Michael Burleigh

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Michael Burleigh (born April 3, 1955 ) is a British historian .

Michael Burleigh studied Modern and Medieval History at University College London . 1982 followed the Ph.D. in medieval history. He has lectured at New College , Oxford , and the London School of Economics . Since 1995 he has been Distinguished Research Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cardiff . Burleigh has worked in the USA since 1999 , initially as a professor at Rutgers University , and since 2000 he has held the chair of history at Washington and Lee University in Lexington (Virginia). In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Third Reich . He was invited in 2002, Cardinal Basil Hume Memorial Lectures at Heythrop College of the University of London to keep. Burleigh is a scientific advisor at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich and the journal Totalitarismus und Demokratie and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society . He also founded the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions .

Some of his works have been translated into Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Polish. He has published film documentaries under the titles: Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich , Heil Herbie: The Story of the Volkswagen Beetle .

He has lived in South East London since 1991. Burleigh is the author and consultant of Standpoint magazine , which was founded in 2008 and follows the tradition of the former Encounter magazine , which was funded by the CIA .

Heinz Schilling wrote about Burleigh's book Earthly Powers, Divine Salvation (2008): “Burleigh's presentation does justice to the new weight of his subject, at least that of the 19th and 20th centuries. Without really offering anything new or surprising to the connoisseur, with a profound knowledge of international research and its source editions, he succeeds in giving the reader a differentiated and clearly contoured panorama of the interplay between religion and politics in Europe and America from the late 18th to the early 21st centuries . Century in front of your eyes. ”Burleigh also succeeds in“ building a never-ending fascination over this epoch-making arc of tension ”, which is partly due to“ his always concrete manner of presentation, which operates with clear examples ”.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Germany Turns Eastwards. A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1988, ISBN 0-521-35120-0 .
  • with Wolfgang Wippermann : The Racial State. Germany 1933-1945. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1991, ISBN 0-521-39114-8 .
  • Death and Deliverance. "Euthanasia" in Germany, c. 1900-1945. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1994, ISBN 0-521-41613-2 .
    • Death and redemption. Euthanasia in Germany 1900–1945. Pendo-Verlag, Zurich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-85842-485-4 .
  • The Third Reich. A New History. Pan Macmillan, London et al. 2000, ISBN 0-333-64487-5 .
    • The time of National Socialism. An overall picture. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-10-009005-5 .
  • Earthly Powers. Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War. HarperCollins, London 2005, ISBN 0-00-719572-9 .
    • Earthly Powers. The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War. 1st Harper Perennial edition. Harper Perennial, New York NY et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-058093-3 .
    • Earthly powers, divine salvation. The history of the struggle between politics and religion from the French Revolution to the present day. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-04229-3 .
  • Small wars, far away places. Global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945–1965. Viking, New York NY 2013, ISBN 978-0-670-02545-9 .

Editorships

  • Confronting the Nazi past. New debates on modern German history. Collins & Brown, London 1996, ISBN 1-85585-183-0 .
  • Morale combat. A history of World War II. Harper Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-00-719576-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Heinz Schilling: At the table of statesmen, Christ also gets a place setting, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 110, May 13, 2008, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Heinz Schilling: At the table of statesmen, Christ also gets a place setting, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 110, May 13, 2008, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Burleigh, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1955