The history of political thought and political economy from the 17th century to the present, with focus on small states and free states, empire and commerce; the historiography of intellectual history
20th-century German social history; structures & legacies of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic (GDR); longer-term German and European history in comparative perspective; the Holocaust and collective violence; historical and social theory
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