Geoff Eley

Biographic Data

ID169969
NAMEGeoff Eley
GIVEN NAMESGeoff
FAMILY NAMEEley
SIGNATUREELEY G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0002-1400-0189
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS137
TOTAL CITATIONS225
AUTHOR COUNT130
EDITOR COUNT7
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX8

  • Fascism in America: Past and Present

    Open AccessGeoff Eley, Thomas Weber et al.BOOKFascism in America2023

    Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated wh…

  • The Agency Dilemma

    Open AccessAnna Yu Krylova, William Sewell et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Is it structure or agency that shapes human actions? The question remains a central one for historians, and social scientists more broadly. This forum offers a deep dive into what it means to think about the relationship between agency and structure. It is set in motion with a deliberately provocative essay by the Russian historian Anna Yu. Krylova. “I wonder,” Krylova writes, “whether the challenge for historians has recently become not to find …

  • What is Fascism and Where does it Come From

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2021Cited by: 1

    How might histories of fascism in interwar Europe help us today? Languages of 'fascism' are now constantly in play - as warning and slogan; as emotional rallying-point; as rhetorics of recognition and abuse; as a boundary of legitimate politics - but rarely as carefully informed argument. For effective politics, we need historically grounded analysis that can avert tendentious and direct linkages that may be emotionally satisfying, but stop short…

  • Being undisciplined. On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society

    Open AccessGeoff EleyCHAPTERPolitics of Method in the Human…2020

  • Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right

    Claire Zimmerman, Maggie Clinton et al.BOOKVisualizing Fascism2020Cited by: 2References: 19

    Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. This visual strategy allows readers to see the transnational rise of the right as it fed off the agitated energies …

  • Tomas Balkelis, Nation-Building, Revolution, and the Advance of the Red Army into Lithuania, 1918-1919

    Open AccessTomas Balkelis, Ronald Suny et al.ARTICLEPLURAL History Culture Society2018

    This article explores the initial conjunction and subsequent disentanglement of social and nationalist revolutions in Lithuania by focusing on the impact that war and various mobilizations had on the local population in 1918–19. Despite the explosion of social and nationalist unrest all over the country in late 1918, in a matter of several months the Bolsheviks lost their case. The key reasons for their failure were their military defeat by Germa…

  • Writing the Nation Into History

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLEHistory and Theory2018

    This article considers the fruits of an elaborate multi-year European Science Foundation (ESF)-sponsored research project on the reciprocal dynamics joining nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiography to the varying trajectories of European state-formation. It reads the culminating volume in the eight-book series sponsored by this ESF project against the wider associated discussions and the larger context of the contemporary historiography o…

  • A ‘Slight Angle to the Universe’

    Geoff EleyBOOKHistory after Hobsbawm2017

    This chapter uses Eric Hobsbawm more directly than the others, to ask big questions about the political nature of the historian’s task. By contrasting Hobsbawm’s own political formation with that of a later generation—principally that which was influenced by 1968 and its legacies—it calls for a renewed political engagement within the profession. It overviews some of the major conceptual and theoretical developments in history over the last forty …

  • Contemporary Germany and Denial: Is 'Nazism' All there is to Say

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2017Cited by: 2

    As a national public and intellectual culture, contemporary Germany seems exemplary in its readiness and capacity to face up to a difficult and shameful past. In this regard, since the 1960s and beneath the sign of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung [coming to terms with or disarming and overcoming the past], German historians and public intellectuals more broadly have been notable for their willingness to grapple with the legacies of Nazism, principally …

  • Is There a British Approach to German History

    Open AccessGeoff Eley, Neil Gregor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Modern European History2016

  • A German Century

    Geoff EleyARTICLEGerman History2016

    The coming to a close of the last century understandably encouraged a wide array of retrospectives, not least among academic historians of a certain vintage, who began stepping back and taking stock by delivering their verdicts on the twentieth century’s character and course. If the results have been taking a while to unfold, by now the numbers of publications have been thickening by the year, whether for Europe, for particular countries, or for …

  • Shape-Shifting

    Geoff EleyARTICLENew Formations2015

  • German Colonialism in a Global Age

    Open AccessGeoff Eley, Bradley NaranchBOOKGerman Colonialism in a Global Age2015

    German Colonialism Made Simple / Bradley Naranch 1. Empire by Land or Sea? Germany's Imperial Imaginary, 1840-1945 / Geoff Eley 2. Scientific Autonomy and Empire, 1880-1945: Four German Sociologists / George Steinmetz 3. Science and Civilizing Missions: Germans and the Transnational Community of Tropical Medicine / Deborah J. Neill 4. Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath / Andrew Zimmerman 5. Who I…

  • Réflexions sur la formation de la classe ouvrière, le passé et le présent

    Geoff Eley, Jean-Michel BuéeARTICLEActuel Marx2015

    Partly in response to fundamental changes which have occurred in the social relations of actually existing capitalism, and to the concomitant political upheavals, partly as a result of the related debates and transformations in social and cultural theory, several social historians of the 1970s and 1980s began to rethink their ideas about class. Having previously made a powerful contribution to the history of working-class formation, the historian…

  • Barry A. Jackisch, The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918–39

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2015

  • Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt, ed. Robert Gildea, James Mark and Anette Warring

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt, ed. Robert Gildea, James Mark and Anette Warring Get access Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt, ed. Robert Gildea, James Mark and Anette Warring (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; pp. 382. £65; pb. £19.99). Geoff Eley Geoff Eley University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 546, October 2015, Pages 1287–1289, h…

  • The German Right from Weimar to Hitler: Fragmentation and Coalescence

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLECentral European History2015References: 3

    As archival scholarship on National Socialism moved under way during the later 1960s, study of the Right's broader intellectual history relied on a small number of then canonical works—by Klemens von Klemperer (1957), Otto E. Schüddekopf (1960), Fritz Stern (1961), Hans-Joachim Schwierskott (1962), and Kurt Sontheimer (1962), shadowed by Armin Mohler's Die konservative Revolution in Deutschland 1918–1932. Grundriβ ihrer Weltanschauungen (1950)—so…

  • Frank Lorenz Müller, Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany

    Open AccessGeoff EleyARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2014

  • Alon Confino. A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide

    Geoff EleyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    For some years Alon Confino has been arguing for a new approach to Nazism and the Holocaust by treating them as problems of what he calls “cultural history.” Firmly rejecting the sufficiency of currently dominant approaches—those based either on the “racial state” and indoctrination by racial ideology or the effects of “a state-run administrative process during a brutal war” (p. 4)—he calls instead for a focus on the history of the popular “emoti…

  • Liberalism forever: Intellectual History, Social History and the Global Adventures of a Concept

    Geoff EleyARTICLESocial History2014

    Notes1 Successively: The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad, 1880-1920 (Oxford, 1975); Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1780-1920 (Cambridge, 1983); Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge, 1996). Along the way, there was also a general synthetic account, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1988). A…

  • Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945

    Geoff EleyBOOKNazism As Fascism2013

    Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as Fascism analyses the historiography of the Third Reich and its main interpretive approaches. Themes include: Detailed reflection on the tenets and characte…

  • Working-Class Agency: Past and Present

    Geoff EleyARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2013Cited by: 1

    Research Article| September 01 2013 Working-Class Agency: Past and Present Geoff Eley Geoff Eley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (3): 35–39. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2149528 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geoff Eley; Working-Class Agency: Past and Present. Labor 1 September 2013; 10 (3): 35–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2149528 Download citati…

  • Adeus à classe trabalhadora

    Open AccessGeoff Eley, Keith NieldARTICLERevista Brasileira de História2013References: 35

    No início da década de 1980, a política centrada em classes da tradição socialista estava em crise, e comentadores importantes adotaram tons apocalípticos. No final da década, a esquerda permanecia profundamente dividida entre os advogados da mudança e os defensores da fé. Em meados dos anos 1990, os primeiros tinham, de modo geral, ganhado a batalha. O artigo busca apresentar essa mudança contemporânea não como a 'morte da classe', mas como o de…

  • Corporatism and the Social Democratic Moment: The Postwar Settlement, 1945–1973

    Geoff Eley, Dan StoneBOOKThe Oxford handbook of postwar…2012

    Certain facts about postwar Europe seem self-evidently true. Undoubtedly the most salient was the division of Europe and the political, economic, social, and cultural antinomies that separated western capitalism from Soviet-style communism in the overarching context of the Cold War. If the Cold War itself stretched across four decades, from the heightening of international tensions in 1947–1948 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989–1991, th…

  • Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism

    Geoff EleyARTICLEJournal of Modern Italian Studies2012

    Paul Corner (ed.) (2009) Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 234 pp., ISBN 9780199566525, $55.00, hard cover Despite historians' b