Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Michael Meng (editor); Adam R. Seipp (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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