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Bulletin of the German Historical Institute | 59 Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Fall 2016 Fall 2016 Bulletin of the German Historical Institute | 59 Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Fall 2016 1607 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE NW WWW.GHI-DC.ORG WASHINGTON DC 20009 USA [email protected] German Historical Institute Washington DC Fellows and Staff For further information, please consult our web site: www.ghi-dc.org Prof. Dr. Simone Lässig, Director History of knowledge; German social and cultural history; Jewish history; history of religion and religiosity; historical education; educational media and digital humanities PD Dr. Axel Jansen, Deputy Director History of the United States; history of science Stefan Böhm, Administrative Director Dr. Elisabeth Engel, Research Fellow North American history; race and empire; modern colonialism; Atlantic and transnational history; postcolonial studies; history of capitalism Dr. Matthew Hiebert, Research Fellow Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Digital history and digital humanities; transnational intellectual history and literary movements; Washington DC Canadian social and cultural history; cosmopolitanisms and community; new media, scholarly publishing, and knowledge creation Editor: Richard F. Wetzell Dr. Mischa Honeck, Research Fellow Nineteenth and twentieth-century American history; transnational history; history of ethnicity Assistant Editor: Insa Kummer and race relations; gender history; history of youth and youth movements The Bulletin appears twice a year and is available free of charge. Dr. Jan C. Jansen, Research Fellow Modern European, North African, and Atlantic history; colonialism and decolonization; Current and back issues are available online at: memory studies; migration studies; global history of freemasonry www.ghi-dc.org/bulletin Dr. Kerstin von der Krone, Research Fellow Jewish history and culture; modern European history; history of media and communication; To sign up for a subscription or to report an address change intellectual history; history of knowledge please send an email to [email protected]. Dr. Ines Prodöhl, Research Fellow For editorial comments or inquiries, please contact Global history, cultural and economic history, civil society the editor at [email protected] or at the address below. Dr. Anne Clara Schenderlein German Jewish history; migration and transnationalism; everyday life and consumption; For further information about the GHI, please visit our memory and emotion web site www.ghi-dc.org. Dr. Richard F. Wetzell, Research Fellow and Editor Modern European and German history; intellectual and cultural history; legal history; For general inquiries, please send an email to [email protected]. history of science and medicine; history of sexuality German Historical Institute Dr. Thomas L. 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Lazar, Senior Editor Elisabeth Mait, Library Associate Dr. Kelly McCullough, Project Manager Lemlem Meconen-Anderson, Assistant to the Director Dr. Atiba Pertilla, Project Associate Jörg Schröder, Deputy Administrative Director Melanie Smaney, Receptionist Dr. Mark Stoneman, Editor Dr. Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, Editor Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 59 | Fall 2016 5 Preface FEATURE 9 German History as Global History: The Case of Coffee in the Twentieth Century Dorothee Wierling FORUM: HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE 29 The History of Knowledge and the Expansion of the Historical Research Agenda Simone Lässig 59 Old and New Orders of Knowledge in Modern Jewish History Kerstin von der Krone 83 Data, Diplomacy, and Liberalism: August Ferdinand Lueder’s Critique of German Descriptive Statistics Anna Echterhölter CONFERENCE REPORTS 105 The Western Art World between 1930 and 1950: Methodological Approaches to Transdisciplinary Research Jeroen Euwe 109 The Refugee Crisis: Historical Perspectives from Europe and North America, 1945-2000 Sascha Brünig and Jan C. Jansen 115 The Historian and the World — The Worlds of History: Positions, Purposes, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century Mischa Honeck and Jan C. Jansen 121 Navigating Diversity: Narratives, Practices and Politics in German-Speaking Europe Richard F. Wetzell 129 Forging Bonds Across Borders: Mobilizing for Women’s Rights and Social Justice in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World Sonya Michel and Anja Schüler 135 Thirteenth Workshop on Early Modern German History Hannah Briscoe and Rebecca Lott 141 22nd Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German History Anna von der Goltz 147 Willy Brandt and the Americas, 1974-1992 Sophie Lange 153 Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 2016 Elisabeth Engel 157 Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Transnational Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth Century to Today Atiba Pertilla 163 Uncertainty and Risk in America: (Un)Stable Histories from the Late Colonial Period to the “Gilded Age” Elisabeth Engel 169 Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas Margaretha Schweiger-Wilhelm 2 BULLETIN OF THE GHI | 59 | FALL 2016 177 GHI NEWS GHI West: GHI will open branch offi ce at UC Berkeley in 2017 New Digital Project: German History Intersections Fritz Stern (1926-2016) New GHI Publications Staff Changes GHI Fellowships and Internships Recipients of GHI Fellowships GHI Research Seminars and Colloquium, Spring and Summer 2016 GHI Calendar of Events GHI Library BULLETIN OF THE GHI | 59 | FALL 2016 3 PREFACE This Bulletin’s opening article presents the seventh Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture, delivered last spring by Dorothee Wierling (University of Hamburg) on the topic “German History as Global History: The Case of Coff ee in the Twentieth Century.” In this article, Professor Wierling examines coff ee not as a commodity but as a mediator of social relations among the actors along the commodity chain. Taking the Hamburg merchants engaged in the overseas coff ee trade as her starting point, Wierling investigates the role of travel as part of these merchants’ introduction into the professional world of global economic activities and analyzes the “internationalization” strategies of these trading families. The next three articles form part of a thematic forum on the history of knowledge, one of the German Historical Institute’s new focal points of research. This section opens with Simone Lässig’s article “The History of Knowledge and the Expansion of the Historical Research Agenda,” which provides a survey of the intellectual and disciplinary origins of the history of knowledge; probes its relationship to the rise of global and transnational history; examines the methods that the history of knowledge deploys to study the subject of knowledge; analyzes how using knowledge as a category of historical analysis can benefi t historical research; and off ers a preview of the GHI’s research program in the history of knowledge. The other two articles in this special forum each present specifi c research projects in the history of knowledge. In her article, “Old and New Orders of Knowledge in Modern Jewish History,” GHI Research Fellow Kerstin von der Krone presents the research she is pursuing as part of the GHI-affi liated German-Israeli research proj- ect “Innovation through Tradition? Jewish Educational Media and Cultural Transformation in the Face of Modernity.” Her article exam- ines how, against a background of profound social change during the Sattelzeit (c. 1750–1850), Jewish education and ideas of learning in German-speaking Europe underwent fundamental conceptual and structural transformations. In particular, she analyzes the ways in which changes in the institutions of learning and teaching methods, the integration of new subject matter, and the engagement with non- religious thought gave rise to a diff erentiation and pluralization of the religious knowledge order. In doing so, von der Krone sheds new PREFACE 5 light on how the transmission of religious knowledge was inextrica- bly connected with attempts to redefi ne Judaism in the modern era. The forum’s third article, “Data, Diplomacy, and Liberalism: August Ferdinand Lueder’s Critique of German Descriptive Statistics,” by Anna Echterhölter, GHI Fellow in the History of Knowledge (2015-2016), examines a neglected but revealing episode in the nineteenth-century history of statistics. Echterhölter’s article focuses on the early- nineteenth-century German statistician August Lueder, who started his career as a proponent and practitioner of “descriptive statistics” but then turned into the fi eld’s sharpest critic. By contrasting Lueder’s descriptive statistics with two competing strands of statistics — mathematized social statistics and political arithmetic — and by off ering a close reading and analysis of Lueder’s critique of statistics, Echterhölter illuminates the development of statistics from a new angle and off ers a paradigmatic “history of knowledge in transition.” The reports on GHI-sponsored conferences that took place in the fi rst half of 2016 refl ect the diversity of the topics examined at our conferences
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