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Emergency Money

Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation, 1914–1923

by Tom Wilkinson

ISBN: 9780262546805

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 23, 2024

A landmark art historical study of German Notgeld, the emergency money produced during World War I, and the hyperinflation that followed.

Fragile Rise

Grand Strategy and the Fate of Imperial Germany, 1871–1914

by Xu Qiyu

Foreword by Graham Allison

Translated by Joshua Hill

ISBN: 9780262549738

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 31, 2023

Germany's rise to power before World War I from a Chinese persective, and the geopolitical lessons for today.

Dissonant Waves

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

by Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie

ISBN: 9781913380564

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.

Mnemonic Ecologies

Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain

by Sonja K. Pieck

ISBN: 9780262546164

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2023

An exploration of the Green Belt conservation project between the former East and West Germanies and its relationship to emergent ecosystems, trauma, and memorialization.

Zickzack

by William Firebrace

ISBN: 9780262544061

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

Zigzagging through six locations on the edges of the German-speaking world, exploring them through politics, architecture, literature, film, art, music, food, and history.

Free Berlin

Art, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life

by Briana J. Smith

ISBN: 9780262047197

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 20, 2022

An alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to collective creativity and social solidarity.

Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art

by Peter Chametzky

ISBN: 9780262045766

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 14, 2021

The first book to examine multicultural visual art in Germany, discussing more than thirty contemporary artists and arguing for a cosmopolitan Germanness.