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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100299165809
ISBN-139780299165802
eBay Product ID (ePID)864777
Product Key Features
Book TitleConfronting History : a Memoir
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicHolocaust, Personal Memoirs, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorGeorge L. Mosse
Book SeriesGeorge L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.7 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-006425
SynopsisJust two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century's great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students and that countless readers have found, and will continue to find, in his many scholarly books. Confronting History describes Mosse's opulent childhood in Weimar Berlin; his exile in Paris and England, including boarding school and study at Cambridge University; his second exile in the U.S. at Haverford, Harvard, Iowa, and Wisconsin; and his extended stays in London and Jerusalem. Mosse also deals with matters of personal identity. He discusses being a Jew and his attachment to Israel and Zionism. He addresses his gayness, his coming out, and his growing scholarly interest in issues of sexuality. This touching memoir, sometimes harrowing, often humorous, is guided in part by Mosse's belief that "what man is, only history tells," and by his constant themes of the fate of liberalism, the defining events that can bring about the generational political awakenings of youth (from the anti-fascism struggles of the 1930s to the campus anti-war movement of the 1960s), the meanings of masculinity and racial and sexual stereotypes, the enigma of exile, and--most of all--the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth, and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of his times.
LC Classification NumberD15.M668A3 2000
