Dynamics of Emigration

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. Before 2011 he had full chairs of History at the Universities of Manchester (2005–2011) and University of Glamorgan (2000–2005).Philipp Müller teaches Contemporary European History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin. The subject of his thesis was "Knowledge and Narration. The Aesthetic Understanding of History in Ranke, Burckhardt and Taine." Müller has also published on the historiography of world history and historical theory. His current research interests are focused on economic and political liberalism in the twentieth century.

“Dynamics of Emigration is an excellent volume that consolidates an emerging European historiography that is probably unfamiliar to many interested readers in the English language. The contributions address the problem from an admirable range of questions: more traditional intellectual history, the “persona” adopted by exiles in their adopted countries, their contributions to the intellectual situations there, the question of whether they became integrated in their new intellectual environments, the question of gender for exiles, and more.” Benjamin Tromly, University of Puget Sound

• Introduction: Dynamics of Émigré Scholarship in the Age of ExtremesStefan Berger and Philipp MüllerChapter 1. 'A Private Perch': Cosmopolitanism, Nostalgia and Commitment in the Émigré Historian's PersonaJo TollebeekChapter 2. The Émigré Historian: A Scholarly Persona?Herman PaulChapter 3. The Dictator's Long Arm: Cross-Border Persecution of Exile HistoriansAntoon de BaetsChapter 4. Nativism and the Specter of Anti-Semitism in the Placement of German Refugee Scholars, 1933–1945Joseph MalherekChapter 5. Defending Objectivity: Paul Oskar Kristeller and the Controversy on the Historical Knowledge in the United StatesIrina MykhailovaChapter 6. Émigré Historians and the Postwar Transatlantic DialoguePhilipp StelzelChapter 7. Between Integration and Institutional Self-Organisation: Polish Émigré Scholarship in the United States, 1939–1989Kai WillmsChapter 8. The Unlikely Careers of Laura Polanyi (1882–1959) as a Historian: The Intersections of Exile, Gender, Class and AgeJudith SzaporChapter 9. 'From Geistesgeschichte to Public History': The Years of Emigration of the Hungarian Historian Béla Iványi Grünwald, Jr.Vilmos ErösChapter 10. Building New Networks: Russian Émigré Scholars in YugoslaviaBranimir JankovićChapter 11. Networking in Santa Barbara, Writing History: Dimitrije Đorđević and the Comparative History of Balkan NationsMichael AntolovicChapter 12. António Sérgio and José Ortega y Gasset: History, Theory and Experiences of ExileSérgio Campos MatosChapter 13. Emigré Portuguese Historians in France between the Second World War and 25th April 1974: New Ways and Places of Thinking and Writing Portuguese History?Christophe AraujoConclusion: New Perspectives on Emigre Scholarship and What Remains to be DoneStefan Berger and Philipp MüllerIndex