Helmut Walser Smith
Professor of History and German Studies
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Helmut Walser Smith's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helmut Walser Smith was named in 2004 to the Martha Rivers Ingram chair as Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and writing focus on modern German history, especially the long nineteenth century. He has served on the editorial boards of Central European History and the Journal of Modern History and in 2011–12 was past president of the Conference Group on Central European History of the American Historical Association. From 2005 to 2008, he was Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt and in 2014 received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Helmut Walser Smith's Published Works
Published Works
- German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914 (1995) (198)
- German nationalism and religious conflict (1995) (46)
- Confessionalization, Community, and State Building in Germany, 1555-1870 (1997) (40)
- The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race Across the Long Nineteenth Century (2012) (34)
- Protestants, catholics and jews in germany, 1800-1914 (2003) (31)
- The Oxford handbook of modern German history (2011) (28)
- The Vanishing Point of German History: An Essay on Perspective (2005) (24)
- When the Sonderweg Debate Left Us (2016) (21)
- Exclusionary violence : antisemitic riots in modern German history (2002) (14)
- The Holocaust and other genocides : history, representation, ethics (2002) (10)
- When Was Adolf Hitler? (2018) (9)
- Socialism and Nationalism in the East German Revolution, 1989-1990 (1991) (9)
- The Discourse of Usury: Relations Between Christians and Jews in the German Countryside, 1880–1914 (1999) (8)
- Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality. By Gerard Delanty. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xii + 187 pp (1997) (6)
- The Learned and the Popular Discourse of Anti-Semitism in the Catholic Milieu of the Kaiserreich (1994) (6)
- For a Differently Centered Central European History: Reflections on Jürgen Osterhammel, Geschichtswissenschaft Jenseits des Nationalstaats (2004) (5)
- Religion and Conflict: Protestants, Catholics, and Anti-Semitism in the State of Baden in the Era of Wilhelm II (1994) (5)
- Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland. By James E. Bjork. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany. Edited by, Geoff Eley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+290. $75.00. (2010) (4)
- Authoritarian State, Dynamic Society, Failed Imperialist Power, 1878–1914 (2011) (4)
- Anti-semitic violence as reenactment: An essay in cultural history (2007) (4)
- Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire (2006) (3)
- The Continuities of German History: The Vanishing Point of German History (2008) (2)
- The Longue Durée of German Religious Conflict (2013) (2)
- Monuments, Kitsch, and the Sense of Nation in Imperial Germany (2016) (2)
- Reviews of Books:Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 Jean H. Quataert (2002) (1)
- From Play to Act: Anti-Jewish Violence in German and European History during the Long Nineteenth Century (2008) (1)
- Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800. By H. Glenn Penny. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 372. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 978-1469607641. (2015) (1)
- Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany . By Margaret Lavinia Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2000. Pp. 483. Cloth $65.00. ISBN 0-691-04853-3. Paper $24.95. ISBN 0-691-04854-1. (2001) (1)
- 1. The Kulturkampf and German National Identity (1995) (1)
- Alon Confino, Foundational pasts: the Holocaust as historical understanding (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide (Yale University Press, 2014) (2016) (1)
- The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871 (2005) (1)
- Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. By Andrew Zimmerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. Pp. 364. $60.00. ISBN 0-226-98341-2. (2004) (1)
- Book Reviews (1997) (1)
- The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Herf. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press/Belknap, 2006. Pp. ix+390. $29.95. (2008) (1)
- Conclusion: Continuities in German History (2008) (0)
- Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 16181945. Edited by Marion A. Kaplan (New York, Oxford University Press, 2005) 529 pp. $47.50 (2008) (0)
- Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008) (2009) (0)
- The Continuities of German History: Introduction (2008) (0)
- On Catastrophic Religious Violence and National Belonging: The Thirty Years War and the Massacre of Jews in Social Memory (2008) (0)
- The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World. By Tara Zahra. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016. Pp. 392. Cloth $28.95. ISBN 978-0393078015. (2017) (0)
- Book Review: The Nation as Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 (1999) (0)
- The Continuities of German History: Acknowledgments (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Protestantische Weltsichten (2000) (0)
- 2. Visions of the Nation: The Ideology of Religious Conflict (1995) (0)
- The Continuities of German History: Eliminationist Racism (2008) (0)
- Imperial Germany, 1871–1918: Short Oxford History of Germany . Edited by James Retallack. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008. Pp. 333. Paper $34.00. ISBN 978-0199204878. (2009) (0)
- Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618–1945 (review) (2007) (0)
- 6. Protestants, Catholics, and Poles: Religious and Nationality Conflicts in the Empire's Ethnically Mixed Areas, 1897-1914 (1995) (0)
- German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914. (1996) (0)
- Gavriel D. Rosenfeld. The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 524. $30.00 (2006) (0)
- Staging Philanthropy (Book) (2002) (0)
- 3. Religious Conflict and Social Life (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- From Darwin to Hitler. Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (2006) (0)
- CCC volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1995) (0)
- The Continuities of German History: The Mirror Turn Lamp: Senses of the Nation before Nationalism (2008) (0)
- Time, Place, and Religion: Rethinking the Contexts of the Village Tales of Berthold Auerbach, Alban Stolz, and Johann Peter Hebel (2022) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
- Peter Gay (1923–2015) (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Budweisers into Czechs and Germans. A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948 (2004) (0)
- Sacrifice and National Belonging in Twentieth-Century Germany . Edited by Greg Eghigian and Matthew Paul Berg. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press. 2002. Pp. 229. $29.95. ISBN: 1-58544-207-0. (2005) (0)
- Norton, Robert E. The Crucible of German Democracy: Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War (2021) (0)
- Shulamit Volkov. Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 311. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.99 (2007) (0)
- Notes on Usage and Translation (1995) (0)
- Book Review: Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith (2007) (0)
- What is History? A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society. (2007) (0)
- Same-Sex Male Love and Patriotic Sacrifice in Prussia: On the Death of Ewald von Kleist, 1759 (2016) (0)
- David Blackbourn. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: W. W. Norton. 2006. Pp. xii, 466. $29.95 (2008) (0)
- 7. Los von Rom: Religious Conflict and the Quest for a Spiritual Pan-Germany (1995) (0)
- Book Review: Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside. A Social History of the Nazi Party in South Germany (2000) (0)
- 4. The Politics of Nationalism and Religious Conflict, 1897-1906 (1995) (0)
- The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampft: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871–1887. By Ronald J. Ross. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 1998. Pp. 219. $66.95. ISBN 0-8132-0894-7. (1999) (0)
- Henry Ashby Turner Jr (2009) (0)
- Literature in Weimar Germany (2020) (0)
- Germany's Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways. By James Retallack. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 348. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 978-144265057. Paper $34.95. ISBN 978-1442628526. (2018) (0)
- Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism.:The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (2006) (0)
- When Was Adolf Hitler? Deconstructing Hitler’s Narratives of Autobiographical Authenticity (2022) (0)
- The Long Shadow of Jean Bodin (2022) (0)
- Book Review: A History of Modern Germany since 1815 (2005) (0)
- Race Is about Politics: Lessons from History. By Jean-Frédéric Schaub. Translated by Lara Vergnaud. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+204. $29.95. (2020) (0)
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