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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What is historical research into space? -- Why historical research into space is not new -- Why historical research into space is, in fact, new -- Chapter 1 Historical and systematic approach -- 1.1 Prehistory -- 1.2 Concepts -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Disciplinary approaches -- 2.1 Geography -- 2.2 Cultural anthropology, postcolonial studies -- 2.3 Sociology -- 2.4 Spaces and spatialities as a new historiographical topic -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Spatial analysis -- 3.1 Spatial constitution and configurations -- 3.2 Spatial dynamics: Emergence-transformation-dissolution -- 3.3 The subjective construction of spaces -- 3.4 Spatial practices-uses of space -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Conclusion and outlook -- Chapter 5 Appendix of sources for the historical study of space -- Sources for the analysis of spatial dimensions of historical societies -- Contents -- Part A: Conceptual history -- Part B: Sources on urban history and the history of trade -- Part C: Maps as media for representing spatial relations, creating spaces, and disseminating images of the world, and as instruments for orientation -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Literature -- Internet resources and portals -- Journals or special issues of journals -- Lexicon entries -- Glossary -- Afterword to the second edition -- Index.

Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political advocacy, counseling, and public education. Inspired by the world's first gay rights organizations, it was closely allied with other groups fighting for sexual reform and women's rights, and was destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines the legacy of that history, combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials. Scholarly essays investigate the ways in which sex became public in early 20th-century Germany, contributing to a growing awareness of Hirschfeld's influence on histories of sexuality while also widening the perspective beyond the lens of identity politics. Two visual sourcebooks and catalog essays on an exhibition of contemporary artists' responses to the Hirschfeld historical materials interrogate the modes of visual representation that Hirschfeld employed by re-imagining the public visibility of his institute from a contemporary perspective. The archival material includes stunning, never-before-published images from Hirschfeld's institute that challenge many received ideas, while the scholarly and art catalog essays explore collaboration and dialogue as methods of research and activism that resonate beyond the academy to pressing issues of public concern

With its diversity of possible Umwelten or environments for living things, Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt theory has been hailed by many readers as the first step toward an innovative, pluralistic conception of nonhuman life. But what is generally ignored is its structural conservatism, its identitarian logic in which everything should remain in its place and nothing should mix, and its proximity to Nazi ideology and politics. By turning the spotlight on these neglected aspects, Uexküll's Surroundings opens up a new perspective on Uexküll's Umwelt theory.

Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- LIst of Galleries -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 | Introduction -- Carla Erskine's Slides -- Images of Otto Spengler -- 2 | Das 3. Geschlecht (The 3rd Sex): Illustration Practices in the First Magazine for Transvestites -- Lotte Hahm -- Voo-Doo -- Gender Play -- 3 | "I am so grateful to all you men of medicine": Trans Circles of Knowledge and Intimacy -- Harry Benjamin's Use of Photographs of Carla Erskine -- Trans Men -- 4 | In the Shadows of Society: Trans People in the Netherlands in the 1950s -- Hirschfeld's "FemaleTransvestites" -- Sensationalism -- 5 | Visual Medical Rhetorics of Transgender Histories -- Photomontage of Lili Elbe -- Hirschfeld's "MaleTransvestites" -- 6 | TransTrans: Exhibiting Trans Histories -- 7 | Trans Transatlantic -- 8 | Historicizing Transgender Terminology -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.