Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective / / ed. by Adam R. Seipp, Michael Meng.

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 o...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. From Ruination to Renewal: Konrad Jarausch’s Europe
  • I: Theory and Historiography Questions
  • Chapter 1 History and Theory: Writing Modern European Histories after the Linguistic Turn
  • Chapter 2 Paths Forward: In Defense of the History of Disciplines
  • Chapter 3 Contextualizing the Holocaust: Modernization, Modernity, Colonialism, and Genocide
  • II: Memory, Professionalization, and Professions
  • Chapter 4 Gender and Academic Culture: Women in the Historical Profession in Germany and the United States since 1945
  • Chapter 5 Forms, Strategies, and Narratives of Professionalization in Western and Eastern Europe: Autonomous Profession versus Heteronomous Professional Service Class?
  • Chapter 6 A Myth of Unity: German Unification as a Challenge in Contemporary History
  • III: Narratives of German History
  • Chapter 7 A “Shattered” Religious Past: Rethinking the Master Narratives of Twentieth-Century German Christianity
  • Chapter 8 Central, Not Subsidiary: Migration as a Master Narrative in Modern German History
  • Chapter 9 Protest and Participation: The Transformation of Democratic Praxis in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968–83
  • IV: Family Histories
  • Chapter 10 Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History
  • Chapter 11 On Losing One’s Children Twice: An Intimate Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung
  • Index