Arno Joseph Mayer (June 19, 1926 -) is Luxembourg-born American historian of modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust. Mayer's major interests are in modernization theory and what he calls "The Thirty Years' Crisis" between 1914 and 1945. Mayer received his education at the City College of New York and Yale University. He has been professor at Wesleyan University (1952-1953), Brandeis University (1954-1958), Harvard University (1958-1961) and Princeton University (1961-).
Work
- Political Origins of the New Diplomacy, 1917-1918, 1959.
- "Post-War Nationalisms, 1918-19" pages 114-126 from Past and Present, Volume 34, 1966.
- Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and Counter-Revolution at Versailles, 1918-19, 1967.
- Dynamics of Counter-Revolution in Europe, 1870-1956: An Analytical Framework, 1971.
- "Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem" pages 409-436 from Journal of Modern History, Volume 47, 1975.
- "Internal Crisis and War Since 1870" from Revolutionary Situations in Europe, 1917-22 edited by Charles L. Bertrand, 1977.
- The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War, 1981.
- Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The "Final Solution" in History, 1988.
- "Memory and History: On the Poverty of Forgetting and Remembering about the Judocide" pages 5-20 from Radical History Review, Volume 56, 1993.
- The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions, 2001.
References
- Blackbourn, David & Eley, Geoff The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth Century German History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
- Fry, Michael and Gilbert, Arthur "A Historian and Linkage Politics: Arno J. Mayer" pages 425-444 from International Studies Quarterly, Volume 26, 1982.
- Lundgreen-Nielsen, Kay "The Mayer Thesis Reconsidered: The Poles and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919" pages 68-102 from International History Review, Volume 7, 1985.
- André Loez, Nicolas Offenstadt, « Un historien dissident ? Entretien avec Arno J. Mayer », Genèses, 49, déc. 2002, p. 123-139 (an interview into depth of Arno J. Mayer by two french scholars).
- Perry, Matt "Mayer, Arno J." pages 786-787 from The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Volume 2, edited by Kelly Boyd, Volume 2, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishing, 1999.
- Righart, Hans "`Jumbo-History': perceptie, anachronisme en `hindsight' bij Arno J. Mayer en Barrington Moore" pages 285-295 from Theoretische Geschiedenis, Volume 17, 1990.
- Thompson, E. P. The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays, London: Merlin Press, 1978.
