Eric D. Weitz (June 15, 1953[1] – July 1, 2021) was an American historian.[2][3][4]
Education
He studied at
Boston University for his MA, and received his PhD supervised by
Norman Naimark.[5] His dissertation was "Conflict in the Ruhr: Workers and Socialist Politics in Essen, 1910–1925".[5][6]
According to historian Sarah K. Danielsson, Weitz's historical "work on genocide had always grappled with the root causes of mass violence and extermination, and it led him to look at the history of human rights."[5]
^Welch, Steven R. (March 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990. From Popular Protests to Socialist State". Australian Journal of Political Science. 33 (1): 148–149.
ProQuest204373359.
^Childs, David (March 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990". Europe-Asia Studies. 50 (2). Abingdon: 379–381.
ProQuest200018779.
^Harsch, Donna (December 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xviii + 445. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-02682-3". Central European History. 31 (4): 449–452.
doi:
10.1017/S0008938900017167.
S2CID145419336.
^Bridenthal, Renate (1998). "Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xviii + 445 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper". International Labor and Working-Class History. 53: 227–230.
doi:
10.1017/S0147547900013879.
S2CID143986533.
^Lavery, W. J. (April 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protest to Socialist State: Weitz, Eric D.: Princeton: Princeton University Press 445 pp., Publication Date: April 1997". History: Reviews of New Books. 26 (3): 133–134.
doi:
10.1080/03612759.1998.10528119.
^Horn, Gerd-Rainer (1998). "Review of Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protest to Socialist State". Le Mouvement Social (183): 179–182.
doi:
10.2307/3779625.
ISSN0027-2671.
JSTOR3779625.
^Krisch, Henry (1999). "Review of Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State". German Politics & Society. 17 (1 (50)): 166–169.
ISSN1045-0300.
JSTOR23737352.
^Lindemann, Albert S. (1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xviii, 445 pp. Bibliography. Index. Plates. Tables. Figures. Paper". Slavic Review. 57 (1): 186–187.
doi:
10.2307/2502067.
JSTOR2502067.
S2CID164562708.
^Chalk, Frank (2005). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. vii, 360 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95, hard bound". Slavic Review. 64 (2): 403–404.
doi:
10.2307/3649990.
JSTOR3649990.
S2CID164762488.
^Edwards, Robert Lee (June 2004). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, Eric D. Weitz, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 360 pp". Nationalities Papers. 32 (2): 520–521.
doi:
10.1017/S009059920001343X.
S2CID165444326.
^Geyer, M. (1 February 2007). "ERIC D. WEITZ. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. 360. $29.95". The American Historical Review. 112 (1): 168–169.
doi:
10.1086/ahr.112.1.168.
^Berns-McGown, Rima (2005). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, ; The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing". International Journal. 60 (4): 1170–1173.
doi:
10.2307/40204112.
JSTOR40204112.
ProQuest220802688.
^Cadiot, Juliette (2007). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". Le Mouvement Social (218): 108–110.
ISSN0027-2671.
JSTOR27639527.
^Berns-McGown, Rima (2005). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, ; The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing". International Journal. 60 (4): 1170–1173.
doi:
10.2307/40204112.
ISSN0020-7020.
JSTOR40204112.
^Farrell, Martin F (Summer 2003). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation; Weitz, Eric D". Perspectives on Political Science. 32 (3). Philadelphia: 185.
ProQuest194698580.
^Levene, Mark (2004). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". The Slavonic and East European Review. 82 (3): 779–781.
ISSN0037-6795.
JSTOR4213989.
^Hout, Syrine C. (2004). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". Utopian Studies. 15 (2): 299–302.
ISSN1045-991X.
JSTOR20718702.
^Teng, Leong Wai (2006). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". Asian Journal of Social Science. 34 (4): 638–640.
ISSN1568-4849.
JSTOR23654553.
^Bennett, M. (1 June 2004). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. By Eric Weitz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 360pp. $29.95". Journal of Church and State. 46 (3): 660–661.
doi:
10.1093/jcs/46.3.660.
^Barnstone, Deborah Asher (August 2008). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D Weitz". The Art Book. 15 (3): 46–47.
doi:
10.1111/j.1467-8357.2008.00975_16.x.
^Bookbinder, Paul (April 2010). "Review: Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007; 405 pp., 60 illus.; 9780691016955, £20.95 (hbk)". European History Quarterly. 40 (2): 382–383.
doi:
10.1177/02656914100400020662.
S2CID144824821.
^Jelavich, Peter (March 2009). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xi+425. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-01695-5". Central European History. 42 (1): 163–165.
doi:
10.1017/S0008938909000144.
S2CID143973101.
^Robertson, Ritchie (2008). "FLAWED DESIGN, FLAWED EXECUTION - Eric D. Weitz: Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 425. $29.95.)". The Review of Politics. 70 (4): 659–661.
doi:
10.1017/S0034670508000867.
S2CID146232183.
^Moeller, Robert G. (February 2009). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". The American Historical Review. 114 (1): 226–227.
doi:
10.1086/ahr.114.1.226.
^Ostoyich, Kevin (1 March 2010). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy . By Eric D. Weitz. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 425. $29.95.)". The Historian. 72 (1): 239–241.
doi:
10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00260_67.x.
S2CID145226632.
^Green, Harold M. (February 2009). "Eric D. Weitz. 2007. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". Politics & Policy. 37 (1).
GaleA193756485.
^Hake, Sabine (Spring 2009). "Weitz, Eric D.: Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". The German Quarterly. 82 (2).
GaleA204073692.
^Stibbe, M. (1 April 2009). "Weimar Germany. Promise and Tragedy". German History. 27 (2): 299–300.
doi:
10.1093/gerhis/ghp018.
^Tanner, Lou (Spring 2008). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 84 (2). Charlottesville: 263–264.
ProQuest205382964.
^Brenner, Michael (2009). "Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". German Politics & Society. 27 (1 (90)): 97–100.
ISSN1045-0300.
JSTOR23742788.
^McCrudden, Kathleen (5 March 2020). "A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states: by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, £27 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691145440". Global Intellectual History: 1–4.
doi:
10.1080/23801883.2020.1737358.
S2CID216181068.
^Han, Yuna C (1 May 2020). "A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states". International Affairs. 96 (3): 812–814.
doi:
10.1093/ia/iiaa063.
^Dubnov, Arie M. (15 May 2020). "Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States: A Critical Engagement with Eric D. Weitz's A World Divided: A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–7.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762334.
S2CID231704812.
^Bhabha, Jacqueline (14 May 2020). "Reflections on Eric Weitz, A World Divided: A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–4.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762335.
S2CID219436010.
^Ibhawoh, Bonny (15 May 2020). "Human Rights, Nation-States and the Persistence of Oppressive Privilege: A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–6.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762332.
S2CID219514808.
^Veracini, Lorenzo (15 May 2020). "Empire-Nation-Empire: Human Rights in the Deconstruction and Reconstitution of Empire: A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–6.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762331.
S2CID219430847.
Eric D. Weitz (June 15, 1953[1] – July 1, 2021) was an American historian.[2][3][4]
Education
He studied at
Boston University for his MA, and received his PhD supervised by
Norman Naimark.[5] His dissertation was "Conflict in the Ruhr: Workers and Socialist Politics in Essen, 1910–1925".[5][6]
According to historian Sarah K. Danielsson, Weitz's historical "work on genocide had always grappled with the root causes of mass violence and extermination, and it led him to look at the history of human rights."[5]
^Welch, Steven R. (March 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990. From Popular Protests to Socialist State". Australian Journal of Political Science. 33 (1): 148–149.
ProQuest204373359.
^Childs, David (March 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990". Europe-Asia Studies. 50 (2). Abingdon: 379–381.
ProQuest200018779.
^Harsch, Donna (December 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xviii + 445. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-02682-3". Central European History. 31 (4): 449–452.
doi:
10.1017/S0008938900017167.
S2CID145419336.
^Bridenthal, Renate (1998). "Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xviii + 445 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper". International Labor and Working-Class History. 53: 227–230.
doi:
10.1017/S0147547900013879.
S2CID143986533.
^Lavery, W. J. (April 1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protest to Socialist State: Weitz, Eric D.: Princeton: Princeton University Press 445 pp., Publication Date: April 1997". History: Reviews of New Books. 26 (3): 133–134.
doi:
10.1080/03612759.1998.10528119.
^Horn, Gerd-Rainer (1998). "Review of Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protest to Socialist State". Le Mouvement Social (183): 179–182.
doi:
10.2307/3779625.
ISSN0027-2671.
JSTOR3779625.
^Krisch, Henry (1999). "Review of Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State". German Politics & Society. 17 (1 (50)): 166–169.
ISSN1045-0300.
JSTOR23737352.
^Lindemann, Albert S. (1998). "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xviii, 445 pp. Bibliography. Index. Plates. Tables. Figures. Paper". Slavic Review. 57 (1): 186–187.
doi:
10.2307/2502067.
JSTOR2502067.
S2CID164562708.
^Chalk, Frank (2005). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. vii, 360 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95, hard bound". Slavic Review. 64 (2): 403–404.
doi:
10.2307/3649990.
JSTOR3649990.
S2CID164762488.
^Edwards, Robert Lee (June 2004). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, Eric D. Weitz, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 360 pp". Nationalities Papers. 32 (2): 520–521.
doi:
10.1017/S009059920001343X.
S2CID165444326.
^Geyer, M. (1 February 2007). "ERIC D. WEITZ. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. 360. $29.95". The American Historical Review. 112 (1): 168–169.
doi:
10.1086/ahr.112.1.168.
^Berns-McGown, Rima (2005). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, ; The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing". International Journal. 60 (4): 1170–1173.
doi:
10.2307/40204112.
JSTOR40204112.
ProQuest220802688.
^Cadiot, Juliette (2007). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". Le Mouvement Social (218): 108–110.
ISSN0027-2671.
JSTOR27639527.
^Berns-McGown, Rima (2005). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, ; The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing". International Journal. 60 (4): 1170–1173.
doi:
10.2307/40204112.
ISSN0020-7020.
JSTOR40204112.
^Farrell, Martin F (Summer 2003). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation; Weitz, Eric D". Perspectives on Political Science. 32 (3). Philadelphia: 185.
ProQuest194698580.
^Levene, Mark (2004). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". The Slavonic and East European Review. 82 (3): 779–781.
ISSN0037-6795.
JSTOR4213989.
^Hout, Syrine C. (2004). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". Utopian Studies. 15 (2): 299–302.
ISSN1045-991X.
JSTOR20718702.
^Teng, Leong Wai (2006). "Review of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation". Asian Journal of Social Science. 34 (4): 638–640.
ISSN1568-4849.
JSTOR23654553.
^Bennett, M. (1 June 2004). "A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. By Eric Weitz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 360pp. $29.95". Journal of Church and State. 46 (3): 660–661.
doi:
10.1093/jcs/46.3.660.
^Barnstone, Deborah Asher (August 2008). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D Weitz". The Art Book. 15 (3): 46–47.
doi:
10.1111/j.1467-8357.2008.00975_16.x.
^Bookbinder, Paul (April 2010). "Review: Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007; 405 pp., 60 illus.; 9780691016955, £20.95 (hbk)". European History Quarterly. 40 (2): 382–383.
doi:
10.1177/02656914100400020662.
S2CID144824821.
^Jelavich, Peter (March 2009). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy. By Eric D. Weitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xi+425. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-01695-5". Central European History. 42 (1): 163–165.
doi:
10.1017/S0008938909000144.
S2CID143973101.
^Robertson, Ritchie (2008). "FLAWED DESIGN, FLAWED EXECUTION - Eric D. Weitz: Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 425. $29.95.)". The Review of Politics. 70 (4): 659–661.
doi:
10.1017/S0034670508000867.
S2CID146232183.
^Moeller, Robert G. (February 2009). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". The American Historical Review. 114 (1): 226–227.
doi:
10.1086/ahr.114.1.226.
^Ostoyich, Kevin (1 March 2010). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy . By Eric D. Weitz. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 425. $29.95.)". The Historian. 72 (1): 239–241.
doi:
10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00260_67.x.
S2CID145226632.
^Green, Harold M. (February 2009). "Eric D. Weitz. 2007. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". Politics & Policy. 37 (1).
GaleA193756485.
^Hake, Sabine (Spring 2009). "Weitz, Eric D.: Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". The German Quarterly. 82 (2).
GaleA204073692.
^Stibbe, M. (1 April 2009). "Weimar Germany. Promise and Tragedy". German History. 27 (2): 299–300.
doi:
10.1093/gerhis/ghp018.
^Tanner, Lou (Spring 2008). "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 84 (2). Charlottesville: 263–264.
ProQuest205382964.
^Brenner, Michael (2009). "Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy". German Politics & Society. 27 (1 (90)): 97–100.
ISSN1045-0300.
JSTOR23742788.
^McCrudden, Kathleen (5 March 2020). "A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states: by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, £27 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691145440". Global Intellectual History: 1–4.
doi:
10.1080/23801883.2020.1737358.
S2CID216181068.
^Han, Yuna C (1 May 2020). "A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states". International Affairs. 96 (3): 812–814.
doi:
10.1093/ia/iiaa063.
^Dubnov, Arie M. (15 May 2020). "Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States: A Critical Engagement with Eric D. Weitz's A World Divided: A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–7.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762334.
S2CID231704812.
^Bhabha, Jacqueline (14 May 2020). "Reflections on Eric Weitz, A World Divided: A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–4.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762335.
S2CID219436010.
^Ibhawoh, Bonny (15 May 2020). "Human Rights, Nation-States and the Persistence of Oppressive Privilege: A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–6.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762332.
S2CID219514808.
^Veracini, Lorenzo (15 May 2020). "Empire-Nation-Empire: Human Rights in the Deconstruction and Reconstitution of Empire: A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 576 pp., USD$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691145440". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–6.
doi:
10.1080/14623528.2020.1762331.
S2CID219430847.