Lectures

Origins of Globalisation: The European World Economy 1500-1850 (Summer Semester 2023)

History of Consumer Society, 1650 - 1950 (Summer Semester 2021)

Social History of the 19th Century (Summer Semester 2018)

Master Seminar

Challenges of Globalisation. Knowledge and practices of merchants in the modern era (17th-19th c.) - a research seminar (Winter Semester 2021/22)

Seminars (Advanced students)

The invention of everyday life. Consumption and consumers in the 20th century (Winter Semester 2023/24)

Global Trade and Consumption, 16th-18th Century (Winter Semester 2022/23)

The World of Goods. Consumption History and Early Globalisation (Summer Semester 2021)

Welfare in the Post-War Period. Social Policy in Scandinavia, Great Britain and the FRG (Winter Semester 2020/21)

Knowledge (of) the World. Nature, Medicine and the Emergence of the Knowledge Society, 17th-19th Centuries (Summer Semester 2020)

Agricultural economy in the modern era, 18th-20th century (Winter Semester 2019/20)

The consumption and industriousness revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries as the basis of modern development in Europe (Winter Semester 2018/19, together with Ulrich Pfister)

Modern Life: Everyday Life in the 20th Century (Winter Semester 2017/18)

How people used to cope with scarcity: Resources, Risks and Lifestyles in Germany, 17th-19th Centuries (Winter Semester 2015/16, with Ulrich Pfister)

Changes in Private Life in the Second Half of the 20th Century (Winter Semester 2014/15, together with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister)

When Two Find Each Other. Partner Choice in Europe, 16th-20th Century (Winter Semester 2012/13, together with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister)

Workers' Movement in the Empire and the Weimar Republic (Winter Semester 2011/12, with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister)

Seminars (Beginners)

The Industrial Revolution (Winter Semester 2022/23)

Marriage and Family in the 18th to 20th Centuries (Winter Semester 2021/22)

The Weimar Republic. Welfare State and Everyday Life (Winter Semester 2020/21)

Trade and Industry in Westphalia in the 19th Century (Summer Semester 2019)

People on the Move. Migration in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Summer Semester 2017)

Industrialisation and Globalisation (Winter Semester 2016/17)

Rural Society. Family economy and pre-modern markets in the 17th-20th centuries (Winter Semester 2015/16)

Workers' Movement and Workers' Culture in the German Empire (Summer Semester 2015)

Refugees, Displaced Persons, Guest Workers. Migration and Integration in the Early Federal Republic of Germany (Summer Semester 2014)

The Weimar Republic. Welfare State and Everyday Life (Summer Semester 2013)

Life in the Village, 16th-20th Century (Summer Semester 2012)

The Industrial Revolution in Westphalia (Winter Semester 2010/11)

Workers in the Empire (Winter Semester 2009/10)