Manfred Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfred Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | BERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Marcus Gräser, Nordamerika seit 1600. (Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte, Bd. 18.) Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer 2022
Lynching in the New South and The Roots of Rough Justice: From Southern Exceptionalism to a Transnational History of American Lynching
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Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban ne…
Jill Lepore, Diese Wahrheiten. Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. München, Beck 2019
A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America
According to the historian Susan Dunn, the twelve-year presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt went through three transformative periods of roughly one hundred days each. In the spring of 1933, the new president jump-started the New Deal with a host of relief measures, and in the summer of 1935 he proposed the programs that laid the foundation of the American welfare state. During FDR's third hundred days, the period between his re-election in Novemb…
Historicizing Race
Malcolm X: Der schwarze Revolutionär (Malcolm X: The black revolutionary)
A pretty good transformation
The Weight of Words: Writing about Race in the United States and Europe
In 1993, the historians' group in the European Association for American Studies held a meeting at the Roosevelt Studies Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. David Thelen, then editor of the Journal of American History, attended this meeting to beat the drum for his commendable project of internationalizing the study of American history by forging closer ties between the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and non-U.S. scholars, especially…
Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America
Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, "Judge Lynch" holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory. In Popular Justice, Manfred Berg explores the history of lynching from the colonial era to the present. American lynch law, he argues, has rested on three pillars: the frontier experience, racism, and the anti-…
Racism in the Modern World
Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were…
Introduction: Lynching from an International Perspective
In 1905, the sociologist James E. Cutler began his book Lynch-Law: An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States with the following introduction: It has been said that our country's national crime is lynching ... The practice whereby mobs capture individuals suspected of crime ... and execute them without any process of law ... is to be found in no other country of a high degree of civilization. Riots and mob executions take …
Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation
Globalizing lynching history: Vigilantism and extralegal punishment from an international perspective
Lynching from an International Perspective M.Berg & S.Wendt Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching M.Pfeifer Lynching 'Exceptionalism': The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American C.Waldrep Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States W.Carrigan & C.Webb Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder R.Thurston Lynching: The Southern African …
Racism in the modern world: Historical perspectives on cultural transfer and adaptation
Introduction Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt Chapter 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives Frank Dikotter Chapter 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East Benjamin Braude Chapter 3. Culture's Shadow: RaceA and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century Christian Geulen Chapter 4. Racism and Genocide Boris Barth Chapter 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Michael Zeuske Chapter 6. Toward…
Globalizing Lynching History
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, a
The Ticket to Freedom: The Naacp and the Struggle for Black Political Integration
The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary
Journal Article The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary Get access Zelden Charles L.. The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. x, 156 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Manfred Berg Manfred Berg Universität Heidelberg Search for other works by this…
Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany
The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900
Journal Article The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900. By Frank Ninkovich. (Chicago and Macht und Moral: Beiträge zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Außenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert (Power and morality In German Get access Manfred Jonas Manfred Jonas Union College, Schenectady, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page…
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
Journal Article Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. By David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xxv, 530 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07233-3.) Get access Manfred Berg Manfred Berg Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Page 1383, https://doi.…
Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Introduction Geoffrey Cocks 1. To benefit the poor and advance medical science: hospitals and hospital care in Germany, 1820-70 Johanna Bleker 2. From traditional individualism to collective professionalism: state, patient, compulsory health insurance and the panel doctor question in Germany, 1883-1931 Alfons Labisch 3. In search of German social Darwinism Richard J. Evans 4. Modern German doctors Charles E. McClelland 5. The mentally ill patient…
Politics of Illusions: Churchill, Eisenhower, and the German Question, 1945-1955
Journal Article Politik der Illusionen: Churchill, Eisenhower und die deutsche Frage, 1945–1955 (Politics of illusions: Churchill, Eisenhower, and the German question, 1945–1955). By Klaus Larres. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995. 335 pp. DM 92, ISBN 3-525-36320-6.) In German Get access Manfred Berg Manfred Berg German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Gustav Stresemann and the United States of America: World Economic Interconnections and Revisionist Policy, 1907-1929
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Gustav Stresemann and the United States of America: World Economic Interconnections and Revisionist Policy, 1907-1929
Politics of Illusions: Churchill, Eisenhower, and the German Question, 1945-1955
Journal Article Politik der Illusionen: Churchill, Eisenhower und die deutsche Frage, 1945–1955 (Politics of illusions: Churchill, Eisenhower, and the German question, 1945–1955). By Klaus Larres. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995. 335 pp. DM 92, ISBN 3-525-36320-6.) In German Get access Manfred Berg Manfred Berg German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
Introduction Geoffrey Cocks 1. To benefit the poor and advance medical science: hospitals and hospital care in Germany, 1820-70 Johanna Bleker 2. From traditional individualism to collective professionalism: state, patient, compulsory health insurance and the panel doctor question in Germany, 1883-1931 Alfons Labisch 3. In search of German social Darwinism Richard J. Evans 4. Modern German doctors Charles E. McClelland 5. The mentally ill patient…
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
Journal Article Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. By David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xxv, 530 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07233-3.) Get access Manfred Berg Manfred Berg Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Page 1383, https://doi.…
The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900
Journal Article The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900. By Frank Ninkovich. (Chicago and Macht und Moral: Beiträge zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Außenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert (Power and morality In German Get access Manfred Jonas Manfred Jonas Union College, Schenectady, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page…
Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany
The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary
Journal Article The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary Get access Zelden Charles L.. The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. x, 156 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Manfred Berg Manfred Berg Universität Heidelberg Search for other works by this…
The Ticket to Freedom: The Naacp and the Struggle for Black Political Integration
Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America
Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, "Judge Lynch" holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory. In Popular Justice, Manfred Berg explores the history of lynching from the colonial era to the present. American lynch law, he argues, has rested on three pillars: the frontier experience, racism, and the anti-…
Racism in the Modern World
Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were…
Introduction: Lynching from an International Perspective
In 1905, the sociologist James E. Cutler began his book Lynch-Law: An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States with the following introduction: It has been said that our country's national crime is lynching ... The practice whereby mobs capture individuals suspected of crime ... and execute them without any process of law ... is to be found in no other country of a high degree of civilization. Riots and mob executions take …
Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation
Globalizing lynching history: Vigilantism and extralegal punishment from an international perspective
Lynching from an International Perspective M.Berg & S.Wendt Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching M.Pfeifer Lynching 'Exceptionalism': The NAACP, Woodrow Wilson, and Keeping Lynching American C.Waldrep Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States W.Carrigan & C.Webb Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder R.Thurston Lynching: The Southern African …
Racism in the modern world: Historical perspectives on cultural transfer and adaptation
Introduction Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt Chapter 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives Frank Dikotter Chapter 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East Benjamin Braude Chapter 3. Culture's Shadow: RaceA and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century Christian Geulen Chapter 4. Racism and Genocide Boris Barth Chapter 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Michael Zeuske Chapter 6. Toward…
Globalizing Lynching History
The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, a
Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
The Weight of Words: Writing about Race in the United States and Europe
In 1993, the historians' group in the European Association for American Studies held a meeting at the Roosevelt Studies Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. David Thelen, then editor of the Journal of American History, attended this meeting to beat the drum for his commendable project of internationalizing the study of American history by forging closer ties between the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and non-U.S. scholars, especially…
A pretty good transformation
Malcolm X: Der schwarze Revolutionär (Malcolm X: The black revolutionary)
A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America
According to the historian Susan Dunn, the twelve-year presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt went through three transformative periods of roughly one hundred days each. In the spring of 1933, the new president jump-started the New Deal with a host of relief measures, and in the summer of 1935 he proposed the programs that laid the foundation of the American welfare state. During FDR's third hundred days, the period between his re-election in Novemb…
Historicizing Race
Jill Lepore, Diese Wahrheiten. Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. München, Beck 2019
Lynching in the New South and The Roots of Rough Justice: From Southern Exceptionalism to a Transnational History of American Lynching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban ne…
Marcus Gräser, Nordamerika seit 1600. (Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte, Bd. 18.) Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer 2022
Political science (21 works) · History (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Race, History, and American Society (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · History (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Economic history (7 works) · Law (7 works)