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Decentering Modern German History à l'américaine: A Look at the French Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

Sandrine Kott
Sandrine Kott*
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University of Geneva
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Every good humanities journal emerges from and is produced by a specific scientific community that shapes its content and its style. Central European History (CEH) is no exception. For me, i.e., a French historian of Germany teaching at a Swiss university in Geneva, CEH is the journal to read in order to follow the more recent and innovative English-language scholarship on the history of Germany and German-speaking countries. Most of the articles published in the journal are written by historians based in the United States or in the United Kingdom (and its dominions), and most of the books that are reviewed originate from the same community, with the notable exception of ones by German authors.

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Part II: Reflections, Reckonings, Revelations
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Central European History , Volume 51 , Special Issue 1: Special Commemorative Issue: Central European History at Fifty (1968–2018) , March 2018 , pp. 108 - 113
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Copyright © Central European History Society of the American Historical Association 2018 

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5 This includes Etienne François at the Free University in Berlin, Thomas Serrier at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder, and Bénédicte Savoy at the Technical University in Berlin.

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13 My own PhD thesis on Alsace has further inspired my work on the German social state; also see the recents contributions of Catherine Maurer, including La ville charitable: les oeuvres sociales catholiques en France et en Allemagne au XIXe siècle (Paris: les Éd. du Cerf, 2012)Google Scholar; Ayçoberry, Pierre, Cologne entre Napoléon et Bismarck, la croissance d'une ville rhénane (Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1981)Google Scholar. Also see the ongoing project Saar-Lorr-Lux at http://www.memotransfront.uni-saarland.de/.

14 This is supported by grants from the French Agence nationale de la recherche and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which has led to publications such as Charle, Christophe, Schriewer, Jürgen, and Wagner, Peter, eds., Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities (Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2004)Google Scholar.

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20 Kott, Sandrine and Droit, Emmanuel, eds., Die ostdeutsche Gesellschaft. Eine transnationale Perspektive (Berlin: Christoph Links, 2006)Google Scholar, with contributions by more than a dozen French-speaking historians, sociologists, political scientists, and ethnographers.