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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
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.
Summary
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.
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“The studies in this volume are a testament to the depth and breadth of Konrad Jarausch’s contributions to the field. Their quality and diversity provide an excellent window into the field of contemporary German and European history, as well as the history of the Holocaust, over the past three or four decades.” · Eric Kurlander, Stetson University
