Introduction Part I. Theoretical Explorations: 1. Compromise and closure: a theory of social dynamics 2. The making of modern communities Part II. State Building and Ethnic Conflict: 3. Who owns the state? Ethnic conflicts after the end of empires 4. Nationalism and ethnic mobilisation in Mexico 5. From empire to ethnocracy. Iraq since the Ottomans Part III. The Politics of Exclusion in Nationalised States: 6. Racism and xenophobia 7. Nationalising multi-ethnic Switzerland.

Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity

What is Fascism? How can we comprehend it? Fascism was a major political innovation of the 20th centiry and the source of much of its pain. This book shows that we cannot understand the phenomenon in the abstract, but only in terms of its actions.

The Anatomy of Fascism

Introduction: The Project of Historiography Section 1: Beginnings - East and West Introduction 1.1 Asian Historiography: Two Traditions 1.2 Historiography and Greek Self-Definition .3 Re-Reading the Roman Historians 1.4 The Historiography of Rural Labour 1.5 Towards Late-Antiquity Section 2: The Medieval World Introduction 2.1 The Historiography of the Medieval State 2.2 Saladin and the Third Crusade 2.3 Family and Household 2.4 The Medieval Nobility 2.5 Armies and Warfare 2.6 Popular Religion Section 3: Early-Modern Historiography Introduction 3.1 The Idea of Early Modern History 3.2 The Scientific Revolution 3.3 Intellectual History 3.4 The English Reformation 3.5 Popular Culture in the Early-Modern West 3.6 Revisionism in Britain Section 4: Reflecting on the Modern Age Introduction I: Revolution and Ideology 4.1 The French Revolution 4.2 The Soviet Revolution 4.3 National Socialism in Germany 4.4 Fascism and Beyond in Italy 4.5 Orientalism London: II Area Studies 4.6 China 4.7 Japan 4.8 India 4.9 Africa 4.10 North America 4.11 Latin America Section 5: Contexts for the Writing of History I: Hinterlands 5.1 History and Philosophy 5.2 History and Anthropology 5.3 History and Archaeology 5.4 History of Art II: Approaches 5.5 The Historical Narrative 5.6 The Annales School 5.7 Marxist Historiography 5.8 Women in Historiography 5.9 Comparative World History 5.10 Archives and Technology

Companion to Historiography

This article explores the role of social narratives in working-class formation. The primary goal of this exercise is to generate concepts for the comparative analysis of working-class identities and practices. My thesis is that more successful cases of working-class formation involve the elaboration of coherent narratives about individual and collective history, stories that are coordinated with one another and that are organized around the category of social class. In such narratives, events are selected for inclusion due to their relevance to social class, or they are excluded or deemphasized because of their irrelevance to class, and events are interpreted, emplotted, and evaluated in a way that emphasizes class rather than other possible constructs. By contrast, working-class formation is less pronounced where individual and collective narratives are based on alternative, nonclass forms of identity, such as nationality, gender, ethnicity, and race. Working-class formation is also weaker where individual narratives are asynchronous, where the individual and collective levels are not coordinated with one another, or where identities fail to attain narrative coherence.

Reflections on the Role of Social Narratives in Working-Class Formation: Narrative Theory in the Social Sciences

Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew

Kollektive Identität : heimliche Quellen einer unheimlichen Konjunktur

History, be it Fukuyama's liberal democracy or Baudrillard's hyperreality, according to a number of pundits, has reached the end of the line. Yet these heated debates are themselves profoundly ahistorical, for the conception of posthistoire, "the end of history", has been a recurrent theme since the late 19th century. Lutz Niethammer, Germany's leading radical historian, here uncovers this intellectual history of disillusion and resignation. Tracing the idea of history's end back to Nietzsche and Spengler, he examines its manifestations in the views of writers in France and Germany, particularly during the interwar years. Many were thinkers of the Right; Ernst Junger, Jacques Doriot and Arnold Gehlen. Others, above all Alexandre Kojeve, belonged to the Left. But whether they pinned their hopes on the nation or the proletariat, they shared a common response to the "failure" of the masses to fulfil a prescribed role. They all conflated the apparent collapse of a particular historical project with the collapse of history of itself. A central theme is the reaction of intellectual elites to the rise of mass culture and the crises of mass movements. Niethammer offers an alternative in the approach of Walter Benjamin, who, despite his critiques of technological mass civilization, refused to deny the fact that people make and transform history. For all those who stil refuse to believe that human history has ground to a standstill, Posthistoire should be interesting reading. Subject is currently at the centre of political and intellectual debate, provoked by publication of Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man". Will appeal to the large general and academic audience built up by Fukuyama's book. This book is the first comprehensive left critique of the "end of history". Will be read by the political left, and be required reading of apologists of the concept of any political hue.

Lutz Niethammer

Papers

Kollektive Identität : heimliche Quellen einer unheimlichen Konjunktur

Posthistoire: Has History Come to an End?

"Die Jahre weiss man nicht, wo man die heute hinsetzen soll" : Faschismuserfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet

Der "gesäuberte" Antifaschismus : die SED und die roten Kapos von Buchenwald : Dokumente

Arbeiterinitiative 1945: Antifaschistische Ausschusse und Reorganisation der Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland