Jens-Uwe Guettel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens-Uwe Guettel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens-Uwe |
| FAMILY NAME | Guettel |
| SIGNATURE | GUETTEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Race in the Modern World
Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from…
A Reusable Past
It does not require great powers of observation to note the pervasiveness of Nazi Germany in contemporary U.S. cultural and political discourse. For better or worse, the discursive landscape is saturated with depictions of and references to Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Gestapo—an obsession visible everywhere, from the progressive left to the far right, from TV shows to Twitter feeds to video games. The allure of using the Third Reich as a rheto…
Empire in the Heimat
Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich. By Willeke Sandler. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 360 pp. £47.99 (hardback). Jens-Uwe Guettel Jens-Uwe Guettel Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 160–161, https://doi.org/10.…
David Hamlin. Germany’s Empire in the East
David Hamlin’s Germany’s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War is a must-read for scholars interested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German and Eastern European history. The book focuses on Romania and German attitudes and policies toward that country, though Germany’s Empire in the East also includes brief sections on Poland and Ukraine. Much of the book is dedicated to an analysis of Romani…
"Reform, Revolution, and the "Original Catastrophe
Hitler's American Model
James Q. Whitman's book argues that American race law “influenced” the 1935 Nuremberg Laws (p. 124). The account is illuminating, especially when Whitman analyzes the Nazi judge Roland Freisler's references to American legislative precedents. In addition, the author succeeds in showing that, until the 1960s, among the liberties that the American common-law tradition helped protect was also the liberty to maintain a brutal system of racial segrega…
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar, edited by Geoff Eley, Jennifer L. Jenkins and Tracie Matysik, contains highly current essays that reflect the present state of the scholarship on German history from the late German Empire to the Nazi years. Acutely aware of both the many debates that applying the concept of ‘modernity’ to the analysis of German historical developments has generated and the problems inherent in the notion itself, the boo…
Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars
This is a troubling book. Its main contention is twofold: (1) that atrocities against Native Americans committed by the U.S. government and/or white settlers during the nineteenth century cannot be equated with Nazi Germany’s attempt to gain an “Eastern Empire” during World War II and (2) that the violence in the American West cannot be viewed as a precursor to the Nazis’ brutal plans of expansion and extermination in Eastern Europe. These argume…
Elun T. Gabriel. Assassins and Conspirators
Since the second half of the 1990s, the history of socialism and Social Democracy in Germany has not been among the “hottest” research topics. As transnational history became one of the field’s most important focal points during the early 2000s, interest in German socialism before 1914 waned. Recently, a number of historians have begun to buck this trend, among them John Phillip Short and Dennis Sweeney. Assassins and Conspirators: Anarchism, Soc…
Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914
Journal Article Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914 Get access Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880 – 1914 . By Edward Ross Dickinson . New York City : Cambridge University Press . 2014 . 350 pp. £65.00 (hardback ). Jens-Uwe Guettel Jens-Uwe Guettel Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 490–492, …
Anja Werner. The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Anja Werner's book, The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914, focuses on the presence of American students at a select number of German universities during the so-called long nineteenth century. Werner argues that “the nineteenth-century German venture did not simply influence US academic culture but—in more subtle wa[y]s—left its imprint on US culture at large” (p. 260). The account also shows that…
The US frontier as rationale for the Nazi east? Settler colonialism and genocide in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and the American West
Many scholars of German and Native American history and the field of genocide studies argue that during World War II the Nazis' genocidal attempt to turn vast portions of Eastern Europe into Lebensraum [living space] for Aryan settlers was connected to the near-extinction of America's Native Peoples during the 'conquest' of the American west by the United States. In their view, there exist direct historical continuities between settler colonialis…
The Myth of the Pro-Colonialist SPD
In his seminal The German Empire , published in German in 1973, historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler posited that in respect to the German Empire's colonial policies only the SPD, unlike all other political parties, “retained its capacity to take a critical view on matters of principle.” Moreover, in Wehler's view, the SPD's critical stance on this and many other political questions along with the party's massive electoral gains in the 1912 parliamentary…
The American West and the Nazi East
The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretative Perspective Carroll P. Kakel New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 288 pp., US $80.00 (hbk) The American West and the Nazi East by
Hitler's American Model
James Q. Whitman's book argues that American race law “influenced” the 1935 Nuremberg Laws (p. 124). The account is illuminating, especially when Whitman analyzes the Nazi judge Roland Freisler's references to American legislative precedents. In addition, the author succeeds in showing that, until the 1960s, among the liberties that the American common-law tradition helped protect was also the liberty to maintain a brutal system of racial segrega…
The Myth of the Pro-Colonialist SPD
In his seminal The German Empire , published in German in 1973, historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler posited that in respect to the German Empire's colonial policies only the SPD, unlike all other political parties, “retained its capacity to take a critical view on matters of principle.” Moreover, in Wehler's view, the SPD's critical stance on this and many other political questions along with the party's massive electoral gains in the 1912 parliamentary…
"Reform, Revolution, and the "Original Catastrophe
The Myth of the Pro-Colonialist SPD
In his seminal The German Empire , published in German in 1973, historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler posited that in respect to the German Empire's colonial policies only the SPD, unlike all other political parties, “retained its capacity to take a critical view on matters of principle.” Moreover, in Wehler's view, the SPD's critical stance on this and many other political questions along with the party's massive electoral gains in the 1912 parliamentary…
The American West and the Nazi East
The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretative Perspective Carroll P. Kakel New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 288 pp., US $80.00 (hbk) The American West and the Nazi East by
The US frontier as rationale for the Nazi east? Settler colonialism and genocide in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and the American West
Many scholars of German and Native American history and the field of genocide studies argue that during World War II the Nazis' genocidal attempt to turn vast portions of Eastern Europe into Lebensraum [living space] for Aryan settlers was connected to the near-extinction of America's Native Peoples during the 'conquest' of the American west by the United States. In their view, there exist direct historical continuities between settler colonialis…
Anja Werner. The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Anja Werner's book, The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914, focuses on the presence of American students at a select number of German universities during the so-called long nineteenth century. Werner argues that “the nineteenth-century German venture did not simply influence US academic culture but—in more subtle wa[y]s—left its imprint on US culture at large” (p. 260). The account also shows that…
Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914
Journal Article Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914 Get access Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880 – 1914 . By Edward Ross Dickinson . New York City : Cambridge University Press . 2014 . 350 pp. £65.00 (hardback ). Jens-Uwe Guettel Jens-Uwe Guettel Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 490–492, …
Elun T. Gabriel. Assassins and Conspirators
Since the second half of the 1990s, the history of socialism and Social Democracy in Germany has not been among the “hottest” research topics. As transnational history became one of the field’s most important focal points during the early 2000s, interest in German socialism before 1914 waned. Recently, a number of historians have begun to buck this trend, among them John Phillip Short and Dennis Sweeney. Assassins and Conspirators: Anarchism, Soc…
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar, edited by Geoff Eley, Jennifer L. Jenkins and Tracie Matysik, contains highly current essays that reflect the present state of the scholarship on German history from the late German Empire to the Nazi years. Acutely aware of both the many debates that applying the concept of ‘modernity’ to the analysis of German historical developments has generated and the problems inherent in the notion itself, the boo…
Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars
This is a troubling book. Its main contention is twofold: (1) that atrocities against Native Americans committed by the U.S. government and/or white settlers during the nineteenth century cannot be equated with Nazi Germany’s attempt to gain an “Eastern Empire” during World War II and (2) that the violence in the American West cannot be viewed as a precursor to the Nazis’ brutal plans of expansion and extermination in Eastern Europe. These argume…
Hitler's American Model
James Q. Whitman's book argues that American race law “influenced” the 1935 Nuremberg Laws (p. 124). The account is illuminating, especially when Whitman analyzes the Nazi judge Roland Freisler's references to American legislative precedents. In addition, the author succeeds in showing that, until the 1960s, among the liberties that the American common-law tradition helped protect was also the liberty to maintain a brutal system of racial segrega…
David Hamlin. Germany’s Empire in the East
David Hamlin’s Germany’s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War is a must-read for scholars interested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German and Eastern European history. The book focuses on Romania and German attitudes and policies toward that country, though Germany’s Empire in the East also includes brief sections on Poland and Ukraine. Much of the book is dedicated to an analysis of Romani…
"Reform, Revolution, and the "Original Catastrophe
Empire in the Heimat
Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich. By Willeke Sandler. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 360 pp. £47.99 (hardback). Jens-Uwe Guettel Jens-Uwe Guettel Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 160–161, https://doi.org/10.…
A Reusable Past
It does not require great powers of observation to note the pervasiveness of Nazi Germany in contemporary U.S. cultural and political discourse. For better or worse, the discursive landscape is saturated with depictions of and references to Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Gestapo—an obsession visible everywhere, from the progressive left to the far right, from TV shows to Twitter feeds to video games. The allure of using the Third Reich as a rheto…
Race in the Modern World
Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from…
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economic history (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · German (7 works) · Nazism (7 works) · Empire (6 works)