The burden of German history : a transatlantic life /
As one of the leading historians of the post-1956 generation and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch's autobiography presents a sustained academic reflection on the postwar German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2023.
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| Series: | Contemporary European history ;
v. 28. |
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| Summary: | As one of the leading historians of the post-1956 generation and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch's autobiography presents a sustained academic reflection on the postwar German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of historians too young to have been perpetrators. Ranging from his war-time childhood in a chaotic country, to Americanization as a foreign student and concluding with his mentorship of PhDs as a respected international scholar, he weaves together a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide. This self-reflexive work explores a wide range of topics including the development of German historiography and methodological debates, the interdisciplinary teaching efforts in German studies and the development of scholarly organizations and institutions. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-179) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800739604 1800739605 |