Professor Michael L. Hughes
Modern Germany
B-115 Tribble Hall; 758-5557
e-mail: hughes@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A. Claremont McKenna College
M.A. and Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Courses offered:
HST 101: Western Civilizations in a Mediterranean Context, 3500 BCE-1530 CE;
Hst 102: Europe and the World in the Modern Era;
Hst 219: Germany, 1500-1871;
Hst 220: Germany, Unification to Unification;
Hst 314: European Economic and Social History since 1750;
Hst 318: Weimar Germany;
Hst 369: Modern Military History;

Also:

European Social and Political History, 1848-1973;
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna;
Methodological Foundations of Historical Inquiry;
Modes of Historical Representation;
Who Am I? National and Social Identity in East Central Europe, 1618-1992;

Professional and research interests: Public Demonstrations in Germany, 1888-1992; Balancing out the Burdens of Defeat in Postwar West Germany; 1948 West German Currency Reform; Democratization in Germany; Victim Ideologies; Inflation, Hyperinflation, and Revaluation, 1914-32

Selected Publications:

Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat. West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Paying for the German Inflation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988

“’The knife in the hands of the children’?  Debating the Political Mass Strike and Political Citizenship in Imperial Germany,”  Labor History Volume 50, Issue 2 (May 2009), pp. 113-138.
     
 “Splendid Demonstrations: The Political Funerals of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Wilhelm Liebknecht,” Central European History 41:2 (June 2008), pp 229-253.

"Just Deserts: Virtue, Agency, and Property in Mid-Twentieth-Century Germany." In Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer (eds.), Two Cultures of Right. The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

"'Through No Fault of Our Own.' West Germans Remember Their War Losses." German History, 18:2 (2000), pp. 193-213