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

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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

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