Angela Zimmerman

Angela Zimmerman (born AndrewZimmerman) is a professor of German history at George Washington University. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early life and education

Zimmerman earned a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1998, an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge in 1991, a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in History from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1990. ^[4]

Career

Zimmerman is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany, Alabama in Africa, and several peer-reviewed articles. She edited The Civil War in the United States , a collection of writings on the American Civil War by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and others.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2001) ISBN   0226983420. ^[5]
• Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton University Press, 2010) ISBN   9780691123622. ^[6]

Articles (selection)

• “Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory.” History of the Present 8 (Fall 2018): 140-176.
• “A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee Expedition to German Togo and the Transnational Origins of African Cotton Growers,” American Historical Review 110 (December 2005).
• “Looking Beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 385-411.
• “Selin, Pore, and Emil Stephan in the Bismarck Archipelago: A ‘Fresh and Joyful Tale’ of the Origin of Fieldwork,” Journal of the Pacific Arts Association 21/22 (2000): 69-84.
• “German Anthropology and the ‘Natural Peoples’: The Global Context of Colonial Discourse,” The European Studies Journal, Special Issue: German Colonialism: Another Sonderweg? 16 (1999): 95-112.
• “Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow’s Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany,” Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429.
• “Geschichtslose und Schriftlose Völker in Spreeathen: Anthropologie als Kritik der Geschichtswissenschaft im Kaiserreich,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 47 (1999): 197-210.
• “Legislating Being: Words and Things in Bentham’s Panopticon,” The European Legacy 3 (1998): 72-83.
• “The Ideology of the Machine and The Spirit of the Factory: Remarx on Babbage and Ure,” Cultural Critique 37 (Fall 1997): 5-29.

References

1. "Angela Zimmerman". gwu.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
2. "Andrew Zimmerman". toynbeeprize.org. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
3. "Past Distinguished Speakers". psu.edu. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
4. "Andrew Zimmerman CV". George Washington University. 2008. Archived from the original on August 21, 2009.
5. Reviews of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany include:
   • Hoyt, David (2002). "Review of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany". Isis . 93 (3): 502–503. doi:10.1086/374109. ISSN   0021-1753.
   • Schwarz, Angela (2003). "Review of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany". Historische Zeitschrift . 276 (3): 810–811. ISSN   0018-2613.
   • Smith, Helmut Walser (2004). "Review of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany". Central European History . 37 (1): 158–160. ISSN   0008-9389.
   • Smith, Woodruff D. (2002). "Reviews of Books: Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany Zimmerman". The American Historical Review . 107 (5): 1652–1653. doi:10.1086/533004.
6. Reviews of Alabama in Africa include:
   • Daniels, Douglas Henry (2012). "Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (review)". Journal of World History . 23 (1): 225–228. doi:10.1353/jwh.2012.0025. ISSN   1527-8050.
   • Efford, Alison Clark (2012). "From the New South to the Global South - Andrew Zimmerman. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. (review)". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era . 11 (1): 122–125. doi:10.1017/S153778141100048X. ISSN   1943-3557.
   • Hebel, Udo J. (2013). "Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South by Zimmerman (review)". American Studies . 52 (2): 138–139. doi:10.1353/ams.2013.0037. ISSN   2153-6856.
   • Jones, Jeanette Eileen (October 2011). "Zimmerman. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South . (America in the World.) (review)". The American Historical Review . 116 (4): 1086–1087. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.4.1086.