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GHI Bulletin 39, Fall 2006 GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE,WASHINGTON,DC BULLETIN ISSUE 39 FALL 2006 CONTENTS List of Contributors 5 Preface 9 FEATURES My Relationship to Beethoven 11 Kurt Masur Enlightenment Applied, Enlightenment Betrayed: A Story of Liberty under Pressure 15 Ralf Dahrendorf Meinecke’s Protégés: German E´ migré Historians Between Two Worlds 23 Gerhard A. Ritter Three Generations of German Gelehrtenpolitik 39 James J. Sheehan Urban Nature and Human Design 45 Anne Whiston Spirn GHI RESEARCH Why Care About Dirt? Transatlantic Perspectives on the History of Agriculture 65 Frank Uekötter Observing a Dictatorship: American Consular Reporting on Germany, 1933–41 79 Christoph Strupp Transatlantic Mediators: American Protagonists of American-German Relations Since World War II 99 Bernd Schaefer German Jews in the United States: A Guide to Research Resources 101 Simone Lässig and Cornelia Wilhelm CONFERENCE REPORTS A Flaneur between Rubble and Ruins: Friedrich Seidenstücker, Photographs of Berlin after 1945 107 Kelly McCullough The Lights are Going Out All Over Europe 114 Christof Mauch War, Culture, and Propaganda: Nelson A. Rockefeller and the U.S. “Information Program” in Latin America During World War II 116 Gisela Cramer Jesters, Jokes, and Laughter: The Politics of Humor in the Twentieth Century 118 Martina Kessel and Patrick Merziger Crossovers: African Americans and Germany 127 Anke Ortlepp, Maria Diedrich, Larry Greene, Jürgen Heinrichs Max Liebermann: An Artist’s Career from Empire to Third Reich 132 Marion Deshmukh Western Integration, German Unification, and the Cold War: The Adenauer Era in Perspective 136 Corinna R. Unger Philanthropy in History: German and American Perspectives 143 Gabriele Lingelbach and Thomas Adam Removing Peoples: Forced Migration in the Modern World (1850–1950) 148 Indra Sengupta-Frey Imagining the Nation: Visual Representation of Race from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth 156 Anke Ortlepp German History, 1930–1960: Twelfth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History 158 Richard F. Wetzell Controlling the Streets of Nazi Germany: Midatlantic German History Seminar 164 Nathan Stoltzfus Jews and Modernity: Beyond the Nation 166 Jonathan Skolnik German Imperial Biographies: Soldiers, Scientists, and Officials and the “Arendt Thesis” 170 Eric D. Weitz Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Environment 173 Karen Oslund, Niels Brimnes, Christina Folke Ax, Niklas Thode Jensen Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: The European and Global Response 182 Corinna R. Unger Elzbieta Sikorska: Forest Drawings 189 Laura Katzman Archival Summer Seminar in Germany 195 Anke Ortlepp Pückler and America 199 Sonja Dümpelmann Fellows Seminars Spring 2006 204 Dirk Schumann ANNOUNCEMENTS:FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES,SEMINARS Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2007 207 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 208 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships 208 Kade-Heideking Fellowship 209 Thyssen-Heideking Fellowship 210 GHI-Körber Internship 210 Internships 211 NEWS Franz Steiner Prize 2006 213 Awards for Adolf Cluss Book and Exhibit 213 Von Oppenfeld Donation for Anti-Nazi Resistance Project 214 New Publications 214 Library Report 215 Fellowship Recipients 216 Internship Recipients 217 Staff Changes 218 EVENTS Fall 2006 Lecture Series 219 Events Sponsored by the GHI, 2006–07 221 GHI PUBLICATIONS 225 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS THOMAS ADAM is Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Graduate Advisor in the History Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. His most recent publication is Traveling between Worlds: German-American Encounters (co-edited with Ruth Gross, Texas A&M, 2006). CHRISTINA FOLKE AX is a Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She received her Ph.D. from the same university in 2004, and is the author of “Cultural Differences in late 18th-century Iceland,” Saga vol. 40, no. 1 (2002). NIELS BRIMNES is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History and Area Stud- ies, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is the author of Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India (Richmond, 1999). His most recent research interests focus on the history of public health in colonial and post-colonial India. GISELA CRAMER is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. She is the author of a number of publications on inter- American communications and on the political economy of Latin America, in- cluding Argentinien im Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Stuttgart, 1999). RALF DAHRENDORF is a member of the British House of Lords. He is former director of the London School of Economics and a former warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His most recent book is Versuchungen der Unfreiheit: Die Intellektuellen in Zeiten der Prüfung (Munich, 2006). MARION DESHMUKH is Chair, Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Her research interests center on the relation- ships between nineteenth- and twentieth-century German painters and their re- ception through the lens of politics. Her most recent publication was an exhibition catalogue, Max Liebermann: Works on Paper. MARIA I. DIEDRICH teaches in the Department of American Studies at the Univer- sität Münster. She is the author of Love Across the Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass (New York, 2000). SONJA DÜMPELMANN is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. She has publisheda book on the life and work of the Italian landscape designer Maria Teresa Parpa- gliolo Shephard (1903–1974) and is currently researching the transatlantic transfer of ideas in landscape architecture. GHI BULLETIN NO.39(FALL 2006) 5 LARRY GREENE teaches in the Department of History at Seton Hall University. JÜRGEN HEINRICHS teaches in the Department of Art and Music at Seton Hall University. NIKLAS THODE JENSEN is a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is presently completing his dissertation entitled “For the Health of the Enslaved: Disease, Health, and the Effects of the Health Policy of the Colonial Administration of the Danish West Indies among Plantation Slaves on St. Croix, 1803–1848.” LAURA KATZMAN is Associate Professor of Art and Director of Museum Studies at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and Senior Research Fellow at the Smithso- nian American Art Museum. She is the co-author of Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times (Yale, 2000). MARTINA KESSEL is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bielefeld. She is the author of Langeweile: Zum Umgang mit Zeit und Gefühlen vom späten 18. bis frühen 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 2001). GABRIELE LINGELBACH is Assistant Professor of History at the Universität Trier. She recently published a comparative analysis of the development of historiography in the U.S. and France, Klio macht Karriere: Die Institutionalisierung der Geschichts- wissenschaft in Frankreich und den USA in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (Göttingen, 2003). KURT MASUR is Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic. He was the Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Dresden from 1970 to 1996. PATRICK MERZIGER is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. KAREN OSLUND is Assistant Professor of World History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the GHI from 2004to 2006. Her book Narrating the North Atlantic: Travel, Nature, and Cultural Identity in Iceland, Greenland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands, 1750–2000 is under preparation with the University of Washington Press. GERHARD A. RITTER is Professor of History Emeritus at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität in Munich. His most recent publications are Friedrich Meinecke: Aka- demischer Lehrer und emigrierte Schüler—Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, eingeleitet und bearbeitet von Gerhard A. Ritter (Munich, 2006) and Der Preis der deutschen Ein- heit: Die Wiedervereinigung und die Krise des Sozialstaats (Munich, 2006). INDRA SENGUPTA-FREY is Research Fellow in Commonwealth and Empire studies at the German Historical Institute, London. She is the author of From Salon to Dis- cipline: State, University and Indology in Germany, 1821–1914 (2005). JAMES J. SHEEHAN is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Mod- ern European History at Stanford University and former President of the Ameri- 6 GHI BULLETIN NO.39(FALL 2006) can Historical Association. His most recent book is Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (New York, 2000). ANNE WHISTON SPIRN is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project since 1987. She is author of the book The Language of Landscape (Yale,1998). NATHAN STOLTZFUS is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Florida State University and co-editor (with Christof Mauch and Doug Weiner) of Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe (2006). FRANK UEKÖTTER is a Dilthey Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut des Deutschen Museums in Munich, Germany. His most recent book, The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany, was published by Cambridge University Press in June 2006. ERIC D. WEITZ is professor and chair of History at the University of Minnesota, where he also
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