englischThe technical and economic history of data technologies tends to focus on the US history of mainframes and personal computers. From this perspective, genuinely European developments in data processing are often declared to be non-innovative marginal phenomena. However, long before the [...]

englischThe liberalization of the markets for electricity and telecommunications at the end of the 20th century led to the development of market orders for these infrastructures, some of which are reminiscent of those at the end of the 19th century, while others are fundamentally different. Based on [...]

englischModern Europeans are mobile. Cars in particular have made European societies mobile since the 1960s, but, at the same time, mobile Europeans experience their immobility every day when they get stuck in one of countless traffic jams. The reduction of immobility has therefore been a major [...]

englischThis thesis analyses the European Postal and Telecommunications Union, founded in Vienna in October 1942 under the leadership of the Axis powers. Both technocratic internationalism and the propaganda term ‘New Europe’ found points of contact there. The German postal administration authority [...]

englischThis volume deals with cross-border infrastructural cooperation during the Second World War. It compares the development of postal services, telecommunications, railways and shipping, and places its findings in the context of the long-term developments of European integration. It therefore [...]

englischThis study is dedicated to the regional history of the East-West conflict on the basis of the relationship between the Germany military and the Belgian armed forces stationed in Germany. The central question it addresses is which factors were largely responsible for the interdependence [...]

englischThis volume analyses Belgian garrisons in the Rhineland and Westphalia after the Second World War. They are analysed as contact zones that clearly indicate the political, economic, societal and military consequences of European integration for daily coexistence. The book’s contributions [...]

englischThis volume contributes to the broadening of perspectives on international history, which have mainly focused on state forms of international cooperation in the 19th and 20th centuries so far. The volume questions ideas and theoretical models that are guided by methodological nationalism. [...]

englischThis book thematises the workings and development of federalism in the German Empire from various perspectives. Its first chapter, ‘Regieren im Wandel’ (Ruling during Change), presents a research project on this subject conducted by the DFG (the central self-governing research funding [...]

englischIn the past, the significance and functioning of federal co-determination has attracted only little attention in research into the political system of the German Empire. While the Federal Council (Bundesrat) was regarded as a federal institution in which the Prussian hegemonial regime was [...]