478B  PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1789     (Fritzsche)

            Topic:  Issues and Debates in German History, 1870-1990

            In the last ten years, German historiography has seen dramatic challenges.  “New” orthodoxies seem suddenly very old.  Novel perspectives have been offered by gender history, the history of the everyday, and poststructuralism.  Notions of the nation and nationalism have been thrown into doubt by recent events.  Certainties such as modernism and antimodernism have been widely questioned.  This course will examine ongoing debates about the nature of society and politics, the quality of modernism, the constitution of violence, the rise of fascism, the “continuity” of history in the Third Reich, the Holocaust, postwar patterns of commemoration, and more.  The course may be taken either as a problems course or as a research seminar.

            If you plan to take the course as a research seminar you must see me during pre-registration.