Michael Goebel
Biographic Data
| ID | 535539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Goebel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Goebel |
| SIGNATURE | GOEBEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1556-8227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conclusion: The social environments of port cities in the longue durée
Summarizing the key findings of this special issue, our conclusion embeds them into the long-term history of cities extending to our present age. Some of the cities treated in our special issue have since turned into megacities marked by environmental hazards and extreme socio-economic inequalities. Their combination invites rethinking the interdependence of natural, built and social environments in urban contexts in the longue durée. Interweavin…
Gauging the Black Undercount: Race and Censuses in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
This article proposes a mixed-method approach to examine historical censuses with regard to race. It does so by exploring various kinds of demographic records from nineteenth-century Buenos Aires in order to test the conventional hypothesis of a significant census underenumeration of the city’s population of African descent. Starting from the overall progression of census results, the article is divided into three parts. The first of these deals …
Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975
Density and Differentiation: Cities in Global Social History
The present article examines the particular role that cities have played, and should play, in global social history. It notes that many of the historiographical discussions that in the past years have addressed the reach and limits of the bourgeoisie and the middle class as a globalized social formation have implicitly focused on cities. It also notes that these discussions have often not been very forthcoming in explicitly acknowledging this urb…
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Epilogue: The National and the Colonial in the Anticolonial Transnational
Concludes the volume and draws the essays together
Immigrant Cities since the Late Nineteenth Century
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforceme…
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Ghostly Helpmate: Digitization and Global History
In the wake of recent discussions, this article asks how the broad process of digitization – and in particular the possibility of digital granular searching across vast corpora of primary sources and secondary literature – has transformed our research habits, the questions we are likely to ask, and the answers we are inclined to give. Specifically, it raises the question of whether digitization has been the unacknowledged driving force behind the…
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism (LAI) attracted anticolonial activists like India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Er…
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s international labor activists and Cold War democracy in the Americas
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s international labor activists and Cold War democracy in the Americas." Social History, 44(1), pp. 134–136
Spokesmen, Spies, and Spouses: Anticolonialism, Surveillance, and Intimacy in Interwar France
Immigration and National Identity in Latin America, 1870–1930
Although on a lesser scale than the United States, southern South America became a major receiving region during the period of mass transatlantic migration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Even as the white elites of most Latin American countries favored European immigration in the late 19th century, since in their eyes it would “civilize” their countries, it was the temperate areas closely tied into the Atlantic economy as exporters of…
The Capital of the Men without a Country”: Migrants and Anticolonialism in Interwar Paris
This article explores the role of interwar Paris as a marketplace for the global spread of anticolonialism. By examining the social bedrock for the flourishing of ideas, it anchors the early intellectual history of liberation movements in the everyday lives of migrants in the metropole, thus combining urban with global history. Migrants from across the French Empire who in Paris became the leaders of ethnic community associations receive particul…
Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism
This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the study delves into assassination plots allegedly hatched by Chinese students, demonstrations by Latin American nationalists, and the everyday lives of Algerian, Senegalese an…
Immigration and National Identities in Latin America
This book provides a comprehensive, comparative overview of immigration to Latin America, and presents original insight into the significance of immigration for regional national identities. The book is divided into two sections. Part one examines different spaces of migration, with chapters on the Greater Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Part two focuses on migrating peoples, with chapters on Jewish, German, Chinese, British Caribbean, …
Geopolitics, transnational solidarity or diaspora nationalism? The global career of M.N. Roy, 1915–1930
This article examines the global travels and anti-colonial thought of the Indian\nrevolutionary Manabendra Nath Roy. It focuses particularly on his little explored stay\nin revolutionary Mexico, where he became a founder of the Mexican Communist Party\nin 1919. Drawing on archival sources from various countries and Roy's own writings,\nthe article situates Roy's exploits somewhere between a global anti-colonialism,\ntransnational solidarity and d…
Die Souveränität Der Schwachen: Lateinamerika Und Der Völkerbund, 1920-1936
In this excellently researched monograph, Thomas Fischer scrutinizes Latin America’s relationship with the League of Nations. Grounded on extensive research in mainly diplomatic archives in no less than 13 countries, the study is a showcase of the advantages of patient, multiperspective historical scholarship. Seven chapters, stretching over more than 420 pages, reconstruct the role of Latin America’s “weak states” in the League of Nations in pai…
The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900-1955 - by Chamosa, Oscar
Argentina's Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History
Argentina s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive research of primary and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views about what it meant to be Argentine were built into the country s long drawn-out crisis of liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Eschewing th…
Von der hispanidad zum Panarabismus: Globale Verflechtungen in Argentiniens Nationalismen
The article explores the connections of various forms of nationalism in Argentina with Arab countries and pan-Arabism, focusing on the 1960s. Contrary to much of the existing scholarship on Argentine nationalism, it maintains that nationalist ideas and movements were not necessarily undermined, but instead frequently fortified through transnational exchange. Analyzing how cultural analogies between Argentina and Arab countries were construed on t…
In the Shadow of Perón: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina's Populist Movement - by Rein, Raanan
Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture
Decentring the German Spirit: The Weimar Republic's Cultural Relations with Latin America
This article analyses the Weimar Republic's cultural relations with Latin America. Based on diplomatic correspondence and the writings of Latin American intellectuals who visited Weimar Germany, the article combines an exploration of the goals and methods of Germany's official foreign cultural policy towards the region with a brief examination of the varied ways in which the supposed recipients of these policies approached German culture. The key…
Decentring the German Spirit: The Weimar Republic's Cultural Relations with Latin America
This article analyses the Weimar Republic's cultural relations with Latin America. Based on diplomatic correspondence and the writings of Latin American intellectuals who visited Weimar Germany, the article combines an exploration of the goals and methods of Germany's official foreign cultural policy towards the region with a brief examination of the varied ways in which the supposed recipients of these policies approached German culture. The key…
Spokesmen, Spies, and Spouses: Anticolonialism, Surveillance, and Intimacy in Interwar France
Von der hispanidad zum Panarabismus: Globale Verflechtungen in Argentiniens Nationalismen
The article explores the connections of various forms of nationalism in Argentina with Arab countries and pan-Arabism, focusing on the 1960s. Contrary to much of the existing scholarship on Argentine nationalism, it maintains that nationalist ideas and movements were not necessarily undermined, but instead frequently fortified through transnational exchange. Analyzing how cultural analogies between Argentina and Arab countries were construed on t…
Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture
Density and Differentiation: Cities in Global Social History
The present article examines the particular role that cities have played, and should play, in global social history. It notes that many of the historiographical discussions that in the past years have addressed the reach and limits of the bourgeoisie and the middle class as a globalized social formation have implicitly focused on cities. It also notes that these discussions have often not been very forthcoming in explicitly acknowledging this urb…
The Capital of the Men without a Country”: Migrants and Anticolonialism in Interwar Paris
This article explores the role of interwar Paris as a marketplace for the global spread of anticolonialism. By examining the social bedrock for the flourishing of ideas, it anchors the early intellectual history of liberation movements in the everyday lives of migrants in the metropole, thus combining urban with global history. Migrants from across the French Empire who in Paris became the leaders of ethnic community associations receive particul…
Introduction: Nationalism, the Left and Hegemony in Latin America
A Movement from Right to Left in Argentine Nationalism? The Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara as Stages of Militancy
This article contributes to debates about fascist influences among Argentina's guerrilla groups of the 1970s. From the overall perspective of developments in Argentine nationalism, it traces back the history of the far-right Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara and assesses their significance as the nuclei from which later guerrillas came. Based on police reports and periodical publications from the period in question (c.1937-c.1973), it …
Marxism and the Revision of Argentine History in the 1960s
It is a commonly held opinion that whereas in Europe the Left has refrained from embracing the pursuit of a grand “national” destiny among its principal objectives, the opposite is true for most of the developing world. This also goes for Latin America. As Jorge Castañeda has argued in his widely read book about the Latin American Left, south of the Río Grande the overwhelming hegemony of the northern neighbour encouraged the Left to adopt a nati…
Introduction: Nationalism, the Left and Hegemony in Latin America
A Movement from Right to Left in Argentine Nationalism? The Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara as Stages of Militancy
This article contributes to debates about fascist influences among Argentina's guerrilla groups of the 1970s. From the overall perspective of developments in Argentine nationalism, it traces back the history of the far-right Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and Tacuara and assesses their significance as the nuclei from which later guerrillas came. Based on police reports and periodical publications from the period in question (c.1937-c.1973), it …
Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture
Decentring the German Spirit: The Weimar Republic's Cultural Relations with Latin America
This article analyses the Weimar Republic's cultural relations with Latin America. Based on diplomatic correspondence and the writings of Latin American intellectuals who visited Weimar Germany, the article combines an exploration of the goals and methods of Germany's official foreign cultural policy towards the region with a brief examination of the varied ways in which the supposed recipients of these policies approached German culture. The key…
La fiesta de la independencia en Costa Rica, 1821 - 1921
Once upon a time Costa Rican historiography was infamous for its (self-)congratulatory tone. The country’s position at the colonial periphery, so the classical argument went, had bestowed it with an egalitarian and homogeneous society of farmers, who built a liberal-democratic polity capable of avoiding the bloodshed and authoritarianism of its less fortunate neighbors to the north. As David Díaz Arias’s book shows, the days of this straightforwa…
In the Shadow of Perón: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina's Populist Movement - by Rein, Raanan
Argentina's Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History
Argentina s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive research of primary and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views about what it meant to be Argentine were built into the country s long drawn-out crisis of liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Eschewing th…
Von der hispanidad zum Panarabismus: Globale Verflechtungen in Argentiniens Nationalismen
The article explores the connections of various forms of nationalism in Argentina with Arab countries and pan-Arabism, focusing on the 1960s. Contrary to much of the existing scholarship on Argentine nationalism, it maintains that nationalist ideas and movements were not necessarily undermined, but instead frequently fortified through transnational exchange. Analyzing how cultural analogies between Argentina and Arab countries were construed on t…
The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900-1955 - by Chamosa, Oscar
Die Souveränität Der Schwachen: Lateinamerika Und Der Völkerbund, 1920-1936
In this excellently researched monograph, Thomas Fischer scrutinizes Latin America’s relationship with the League of Nations. Grounded on extensive research in mainly diplomatic archives in no less than 13 countries, the study is a showcase of the advantages of patient, multiperspective historical scholarship. Seven chapters, stretching over more than 420 pages, reconstruct the role of Latin America’s “weak states” in the League of Nations in pai…
Immigration and National Identities in Latin America
This book provides a comprehensive, comparative overview of immigration to Latin America, and presents original insight into the significance of immigration for regional national identities. The book is divided into two sections. Part one examines different spaces of migration, with chapters on the Greater Caribbean, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Part two focuses on migrating peoples, with chapters on Jewish, German, Chinese, British Caribbean, …
Geopolitics, transnational solidarity or diaspora nationalism? The global career of M.N. Roy, 1915–1930
This article examines the global travels and anti-colonial thought of the Indian\nrevolutionary Manabendra Nath Roy. It focuses particularly on his little explored stay\nin revolutionary Mexico, where he became a founder of the Mexican Communist Party\nin 1919. Drawing on archival sources from various countries and Roy's own writings,\nthe article situates Roy's exploits somewhere between a global anti-colonialism,\ntransnational solidarity and d…
Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism
This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the study delves into assassination plots allegedly hatched by Chinese students, demonstrations by Latin American nationalists, and the everyday lives of Algerian, Senegalese an…
Immigration and National Identity in Latin America, 1870–1930
Although on a lesser scale than the United States, southern South America became a major receiving region during the period of mass transatlantic migration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Even as the white elites of most Latin American countries favored European immigration in the late 19th century, since in their eyes it would “civilize” their countries, it was the temperate areas closely tied into the Atlantic economy as exporters of…
The Capital of the Men without a Country”: Migrants and Anticolonialism in Interwar Paris
This article explores the role of interwar Paris as a marketplace for the global spread of anticolonialism. By examining the social bedrock for the flourishing of ideas, it anchors the early intellectual history of liberation movements in the everyday lives of migrants in the metropole, thus combining urban with global history. Migrants from across the French Empire who in Paris became the leaders of ethnic community associations receive particul…
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s international labor activists and Cold War democracy in the Americas
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s international labor activists and Cold War democracy in the Americas." Social History, 44(1), pp. 134–136
Spokesmen, Spies, and Spouses: Anticolonialism, Surveillance, and Intimacy in Interwar France
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism (LAI) attracted anticolonial activists like India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Er…
Ghostly Helpmate: Digitization and Global History
In the wake of recent discussions, this article asks how the broad process of digitization – and in particular the possibility of digital granular searching across vast corpora of primary sources and secondary literature – has transformed our research habits, the questions we are likely to ask, and the answers we are inclined to give. Specifically, it raises the question of whether digitization has been the unacknowledged driving force behind the…
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Epilogue: The National and the Colonial in the Anticolonial Transnational
Concludes the volume and draws the essays together
Immigrant Cities since the Late Nineteenth Century
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforceme…
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (20 works) · History (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (13 works) · Nationalism (10 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Latin Americans (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works)