Dynamics of Emigration: Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century(43 Making Sense of History)

As a pioneering volume to consider the impact of exile on historical scholarship in the twentieth century in a systematic and global way, looking at Europe, North America, South America and Asia, Dynamics of Emigration asks about epistemic repercussions on the experience of exile and exiles. Analyzing both the impact that exile scholars had on their host societies and on the societies they had to leave, the volume investigates exiles’ pathways to integration into new host societies and the many difficulties they face establishing themselves in new surroundings. Focusing on the age of extremes and the realms of exile from fascist and right-wing dictatorships as well as communist regimes, the contributions look at the reasons scholars have for going into exile while providing side-by-side examination of the support organizations and paths for success involved with living in exile.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Dynamics of Émigré Scholarship in the Age of Extremes Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller Chapter 1. ‘A Private Perch’: Cosmopolitanism, Nostalgia and Commitment in the Émigré Historian’s Persona Jo Tollebeek Chapter 2. The Émigré Historian: A Scholarly Persona? Herman Paul Chapter 3. The Dictator’s Long Arm: Cross-Border Persecution of Exile Historians Antoon de Baets Chapter 4. Nativism and the Specter of Anti-Semitism in the Placement of German Refugee Scholars, 1933–1945 Joseph Malherek Chapter 5. Defending Objectivity: Paul Oskar Kristeller and the Controversy on the Historical Knowledge in the United States Irina Mykhailova Chapter 6. Émigré Historians and the Postwar Transatlantic Dialogue Philipp Stelzel Chapter 7. Between Integration and Institutional Self-Organisation: Polish Émigré Scholarship in the United States, 1939–1989 Kai Willms Chapter 8. The Unlikely Careers of Laura Polanyi (1882–1959) as a Historian: The Intersections of Exile, Gender, Class and Age Judith Szapor Chapter 9. ‘From Geistesgeschichte to Public History’: The Years of Emigration of the Hungarian Historian Béla Iványi Grünwald, Jr. Vilmos Erös Chapter 10. Building New Networks: Russian Émigré Scholars in Yugoslavia Branimir Janković Chapter 11. Networking in Santa Barbara, Writing History: Dimitrije Đorđević and the Comparative History of Balkan Nations Michael Antolovic Chapter 12. António Sérgio and José Ortega y Gasset: History, Theory and Experiences of Exile Sérgio Campos Matos Chapter 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 Araujo Conclusion: New Perspectives on Emigre Scholarship and What Remains to be Done Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller Index

About the Author :
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).

Review :
“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