New York University
Department of History
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Mary Nolan

Lillian Vernon Professorship for Teaching Excellence ; Professor of History
Columbia University, Ph.D. 1975

Email:  mn4@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: Europe and America in the Twentieth Century, Cold War, Modern German history; European women's history.

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Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Visions of Modernity:  American Business and the Modernization of Germany (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).  Reissued in digital format 2001.

Social Democracy and Society: Working-class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890-1920  (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).  Reissued in digital format 2001.

Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Omer Bartov and Atina Grossmann, (New York: New Press, 2002).

“Americanization as a Paradigm for German History,” in Conflict, Catastrophe, and Continuity in Modern German History, edited by Mark Roseman, Hanna Schissler and Frank Biess, (New York: Berghahn Books,  forthcoming 2006).

“Varieties of Capitalism and Versionen der Amerikanisierung,“ in Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus? Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft, ed. by Sigurd Vitols and Volker Berghahn, (Frankfurt: Campus, 2006).

“Air wars, Memory Wars,” Central European History,  38:1 (March 2005): 7-40.

“Anti-Americanism and Americanization inGermany,” Politics and Society 33:1 (March 2005):88-122.

“Anti-Americanism inGermany,” Anti-Americanism, edited by Andrew Ross and Kristen Ross, Anti-Americanism (NY: NYU Press, 2004).

“Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism,”  The New American Empire, ed. By Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn Young (New York: New Press, 2004), 113-132.

 “What Difference Does a Cold War Make? Reflections on the German-American Relationship,” Post Cold War Europe/Post Cold War America, ed. By Ruud Janssens and Rob Kroes, (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004), 30-44.

“ConsumingAmerica, Producing Gender,” The American Century in EuropeBy R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna (Ithaca:CornellUniversity Press, 2003, 243-61. 

“Ideology, Mobilization and Comparison: Explaining Violence in The Furies,” French Historical Studies, 24:4  (fall 2001), 549-557.

“The Politics of Memory in theBerlinRepublic,” Radical History Review, 81 (fall 2001), 113-32.  Reprinted in Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space, ed. By Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lise Maya Knauer (Duke University Press, 2004).

“America in the German Imagination,” in  Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan, edited by Heidi Fehrenbach and Uta Poiger (Providence andOxford: Berghahn,  2000).

“Work, Gender and Everyday Life: Reflections on Continuity, Normality and Agency in Twentieth Century Germany” in Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison, edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 311-42.

“Anti-fascism under Fascism: German Visions and Voices,” New German Critique (Winter 1996): 33-55.

“’Housework Made Easy: The Taylorized Housewife inWeimarGermany’s Rationalized Economy,” Feminist Studies (fall 1990): 549-78. 

“The Historikerstreit and Social History,” New German Critique 44 (1988): 51-80.  Reprinted in  Reworking the German Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians’ Debate. Edited by Peter Baldwin (Boston: Beacon, 1990).

“Economic Crisis, State Policy and Working-class Formation inGermany, 1870-1900,”  in Working-class Formation, edited by Ira Katznelson and Aristide  Zolberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986): 352-93.

Book Prizes:

George Louis Been Prize for International History for Visions of Modernity, American Historical Association. 1996.

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