Fall 1991 Lecture Series

The German State as Institution: Citizens Challenge Civil Servants September 26, 1991 Gregg O. Kvistad (University of Denver) The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, in Historical Perspective October 11, 1991 Sir Michael Howard (Yale University) 1871 versus 1789: German Historians and the Ideological Foundations of Imperial Germany October 21, 1991 Horst Dippel (University of Kassel) Painting and Politics in Imperial Germany November 14, 1991 Marion F. Deshmukh (George Mason University) Flagging Texts: Ritual Gesture in Early Modern Bureaucratic Prose November 19, 1991 David W. Sabean (Cornell University) Ideology and Contingency: Violence and Terror in the Epochs of the French and Russian Revolutions December 03, 1991 Arno J. Mayer (Princeton University) The Future of American History December 13, 1991 John Higham (Johns Hopkins University)