Michael Meng, Adam R. Seipp (Editors)
Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective.
Berghahn, 2017. First edition. 9781785337048 vi/312 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new.
"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."
Contents:
Introduction: "From Ruination to Renewal: Konrad Jarausch's Europe" by Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp; "History and Theory: Writing Modern European Histories after the Linguistic Turn" by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan; "Paths Forward: In Defense of the History of Disciplines" by J. Laurence Hare; "Contextualizing the Holocaust: Modernization, Modernity, Colonialism, and Genocide" by Christopher R. Browning; "Gender and Academic Culture: Women in the Historical Profession in Germany and the United States since 1945" by Karen Hagemann & Sarah Summers; "Forms, Strategies, and Narratives of Professionalization in Western and Eastern Europe: Autonomous Profession versus Heteronomous Professional Service Class?" by Hannes Siegrist; "A Myth of Unity: German Unification as a Challenge in Contemporary History" by Martin Sabrow (translation by Jane Rafferty); "A "Shattered" Religious Past: Rethinking the Master Narratives of Twientieth-Century German Christianity" by Benjamin Pearson & Michael E. O'Sullivan; "Central, Not Subsidiary: Migration as a Master Narrative in Modern German History" by Sarah Thomsen Vierra; "Protest and Participation: The Transformation of Democratic Praxis in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968-83" by Stephen Milder; "Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History" by Michael Geyer; "On Losing One's Children Twice: An Intimate "Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung"" by Elizabeth Heineman.