Highly praised when published in Germany, "The Quest for the Lost Nation" is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War-II in the shadows of fas[...]

Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substan[...]

Globalhistoria har på senare år blivit en av historievetenskapens viktigaste grenar. I dagens globaliserade värld låter sig historien inte längre lika självklart som förr begränsas till behandlingen av enskilda länders historia. I stället har intresset för gränsöverskridande processer o[...]