Confronting History by George L Mosse
Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century.Confronting History describes Mosse's opulent childhood in Weimar Berlin; his exile in Paris and England, including boarding school and study at Cambridge University; his second exile in the U.S. at Haverford, Harvard, Iowa, and Wisconsin; and his extended stays in London and Jerusalem. Mosse discusses being a Jew and his attachment to Israel and Zionism, and he addresses his gayness, his coming out, and his growing scholarly interest in issues of sexuality. This touching memoir—told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students—is guided in part by his belief that ""what man is, only history tells"" and, most of all, by the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of the times.
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Ghosts of Fascism
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Writing Against Hitler
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The Red Italians of Monfalcone
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Survival at Treblinka
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The Unspeakable Vice
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Unlearning Eugenics
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Jews and Other Germans
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What History Tells
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Rescue and Remembrance
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Surreal Geographies
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Fascination with the Persecutor
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Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination
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A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922-1943
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The Best Weapon for Peace
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Respectability and Violence
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Shaping the New Man
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The Holocaust and the West German Historians
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Jews and the Italian Left
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The Work of Music
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Thunder Cross
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Christian Internationalism and German Belonging
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The Perils of Normalcy
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Collected Memories
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Some Measure of Justice
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Carl Schmitt and the Jews
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The Enemy of the New Man
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Redeeming Objects
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The Invisible Jewish Budapest
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The Crisis of German Ideology
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Last Days of Theresienstadt
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The Jews in Mussolini's Italy
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Messengers of Disaster
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Toward the Final Solution
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Cataclysms
George L. Mosse (1919–1999) was the John C. Bascom Professor of European History and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He was also the Koebner Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and was selected as the first scholar-in-residence at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., USA. He wrote more than two dozen books, including Nationalism and Sexuality, Toward the Final Solution, and Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299165840 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299165841 |
| Title | Confronting History |
| Author | George L Mosse |
| Series | George L Mosse Series In The History Of European Culture Sexuality And Ideas |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2013-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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