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 314: European Economic and Social History since 1750;
Hst 318: Weimar Germany;
Hst 319: Germany, 1500-1871;
Hst 320: Germany, Unification to Unification;
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

"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

"Entitled to Recompense? Redistributing War's Burdens in (West) Germany," Center for German and European Studies, Working Paper Series, Occasional Paper, July 2000

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

"Hard Heads, Soft Money? West German Ambivalence about Currency Reform, 1944-1948." German Studies Review XXI:2 (May 1998), pp. 309-27