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Dr Matthias Reiss

Publications

Books

with M Perry, Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention., Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.

The Street as Stage: Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.

"Die Schwarzen waren unsere Freunde": Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft 1942-1946, Schoeningh, 2002.

Articles

Forgotten Pioneers of the National Protest March: the National League of the Blind's Marches to London, 1920 and 1936, Labour History Review, vol. 70, no. 2, 2005, 133-165

Bronzed Bodies Behind Barbed Wire: Masculinity and the Treatment of German Prisoners of War in the United States during World War II, The Journal of Military History, vol. 69, no. 2, 2005, 475-504

Chapters

Unemployment Movements, in Snow D,Della Porta D,Klandermans B,McAdam D (eds) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011

Street Protest, in Fahlenbrach K,Klimke M,Scharloth J (eds) Protest Cultures: A Companion, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011

From Poor Relief to Politics: The Protest of the British Unemployed in the 1870s and 1880s, in Reiss M,Perry M (eds) Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 75-107

„Wir waren anstelle der Neger dort“: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene und andere Vertragsarbeiter auf dem amerikanischen Arbeitsmarkt, in Dahlmann D,Schulte Beerbühl M (eds) Perspektiven in der Fremde? Arbeitsmarkt und Migration von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart., Essen: Klartext, 2011, 289-309

with M Perry, Beyond Marienthal: Understanding Movements of the Unemployed, in Reiss M,Perry M (eds) Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 3-37

Zwischen Revolte und Resignation: Das Bild des Arbeitslosen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, in Clemens L,Trauth N,Uerlings H (eds) Armut – Perspektiven in Kunst und Gesellschaft. Katalog zur Ausstellung 2011 im Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, Rheinischen Landesmuseum Trier und Museum der Brotkultur in Ulm, Darmstadt, Germany: Primus Verlag, 2011, 326-335

The United States: The Rise of the Federal State, in Overy R (eds) Times Complete History of the World, London: HarperCollins, 2010, 290-291

The United States as a Super Power, in Overy R (eds) Times Complete History of the World, London: HarperCollins, 2010, 338-339

The United States: Crisis and Response, in Overy R (eds) Times Complete History of the World, London: HarperCollins, 2010, 344-345

Staat, Arbeitsmarkt und Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland und Großbritannien in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren, in Wirsching A (eds) Herausforderungen der parlamentarischen Demokratie: Die Weimarer Republik im europäischen Vergleich, Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007, 169-204

Marching on the Capital: National Protest Marches of the British Unemployed in the 1920s and 1930s, in Reiss M (eds) The Street as Stage: Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2007, 147-168

Not all were Apathetic: National Hunger Marches as Political Rituals in Interwar Britain, in Neuheiser MSUJ (eds) Political Ritual in the United Kingdom, 1700-2000, Augsburg: , 2006, 93-121

The Image of the Poor and the Unemployed: The Example of Punch, 1841-1939, in Gestrich A,Raphael SAKUL (eds) Being Poor in Modern Europe. Historical Perspectives 1800-1940, Bern: Peter Lang, 2006, 389-415

The Nucleus of a New German Ideology? The Re-education of German Prisoners of War in the United States during World War II, in Hately-Broad BMUB (eds) Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II, Oxford: Berg, 2005, 91-102

Kampf für den ‚American Way of Life‘: Kriegsziele in den amerikanischen Werbeanzeigen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, in Zimmermann JHUJ (eds) Kriegsende 1945 in Deutschland, Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002, 157-177

'‘... keine Gäste mehr [...], sondern die Besiegten’: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in den USA zwischen Kapitulation und Repatriierung [‘... no guests anymore [...], but the vanquished’: The German POWs in the USA between Surrender and Repatriation', in Zimmermann J,Hillmann J (eds) Kriegsende 1945 in Deutschland, Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2001, 157-177

The United States: The Affluent Society, in Overy R (eds) Times Complete History of the World, London: HarperCollins, 336-337

Articles

The Importance of Being Men: The Afrika-Korps in American Captivity, Journal of Social History, 2012

Prisoners like Us, Atlantic Times, vol. 6, no. 9, 2009

Circular, Surveys and Support: Trades Councils and the Marches of 1936, Labour History Review, vol. 73, no. 1, 2008, 89-112

Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in den USA: Gefangene im goldenen Käfig, Damals: Das Magazin für Geschichte und Kultur, no. 35, 2003, 26-31

Hartz IV: Das britische Beispiel, Damals: Das Magazin für Geschichte und Kultur, vol. 2004, no. 36, 2003, 8-11

„Götterdämmerung“ im „Goldenen Käfig“: Die U.S.-Armee, die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in den USA und die bedingungslose Kapitulation 1945, Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen, vol. 58, no. 1, 1999, 87-110

White like Them or Prisoners like Us? African Americans, Enemy Prisoners of War, and the Significance of Race in World War Two, Journal of African American History

Conferences

Demonstration Marches of the 19th and 20th Century in a Comparative Historical Perspective, , 2007

Social Stereotypes and History, , vol. 28, no. 1, 2006, 132-142

Political Cartoons as Historical Sources, , vol. 25, no. 2, 2004, 111-116

Visual Representations of the Unemployed,

From the Blanketeers to the Present: Understanding Protests of the Unemployed,