Paths of German History from the Enlightenment to the Present
Essays in Honor of David Blackbourn
Paths of German History from the Enlightenment to the Present
Essays in Honor of David Blackbourn
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This unique collection of 24 essays from multiple generations of German historians offers new perspectives on the various transformations in thinking about the history and historiography of German-speaking Central Europe from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors address Germany's complex modern history through case studies and methodological reflections on the various paths Germany took into the (post-)modern age, from its central role in the Enlightenment and Age of Revolution through the colonial era, the world wars, and globalization.
Based on the newest trends in historiography and inspired by David Blackbourn's generative contributions to the field, Paths of German History from the Enlightenment to the Present is organized along five major themes that cut across conventional chronological and geographic divisions. They address the ambiguous concept of modernity; tackle the question of whether German history is particular from others; explore the meaning of nature and the environment in this country's past; reexamine the place of civic cultures and religion in German society; and situate German history in global, transnational, and transatlantic contexts. As a result, readers will gain a multi-faceted understanding of the historical opportunities and challenges faced by Germany, Europe, and the world between 1800 and the present, while being introduced to important theoretical and methodological turns in the field over the past four decades.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Particularities, (Dis)continuities, and Modernities
1. The Path Less Followed: The (Dis)continuities in German Historiography After the Sonderweg Eric Kurlander (Stetson University, USA)
2. The Sound of the Particle Accelerator: Metaphors in the Historiography of the Revolutions of 1848 Heléna Tóth (Otto Friedrich University, Germany)
3. The Bear's Long Shadow: The German Army Views Russia, 1906-1914 Oliver Griffin (St. John Fisher University, USA)
4. Militarization, Modernity, and the Transformation of Nature for Nation Shirley Ye (University of Birmingham, UK)
5. A Force for Good? Germans in the World in the Wake of Genocide Andrew Port (Wayne State University, USA)
Part 2 - Locality, Space, and Place
6. The Wainwright(s) of Muggendorf: A Likely Story Patrick Anthony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
7. Theatre Wars Margaret Menninger (Texas State University, USA)
8. A German Doctor in the Korean Imperial Court: Non-Medical Use of Medicine in the Age of Empire Hoi-eun Kim (Texas A & M University, USA)
9. The Eastern Carpathians in 1930s Poland: Natural Space, Lifeworld, and National Imaginary Patrice M. Dabrowski (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA)
Part 3 - Civic Cultures and Religion
10. Antisemitism and Popular Catholicism in Tyrol Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard University, USA)
11. Publishers and Civic Culture James Brophy (University of Delaware, USA)
12. Bebel as Bürger James Retallack (University of Toronto, Canada)
13. From 'Enemies of the Nation' to 'Quintessential Germans': Catholics, the Kulturkampf, and the Genesis of Long-Term, Constructive Political Ideals Rebecca Bennette (Middlebury College, USA)
14. Music in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Part 4 - Nature as Place, Practice, and Project
15. Tinkering with Nature: Learned Oeconomy and Rural Natural Knowledge in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking Europe Denise Phillips (University of Tennessee, USA)
16. Cities and Nature Kristin Poling (University of Michigan?Dearborn, USA)
17. Food and Land: The Wetlands of German History Carolyn Taratko (Centre for Contemporary History, Germany)
18. Life Reform Corinna Treitel (Washington University, USA)
19. Germans in the Sky Colleen Anderson (Smithsonian Institution, USA)
Part 5 - Transnational and Global Connections
20. An Imperial Life: Paul Borchardt between Atlantis and the Third Reich Philipp Lehmann (University of California Riverside, USA)
21. The Trans-Nationalism of Nazi Film Benjamin Carter Hett (Hunter College, CUNY, USA)
22. Industrial Freezing and German Ambitions Abroad Julia Torrie (St. Thomas University, Canada)
23. The Freedom Bell's Migrations: Transatlantic Mutations of a Cold War Symbol Andreas W. Daum (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
24. Where's Waldo? Or Why Germany Matters for Global History Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia, Canada)
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Product details
| Published | 24 Jun 2027 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781350554887 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























