Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective

Michael Meng is an Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland.; Adam R. Seipp is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University and author of Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952.

• Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Chapter 1. From Ruination to Renewal: Konrad Jarausch's Europe Michael Meng and Adam Seipp; PART I: THEORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY QUESTIONS; Chapter 2. History and Theory: Writing Modern European Histories after the Linguistic Turn Thomas Pegelow Kaplan;Chapter 3. Paths Forward: In Defense of the History of Disciplines Laurence Hare; Chapter 4. Contextualizing the Holocaust: Modernization, Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide Christopher R. Browning; PART II: MEMORY, PROFESSIONALIZATION, AND PROFESSIONS; Chapter 5. Gender and Academic Culture: Women in the Historical Profession in Germany and the United States Since 1945 Karen Hagemann and Sarah Summers; Chapter 6. Forms, Strategies, and Narratives of Professionalization in Western and Eastern Europe: Autonomous Profession versus Heteronomous Professional Service Class? Hannes Siegrist; Chapter 7. A Myth of Unity: German Unification as a Challenge in Contemporary History Martin Sabrow; PART III: NARRATIVES OF GERMAN HISTORY; Chapter 8. A "Shattered" Religious Past: Rethinking the Master Narratives of Twentieth-Century German Christianity Michael O'Sullivan and Benjamin Pearson; Chapter 9. Central, Not Subsidiary: Migration as a Master Narrative in Modern German History Sarah Thomsen Vierra; Chapter 10. Protest and Participation: The Transformation of Democratic Praxis in the FRG, 1968 - 1983 Stephen Milder; PART IV: FAMILY HISTORIES; Chapter 11. Die Bratus: Sketch for A Minor German History Michael Geyer; Chapter 12. On Losing One's Children Twice: An Intimate Vergangenheitsbewaltigung Elizabeth Heineman; Bibliography; Index

"The studies in this volume are a testament to the depth and breadth of Konrad Jarausch's contributions to the field. Their quality and diversity provide an excellent window into the field of contemporary German and European history, as well as the history of the Holocaust, over the past three or four decades." * Eric Kurlander, Stetson University