The past decades public interest in history is booming. This creates new opportunities but also challenges for professional historians. This book asks how historians deal with changing public demands for history and how these affect their professional practices, values and identities. The volume offers a great variety of detailed studies of cases where historians have applied their expertise outside the academic sphere. With contributions focusing on Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe the book has a broad geographical scope. Subdivided in five sections, the book starts with a critical look back on some historians who broke with mainstream academic positions by combining their professional activities with an explicit political partisanship or social engagement. The second section focusses on the challenges historians are confronted with when entering the court room or more generally exposing their expertise to legal frameworks. The third section focuses on the effects of policy driven demands as well as direct political interventions and regulations on the historical profession. A fourth section looks at the challenges and opportunities related to the rise of new digital media. Finally several authors offer their view on normative standards that may help to better respond to new demands and to define role models for publicly engaged historians. This book aims at historians and other academics interested in public uses of history.

Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and interpretation of history? What are the Marxist legacies that are now re-emerging in present-day histories? This volume is an attempt at relearning what the "discipline" of history once knew - whether one considered oneself a Marxist, a non-Marxist or an anti-Marxist.

For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation's postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, however, the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day. Along the way, they trace the parallel historical dynamics that have continued to shape German society, including religious diversity, political exclusion and inclusion, and concepts of race and gender.

In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization-challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations-neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed-it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal and steel disappeared, millions of people lost their jobs and formerly flourishing towns and cities went into decline.  Traditional political agendas gave way to new social problems and concerns.  What happened to industrial citizens – their workplaces, their careers and their homes? How did social rights and political participation of workers change when markets became global, management lean and financial capital dominant? What ideas and ideologies framed these dramatic changes in society? How did companies change and how were personal skills and work tasks were re-invented under the impact of new technologies? How did workers – men and women – live through these decades of uncertainty and upheaval?     Lutz Raphael reconstructs the highly variegated story of deindustrialisation in Western Europe with a particular focus on Britain, France and West Germany. Extending over three decades, this transformation was accompanied by significant rises in productivity and consumerism, but it also came at a heavy cost, ushering in many low income jobs, growing inequality and a crisis of democratic representation. Its legacy is everywhere around us today – it is the transformation that has shaped our world.

This collection presents research results of the Collaborative Research Centre 600 'Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day' at Trier University. It deals with central problems of social inclusion in societies of Europe and the Mediterranean World since Antiquity. The articles assembled here explore fundamental dimensions of the self-concepts of societies and social groups. From the perspectives of different disciplines, as History, History of Law, Literature Studies and Social Sciences, they focus on five main research areas: theoretical concepts of inclusion and exclusion, rights of membership and the inclusion of strangers in political spaces, religious dimensions of poor relief from the Middle Ages up into the twentieth Century, poor law and politics of poverty and the semantics of inclusion and exclusion.

This book brings together authors working on some of the most significant poverty and welfare research projects on the European stage. The contributions focus broadly on the experience of being poor in England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany between 1800 and the 1940s, a theme that has received inadequate attention in the European historiography thus far. The chapters are organised into three thematic sections. The first deals with the experience of being poor: networks, migration and survival strategies; the second with confinement, discipline, surveillance and classification: paths to the welfare state; and the third with the symbolism of poverty.

For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation's postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, however, the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day. Along the way, they trace the parallel historical dynamics that have continued to shape German society, including religious diversity, political exclusion and inclusion, and concepts of race and gender.

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal and steel disappeared, millions of people lost their jobs and formerly flourishing towns and cities went into decline.  Traditional political agendas gave way to new social problems and concerns.  What happened to industrial citizens – their workplaces, their careers and their homes? How did social rights and political participation of workers change when markets became global, management lean and financial capital dominant? What ideas and ideologies framed these dramatic changes in society? How did companies change and how were personal skills and work tasks were re-invented under the impact of new technologies? How did workers – men and women – live through these decades of uncertainty and upheaval?     Lutz Raphael reconstructs the highly variegated story of deindustrialisation in Western Europe with a particular focus on Britain, France and West Germany. Extending over three decades, this transformation was accompanied by significant rises in productivity and consumerism, but it also came at a heavy cost, ushering in many low income jobs, growing inequality and a crisis of democratic representation. Its legacy is everywhere around us today – it is the transformation that has shaped our world.

Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and interpretation of history? What are the Marxist legacies that are now re-emerging in present-day histories? This volume is an attempt at relearning what the "discipline" of history once knew - whether one considered oneself a Marxist, a non-Marxist or an anti-Marxist.

Die 24 Beitrage prasentieren zentrale Forschungsergebnisse des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Ideen als gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft im Europa der Neuzeit." Sie geben Einblick in die neuesten Tendenzen ideengeschichtlicher Forschung, gruppiert um funf Themenschwerpunkte: Politikdiskurse der fruhen Neuzeit, Theorieeffekte in Recht, Politik und Gesellschaft, die Ideengeschichte des europaischen Nationalismus, Verschrankungen moralischer und rechtlicher Normsetzung sowie die gesellschaftliche Rolle wissenschaftlicher Ideen, Diskurse und Praktiken im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert."

Die 17 Studien des Bandes beschaftigen sich mit zwei Kernproblemen der politischen Geschichte Deutschlands zwischen der Revolution von 1848 und dem demokratischen Neubeginn 1945: Neben Beitragen zur historischen Friedensforschung uber die innen- und aussenpolitischen Belastungen und Folgen der Kriege, die das Deutsche Reich fuhrte, versammelt der Band Studien zu den liberalen bzw. demokratischen Traditionen und ihren politischen Gegenkraften in Deutschland. Beide Themen fliessen zusammen in sieben Beitragen, die sich mit den Zusammenhangen beider Weltkriege und der NS-Diktatur beschaftigen.

Fussball ist heute ein Milliardengeschaft: hochprofessionell, extrem kommerzialisiert und weltweit popular. Bis Anfang der 1990er Jahre steckte er jedoch in einer Krise: rucklaufige Zuschauerzahlen, marode Stadien, verschuldete Vereine. Wie war es moeglich, dass es in Deutschland und England um 1990 fast zeitgleich zu einer radikalen Neuausrichtung des Spiels unter den Vorzeichen von Vermarktlichung und Globalisierung kam? Hannah Jonas untersucht die Geschichte des Fussballs und bettet sie in den zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext von Konsum, Medien, Globalisierung und politisch-kulturellen Trends ein.

In diesem Band werden Lebenslaufe von Armen sowie ihre Strategien und Moeglichkeiten im Umgang mit Armut in verschiedenen Lebensphasen in den Blick genommen. Es geht darum, die sie betreffenden In- und Exklusionsprozesse auf verschiedenen Ebenen sowie in verschiedenen Teilsystemen der Gesellschaft zu beschreiben und ihre Ursachen und Folgen deutlich zu machen, um somit die Kenntnis uber die Lebenssituation Armer in der Vormoderne zu erweitern. Wie wurde Armut wahrgenommen, wie reagierten die Armen auf die angebotenen Hilfsleistungen in den verschiedenen Lebenslagen und welche alternativen UEberlebensstrategien entwickelten sie? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen befassen sich zehn Beitrage mit zwei miteinander verwobenen Aspekten: zum einen mit Armut und Deutungen von Armut im Lebenslauf, zum anderen mit den territorialen sowie institutionellen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und ihren Auswirkungen auf Armutskarrieren im fruhneuzeitlichen Mitteleuropa.