Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- PART I: Introduction
- 1 German and American Historiography in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 2 German Historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Émigré Historians
- 3 The Historical Seminar of the University of Berlin in the Twenties
- PART II: Introduction
- 4 Refugee Historians in America: Preemigration Germany to 1939
- 5 “Uphill Work”: The German Refugee Historians and American Institutions of Higher Learning
- 6 Everyday Life and Emigration: The Role of Women
- 7 The Special Case of Austrian Refugee Historians
- 8 Schicksalsgeschichte: Refugee Historians in the United States
- 9 German Historians in the Office of Strategic Services
- 10 The Refugee Scholar as Intellectual Educator: A Student's Recollections
- PART III: Introduction
- 11 German Émigré Historians in America: The Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies
- 12 The Americanization of Hajo Holborn
- 13 Explaining History: Hans Rosenberg
- 14 Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen
- 15 Refugee Historians and the German Historical Profession between 1950 and 1970
- Conclusion
- Index
1 - German and American Historiography in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- PART I: Introduction
- 1 German and American Historiography in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 2 German Historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Émigré Historians
- 3 The Historical Seminar of the University of Berlin in the Twenties
- PART II: Introduction
- 4 Refugee Historians in America: Preemigration Germany to 1939
- 5 “Uphill Work”: The German Refugee Historians and American Institutions of Higher Learning
- 6 Everyday Life and Emigration: The Role of Women
- 7 The Special Case of Austrian Refugee Historians
- 8 Schicksalsgeschichte: Refugee Historians in the United States
- 9 German Historians in the Office of Strategic Services
- 10 The Refugee Scholar as Intellectual Educator: A Student's Recollections
- PART III: Introduction
- 11 German Émigré Historians in America: The Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies
- 12 The Americanization of Hajo Holborn
- 13 Explaining History: Hans Rosenberg
- 14 Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen
- 15 Refugee Historians and the German Historical Profession between 1950 and 1970
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
When the International Historical Congress met in Bucharest in 1980, acting president Karl Dietrich Erdmann called that organization the Okumene der Historiker. In 1987, he gave his book on the history of the congress the same title. He could have chosen no more fitting rubric to describe the increasing international unity of historical research in the twentieth century. The express purpose of these international congresses has always been to link the various national historical professions, to connect historians through closer personal acquaintance, through scholarly discourse, and through debate of political-ideological controversies.
Launched safely at The Hague in 1898, the international congresses soon faced heavy weather, which all too often delayed and obstructed safe passage to success. Two world wars, fascism, National Socialism, and Stalinism temporarily brought progress to a total halt. The Ökumene to which Erdmann referred has therefore really only existed since the International Congress in Rome in 1955, when historians from both East and West attended for the first time. Let us hope the weather remains fair: Historical ecumenism is, after all, not an inevitable process. More than any other branch of scholarship, the historical scholarships of individual nations remain nationally committed and ideologically bound.
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- An Interrupted PastGerman-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933, pp. 8 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991
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