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George Mossé
A sharp, wide-ranging historian of modern Europe, he changed the way many readers understand fascism, nationalism, racism, and masculinity. Forced to flee Nazi Germany as a teenager, he brought that personal history to a lifetime of bold, influential scholarship.
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Notes sur Laclos et Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Jacques de Boisjoslin, George Mossé
About the author
Born in Berlin in 1918, George L. Mosse left Germany after the Nazi rise to power, first going to Britain and then to the United States. He became a social and cultural historian whose work focused on modern Europe, especially fascism, Nazism, nationalism, and the politics of respectability and identity.
Mosse taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He became especially well known for showing how political movements are shaped not only by institutions and ideas, but also by myth, symbols, sexuality, and everyday culture.
His books helped open new paths in the study of mass politics, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity, and his influence continued well beyond his death in 1999. Readers still return to his work for its clarity, range, and willingness to ask difficult questions about how modern societies imagine belonging and exclusion.