The Burden of German History
eBook - ePub

The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

About this book

As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of scholars too young to have been perpetrators. Ranging from his war-time childhood to Americanization as a foreign student, from his development as a professional historian to his directorship of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and concluding with his mentorship of dozens of PhDs, The Burden of German History reflects on the emergence of a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide. This partly professional and partly personal autobiography explores a wide range of topics including the development of German historiography and its methodological debates, the interdisciplinary teaching efforts in German studies, and the role of scholarly organizations and institutions.

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Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781800739604
eBook ISBN
9781800739611
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction. A Poisoned Past
  9. Chapter 1. Child of War
  10. Chapter 2. Adventure America
  11. Chapter 3. Becoming a Historian
  12. Chapter 4. Exploring German Pasts
  13. Chapter 5. The Wild East
  14. Chapter 6. Southern Part of Heaven
  15. Conclusion. German Lessons
  16. A Note on Sources
  17. Books by Konrad H. Jarausch, 1966–2021
  18. Select Bibliography
  19. Index