Geoff Eley
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Geoff Eley | |
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| Born | Geoffrey Howard Eley 4 May 1949 Burton upon Trent,Staffordshire,England |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford;University of Sussex |
| Occupation | Karl Pohrt Distinguished UniversityProfessorofContemporary Historyat theUniversity of Michigan |
Geoffrey Howard [Geoff] Eley(born 4 May 1949) is aBritish-bornhistorianofGermany.He studied history atBalliol College, Oxford,and received hisPhDfrom theUniversity of Sussexin 1974. He has taught at theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arborin the Department of History since 1979 and the Department ofGerman Studiessince 1997. He now serves as the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History atMichigan.
Eley's early work focused on the radicalnationalisminImperial Germanyandfascism,but has since grown to include theoretical and methodological reflections onhistoriographyand the history of the politicalleftinEurope.
Eley is particularly well known for his early study,The Peculiarities of German History(first published in German asMythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibungin 1984), co-authored withDavid Blackbourn(a fellow Briton, who now teaches atVanderbilt University), which challenged the orthodoxy in German social history known as theSonderweg thesis.His most successful book isForging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000,which has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Korean, Turkish and Greek. Recently, he published a collection of essays onfascismcalledNazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945with Routledge Press.
Works[edit]
(This list does not include edited volumes.)
- Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945.London: Routledge, 2013ISBN978-0415812634
- After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.ISBN978-0472033447
- The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social?(with Keith Nield). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.ISBN978-0472069644
- A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.ISBN0472069047
- Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.ISBN0195044797
- Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck.London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980; new ed. 1991.ISBN0472081322
- Wilhelminismus, Nationalismus, Faschismus: Zur historischen Kontinuität in Deutschland.Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1991.ISBN3924550476
- Review article: "Labor History, Social History,Alltagsgeschichte:Experience, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday--a New Direction for German Social History? "The Journal of Modern HistoryVol. 61, No. 2, June 1989
- From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German Past.London: Routledge, 1986.ISBN0415084881
- The Peculiarities of German History(with David Blackbourn). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.ISBN0198730578
External links[edit]
- Faculty page on Eley at the University of Michigan
- Geoff Eley,"No Need to Choose: History from Above, History from Below",Viewpoint Magazine,June 2014.
