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The second generation : émigrés from Nazi Germany as historians /

"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,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Daum, Andreas W. (Editor ), Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936- (Editor ), Sheehan, James J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Colección:Studies in German history ; volume 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface / by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan
  • Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as historians : origins and migrations, interests and identities / Andreas W. Daum
  • Part I. Testimonies
  • "It needs hardly emphasis how deeply my own generation, the second, is indebted to the first" / Klemens von Klemperer
  • "A wanderer between several worlds" / Walter Laqueur
  • External events, inner drives / Peter Paret
  • Not exile, but a new life / Fritz Stern
  • History and social action beyond national and continental borders / Georg G. Iggers
  • Some issues and experiences in German-American scholarly relations / Gerhard L. Weinberg
  • Some reflections on the second generation / Hanna Holborn Gray
  • A life between homelands / Peter Loewenberg
  • Out of Germany / Renate Bridenthal
  • Part II. Approaching the second generation
  • The second generation : émigré historians of modern Germany in post-war America / Catherine Epstein
  • Thinking about the second generation conceptually / Volker R. Berghahn
  • Part III. Emigrés and the writing of history
  • The tensions of historical Wissenschaft : the émigré historians and the making of German cultural history / Steven E. Aschheim
  • From the margins to the mainstream : refugees and the successors on the Jewish questions, antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German history / Jeffrey Herf
  • Reluctant return : Peter Gay and the cosmopolitan work of a historian / Helmut Walser Smith
  • Out of the limelight or in : Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the historical study of the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen
  • Blazing new paths in historiography : "refugee effect" and American experience in the professional trajectory of Gerda Lerner / Marjorie Lamberti
  • Part IV. Comparative and transnational perspectives
  • German emigre historians in Israel / Shulamit Volkov
  • German and Austrian émigré historians in Britain after 1933 / Peter Alter
  • The second-generation émigrés' impact on German historiography / Philipp Stelzel
  • Encounters with émigré historians of the first and second generation / Gerhard A. Ritter
  • Influences : a personal comment / Jürgen Kocka
  • Part V. Bio-bibliographical guide
  • Emigrés in the historical disciplines : research perspectives / Andreas W. Daum
  • Biographies / Andreas W. Daum and Sherry L. Fuhr ; with the assistance of Perry E. Beardsley, April Kiser, Axel Steensen, and Friederike Steensen.