Emotions make history, and emotions have a history. Through engaging analysis of twenty essential and powerful emotions - including anger, grief, hate, love, pride, shame and trust - Ute Frevert explores the emotional worlds of Germans to tell a very different story of the 20th century.
The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women collaborators in occupied France to the social media pillorying of the 21st century.
Focuses on the historicity of emotions and explore the processes that brought them to the fore of public interest and debate.
This book provides a wide-ranging and fascinating history of the duel and its significance, from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
Presents a comprehensive study of the experiences of women in modern German society. This book examines aspects of change and continuity in the lives of women and analyses the social differences, as well as the common ground shared between women of various classes