James F. Tent

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James Foster Tent is an American historian .

Life

James F. Tent attended Dartmouth College and studied history at the University of Wisconsin , wrote the master's thesis German social democracy and the general strike 1890–1914 in 1969 and received his doctorate in 1973 with the dissertation Eugen Richter, Manchester liberal and German statesman . Tent has taught New European History, German Contemporary History, Military History and the History of the Cold War at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham since 1974 . He became a professor in 1990 and was dean of the History Department from 2002 to 2008, as well as a member of the UAB supervisory board. In 2010 he retired.

Tent has published several monographs and numerous reviews on 20th century German history . His research focus is German post-war history.

Tent was a historical consultant for a film project for the BBC and NDR and was a commentator for the History Channel .

Fonts

  • Mission on the Rhine: education and denazification in American-occupied Germany . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1982, ISBN 0-226-79358-3 .
  • The Free University of Berlin: a political history . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1988
    • Free University of Berlin, 1948–1988. A German university in current affairs . Colloquium, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7678-0744-0 .
  • E-Boat alert: defending the Normandy invasion fleet . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md. 1996, ISBN 1-55750-805-4 .
  • Be a friend of the Germans. The American Friends Service Committee and humanitarian aid in Germany after 1945 . Quaker Aid Foundation, Neustadt 1996.
  • (Ed. :) Academic proconsul: Harvard sociologist Edward Y. Hartshorne and the reopening of German universities 1945–1946: his personal account . Scientific publishing house, Trier 1998, ISBN 3-88476-321-0 .
  • In the shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans . University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2003
    • In the shadow of the Holocaust. Fate of German-Jewish “half-breeds” in the Third Reich . Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-16306-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tent Named Chairman of UAB History Department , UAB, 2002
  2. ^ Tent Appointed UAB Professor, University Scholar Emeritus
personal data
SURNAME Tent, James F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tent, James Foster
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century