Mischa Honeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5096648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mischa Honeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mischa |
| FAMILY NAME | Honeck |
| SIGNATURE | HONECK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Coming of Age in the American Century
War and Gender
This chapter provides an introduction to the intertwined histories of gender and war from the end of the Age of Revolutions in the early nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. In the opening section, it offers a reconsideration of the notion of Europe’s post-Napoleonic century as an “era of peace” and of key concepts that historians have used to make sense of pursuits of war and military force during this time period, …
Liberty and Slavery
Reviewed by: Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War by Niels Eichhorn Mischa Honeck (bio) Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War. By Niels Eichhorn. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. Pp. 202. Cloth, $45.00.) “We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing,” Abraham Lincoln famously rem…
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
Our Frontier Is the World
Since its founding more than one hundred years ago, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been a fulcrum in debates over what constitutes proper boyhood and manhood. Although the BSA developed a strong national identity, these debates had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier is the World details how the BSA o…
Our Frontier Is the World
Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond …
The Power of Innocence
The present article revisits the history of the Boy Scouts to illustrate the centrality of youth in attempts to stabilize Anglo-American imperial hierarchies. Moving beyond the default narrative that depicts scouting as an institution devoted to masculinizing boys, it foregrounds the ways in which the valorization of boyhood facilitated the desire of men to embody a younger, more innocent version of themselves. Critical of works that have created…
The German Love Affair With American Empire
With the one-hundredth anniversary of the First World War upon us, a spate of new studies on the Second German Empire and its colonial legacy have landed on the bookshelves. Jens-Uwe Guettel’s first book is in good company. It joins the works of Sebastian Conrad, Birthe Kundrus, and Andrew Zimmerman in revisiting Germany’s imperial past through a wider geographical lens. Guettel’s perspective, though, stands out. Rather than turning to Africa or …
Transnational Generations
The Borders of Integration
Book Review| December 01 2013 The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870 – 1924 The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870 – 1924. McCook, Brian. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2011xviii + 270 pp., $55.00 (hardcover); $26.95 (paper) Mischa Honeck Mischa Honeck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (4): 124–126. https://doi.org/1…
America Imagined
Perception studies may no longer be the hottest game in town, but the volume put together by Axel Körner, Nicola Miller, and Adam I. P. Smith advances our knowledge about how images of the United States shaped the transatlantic world during the second half of the nineteenth-century. America Imagined looks at how the nation functioned as a billboard for the hopes, fears, and prejudices of societies undergoing rapid modernization. Individual essays…
We Are the Revolutionists
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic TitleWidely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking Forty-Eighters, refugees of the failed European r…
America Imagined
Perception studies may no longer be the hottest game in town, but the volume put together by Axel Körner, Nicola Miller, and Adam I. P. Smith advances our knowledge about how images of the United States shaped the transatlantic world during the second half of the nineteenth-century. America Imagined looks at how the nation functioned as a billboard for the hopes, fears, and prejudices of societies undergoing rapid modernization. Individual essays…
We Are the Revolutionists
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic TitleWidely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking Forty-Eighters, refugees of the failed European r…
The Borders of Integration
Book Review| December 01 2013 The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870 – 1924 The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870 – 1924. McCook, Brian. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2011xviii + 270 pp., $55.00 (hardcover); $26.95 (paper) Mischa Honeck Mischa Honeck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (4): 124–126. https://doi.org/1…
America Imagined
Perception studies may no longer be the hottest game in town, but the volume put together by Axel Körner, Nicola Miller, and Adam I. P. Smith advances our knowledge about how images of the United States shaped the transatlantic world during the second half of the nineteenth-century. America Imagined looks at how the nation functioned as a billboard for the hopes, fears, and prejudices of societies undergoing rapid modernization. Individual essays…
The German Love Affair With American Empire
With the one-hundredth anniversary of the First World War upon us, a spate of new studies on the Second German Empire and its colonial legacy have landed on the bookshelves. Jens-Uwe Guettel’s first book is in good company. It joins the works of Sebastian Conrad, Birthe Kundrus, and Andrew Zimmerman in revisiting Germany’s imperial past through a wider geographical lens. Guettel’s perspective, though, stands out. Rather than turning to Africa or …
Transnational Generations
The Power of Innocence
The present article revisits the history of the Boy Scouts to illustrate the centrality of youth in attempts to stabilize Anglo-American imperial hierarchies. Moving beyond the default narrative that depicts scouting as an institution devoted to masculinizing boys, it foregrounds the ways in which the valorization of boyhood facilitated the desire of men to embody a younger, more innocent version of themselves. Critical of works that have created…
Our Frontier Is the World
Since its founding more than one hundred years ago, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been a fulcrum in debates over what constitutes proper boyhood and manhood. Although the BSA developed a strong national identity, these debates had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier is the World details how the BSA o…
Our Frontier Is the World
Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond …
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
War and Gender
This chapter provides an introduction to the intertwined histories of gender and war from the end of the Age of Revolutions in the early nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. In the opening section, it offers a reconsideration of the notion of Europe’s post-Napoleonic century as an “era of peace” and of key concepts that historians have used to make sense of pursuits of war and military force during this time period, …
Liberty and Slavery
Reviewed by: Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War by Niels Eichhorn Mischa Honeck (bio) Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War. By Niels Eichhorn. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. Pp. 202. Cloth, $45.00.) “We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing,” Abraham Lincoln famously rem…
Coming of Age in the American Century
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