis and polarization between right and left, and the second a period...

  • Becoming Visible: Women in European History

    Thematic emphases in this text include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers, sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries, and the role of women in the great events and ...

  • Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History

    The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others.

  • The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness

    ... American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, no. 90 (spring–summer 1998): 12–14; Elizabeth M. Yerina, “Archives ... North Dakota State University has written extensively about the local practices of Russian Germans in the Midwest ...