German migrant historians in North America : transatlantic careers and scholarship after 1945 / edited by Karen Hagemann, and Konrad H. Jarausch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagemann, Karen, editor.

Jarausch, Konrad H. (Konrad Hugo), 1941- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--North America--History.

Historians.

Historians--North America--Biography.

Historians--Germany--History.

Historians--Germany--Biography.

Germans--North America--History--20th century.

Germans.

German Americans--Biography.

German Americans.

Immigrants--North America--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Germany--History--20th century--Historiography.

Germany.

Exchange of persons programs--North America--History--20th century.

Exchange of persons programs.

Exchange of persons programs--Germany--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 403 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2025.

Summary:

"The book explores the migration experiences, career paths, and scholarship of historians of German birth who emigrated to North America since the late 1950s and made their academic careers in Canada or the United States, and examines their impact on the transatlantic practice and project of Central European History. The book analyzes the experiences of this considerable group, and, asks what informed both their education and career choices and motivated them to emigrate to North America. It inspects how their migration experiences informed their own research and teaching; and discusses more generally the development of the transatlantic exchange between German and American historians in the scholarship on Modern German Central European History"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. German Historians and Central European History in North America after 1945 /

Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch

German (Migrant) Historians in North America Since 1945: Careers and Academic Institutions

Labor Migrants, Explorers, and Academic Intermediaries: German Historians in North America since 1945 / Karen Hagemann

Transatlantic Mediators or Scholars Abroad?: The German Studies Professorship Program of the DAAD in North America / Andrea A. Sinn

German Politics on the Potomac: The Foundation of the German Historical Institute and Transatlantic Exchange / Scott H. Krause

Transatlantic Academic Migration: Individual Narratives

Generation of 1938: The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching and Researching Modern German History in Three Academic Cultures / Volker Berghahn

Inadvertent Intermediary: Becoming a German Historian in the US / Konrad H. Jarausch

Recentering a German Academic Career: From Munich and Berlin to Toronto / Irmgard Steinisch

My Transatlantic Life: The Mis/adventures of a Military Historian / Michael Geyer

Gender Historian by Passion, Professor and Migrant by Chance / Karen Hagemann

German-American Identity and the Demise of National Histories / Thomas Kühne

From East Berlin to West Los Angeles: An Unexpected Journey / Wolf Gruner

Moving Transatlantic: Episodes, Encounters, and Experiences / Andreas W. Daum

Straight Outta Niederbayern: Writing Gender History on the US West Coast /Ulrike Strasser

Professors, Post-Structuralism, and the "Postwar": A Transnational Academic Career in the Age of Globalization / Frank Biess

Going East and Going West: A Central Europeanist in the US / Gregor Thum

Transatlantic Scholarship: Key Themes and Debates in Twentieth-Century German History

A Transatlantic "Second Repression"? Postwar Migrant Historians and Writing about National Socialism and the Holocaust / Helmut Walser Smith

Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Modern German-Jewish History since the 1970s / Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Writing the History of Post-1945 Germany from Across the Atlantic: Transatlantic Entangled Histories and Critical Perspectices / Anna Von Der Goltz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: German migrant historians in North America

ISBN:

9781805397922

1805397923

OCLC:

1452735392