Books written by Karen Hagemann

Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory

Rural poverty increased substantially, and with it petty crime, violence and prostitution rose. Reports to the government complained not only about “immorality, the abandonment of obedience [and] tampering with other people's property ...
Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon

5 Petersen, History, 29–32. 6 Meyer, “Die Entstehung,” 35–45; and Peterson, “Mühlbach,” esp. 62–80; see also chapter 13 in the fourth part. Louise Mühlbach, Deutschland in Sturm und Drang: Historischer Roman. Erste Abtheilung: Der alte ...
Umkämpftes Gedächtnis: Die Antinapoleonischen Kriege in der deutschen Erinnerung

96 Susan A. Crane: Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, Ithaca (NY) 2000; Georg Kunz: Verortete Geschichte. Regionales Geschichtsbewusstsein in den deutschen Historischen Vereinen des 19.
Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege

Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege
Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany

Less obvious is the extent to which the military and war impact on the gender order. This book is the first to explore the intersections of the military, war and gender in twentieth-century Germany from a variety of different perspectives.
War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

... 1851 (2008), which came out in English as Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851 (2015), he examines early debates about international trade and globalization in post-Napoleonic France. He works on the reinvention of French ...
Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century

In recent years, nations, nationalism, and the nation-state have enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly interest. The focus on the twentieth century and in particular the post-colonial and post-socialist era, however,...
Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements

This groundbreaking collection synthesizes the perspectives of entangled history and gender studies, bringing together established as well as upcoming scholars to investigate the ways in which East and West German gender relations were ...
Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of "civil society" include gender equality and gender justice?
Children, Families, and States: Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe

... home.46 At the same time, they also display fertility rates below the critical level. This suggests that limited provision of public daycare for very young children has done very lile to increase birth rates for the following years.
Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

In the United States, Roosevelt became a convert to the importance of fertility rates—and thus motherhood—for racial vigor after reading Charles Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast, which he reviewed at length in the ...
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World Since 1600

... the rise of paramilitary organizations, and political violence fostered a militarization of the notion of masculinity in Weimar culture that was shaped by the respective political agendas of the organizations and their related ideas ...
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600

Jeff Fynn-Paul, ed., War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300–1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2014). 13. John A. Lynn, Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History

In this collection, a group of historians explores the role of masculinity in the modern history of politics and war.
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 offers an authoritative account of the intricate relationships between gender, warfare, and military culture across time and space.
Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989

How gender factored into politics and society in the United States and East and West Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Gender and the Long Postwar examines gender politics during the post–World War II period and the Cold War in ...
Geschichte und Geschlechter: Revisionen der neueren deutschen Geschichte

Geschichte und Geschlechter: Revisionen der neueren deutschen Geschichte
Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography

... Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity (Albany, NY, 2001). Kätzel, Ute, Die 68erinnen: Porträt einer rebellischen Frauengeneration (Berlin, 2002). Kolbe, Wiebke, Elternschaft im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Schweden und die Bundesrepublik im ...
Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography

... jüdische Weib: Mit einer Vorrede von M. Lazarus, 3rd ed. (Berlin, 1896); ... Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, ed ... Jüdische Bürger und kommunale Selbstverwaltung in preußischen Städten 1808–1848 ...
Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture

This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it mired in exclusionary notions of masculinity, race and class?