The Historian as Provocateur: George Mosse’s Accomplishment and Legacy
George L. Mosse was one of the most creative, imaginative and protean historians of his era. This essay of intellectual and personal reminiscence examines his contribution to and reshaping of European intellectual and cultural history and to the place of the Holocaust within it. It does so through a discussion of his major works on nationalism, fascism and Nazism, racism, antisemitism and the gendered dimensions of masculinity and politics in modern history.