Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (HSR) Supplement 24 (2012)

Supplement
Konrad H. Jarausch: Contemporary History as Transatlantic Project. The German Problem 1960-2010
360 p.

On the occasion of Konrad H. Jarausch’s 70th birthday, this supplement of Historical Social Research presents a retrospective of the work produced by this German American historian.

His introductory reflections review an unusual transatlantic career, beginning with a German Abitur, continuing to American training, leading to an endowed chair at the University of North Carolina, but returning to Germany with the directorship of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam. The autobiography recounts an amazing trajectory of topical and methodological development from the political history of the Fischer-controversy, via social history of students and professions as well as exploration of quantitative methods, to cultural reflections on methodology and historiography and the writing on unification as well as the GDR, widening to transnational and European concerns. The core of this oeuvre revolves around questions of complicity with the Nazi and SED dictatorships and explanations of the recovery of democracy. What is special about this scholarly life-history is the degree to which it exemplifies the cooperation between American and German scholars which contributed to the emergence and solidification of a critical approach to the German past.

A selection of thirteen out of his more than 250 articles and chapters illustrates the progression of Jarausch’s work over five decades. These texts are in part monographic studies, but in part also essayistic reflections on major issues confronting contemporary historians. These examples are intended to document the chief stages of his intellectual development, but they also consist of pieces which achieved some notoriety in the field and thereby hope to inspire an interest in the rest of his work.

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CONTENTS

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS
Konrad H. Jarausch
Contemporary History as Transatlantic Project: Autobiographical Reflections on the German Problem, 1960-2010. S. 7

CONTRIBUTIONS
Konrad H. Jarausch
The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg’s Calculated Risk, July 1914 [1969]. S. 53

Konrad H. Jarausch
The Sources of German Student Unrest 1815-1848 [1974]. S. 80

Konrad H. Jarausch
Promises and Problems of Quantitative Research in Central European History [1978]. S. 115

Konrad H. Jarausch
Frequenz und Struktur. Zur Sozialgeschichte der Studenten im Kaiserreich [1980]. S. 125

Konrad H. Jarausch
The Perils of Professionalism: Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers in Nazi Germany [1986]. S.157

Michael Geyer & Konrad H. Jarausch
The Future of the German Past. Transatlantic Reflections for the 1990s [1989]. S. 184

Konrad H. Jarausch
The Failure of East German Antifascism: Some Ironies of History as Politics [1991]. S. 212

Konrad H. Jarausch
Historische Texte der DDR aus der Perspektive des linguistic turn [1998]. S. 229

Konrad H. Jarausch
Realer Sozialismus als Fürsorgediktatur. Zur begrifflichen Einordnung der DDR [1998]. S. 249

Konrad H. Jarausch
Die Krise der nationalen Meistererzählungen. Ein Plädoyer für plurale, interdependente Narrative [2002]. S. 273

Konrad H. Jarausch
„Die Teile als Ganzes erkennen“. Zur Integration der beiden deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichten [2004]. S. 292

Konrad H. Jarausch
Zeitgeschichte zwischen Nation und Europa: Eine transnationale Herausforderung [2004]. S. 313

Konrad H. Jarausch
Beyond the National Narrative: Implications of Reunification for Recent German History [2010]. S. 327

APPENDIX

Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Dr. Konrad Hugo Jarausch. S. 349