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Pioneering History on Two Continents: An Autobiography

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Bruce F. Pauley draws on his circle of relatives and personal history to inform a story that examines the lives of Volga Germans throughout the eighteenth century, the pioneering experiences of his circle of relatives in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, and the dramatic transformations that influenced the history profession throughout the second one half of the twentieth century. An award-winning historian of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and totalitarianism Pauley assisted in shaping historical interpretation from the 1970s to the ’90s both in america and Central Europe. 

Pioneering History on Two Continents provides an intimate take a look at the shifting approaches to the historian’s craft throughout a volatile period of world history, with an emphasis on twentieth-century Central European political, social, and diplomatic developments. It also examines the greater sweep of history throughout the writer’s firsthand experiences in addition to those of his ancestors who participated in these global currents through their migration from Germany to the steppes of Russia to the Great Plains of america.


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