![]() ![]() The volume wrestles with intertwined questions that continue to emerge from Mosse’s pioneering research, including: What role do sexual and racial stereotypes play in European political culture before and after 1945? How are gender and Nazi violence bound together? Importantly, the contributors pose questions that are inspired by Mosse’s work but that he did not directly examine. Considering Mosse’s life and work historically and critically, the book begins with his intellectual biography and goes on to reread his writings in light of historical developments since his death, and to use, extend, and contend with Mosse’s legacy in new contexts he may not have addressed or even foreseen. In Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination, an international assembly of leading scholars explore Mosse’s enduring methodologies in German studies and modern European cultural history. Mosse (1918–99) was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual historians of modern Europe. Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleĮxploring the continued influence of George L. The wide-ranging, topical, and persuasive essays in this volume show how the intellectual seeds Mosse planted as a scholar and teacher continue to bear fruit.” “Mosse’s pathbreaking work on fascism, masculinity, Judaism, war, and genocide still reverberates a quarter century after his death. Aschheim, Skye Doney, Mary Louise Roberts, and David J. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas UW Press: Contemporary Europe in the Historical ImaginationĬontemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination ![]()
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