What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)

What History Tells presents an impressive collection of critical papers from the September 2001 conference "An Historian’s Legacy: George L. Mosse and Recent Research on Fascism, Society, and Culture." This book examines his historiographical legacy first within the context of his own life and the internal development of his work, and secondly by tracing the many ways in which Mosse influenced the subsequent study of contemporary history, European cultural history and modern Jewish history. The contributors include Walter Laqueur, David Sabean, Johann Sommerville, Emilio Gentile, Roger Griffin, Saul Friedländer, Jay Winter, Rudy Koshar, Robert Nye, Janna Bourke, Shulamit Volkov, and Steven E. Aschheim. George Mosse has long been recognized as one of the most creative and innovative historians of modern Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century. His research ranged from the Protestant Reformation and the seventeenth century to the political, social and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mosse revolutionized the study of Nazism and fascism and opened new dimensions in such diverse fields as nationalism, racism, historical memory and symbolism, the commemoration of mass death, German Jewish history, and the history of sexuality and the body. No other Europeanist historian of the later twentieth century exhibited so broad a range of research and analysis. What History Tells presents an impressive collection of critical papers from the September 2001 conference "An Historian's Legacy: George L. Mosse and Recent Research on Fascism, Society, and Culture." This book examines his historiographical legacy first within the context of Mosse's own life and the internal development of his work, and secondly by tracing the many ways in which he influenced the subsequent study of contemporary history, European cultural history and modern Jewish history. George Mosse And The Holy Pretence / David Warren Sabean -- The Modern Contexts Of George Mosse's Early Modern Scholarship / Johann Sommerville -- A Provisional Dwelling: The Origin And Development Of The Concept Of Fascism In Mosse's Historiography / Emilio Gentile -- Withstanding The Rush Of Time: The Prescience Of Mosse's Anthropological View Of Fascism / Roger Griffin -- Mosse's Influence On The Historiography Of The Holocaust / Saul Friedländer -- George Mosse's Comparative Cultural History / Jay Winter -- George Mosse And 'destination Culture' / Rudy Koshar -- Mosse, Masculinity, And The History Of Sexuality / Robert A. Nye -- The Body In Modern Warfare: Myth And Meaning, 1914-1945 / Joanna Bourke -- German Jewish History: Back To Bildung And Culture? / Shulamit Volkov -- George Mosse And The Israeli Experience / Emmanuel Sivan. Edited By Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin, John S. Tortorice. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 255-278) And Index. __What History Tells__ The contributors include Walter Laqueur, David Sabean, Johann Sommerville, Emilio Gentile, Roger Griffin, Saul Friedländer, Jay Winter, Rudy Koshar, Robert Nye, Janna Bourke, Shulamit Volkov, and Steven E. Aschheim.