James J. Sheehan

Museums in the German art world : from the end of the old regime to the rise of modernism

Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. On a broader level, it illuminates the origin and character of the museums central role in modern culture. James Sheehan begins by describing the establishment of the first public galleries during the last decades of Germanys old regime. He then examines the revolutionary upheaval that swept Germany between 1789 and 1815, arguing that the first great German museums reflected the nations revolutionary aspirations. By the mid-nineteenth century, the climate had changed; museums constructed in this period affirmed historical continuities and celebrated political accomplishments. During the next several years, however, Germans became disillusioned with conventional definitions of art and lost interest in monumental museums. By the turn of the century, the museum had become a site for the political and cultural controversies caused by the rise of artistic modernism. In this context, Sheehan argues, we can see the first signs of what would become the modern style of museum architecture and modes of display. The first study of its kind, this highly accessible book will appeal to historians, museum professionals, and anyone interested in the relationship between art, politics, and culture.

An Interrupted past : German-speaking refugee historians in the United States after 1933

Preface Hartmut Lehmann Introduction James J. Sheehan Part I: 1. German and American historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Ernst Schulin 2. German historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Emigre historians Wolfgang J. Mommsen 3. The historical seminar of the University of Berlin in the 1920s Felix Gilbert Part II: 4. Refugee historians in America: pre-emigration Germany to 1939 Michael H. Kater 5. The German refugee historians and American institutions of higher learning Karen J. Greenberg 6. Everyday life and emigration: the role of women Sibylle Quack 7. The special case of Austrian refugee historians M. Fellner 8. Refugee historians in the United States Catherine Epstein 9. German historians in the Office of Strategic Services Barry Katz 10. The refugee scholar as intellectual educator: a students recollections Carl E. Schorske Part III: 11. German emigre historians in America: the fifties, sixties, and seventies Kenneth Barkin 12. The Americanisation of Hajo Holborn Otto Pflanze 13. Explaining history: Hans Rosenberg Hanna Schissler 14. Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen Ralph E. Lerner 15. Refugee historians and the German historical profession between 1950 and 1970 Winfried Schulze.

Political Leadership in the German Reichstag, 1871-1918

IN the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two developments transformed the relationship between the state and society in Europe. The first was a deepening of the states penetration into social and economic life. There has been relatively little research on the causes and dynamics of this expansion of the states functions.1 It seems clear, however, that as European society became increasingly complex, the state absorbed functions once performed by nongovernmental institutions and at the same time assumed new responsibilities for the regulation of social action and the distribution of social resources.2 Closely tied to this process was the second development: the steady growth of the populations involvement in the political system. The clearest expression of this was the cluster of suffrage reforms that extended the franchise in a number of states prior to the First World War.3 But behind this change in the suffrage were more fundamental changes in the individuals relationship to his government; compulsory public education, military conscription, and the emergence of a popular press were just a few of the means through which the political

The Future of Conscription: Some Comparative Reflections

JAMES J. SHEEHAN, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1992, is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His publications include Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe (2008), Museums in the German Art World from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (2000), and German History, 1770–1886 (1989). [Conscription] is always a signi1⁄2cant index of the society where it is found; to view it solely as a method of conducting war is to see very little of it. –Victor Kiernan1

Gordon Alexander Craig (1913–2005)

In the spring of 1936, Gordon A. Craig, twenty-two years old and about to graduate from Princeton, made two of his earliest public appearances. The first was a poem, modeled on a Latin Ode, published in the Nassau Lit with the title “Marxicos Odi,” and dedicated “To My Proletarian Sweetheart.” The poem evokes the brevity of life, the swift passing of undergraduate pleasures, and their irresistible distraction from more serious things:

The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism@@@Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Image and Reality in the Third Reich. 2. Institutionalization and Radicalization. 3. International Crises and Foreign Policy. 4. Public Responses to Anti--semitism 1933--1938. 5. Workers, Peasants and Businessmen. 6. The Awareness of the Holocaust. 7. Public Responses to Anti--semitism 1939--1943. 8. Image and Reality -- The End. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography.