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Christian Sammer draws upon the East German Hygienics Museum and the West German Health Museum to examine media-based and institutional continuities along with efforts to restart health education between 1945 and 1967. He shows how the intersections between medical expertise, advertising concepts, and conceptions of social order formed the ideal "responsible citizen" and "socialist personality."

Schon seit Jahrhunderten liefert die sich immer wieder erneuernde Rinde der Korkeiche in den Ländern rund um das Mittelmeer kostbares Material, um daraus etwa Flaschenkorken herzustellen. Die gewerbsmäßige Wiege der Korkverarbeitung liegt jedoch seit der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts im Nordwesten Deutschlands, um und in der Stadt Delmenhorst. Seit jener Zeit verschiffen die so genannten "Proppensnieder" vor allem Korkpfropfen an Weinhändler in der ganzen Welt. Kork wurde und wird weiter in geradezu unglaublicher Vielfalt in Architektur, Design und Mode verwendet: Schon seit dem Altertum findet Kork als hochwertiges Isoliermaterial im Hausbau Verwendung; auch als Fußbodenbelag ist Kork pur oder als ein Hauptbestandteil von Linoleum wieder sehr angesagt. Weniger bekannt ist, dass Kork seit dem 18. Jahrhundert für den architektonischen Modellbau in Italien und Deutschland diente. Überraschend ist wohl auch, dass Kork - etwa neben Lack oder Leder - im zeitgenössischen Design der zwanziger Jahre, insbesondere im avantgardistischen Möbeldesign der Eileen Gray, als moderner Werkstoff Verwendung fand. Das Buch behandelt die Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Korkanbaus und der Korkindustrie sowie die vielfältigen Verwendungszwecke von Kork in Architektur, Design und Mode unserer Zeit.

This study focuses primarily on two strands of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel: the Zionist nationalist 'messianic' camp and the ultra-orthodox rabbis and non-Zionist religious parties. It explores the doctrinal differences between these two concerning the 'messianic doctrine', their attitudes towards Palestinian Christians, and their impact on Israeli foreign and domestic policies. The two currents invoke the interpretation of the Jewish Law of Moses Maimonides to justify their respective attitudes towards the Palestinians. The essay explores the 'reinvention' of Maimonides by Jewish religious fundamentalists, who metamorphose him from being a rationalist and universalist philosopher—the most illustrious example of the Golden Age of Arabo–Islamic–Judaic symbiosis—into an anti-Arab religious zealot.

In Germany, migration research is still a relatively young line of research. Several obstacles complicated a critical recovery of research concepts on the history of population and migration that had been shaped as early as in the 1920s. This was the result of the multilayered disavowal of academic demography - because of its role in Nazi Germany, because of the long-lasting primate of history of politics in post-WW ll Germany, and finally because of the late emergence of the history of society. This situation has profoundly changed during the last decades of the twentieth century. Reasons were the increasing historical distance to the 'fall of man' of demography in Nazi Germany, the reorientation of historiography in the context of critical social and cultural sciences; the inclusion of labor-market research into migration research, and the shaping of interdisciplinary and integral research concepts.

In Germany, migration research is still a relatively young line of research. Several obstacles complicated a critical recovery of research concepts on the history of population and migration that had been shaped as early as in the 1920s. This was the result of the multilayered disavowal of academic demography - because of its role in Nazi Germany, because of the long-lasting primate of history of politics in post-WW ll Germany, and finally because of the late emergence of the history of society. This situation has profoundly changed during the last decades of the twentieth century. Reasons were the increasing historical distance to the 'fall of man' of demography in Nazi Germany, the reorientation of historiography in the context of critical social and cultural sciences; the inclusion of labor-market research into migration research, and the shaping of interdisciplinary and integral research concepts.

Main description: Es gibt wenig Bücher zur deutschen Wissenschafts- und Technologiegeschichte, die wie Reinkes Werk ein so klares Bild zeichnen von einer für Deutschland fast typischen Entwicklung: Es ist die Geschichte verpasster Chancen, fehlender politischer Visionen und eines teilweise dramatischen Verlustes an technologischer Kompetenz: Nicht umsonst galt Wernher von Braun in den USA als der wichtigste deutsche Kriegsgefangene.