An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical professionals could explore and ...

Zwischen Repression und Freiheit: Die Geschichte der Homosexualität in DeutschlandHomosexualität ist eine deutsche Erfindung – zu dieser überraschenden Erkenntnis kommt Robert Beachy in seiner Geschichte der Homosexualität in Deutschland. In seinem Buch erzählt er von den Pionieren der Sexualwissenschaft, den Debatten um gesellschaftliche Anerkennung im Kaiserreich sowie vom schwulen Eldorado Berlins in der Weimarer Zeit und holt damit ein in Vergessenheit geratene...

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical professionals could explore and ...

The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a detailed examination of the relationship between urban elites and the exercise of 'power', bringi...