Robert G Moeller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert G Moeller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert G |
| FAMILY NAME | Moeller |
| SIGNATURE | MOELLER R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1627-2185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Scale
This article introduces Black scale—a theoretical, conceptual, and methodological gathering of Blackness, music, sound, and locationality—that foregrounds the interdependence of scale and racialization. This framework explores how racial capitalist de|restructuring of space and place and intersectional personhood reshapes a Black sense of place through a “Black sense of scale” and its musical and sonic modalities. Through a geomusicological and g…
Slow Disturbance
Review of: Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier , Rafico Ruiz (2021) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 240 pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-850-7, p/bk, $29.95 The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism , Traci Brynne Voyles (2021) Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 382 pp., ISBN 978-1-49623-338-7, p/bk, $30.00
Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany
How to Judge Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg, a film directed by Stanley Kramer with a screenplay by Abby Mann, premiered in West Berlin in December 1961 at a gala event attended by Mayor Willy Brandt, many members of the cast, and some 300 foreign and domestic reporters. The film took viewers back to the late 1940s and the trial by American judges of leading judicial figures in Hitler’s Third Reich. A careful look at the film and its reception by critics can tell us m…
Peg and Rope Geometry
Book Review| January 01 2011 Peg and Rope Geometry Bruce Myren: Selections from the 40th ParallelRobert Richfield: A Journey To the EndGallery KayafasBoston October 22–November 27, 2010 Robert Moeller Robert Moeller ROBERT MOELLER is a writer and artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work can be viewed by visiting www.robertmoeller.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2011) 38 (4): 27…
Histories of the Aftermath
In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war’s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a range of methodological historical perspectives—military, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studies—this volume explores how Europeans…
Histories of the aftermath
On the Rocks
Book Review| July 01 2010 On the Rocks Roni Horn aka Roni Horn Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston February 12–June 13, 2010 Robert Moeller Robert Moeller ROBERT MOELLER is a writer and painter living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A new exhibition of his paintings will be on view this July at HallSpace in Boston. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2010) 38 (1): 29. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2010…
Haunted City
For those of us who regularly introduce young people to the complicated history of Germany in the twentieth century, Nuremberg most probably figures in two places in our syllabi. Who hasn’t shown the clip of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will in which Hitler descends from the heavens, then wends his way through the city en route to 1934 Nazi party congress? Nuremberg appears again a decade or so later, a symbol of German defeat, shame and gui…
The Discursive Construction of History
The general public and academic historians do not always agree on what counts as an accurate rendering of the past. This conclusion is not exactly astonishing, but it is documented with enormous care and with a range of different sources—from analyses of documentary films to newspaper accounts, from public policy debates to historical exhibitions—in this collection of essays which examines how Austrians viewed the participation of the Wehrmacht i…
Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
Journal Article Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture Get access Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture. By Carol Poore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2007. xxii + 407 pp. £53.50/$70 (hardback). Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller Department of History, University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 171–17…
After Hitler
‘How did the Germans succeed in rising out of the physical destruction and moral degradation created by the war of annihilation and Holocaust for which they were to blame?’ How did they distance themselves from ‘aggression and authoritarianism by eventually embracing a Western conception of human rights?’ (p. viii). These are the questions Konrad Jarausch poses in this impressive book, and he provides some compelling answers. Jarausch notes that …
Fighting to Win the Peace
Fighting to Win the Peace
Matthew D. Hockenos, A Church Divided
July 01 2007 Matthew D. Hockenos, A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert G. Moeller Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (3): 155–157. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.3.155 Cite Icon Cite Pe…
Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953
At the centre of this first-rate book are the 20,000 to 40,000 Jews who remained in Germany after the late 1940s. A mixture of a German Jewish survivor majority and some Jewish displaced persons (DPs) from other parts of Europe, they chose not to join the millions of other DPs—some survivors of Nazi persecution, others refugees from post-war anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe—who had fled into Germany at the end of the war but left for other destina…
Witnesses of War
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Homosexualität und Staatsräson. Männlichkeit, Homophobie und Politik in Deutschland 1900-1945
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On the History of Man-made Destruction
For the last five years, remarkably, Germans have been fighting the war all over again–in illustrated magazines, television documentaries, the feature sections of their newspapers, big-box-office films, fat books with many, many footnotes and still others with many, many pictures. In Germany, the Second World War is ‘in’. This essay examines one key aspect of what historian Norbert Frei has called the ‘battle for memory’–the renewed interest amon…
Germans as Victims?
Some fifty years after the end of World War II, many Germans, including leading politicians, public intellectuals, architects, journalists, writers and historians discussed the most effective way to memorialize the Holocaust, mourn Jewish victims of the Nazi state and signify to themselves and the rest of the world that the Nazi attempt to kill all European Jews was central to any complete account of modern German history. After broad public deba…
What Did You Do in the War, Mutti ? Courageous Women, Compassionate Commanders, and Stories of the Second World War
In the mid–1950s, West Germans were ready to fight the Second World War again, this time at the cinema. This paper analyses Kinder, Mütter und ein General, a war film in which a band of courageous women pushed to the eastern front in March 1945 to bring home their sons who had only just put on Wehrmacht uniforms. The paper concludes that the film indicates how West Germans had come to understand the past of the war a decade after the shooting sto…
Sinking Ships, the Lost Heimat and Broken Taboos
‘History, more precisely, the history that we are stirring up, is a stopped up toilet. We flush and flush, the shit still floats back up.’Günter Grass, Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle (Göttingen: Steidl, 2002), 116. All translations from the German are my own. Since February 2002 Paul Pokriefke, the narrator of Günter Grass's latest book, Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle (Walking like a crab: a novella), has offered these words of wisdom to several hundred …
War Stories
What Has “Coming to Terms with the Past” Meant in Post-World War II Germany? From History to Memory to the “History of Memory”
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War Stories
Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selective remembering" that took place among West Germans during the postwar years: in particular, they remembered crimes committed against Germans, crimes t…
Sinking Ships, the Lost Heimat and Broken Taboos
‘History, more precisely, the history that we are stirring up, is a stopped up toilet. We flush and flush, the shit still floats back up.’Günter Grass, Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle (Göttingen: Steidl, 2002), 116. All translations from the German are my own. Since February 2002 Paul Pokriefke, the narrator of Günter Grass's latest book, Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle (Walking like a crab: a novella), has offered these words of wisdom to several hundred …
The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German Historiography
Journal Article The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German Historiography Get access Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, New York, NY 10027 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 4, Summer 1984, Pages 655–683, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.4.655 Published: 01 July 1984
On the History of Man-made Destruction
For the last five years, remarkably, Germans have been fighting the war all over again–in illustrated magazines, television documentaries, the feature sections of their newspapers, big-box-office films, fat books with many, many footnotes and still others with many, many pictures. In Germany, the Second World War is ‘in’. This essay examines one key aspect of what historian Norbert Frei has called the ‘battle for memory’–the renewed interest amon…
Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany
Robert G. Moeller, Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany: Women and Social Policy in the Federal Republic, 1949-1955, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, Women, Family, and Work (Spring, 1989), pp. 137-169
Witnesses of War
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What Has “Coming to Terms with the Past” Meant in Post-World War II Germany? From History to Memory to the “History of Memory”
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Dimensions of Social Conflict in the Great War
Since the early 1960s, social and economic historians of modern Germany have increasingly turned their attention to the study of the First World War and the postwar revolution. Yet of all the ink that has flowed extremely little has trickled down to the peasantry. Excellent monographs examine the wartime experience of several cities. Historians looking for the origins of proletarian radicalism in the revolution of 1918–19 have carefully scrutiniz…
The Discursive Construction of History
The general public and academic historians do not always agree on what counts as an accurate rendering of the past. This conclusion is not exactly astonishing, but it is documented with enormous care and with a range of different sources—from analyses of documentary films to newspaper accounts, from public policy debates to historical exhibitions—in this collection of essays which examines how Austrians viewed the participation of the Wehrmacht i…
After Hitler
‘How did the Germans succeed in rising out of the physical destruction and moral degradation created by the war of annihilation and Holocaust for which they were to blame?’ How did they distance themselves from ‘aggression and authoritarianism by eventually embracing a Western conception of human rights?’ (p. viii). These are the questions Konrad Jarausch poses in this impressive book, and he provides some compelling answers. Jarausch notes that …
Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953
At the centre of this first-rate book are the 20,000 to 40,000 Jews who remained in Germany after the late 1940s. A mixture of a German Jewish survivor majority and some Jewish displaced persons (DPs) from other parts of Europe, they chose not to join the millions of other DPs—some survivors of Nazi persecution, others refugees from post-war anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe—who had fled into Germany at the end of the war but left for other destina…
Protecting Mother's Work
Protecting Mother's Work: From Production to Reproduction in Postwar West Germany Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller University of California, Irvine, Department of HistoryIrvine, CA 92717 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 22, Issue 3, Spring 1989, Pages 413–437, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/22.3.413 Published: 01 March 1989
Dimensions of Social Conflict in the Great War
Since the early 1960s, social and economic historians of modern Germany have increasingly turned their attention to the study of the First World War and the postwar revolution. Yet of all the ink that has flowed extremely little has trickled down to the peasantry. Excellent monographs examine the wartime experience of several cities. Historians looking for the origins of proletarian radicalism in the revolution of 1918–19 have carefully scrutiniz…
The Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century . Karl Hardach Die deutsche Inflation 1914-1923
Peasants, Politics, and Pressure Groups in War and Inflation
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Dick Geary, European Labour Protest 1848–1939. New York
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Books reviewed
The Radical Persuasion, 1890–1917: Aspects of Intellectual History and the Historiography of Three American Radical Organizations. By Aileen S. Kraditor. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1981. viii, 381 pp. $24.95. Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England. By Ann Kussmaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xii, 233 pp. $29.95. The Private Life of a Country House (1912–1939). By Lesley Lewis. North Pomfret. VT: Da…
The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German Historiography
Journal Article The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German Historiography Get access Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, New York, NY 10027 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 4, Summer 1984, Pages 655–683, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.4.655 Published: 01 July 1984
Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany
The Nazi Seizure of Power
German Peasants and Agrarian Politics, 1914-1924
Robert Moeller investigates the German peasantry's rejection of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and provides a new interpretation of Catholic peasant conservatism in western Germany. According to Moeller, rural support for conservative political solutions to the troubled Weimar Republic was the result of a series of severe economic jolts that began in 1914 and continued unabated until 1933.During the late nineteenth century, peasant farmers in t…
Die britische Deutschland- und Besatzungspolitik 1945-1949
Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany
The Western Allies and the Politics of Food
Protecting Mother's Work
Protecting Mother's Work: From Production to Reproduction in Postwar West Germany Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller University of California, Irvine, Department of HistoryIrvine, CA 92717 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 22, Issue 3, Spring 1989, Pages 413–437, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/22.3.413 Published: 01 March 1989
Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany
Robert G. Moeller, Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany: Women and Social Policy in the Federal Republic, 1949-1955, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, Women, Family, and Work (Spring, 1989), pp. 137-169
Arbeiterleben in Deutschland, 1900-1970
Frauenalltag und Mannerpolitik
The Pink Triangle and the Swastika
Protecting motherhood
Protecting Motherhood
The state of women's welfare in European welfare states
Cornelie Usborne, The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties (1992), p. 304 (Macmillan, Houndmills). Gabriele Czarnowski, Das kontrohierte Paar: Ehe‐ und Sexualpolitik im Nationalsozialismus (1991), p. 319 (Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim). Gisela Bock and Pat Thane (eds), Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s‐1950s (1991), 259 (Routledge, London)
Freedom With Responsibility
Freedom With Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany 1918-1963 Get access Robert G. Moeller Robert G. Moeller Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 432–434, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.432 Published: 01 July 1995
Protecting Motherhood
West Germany under Construction
From the perspective of the 1990s, it is possible to see the road to the Bonn Republic and West Germany's social market economy as the correct postwar German path. But unified Germany continues to confront enormous problems of social inequality and widespread resistance to the acceptance of a truly multi-cultural society. By exploring how West Germans confronted--or failed to confront--similar problems in the early history of the Federal Republic…
"The Last Soldiers of the Great War" and Tales of Family Reunions in the Federal Republic of Germany
The "Remasculinization" of Germany in the 1950s
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