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Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany
in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went
on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By
placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis
and professional reflections, this richly varied collection
comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these
men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing
particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain,
and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously
researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic
overview of the lives and works of this "second generation."
Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany
in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went
on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By
placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis
and professional reflections, this richly varied collection
comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these
men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing
particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain,
and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously
researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic
overview of the lives and works of this "second generation."
In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is
perhaps the most radical shift in Europe's history: its
transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous
society. For centuries, war was Europe's defining narrative,
affecting every aspect of political, social, and cultural life. But
afterWorldWar II, Europe began to reimagine statehood, rejecting
ballooning defense budgets in favor of material well-being, social
stability, and economic growth.
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? reveals how and why this
happened, and what it means for America and the rest of the
world.
With remarkable insight and clarity, Sheehan covers the major
intellectual and political events in Europe over the past one
hundred years, from the pacifist and militarist movements of the
early twentieth century and two catastrophic world wars to the fall
of the BerlinWall and the heated debate over Iraq.This
authoritative history provides much-needed context for
understanding the fractured era in which we live.
To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the
relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence
bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these
two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define
humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with
colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of
Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial
intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers,
historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the
historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their
introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and
the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism
or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary
scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors:
Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupre, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire,
Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James
J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry
Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,
which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek
out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach,
and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again
using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally
published in 1991.
German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Burger
from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth
centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and
economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process
of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads
inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century,
transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local
government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally
important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in
compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire,
the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848
Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem,
which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to
both the "movers and doers" at the center and the citizens of the
home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the
historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into
ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans'
"ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness," which was to have its
most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a
racial community.
A path-breaking work of scholarship when it was first published
in 1971, German Home Towns remains an influential and engaging
account of German history, filled with interesting ideas and
striking insights on cameralism, the baroque, Biedermeier culture,
legal history and much more. In addition to the inner workings of
community life, this book includes discussions of political
theorists like Justi and Hegel, historians like Savigny and
Eichhorn, philologists like Grimm. Walker is also alert to powerful
long-term trends the rise of bureaucratic states, the impact of
population growth, the expansion of markets and no less sensitive
to the textures of everyday life."
Sheehan’s thoughtful book makes a convincing case that the modern
political order arises out of people’s shared expectations and
hopes, without which the nation state could not exist. Every
political order depends on a set of shared expectations about how
the order does and should work. In Making a Modern Political Order,
James Sheehan provides a sophisticated analysis of these
expectations and shows how they are a source of both cohesion and
conflict in the modern society of nation states. The author divides
these expectations into three groups: first, expectations about the
definition and character of political space, which in the modern
era are connected to the emergence of a new kind of state; second,
expectations about the nature of political communities (that is,
about how people relate to one another and to their governments);
and finally, expectations about the international system (namely,
how states interact in a society of nation states). Although
Sheehan treats these three dimensions of the political order
separately, they are closely bound together, each dependent
on—and reinforcing—the others. Ultimately, he claims, the
modern nation state must balance all three organizing principles if
it is to succeed. Sheehan’s project begins with an examination of
people’s expectations about political space, community, and
international society in the premodern European world that came to
be called the “ancien régime.” He then, in chapters on states,
nations, and the society of nation states, proceeds to trace the
development of a modern political order that slowly and unevenly
replaced the ancien régime in Europe and eventually spread
throughout the world. To close, he offers some speculations about
the horizon ahead of us, beyond which lies a future order that may
someday replace our own.
To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the
relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence
bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these
two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define
humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with
colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of
Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial
intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers,
historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the
historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their
introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and
the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism
or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary
scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors:
Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupré, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire,
Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James
J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry
Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,
which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to
seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice,
reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices
Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible
once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was
originally published in 1991.
At the end of World War II, the US Office of Military Government
for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and
Archives division, was responsible for the repatriation of most of
the tens of thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis in the
countries they had occupied. With the help of the US Army's
Monuments Men-the name given to a hand-picked group of art
historians and museum professionals commissioned for this important
duty-massive numbers of objects were retrieved from their wartime
hiding places and inventoried for repatriation. Iris Lauterbach's
fascinating history documents the story of the Allies' Central
Collecting Point (CCP), set up in the former Nazi Party
headquarters at Koenigsplatz in Munich, where the confiscated works
were transported to be identified and sorted for restitution. This
book presents her archival research on the events, people, new
facts, and intrigue, with meticulous attention to the official
systems, frameworks, and logistical and bureaucratic enterprise of
the Munich CCP in the years from 1945 to 1949. She uncovers the
stories of the people who worked there at a time of lingering
political suspicions; narrates the research, conservation, and
restitution process; and investigates how the works of art were
managed and returned to their owners.
The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those
German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United
States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional
relationship between German and American historiography, the
evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth
century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special
situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees
in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent
scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including
information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family
lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in
human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal
suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's
capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult
circumstances.
Ranging over the entire nineteenth century, Museums in the German Art World is a highly accessible study of the political, cultural, and artistic changes that marked Germany's transition into a modern state. Sheehan is original in focusing his examination of this transition on the invention of the museum, where 'fine arts' were defined, put on display, and the control over their political and cultural importance and influence were established. This book will appeal to German historians, historians of the 19th century Europe, art historians, and anyone interested in the interplay of fine arts, culture, and politics.
The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those
German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United
States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional
relationship between German and American historiography, the
evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth
century, the onset of Nazi persecution after 1933, the special
situation in Austria, and the difficulty of settling the refugees
in their new homeland. In addition to articles on prominent
scholars, there are accounts of the group as a whole, including
information on more than ninety individuals, and of their family
lives. An Interrupted Past is set in one of the darkest periods in
human history, a time of political catastrophe and personal
suffering. Yet the lives recorded here also illustrate people's
capacity to survive, adjust, and create under difficult
circumstances.
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