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Mark Hewitson, Senior Lecturer in German History and Politics, was educated at University College, Oxford, and at St Antony's College, Oxford. He joined the Department of German and Modern European Studies from the University of Exeter, where he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. As a Lecturer at the University of Oxford, he taught a broad range of courses in German and European history.

Research

Mark's interests lie principally in the intellectual, cultural and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and Europe. He is currently working on three projects about nationalism and national identity, experiences and representations of modern warfare, and conceptions of Europe and the West during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Work in progress

The People’s Wars: German Images and Experiences of Conflict, 1792-1918 (due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2014)

Selected publication

Books:

Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957 (Oxford: Berghahn, 2012), edited with Matthew D'Auria

Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866: Revolutionary Nation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 464 pp. For a full bibliography, click here.

Timothy Baycroft and Mark Hewitson (eds.), What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Germany and the Causes of the First World War (Oxford: Berg, 2004), 268 pp.

National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914 (Oxford: OUP, 2000), 287 pp.

Articles and Chapters:

'The Kaiserreich and the Kulturlaender: Conceptions of the West in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914', in R. Bavaj and M. Steber (eds.), German Images of the 'West' (forthcoming)

'Black Humour: Caricature in Wartime', in S. Coxon (ed.), Laughter and Ridicule in Germany (forthcoming)

2012

'Introduction: Europe during the Forty Years' Crisis', with Matthew D'Auria, in Mark Hewitson and Matthew D'Auria (eds.), Europe in Crisis, 1917-1957 (Berghahn, 2012)

'Inventing Europe and Reinventing the Nation-State in a New World Order', in Hewitson and D'Auria (eds.), Europe in Crisis (Berghahn, 2012)

'The United States of Europe: The European Question in the 1920s', in Hewitson and D'Auria (eds.), Europe in Crisis (Berghahn, 2012)

'Europe and the Fate of the World: Crisis and Integration in the late 1940s and 1950s', in Hewitson and D'Auria (eds.), Europe in Crisis (Berghahn, 2012)

'Conclusion: Europe between a Crisis of Culture and Political Regeneration', in Mark Hewitson and Matthew D'Auria (eds.), Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957 (Berghahn, 2012)

2010

'"The Old Forms Are Breaking Up,… Our New Germany Is Rebuilding Itself": Constitutionalism, Nationalism and the Creation of a German Polity during the Revolutions of 1848-49', English Historical Review: 125 (2010): 1173-1214

'"I Witnesses": Soldiers, Selfhood, and Testimony in Modern Wars', German History, 28 (2010): 310-325

2008

‘Wilhelmine Germany'. Chapter 2 in Retallack, James (ed.), Imperial Germany, 1871-1918. Short Oxford History of Germany series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1st edition, pp. 40-60

2007

‘Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern War'. in Fulbrook, M. (ed.) Un-Civilizing Process? Excess and Transgression in German Society and Culture. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 1st edition, pp. 117-156

2006

‘Nationalism and the Nineteenth Century' in Baycroft, T., Hewitson, M. (ed.) What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914. Oxford University Press, pp. 312-355

‘What was a Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe?' in Baycroft, T., Hewitson, M. (ed.) What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-13

2004

‘Images of the Enemy: German Depictions of the French Military, 1890-1914'. War in History 11, pp. 4-33

2003

‘The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform'. Chapter 4 in Eley, G., Retallack, J. (ed.) Wilhelminism and Its Legacies. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 73-90

2001

‘The Kaiserreich in Question: Constitutional Crisis in Germany before the First World War'. Journal of Modern History 73(4), pp. 725-780

2000

‘Germany and France before the First World War: A Reassessment of Wilhelmine Foreign Policy', English Historical Review, 115 (2000)

‘German Public Opinion and the Question of Industrial Modernity: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Economy', European Review of History, 7 (2000)

‘Nation and Nationalismus: Representation and National Identity in Imperial Germany', in Fulbrook, M. and Swales, M. (eds.), Representing the German Nation (Manchester University Press, 2000