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Eugene Newton Anderson
1900–1984
A historian of Europe whose career moved from the classroom to government service and back again, he wrote scholarly works on modern Germany, Prussia, and the crises that shaped twentieth-century politics. His life also touched the pressures of the McCarthy era, adding a human story behind the research.
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The first Moroccan crisis, 1904-1906
by Eugene Newton Anderson
About the author
Born in Texas on July 24, 1900, Eugene Newton Anderson studied chemistry at the University of Colorado before turning to European history, earning his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1928. He also studied in Berlin and later returned to Germany on a Social Science Research Council fellowship, experiences that helped shape his focus on modern European politics and culture.
Anderson taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Nebraska, and in 1945 he served as Associate Chief of the Division of Occupied Areas at the U.S. Department of State. Later he joined UCLA's history department. Archival records note that he was attacked during the McCarthy period over his use of a textbook, an episode that places his academic life in the larger political tensions of mid-century America.
His books include The First Moroccan Crisis, 1904-06, Nationalism and the Cultural Crisis in Prussia, 1806-15, Process Versus Power, Social and Political Conflict in Prussia, 1858-1864, and, with Pauline R. Anderson, Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century. A suitable confirmed portrait was not found in the sources reviewed.