13270 Seminar

The 1990s: A Global History

Tobias Becker

Kommentar

The 1990’s are back—and not only in fashion and pop culture, but in public debates as well. It is high time, thereofre, to revisit the period, especially as there are few historical studies on the 1990s, and almost none from a global perspective. Yet how do we tell the story of a decade that has been understood in starkly contrasting ways? While some see the 1990s as a lost golden age of economic and political stability, others associate it with collapsing governments and economies, unemployment, and war. In a third view, the 1990s mark the beginning of all our present woes: the arrival of the internet, and, with it, culture wars, conspiracy theories and disinformation, the deregulation of markets and the media, rightwing populism, and terrorism. These divergent narratives challenge us to think afresh about the 1990s. How can we account for these conflicting perspectives? What topics and aspects do we need to include? And, how can we do justice to events, developments, and perspectives at the global, regional, and local levels? These are the questions we will be discussing in the seminar. It is open to students enrolled in either the History or Global History Master. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Terry H. Anderson, Why the Nineties Matter, New York 2024; Jens Balzer, No Limit: Die Neunziger – das Jahrzehnt der Freiheit, Berlin 2023; Michael Bracewell, The Nineties: When Surface was Depth, London 2002; James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate! A History of the 1990s, Cheltenham 2022; Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties: A Book, New York 2022; Kristina Spohr, Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989, London 2019. Schließen

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