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Prof. Dr. Willibald Steinmetz

Universität Bielefeld
Fellow
01.10.09-30.09.10

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
School of History

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Born 1957; 2000 Habilitation University of Bochum; 1992-1996 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, London; 2001-2003 Replacement/Guest Professorships, University of Cologne, Bochum, Konstanz and International University Bremen; 2003-present Full Professor in Modern Political History, University of Bielefeld, 2008 Visiting Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Oct/2009-Sept/2010

 

Publications

Books, Proceedings, Editions, and Articles (10 selected)

- Vierzig Jahre Begriffsgeschichte – The State of the Art, in: Heidrun Kämper and Ludwig M. Eichinger (Eds.), Sprache – Kognition – Kultur. Sprache zwischen mentaler Struktur und kultureller Prägung (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Jahrbuch 2007), Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2008, 174-197

- (Ed.) „Politik“. Situationen eines Wortgebrauchs im Europa der Neuzeit (Historische Politikforschung Vol. 14), Frankfurt/Main: Campus 2007

- Competing Ideas of Freedom: Legal Disputes About Restraint of Trade in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914, in: Martin Daunton u. Frank Trentmann (Eds.), Worlds of Political Economy. Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2005, 136-162

- Ungewollte Politisierung durch die Medien? Die Contergan-Affäre, in: Bernd Weisbrod (Ed.), Die Politik der Öffentlichkeit – Die Öffentlichkeit der Politik. Politische Medialisierung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2003, 195-228

- Begegnungen vor Gericht. Eine Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des englischen Arbeitsrechts 1850-1925. München: Oldenbourg 2002 (Habilitation-Thesis)

- “A Code of its own”: Rhetoric and Logic of Parliamentary Debate in Modern Britain, in: Finnish Yearbook of Political Thought 6 (2002), 84-104

- Die ‚Nation’ in konfessionellen Lexika und Enzyklopädien (1830-1940), in: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Dieter Langewiesche (Eds.), Nation und Religion in der deutschen Geschichte. Frankfurt/Main and New York: Campus 2001, 217-292

- (Ed.) Private Law and Social Inequality in the Industrial Age: Comparing Legal Cultures in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000

- (Ed., with Rudolf Muhs and Johannes Paulmann:) Aneignung und Abwehr. Interkultureller Transfer zwischen Deutschland und Großbritannien im 19. Jahrhundert. Bodenheim: Philo Verlagsgesellschaft 1998

- Das Sagbare und das Machbare. Zum Wandel politischer Handlungsspielräume - England 1780-1867 (Sprache und Geschichte Bd. 21). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1993 (PhD-Thesis)

 

FRIAS Research Project

History of Europe in the 19th Century (= Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte, Vol. 6)

According to the editors’ guidelines of the Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte, the book will be a work of synthesis for a broad academic as well as lay readership. The 19th century is to be understood literally, hence the period covered will be 1800-1900. The book will be arranged in five chronological chapters, preceded by a general overview of the whole period. The book ends with a reflection on the changing place of Europe in world history during the 19th century. Political, social, economic, and cultural history will be dealt with in approximately equal shares. ‘Europe’ itself will be treated as a multifaceted entity (not necessarily a community!) whose boundaries and characteristic features were defined differently depending on the varying positions of countries, peoples, social or religious groups under consideration.