Riccardo Bavaj

Riccardo Bavaj is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely on 20th-century Germany, the history of radicalism, liberalism, modernity, academia, and the idea of the West: http://www.clio-online.de/forscherinnen=7292

Selected Publications Civilisational Mappings. ‘The West’ at the Turn of the Century [Zivilisatorische Verortungen. Der ‘Westen’ an der Jahrhundertwende (1880-1930)] (ed. with Martina Steber) (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin & Boston, 2018)

A Spatial History of Nazism [Der Nationalsozialismus] (be.bra, Berlin, 2016; Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn, 2016)

Germany and ‘the West’. The History of a Modern Concept (ed. with Martina Steber) (Berghahn, New York & Oxford, 2015; paperback 2017)

Intellectuals in the Cold War [Intellektuellengeschichte im Kalten Krieg] (ed. with Dominik Geppert) (Special Issue of Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 65 [2014], No. 3/4, pp. 133-216)

'Life, History, and Political Modernism’, The German Quarterly 90 (2017), No. 3

'Pluralizing Democracy in Weimar Germany. Historiographical Perspectives and Transatlantic Vistas', in Paul Nolte (ed.), Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century. Transfer and Transformation (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien, vol. 96) (Oldenbourg, Munich, 2016), 53-73

"The West": A Conceptual Exploration, European History Online / Europäische Geschichte Online (2011), URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/bavajr-2011-en

‘Intellectual History’, Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte. Begriffe, Methoden und Debatten der zeithistorischen Forschung (2010), URL: http://docupedia.de/zg/Intellectual_History

‘“Western Civilization” and the Acceleration of Time. Richard Löwenthal’s Reflections on a Crisis of “the West” in the Aftermath of the Student Revolt of “1968”’, Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (2010), URL: http://www.europa.clio-online.de/2010/Article=434

‘“Revolutionierung der Augen”. Politische Massenmobilisierung in der Weimarer Republik und der “Münzenberg-Konzern”’, in Ute Daniel et al. (eds.), Politische Kultur und Medienwirklichkeiten. Zur Kulturgeschichte des Politischen nach 1918 (Oldenbourg, Munich, 2010), 81-100