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History and society

description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise history
language German , English
publishing company Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ( Germany )
First edition 1975
Frequency of publication quarterly
Editor-in-chief Paul Nolte
editor Jens Beckert , Christoph Conrad, Sebastian Conrad , Ulrike Freitag , Ute Frevert , Svenja Goltermann , Dagmar Herzog , Wolfgang Kaschuba , Simone Lässig , Philip Manow , Maren Möhring , Paul Nolte , Kiran Klaus Patel , Margrit Pernau , Sven Reichardt , Stefan Rinke , Monique Scheer, Rudolf Schlögl , Martin Schulze Wessel , Adam Tooze
Web link Website of the magazine
ISSN 0340-613X

History and society. Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft is the title of a historical journal (citation GG ). It has been published four times a year since 1975. It was once the mouthpiece of the so-called Bielefelder Schule (the science of history). The profile of the magazine is no longer classical social history, but corresponds to an analytical historiography, the interpretations of which point beyond the examined subject.

Structure and characteristics

It differs from other well-known journals such as the Historisches Zeitschrift (HZ) in the way it focuses on the modern era and particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are certainly topics from the area of ​​the early modern period , but almost none from medieval or even ancient history . Biographical or, in the traditional sense, political-historical approaches (in the sense of acts of “great individuals”) are also sought in vain. Instead, structural- historical approaches characterize the picture in the broadest sense . This includes the investigation of social groups ( workers , nobility or bourgeoisie ) but also economic and social processes. In the sense of a historical social science , these were initially based on contemporary sociology and political science . Later on, the spectrum was significantly expanded to include newer cultural-historical approaches . From a statistical point of view, the comparison of the first years 1–5 (1975–1979) and the years 21–25 (1995–1999) has not changed too much. Issues dealing with political rule made up 44% in the early years and 43% in the 1990s. For the economic processes it was 14.6% to 14.8%, questions about social change were considered at 14.6% and 12.1% respectively. In the broadest sense, questions of cultural order were dealt with by 26.6% and 29.7%, respectively.

In this respect, the journal is also a reflection of the development of historical science in recent decades. This is all the more true since history and society have always given a large amount of space to the theoretical debate and self-reflection of the guild (for example through its own themed booklets). A discussion forum that was increasingly devoted to certain controversial concepts (e.g. everyday history , proto-industrialization , wage policy during the Weimar Republic ) contributed to this.

Another peculiarity is that the vast majority of the editions contain essays on a specific main topic. This makes it possible either to illuminate a problem from different angles or to represent different facets. The aim of a comparative approach and a look beyond the “German horizon” goes back to the concepts of the Bielefelder Schule . The comparison of developments in different countries should reveal similarities and national characteristics.

History and Society also differs from the older scientific journals in the lack of brief advertisements for newly published literature. Instead, detailed literature and research reports and collective reviews attempt to outline the current state of research on a topic.

The journal is published by a committee of currently 20 editors. Hans-Ulrich Wehler has played the leading role since the company was founded until recently . In addition to him, the executive editors of the first edition in 1975 were: Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Hans-Jürgen Puhle . Currently (2015) the management is with Christoph Conrad, Ute Frevert and Paul Nolte .

Overview of topics

  • 1st year 1975
    • 1 Social stratification and social mobility in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries
    • 2/3 Historical genealogy and demography
    • 4 Imperialism in the Near and Middle East
  • 2nd year 1976
    • 1 Foreign trade and foreign policy in the Third Reich
    • 2 Revolution and Reforms in Latin America
    • 3 evolution and history
    • 4 The National Socialist system of rule,
  • 3rd year 1977
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 social protest
    • 3 Religion and Society in the 19th Century
    • 4 Analysis of social structures
  • 4th year 1978
    • 1 Liberalism in the rising industrial state
    • 2 Technology and Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    • 3 Socio-historical aspects of the European revolutions
    • 4 The sciences and their history
  • 5th year 1979
    • 1 Working culture in the 19th century
    • 2 German early industrialization
    • 3 Industrialization and Social Change in Russia
    • 4 Anti-Semitism and Judaism
  • 6th year 1980
    • 1 Paths of New Social and Economic History
    • 2 mixed book
    • 3 Professionalization from a historical perspective
    • 4 Napoleonic rule and modernization
  • 7th year 1981
    • 1 structural problems of the early modern period
    • 2 controversies over historiography
    • 3/4 women in the history of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • 8th year 1982
    • 1 Labor movement in the social system of the Weimar Republic
    • 2 nationality problems in Eastern Europe
    • 3 Public Finances and Society
    • 4 Change and Persistence in the Early Modern Era
  • 9th year 1983
    • 1 Literature and Social History
    • 2 Organizing Peace. Demobilization 1918-1920
    • 3 Jews in Germany between assimilation and persecution
    • 4 mixed book
  • 10th year 1984
    • 1 University and Society
    • 2 Capitalism, Corporatism and Keynesianism
    • 3 social history and cultural anthropology
    • 4 Political Radicalism in the 17th Century
  • 11th year 1985
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 social history of youth
    • 3 controversies about economic policy in the Weimar Republic
    • 4 women's lives
  • 12th year 1986
    • 1 Post-war problems 1918-1924 in comparison
    • 2 Fascism in Authoritarian Systems
    • 3 Sciences in National Socialism
    • 4 theory problems
  • 13th year 1987
    • 1 Resistance and Dissent in Eastern Europe
    • 2 Social policy in comparison
    • 3 Social History of Technology
    • 4 The spread of the German labor movement
  • 14th year 1988
    • 1 family, household, living
    • 2 Latin America between old and new imperialism
    • 3 Social History in Expansion
    • 4 social history of old age
  • 15th year 1989
    • 1 problems of urbanization
    • 2 Political Social History 1867-1945
    • 3 Labor and Workers in the Third Reich
    • 4 Domestic Political Problems of the Weimar Republic
  • 16th year 1990
    • 1 witch hunt in village society
    • 2 slavery in modern society
    • 3 citizens - petty bourgeois - nation
    • 4 doctors in the Third Reich
  • 17th year 1991
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 The crisis of European socialism in the interwar period
    • 3 New Aspects of Imperial German Social History 1871-1918
    • 4 Social history of Bavaria
  • 18th year 1992
    • 1 Evangelical Church after National Socialism
    • 2 class and gender
    • 3 Democratization and Party Systems in Eastern Europe
    • 4 life paths of women in the ancien regime
  • 19th year 1993
    • 1 social history of the GDR
    • 2 The NSDAP as a fascist "people's party"
    • 3 Racial Policy and Gender Policy under National Socialism
    • 4 Comparative company history
  • 20th year 1994
    • 1 Aspects of Austrian Social History
    • 2 Problems of social history in the German Empire
    • 3 Nationalisms and Regionalisms in Western Europe
    • 4 Labor movement in comparison
  • 21st year 1995
    • 1 social history of German communism
    • 2 protest and resistance
    • 3 Local social policy in a comparative perspective
    • 4 Problems of English Social History
  • 22nd year 1996
    • 1 publisher and scientist
    • 2 Expansion of Social History
    • 3 Social security in a comparative perspective Germany-France
    • 4 military history today
  • 23rd year 1997
    • 1 Paths to Cultural History
    • 2 entrepreneurial history
    • 3 Civil values ​​and politics
    • 4 universities in National Socialist Europe
  • 24 1998 vintage
    • 1 Universities and elites in the East after 1945
    • 2 theoretical landscape
    • 3 Images of History and Politics of History
    • 4 Genocide and Charisma
  • 25th year 1999
    • 1 bourgeoisie in the long 19th century
    • 2 Political Economy
    • 3 German nobility
    • 4 East Germany under communism
  • 26th year 2000
    • 1 Research on Catholicism
    • 2 Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries: a special path?
    • 3 aspects of nationalism
    • 4 body history
  • 27th year 2001
    • 1 New history of ideas
    • 2 communication history
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 New Institutional Economics as Historical Social Science
  • 28th year 2002
    • 1 Modernization and Modernity in Asia
    • 2 Continuity and Change in the Politics of the Early Federal Republic
    • 3 mental maps
    • 4 mixed book
  • 29th year 2003
    • 1 European liberalism
    • 2 the warrior
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 Protestantism and National Socialism
  • 30th year 2004
    • 1 stalinism
    • 2 New Paths in the History of Science
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 Politics in Catholicism
  • 31st year 2005
    • 1 Labor deployment and forced labor in occupied Europe
    • 2 mixed book
    • 3 South Asia in the world
    • 4 globalizations
  • 32nd year 2006
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 On the objectivity of historiography
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 Transnational social policy
  • 33rd year 2007
    • 1 Giving, donating, donating
    • 2 intellectuals
    • 3 Nobility in Modern Times
    • 4 Deagrarization
  • 34th year 2008
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 mixed book
    • 3 Planning in the 20th Century
    • 4 History of science as the history of society
  • 35th year 2009
    • 1 European migration regime
    • 2 story of feelings
    • 3 terrorism
    • 4 inequalities in court
  • 36th year 2010
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 Mission and Cultural Globalization
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 mixed book
  • 37th year 2011
    • 1 story, emotions and visual media
    • 2 Decolonization in Western Europe
    • 3 Arab Encounters with Fascist Propaganda 1933-1945
    • 4 mixed book
  • 38th year 2012
    • 1 Musical communication
    • 2 translations
    • 3 Security and Epoch Boundaries
    • 4 New human rights history
  • 39th year 2013
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 Economic Disintegration in the 20th Century
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 feelings against Jews
  • 40th year 2014
    • 1 Imperial Biographies
    • 2 World War I from a global perspective
    • 3 The sea as a habitat
    • 4 mixed book
  • 41st year 2015
    • 1 opposite worlds
    • 2 Rethinking Germans Abroad
    • 3 national debt
    • 4 Development work and global globalization expertise
  • 42nd year 2016
    • 1 Surveillance Studies
    • 2 The 1970s in Western Europe
    • 3 mixed book
    • 4 loyalties in supranational orders
  • 43rd year 2017
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 Labor and Capitalism
    • 3 Knowledge and Migration
    • 4 mixed book
  • 44th year 2018
    • 1 New ways in the history of concepts
    • 2 Migration, Mobility and Settlement
    • 3 stories of democracy
    • 4 mixed book
  • 45th year 2019
    • 1 mixed book
    • 2 mixed book
    • 3 relational lives
    • 4 The Germany brand in the world

literature

  • Lutz Raphael : Instead of an “editorial.” National-centered social history with a programmatic intention: The magazine “Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft ”in the first 25 years of its existence . In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 26 (2000), pp. 5–37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raphael, p. 23.
  2. ↑ History and Society 44 (2018), January 2, 14, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2019 .