Interrupted Past - German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933

Zusammenfassung An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in human history! a time of political catastrophe and personal suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's capacity to survive! adjust! and create under difficult circumstances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Hartmut Lehmann; Introduction James J. Sheehan; Part I: 1. German and American historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Ernst Schulin; 2. German historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Emigre historians Wolfgang J. Mommsen; 3. The historical seminar of the University of Berlin in the 1920s Felix Gilbert; Part II: 4. Refugee historians in America: pre-emigration Germany to 1939 Michael H. Kater; 5. The German refugee historians and American institutions of higher learning Karen J. Greenberg; 6. Everyday life and emigration: the role of women Sibylle Quack; 7. The special case of Austrian refugee historians M. Fellner; 8. Refugee historians in the United States Catherine Epstein; 9. German historians in the Office of Strategic Services Barry Katz; 10. The refugee scholar as intellectual educator: a student's recollections Carl E. Schorske; Part III: 11. German emigre historians in America: the fifties, sixties, and seventies Kenneth Barkin; 12. The Americanisation of Hajo Holborn Otto Pflanze; 13. Explaining history: Hans Rosenberg Hanna Schissler; 14. Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen Ralph E. Lerner; 15. Refugee historians and the German historical profession between 1950 and 1970 Winfried Schulze.

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• Authors: Hartmut Lehmann, Hartmut (Christian-Albrechts Universitat Lehmann, Hartmut Sheehan Lehmann
• Assisted by: David Lazar (Editor), Hartmut Lehmann (Editor), Lehmann Hartmut (Editor), Christof Mauch (Editor), James J. Sheehan (Editor), Sheehan James J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521558334
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55833-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Publications of the German His; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; 20th Century, HISTORY / Historiography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Historiography