The Strange Death of the Holy Roman Empire
Friday, February 11th, 2011
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Friday, February 11, 2011 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM | External Event, History Department Conference Room, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., 2nd Floor, Rm. 2098 |
Description
Helmut Walser Smith is a historian of modern Germany, with particular interests in the history of nation-building and nationalism, religious history, and the history of anti-Semitism. He is the author of German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, 1870-1914 (Princeton, 1995), and a number of edited collections, including Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914 (Oxford, 2001), The Holocaust and other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics (Nashville, 2002), and, with Werner Bergmann and Christhard Hoffmann, Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (Ann Arbor, 2002). His book, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (New York, 2002), received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and was an L.A. Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year. It has also been translated into French, Dutch, and German, where it received an accolade as one of the three most innovative works of history published in 2002. Smith has recently completed The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and he is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, scheduled to appear in 2011.
His lecture in Toronto is drawn from his book-in-progress, The Discovery of Germany: A Cultural History, 1500-2000, which will appear with W.W. Norton and C.H. Beck in German.
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