James J Sheehan

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ID706100
NAMEJames J Sheehan
GIVEN NAMESJames J
FAMILY NAMESheehan
SIGNATURESHEEHAN J J
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT59
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Europe Without Borders: A History

    James J SheehanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2026

  • Rachel Chrastil. Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2025

  • Stella Ghervas. Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Stella Ghervas. Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union. Get access Stella Ghervas. Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 513. Cloth $39.95. James J. Sheehan James J. Sheehan Stanford University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, V…

  • The Future of the German Past

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLECentral European History2018References: 6

    All art is dialogue. So is all interest in the past. And one of the parties lives and comprehends in a contemporary way, by his very existence. It seems also to be inherent in human existence to turn and return to the past (much as powerful voices may urge us to give it up). The more precisely we listen and the more we become aware of its pastness, even of its near inaccessibility, the more meaningful the dialogue becomes. In the end, it can only…

  • Thinking about History

    James J SheehanARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2018References: 6

    Among the many virtues of Maza’s book is her recognition that history is defined by practice, not by theories or methods—by what historians do rather than what they have to say about how or why they do it. The basis of Thinking about History, therefore, is Maza’s careful reading and astute summary of important historical works. Her first three chapters address history’s subject matter—the kinds of people that historians study (“The History of Who…

  • Democracy, History of

    Open AccessJames J SheehanCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Political History: History of Politics

    Open AccessJames J SheehanCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Gerhard A. Ritter (1929–2015)

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLECentral European History2015

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  • The Future of Conscription: Some Comparative Reflections

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLEDaedalus2011Cited by: 1References: 1

    JAMES J. SHEEHAN, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1992, is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His publications include Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe (2008), Museums in the German Art World from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (2000), and German History, 1770–1886 (1989). [Conscription] is always a si…

  • Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century

    James J Sheehan, Simms Brendan et al.BOOKCultures of Power in Europe…2009

  • Gordon Alexander Craig (1913–2005)

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLECentral European History2007

    In the spring of 1936, Gordon A. Craig, twenty-two years old and about to graduate from Princeton, made two of his earliest public appearances. The first was a poem, modeled on a Latin Ode, published in the Nassau Lit with the title “Marxicos Odi,” and dedicated “To My Proletarian Sweetheart.” The poem evokes the brevity of life, the swift passing of undergraduate pleasures, and their irresistible distraction from more serious things

  • Culture Incorporated. Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships

    James J Sheehan, Mark W RectanusARTICLEGerman Studies Review2003

    Rectanus, Mark W. Culture Incorporated: Museums, Artists and Corporate Sponsorship. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 288pp. $22.95 paperback. This study is one of the first in English to address the influence of corporations on art, entities, and audiences in the US and Germany. Rectanus pairs the US and Germany because for him they epitomize how corporate influence on politics is advancing in what he calls globalized societies. …

  • Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin

    James J Sheehan, Claude KeischARTICLEGerman Studies Review2003

  • What it Means to be a State: States and Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLEJournal of Modern European History2003

    Was es heißt ein Staat zu sein: Staaten und Gewalt im Europa des 20. JahrhundertsWas es heißt ein Staat zu sein: Staaten und Gewalt im Europa des 20. JahrhundertsIn rechtlicher, moralischer und praktischer Hinsicht basierte der moderne europäische Staat auf seinem Recht wie auf seiner Fähigkeit, Gewalt auszuüben, vor allem im Krieg. Bis 1945 bestimmte die Möglichkeit des Krieges die Beziehungen der Staaten untereinander ebenso wie die der einzeln…

  • A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937–1945

    Open AccessJames J SheehanARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2000

    Journal Article A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937–1945 Get access A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937–1945 by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2000. 650 pp. $35.00. James J. Sheehan James J. Sheehan Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 3, Fall 2000, Pages 447–448…

  • Reevaluating the Third Reich

    James J SheehanARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1994

  • The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism

    James J Sheehan, David Bankier et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

  • German History 1770-1866

    James J SheehanBOOKGerman History, 1770-1866 (Oxford…1993

    Now available in paperback, this is a uniquely authoritative study of Germany from the mid-eighteenth century to the formation of the Bismarckian Reich. James J. Sheehan gives an extensive account of social and cultural, as well as political developments, and shows that the creation of a Prussian-led nation-state should not be seen as natural’ or inevitable. He shows how German history in this period was shaped by three separable yet closely link…

  • Max Weber: Briefe, 1906-1908 . M. Rainer Lepsius , Wolfgang J. Mommsen , Birgit Rudhard , Manfred Schön Max Weber Gesamtausgabe. Part 2: Briefe. Volume 5 . Horst Baier , M. Rainer Lepsius , Wolfgang J…

    James J SheehanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1993

  • National History and National Identity in the New Germany

    James J SheehanARTICLEGerman Studies Review1992

  • The racial state: Germany, 1933–1945

    James J SheehanARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1992

    (1992). The racial state: Germany, 1933–1945. History of European Ideas: Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 879-879

  • An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933

    Georg G Iggers, Henri Lehmann et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933. Ed. by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan. (Washington: German Historical Institute and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 234 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40326-X.) Get access Georg G. Iggers Georg G. Iggers State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…

  • An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933

    Peter Paret, Henri Lehmann et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

  • German History 1770-1866

    Joachim Remak, James J SheehanARTICLEGerman Studies Review1991

  • Parlamentarismus in Wurttemberg, 1819-1870: Anatomie eines deutschen Landtags . Hartwig Brandt , Gerhard A. Ritter

    James J SheehanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1990