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5. Reviews of Books

Author

Olive Patricia Dickason, Paul Cartledge, Joseph Shatzmiller, Warren Treadgold, Edward Peters, Sophia Menache, Paul Stephenson, Erik Aerts, Tamar Herzog, David Goldfrank, Stephen F. Dale, Chandra R. De Silva, Douglas M. Peers, Andrew Cayton, Victor Stater, Krishan Kumar, Solofo Randrianja, John E. Wills, Ivan T. Berend, Lothar Höbelt, Peter C. Kent, Bill Schwarz, Patricia Grimshaw, Frederick R. Dickinson, Wesley T. Wooley, D. W. Ellwood, Ian J. Kerr, Greg Kennedy, Stephen G. Craft, Rory Miller, Modris Eksteins, Talbot Imlay, Rana Mitter, Hugh Laracy, Nicholas Atkin, Raymond A. Callahan, James J. Weingartner, Chris Wrigley, Michael Krepon, Tami Davis Biddle, Michael A. Barnhart, Fred Halliday, Thomas Alan Schwartz, Peter Lowe, Anita Inder Singh, Ayesha Jalal, Brenda Gayle Plummer, William B. Quandt, John Redwood, David Ryan, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Robert Sutter, Piero Ignazi, Charles Cogan, Francis M. Carroll, Stephen Blank, and Richard Ned Lebow

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science
Published
2006
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6. Book Reviews

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Louis H. Feldman, Andrew C. Ross, John J. Contreni, Benjamin Arnold, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Peter Edbury, Kenneth Pennington, Francis A. Dutra, Julius Kirshner, Antonio Santosuosso, Karl Gunnar Persson, John E. Kicza, Roger Buckley, Timothy J. Shannon, Kenneth Morgan, J. A. De Moor, John Grenier, M. N. Pearson, Kenneth J. Andrien, Pieter Emmer, Penelope Carson, J. C. D. Clark, Anthony Rhinelander, Lawrence S. Kaplan, K. David Milobar, Hannah Barker, John Gascoigne, Paul Webb, Deirdre Mcmahon, Malcolm C. Barber, Catherine R. Schenk, Anthony J. Barker, Kendrick A. Clements, Ralph Lee Woodward, Helen Callaway, Gregory Mann, Peter Kivisto, Vaclav Smil, Charles C. Pentland, Lothar Höbelt, Ian F. W. Beckett, Modris Eksteins, C. I. Hamilton, John W. Cell, R. W. Davies, Michael Jabara Carley, Paul Dukes, Farid El Khazen, Jean-Christian Lambelet, Norman J. W. Goda, Sarah Ansari, Robert J. Mcmahon, Bruce A. Elleman, Glen Balfour-Paul, John W. Young, Howard Dooley, Tyler Priest, Hugh Laracy, Timothy N. Castle, Glenn J. Dorn, Alan P. Dobson, Choon-Ho Park, David Tal, Leszek Buszynski, Peter Shearman, Roger Petersen, Fred H. Lawson, Macalister Brown, Vassilis Fouskas, Chris Healy, T. David Mason, Richard Falk, John G. Darwin, Paul Gordon Lauren, Cathal J. Nolan, and Walter Lafeber

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science
Published
2001
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8. Solar Dance : Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age

Author

Modris Eksteins and Modris Eksteins

Subjects
History, Modern--20th century, World War, 1939-1945--Influence, Civilization, Modern--20th century, Histoire--20e sie`cle, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--Influence, Civilisation--20e sie`cle
Abstract

In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century. The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins'internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography of an era--from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall--that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today.

Published
2012

9. Solar Dance : Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty

Author

Modris Eksteins and Modris Eksteins

Subjects
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Abstract

In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker's sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh's work unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a world of defined values and standards that had already begun to erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphs—over defeat, poverty, and meaninglessness—that spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths of mastery.Filled with characters who delight and frighten, Solar Dance merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for authenticity and purpose.

Published
2012

10. Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Author

Modris Eksteins and Modris Eksteins

Subjects
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Influence, Civilization, Modern--20th century
Abstract

Named'One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada'(The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins. Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of World War I--from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945.'The Great War,'Eksteins writes,'was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places.'In this extraordinary book, Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.

Published
2012

11. [Untitled]

Author

Modris Eksteins

Subjects
Hegemony, History, Sociology and Political Science, Aside, media_common.quotation_subject, Media studies, Context (language use), Character (symbol), Modernization theory, Maturity (psychological), Political Science and International Relations, Immediacy, Social history, media_common
Abstract

A book, I often say, is like a child. Once it reaches a certain level of maturity, it should be permitted to go out into the world to live its own life, to fend for itself. Few performances are, to my mind, sadder than those of author-parents who chase after their offspring, who carp and whine that their brainchild has been misinterpreted or, God forbid, not even noticed. It is, thus, with some hesitation that I am participating in an issue of this journal where a book I completed ten years ago receives attention. The book can stand on its own. It doesn't need me, even when it gets beat up badly. It doesn't, thank goodness, ask for subventions, interest-free loans, or keys to the car! Aside from interviews and lectures where I have been asked to elucidate aspects of its character, I have never deliberately defended or promoted the book. Not once in the decade have I written to an editor or reviewer to complain or explain. So, what in the world am I doing now? Well, I hope that I might be permitted, without surrendering my principles or being insufferably pom pous, to reflect on the fate of my book in the way that a parent might reflect on the development of a child on the tenth anniversary of its de parture from the roost. What hopes did I have? And what happened? I began work on what came to be called Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (nicknamed Rites) in the mid 1970s, fresh from the publication of my dissertation and still in the early throes of teach ing. At the time, social history was on its hegemonic roll. Modernization theory held sway. Quantification was all the rage. These developments?the drift of my discipline of history away from the humanities and toward the social sciences?both excited and disturbed me. Ralf Dahrendorf, Barrington Moore, Jr., and Eric Hobsbawm, among others, lit many a fire under me. But at the same time, the move away from actual human experience in the past to a theory of that experience undermined for me the intensity and immediacy of historical study. Moreover, the progressive context of Western

Published
1998
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13. Reviews of Book

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George Williamson, Bernard S. Bachrach, Constance M. Fraser, Rolf Hamel-Kiesow, John K. Agbeti, Antonio Santosuosso, Daniel Goffman, M. W. Daly, Tony Antonovics, G. V. Scammell, Charles A. Keene, Alexander Deconde, Robert E. Lipsey, Jerry Dennerline, Neville Thompson, Kathleen Wilson, Philippa Levine, W. David Mcintyre, Dominic Lieven, Gary W. Shanafelt, Modris Eksteins, John Mcdermott, Yoshihisa T. Matsusaka, Marius B. Jansen, Norman Etherington, Andrew J. Crozier, Holger H. Herwig, Dennis Showalter, William Richardson, Francis M. Carroll, Donald Harman Akenson, Patrick A. Dunae, A.J. Stockwell, Robert James Maddox, D. W. Spring, Earl F. Ziemke, Raymond Callahan, Lloyd C. Gardner, Warren F. Kimball, Robert D. Cuff, Dirk Hoerder, Amos Perlmutter, Anita Inder Singh, James J. Wirtz, Stephen J. Randall, Michael Graham Fry, Henry Munson, Miriam Fendius Elman, and Gordon H. Chang

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science
Published
1997
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18. Review of Europe and the Sea, by Michael Mollat du Jourdain; Early Irish and Welsh Kinship, by T. M. Charles-Edwards; An Historical Geography of Ireland, by B. J. Graham and L. J. Proudfoot; Moving Europeans, by Leslie Page Moch; Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880-1930, by Colin G. Pooley; The Edwardian House, by Helen C. Long; Slums and Redevelopment, by J. A. Yelling; Street Noises, by Adrian Rifkin; Wild Majesty, by Peter Hulume and Neil L. Whitehead; Art and Empire, by Vivien Green Fryd; Mapping American Culture, by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner; The Power of Maps, by Denis Wood (with John Fels); The Transformation of Agriculture in the West, by David Grigg; World Trade Since 1431, by Peter J. Hugill; Ways of the World, by M. G. Lay; West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce, by James F. Searing; Crossings, by Walter Nugent; Miasms and Disease, by Carlo M. Cipolla; Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack; Black Mountain, by Colin Murray and War Machine: The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern Age, by Daniel Pick

Author

John H. Pryor, Glansville R.J. Jones, Robin A. Butlin, Charles W.J. Withers, Richard Dennis, Annemarie Adams, Stephen V. Ward, Antony Copley, Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Angela Miller, David Seamon, Matthew H. Edney, John R. Walton, Fiona M. Davidson, John A. Kirchner, John Thornton, John Webb, Gerry Kearns, Jonathan Crush, and Modris Eksteins

Subjects
Archeology, History, Geography, Planning and Development
Published
1994
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38. Universalgeschichte Revisited

Author

Modris Eksteins

Subjects
History, Race (biology), Civilization, Field (Bourdieu), media_common.quotation_subject, Columbia university, Art, Theology, Classics, media_common
Published
1981
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39. War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front

Author

Modris Eksteins

Subjects
History, Politics, Focus (computing), Spanish Civil War, Aesthetics, QUIET, Emotional expression, Front (military), Representation (politics)
Abstract

Within months of its publication in January 1929 Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) was the world's best-selling book. It provoked a feverish controversy between those who claimed that it was an accurate representation of the war experience of 1914–18, portraying the utter futility of war, and those who denounced it as propaganda and an irreverent commercial exploitation of the Great War. Ironically, despite the intended focus of this heated debate, both the novel and the response which it elicited were more an emotional expression of postwar disillusionment and distress than a contribution to the understanding of the actual war experience.

Published
1980
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40. All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War

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Modris Eksteins

Subjects
Cultural Studies, Silence, History, Spanish Civil War, Sociology and Political Science, QUIET, Subject (philosophy), Media studies, Cultural artifact, Boom, Front (military)
Abstract

Between 1928 and 1930 Germany and Great Britain especially, and France and America to a lesser extent, experienced a sudden and remarkable 'boom' in war books, plays, and films. For a decade after the end of the war, publishers, theatre directors, and film makers had treated war material gingerly, viewing it as a poor commercial propositon, on the assumption that the public wished, contrary to annual remembrance day exhortations, to forget the war. In the course of 1928, and then particularly in early 1929, it became abundantly clear that the war had become a saleable subject, and cultural artifacts dealing with the war began to pour forth. What some felt to have been a 'conspiracy of silence' was shattered with a

Published
1980
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