William W. Hagen's Books

The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.

This history of German-speaking central Europe presents the different eras of German history as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality.

William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship—and for Habsburg scholarship in particular—through his book. Scholars are in his debt." —History of European Ideas " . . . strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg history." —American Historical Review " . . . McCagg tells a fascinating story with expert knowledge, with the sure eye and sound judgment of the experienced historian . . . " —Midstream " . . . exceptionally fine research and the time frame of the study which make it quite remarkable and original." —German Politics & Society "William McCagg brings out the extent to which Jews were divided not only as Jews, but also as citizens of Austro-Hungary . . . McCagg writes perceptively of Kafka's predicament as a German-speaking Jew in Prague, living through the Czech nationalist revival . . . " —New York Review of Books Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, McCagg has produced the first history of this important but often forgotten community to be written since the nineteenth century.

Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish–Soviet War. William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios dramatizing popular anti-Jewish fears and resentments. While scholarship on modern anti-Semitism has stressed its ideological inspiration ('print anti-Semitism'), this study shows that anti-Jewish violence by perpetrators among civilians and soldiers expressed magic-infused anxieties and longings for redemption from present threats and suffering ('folk anti-Semitism'). Illustrated with contemporary photographs and constructed from extensive, newly discovered archival sources from three continents, this is an innovative work in east European history. Using extensive first-person testimonies, it reveals gaps - but also correspondences - between popular attitudes and those of the political elite. The pogroms raged against the conscious will of new Poland's governors whilst Christians high and low sometimes sought, even successfully, to block them.

This history of German-speaking central Europe presents the different eras of German history as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality.

A respected New Deal historian evaluates how the challenges of the Great Depression were initially met by the thirty-first president, exploring the ways in which his World War I campaigns and beliefs about volunteerism shaped his failed policies, led to his unsuccessful reelection campaign against FDR, and marked his post-office criticism of big government. 20,000 first printing.

Book's by William W. Hagen

Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920

Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920

Ordinary Prussians

Ordinary Prussians

German History in Modern Times

German History in Modern Times

A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918

A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918

Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920

Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920

German History in Modern Times

German History in Modern Times

Ordinary Prussians

Ordinary Prussians

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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