Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-704-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the discipline’s theoretical, professional, and methodological dimensions, it explores Jarausch’s monumental work as a teacher and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history, but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of Germany’s past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meng, Michael

Seipp, Adam R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Ruination to Renewal: Konrad Jarausch’s Europe

Michael Meng and Adam Seipp

PART I: THEORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY QUESTIONS

Chapter 1. History and Theory: Writing Modern European Histories after the Linguistic Turn

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Chapter 2. Paths Forward: In Defense of the History of Disciplines

Laurence Hare

Chapter 3. Contextualizing the Holocaust: Modernization, Modernity, Colonialism, and Genocide

Christopher R. Browning

PART II: MEMORY, PROFESSIONALIZATION, AND PROFESSIONS

Chapter 4. Gender and Academic Culture: Women in the Historical Profession in Germany and the United States Since 1945

Karen Hagemann and Sarah Summers

Chapter 5. Forms, Strategies, and Narratives of Professionalization in Western and Eastern Europe: Autonomous Profession versus Heteronomous Professional Service Class?

Hannes Siegrist

Chapter 6. A Myth of Unity: German Unification as a Challenge in Contemporary History

Martin Sabrow

Translated by Jane Rafferty

PART III: NARRATIVES OF GERMAN HISTORY

Chapter 7. A “Shattered” Religious Past: Rethinking the Master Narratives of Twentieth-Century German Christianity

Benjamin Pearson and Michael E. O’Sullivan

Chapter 8. Central, Not Subsidiary: Migration as a Master Narrative in Modern German History

Sarah Thomsen Vierra

Chapter 9. Protest and Participation: The Transformation of Democratic Praxis in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968 – 1983

Stephen Milder

PART IV: FAMILY HISTORIES

Chapter 10. Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History

Michael Geyer

Chapter 11. On Losing One’s Children Twice: An Intimate Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Elizabeth Heineman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meng, Michael
Michael Meng is an Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland.

Seipp, Adam R.
Adam R. Seipp is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University and author of Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952.

Michael Meng is an Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland.