George L. Mosse. Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240 PP. Cloth. $69.00. ISBN: 9780195126600. The discipline of History is highly concerned with change over time. Though there …
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National Jewish Book Awards Received by Two Mosse Visiting Professors
Congratulations to Professor Gideon Reuveni (George L. Mosse, Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2004) and Professor Chad Alan Goldberg (George L. Mosse Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, 2008). Their recent publications have been recognized by the …
Jim Coons, George L. Mosse’s “Image of Man”: Invisible History
George L. Mosse. Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240 PP. Cloth. $69.00. ISBN: 9780195126600. George L. Mosse’s Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity traces the …
Javier Samper Vendrell, review of Alessio Ponzio’s “Shaping the New Man”
Alessio Ponzio. Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 316 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780299305802. Alessio Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man is a …
Terrence Peterson: Reading Mosse in an Age of Populism
For George L. Mosse, the past was always contemporary. Historians may search for meaning in the past, but that search is – and should be, Mosse would add – tied to the ‘vital problems’ historians …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Application and Function
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. The final chapter of Cataclysms, “Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War,” …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Genocide and Memory
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. The chapter from which this translation of Cataclysms gains its English …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Outside Looking In
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. Anyone studying the twentieth century will have little trouble identifying certain …
Sean Bloch: The “ben Izraeli” and the British Colonial Imagination in East Africa
Africa is a space for imagining. From a land of slaves with different attributes to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to a “country” beset by maladies, the African continent has been and remains a repository …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Religious Violence
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. Violence and its perpetrators play an important part in …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Egyptology in Modern European Thought
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: An Overview
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Political Rallies
Political Rallies: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses On August 21, 1980, Ronald Reagan, then mere months from winning the presidency, uttered one of his most famous (and infamous) lines of that election year. Speaking to …