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The migration experiences, career paths, and scholarship of historians born in Germany who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s have had a unique impact on the transatlantic practice of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in North America analyzes the experiences of this postwar group of scholars, and asks what informed their education and career choices, and what motivated them to emigrate to North America. The contributors reflect on how these migration experiences informed their own research and teaching, and particularly discuss the more general development of the transatlantic exchange between German and American historians in the scholarship on Modern Central European History.

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Author:   Karen Hagemann ,  Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
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9781805397922

ISBN 10:   1805397923
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   01 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Foreword Introduction: German Historians and Central European History in North America after 1945 Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch Part I: German (Migrant) Historians in North America Since 1945: Careers and Academic Institutions Chapter 1. Labor Migrants, Explorers, and Academic Intermediaries: German Historians in North America since 1945 Karen Hagemann Chapter 2. Transatlantic Mediators or Scholars Abroad?: The German Studies Professorship Program of the DAAD in North America Andrea A. Sinn Chapter 3. German Politics on the Potomac: The Foundation of the German Historical Institute and Transatlantic Exchange Scott H. Krause Part II: Transatlantic Academic Migration: Individual Narratives Chapter 4. Generation of 1938: The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching and Researching Modern German History in Three Academic Cultures Volker Berghahn Chapter 5. Inadvertent Intermediary: Becoming a German Historian in the US Konrad H. Jarausch Chapter 6. Recentering a German Academic Career: From Munich and Berlin to Toronto Irmgard Steinisch Chapter 7. My Transatlantic Life: The Mis/adventures of a Military Historian Michael Geyer Chapter 8. Gender Historian by Passion, Professor and Migrant by Chance Karen Hagemann Chapter 9. German-American Identity and the Demise of National Histories Thomas Kühne Chapter 10. From East Berlin to West Los Angeles: An Unexpected Journey Wolf Gruner Chapter 11. Moving Transatlantic: Episodes, Encounters, and Experiences Andreas W. Daum Chapter 12. Straight Outta Niederbayern: Writing Gender History on the US West Coast Ulrike Strasser Chapter 13. Professors, Post-Structuralism, and the “Postwar”: A Transnational Academic Career in the Age of Globalization Frank Biess Chapter 14. Going East and Going West: A Central Europeanist in the US Gregor Thum Part III: Transatlantic Scholarship: Key Themes and Debates in Twentieth-Century German History Chapter 15. A Transatlantic “Second Repression”? Postwar Migrant Historians and Writing about National Socialism and the Holocaust Helmut Walser Smith Chapter 16. Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Modern German-Jewish History since the 1970s Thomas Pegelow Kaplan Chapter 17. Writing the History of Post-1945 Germany from Across the Atlantic: Transatlantic Entangled Histories and Critical Perspectices Anna Von Der Goltz Appendix List of German-born Migrant Historians in Canada and the United States Selected Bibliography Index

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Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2005. The focus of her work has been German and European history, military history, and women’s and gender history. Her most recent books include: The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (ed. with Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose, 2020); Umkämpftes Gedächtnis: Die Antinapoleonischen Kriege in der deutschen Erinnerung (2019); and Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements (ed. with Donna Harsch and Friederike Brühöfener, 2019); Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory (2015).

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