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“Between Two Worlds” Hans Gerth

Eine Biografie 1908–1978

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. Family and Childhood

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 13-21

  3. University Days

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 23-43

  4. In Berlin as a Journalist (1934–1937)

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 45-61

  5. Escape (Fall 1937)

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 63-69

  6. Settling down in the New World (1938–1939)

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 71-82

  7. New Experiences and New Friends: Relationships with Robert K. Merton and with Edward A. Shils

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 83-94

  8. University of Wisconsin Part I (1940–1953)

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 95-119

  9. University of Wisconsin Part II (1954–1971)

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 121-144

  10. Three Who Influenced Gerth’s Career: Becker — Mills — Martindale

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 145-170

  11. Intellectual Accomplishments — Part I Hans Gerth

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 171-186

  12. Intellectual Accomplishments — Part II Collaboration

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 187-208

  13. Gerth and Weber

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 209-217

  14. Life as a Refugee Scholar

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 219-236

  15. As a Teacher and a Man

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 237-252

  16. Homecoming

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 253-263

  17. Epilogue

    • Nobuko Gerth
    Pages 265-267

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 269-286
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About this book

After Hans Gerth died in December 1978, I found myself among piles of pa­ pers. The amount was considerable, not because he was a "careful archivist" as some assumed, but because he simply could not part with any paper with writing on it. Besides his own typed scripts and notes, there were off-prints given to hirn, papers written by his students, many newspaper clippings, and letters dating back to the end of 1937. My first task was to look for and collect his essay manuscripts still un­ known to the American public. Shortly after Gerth's death, Don Martindale, our life-long friend and a former student of Gerth, encouraged me to publish a volume of Gerth' essays. By going through the piles, I found quite a few es­ says, even one he wrote as early as 1930 as a student at the London School of Economics. I am sure he had no idea that such an essay had survived among his piles of papers. I edited and typed many of his draft essays; flew to New York to work together on the final edited version with Joe Bensmann and Art Vidich; and co-published it through the Greenwood Press, for which Martin­ dale was an outside consultant. I then began to sift through Gerth's correspondence files. The corre­ spondence was kept more or less in chronological order. However, the pa­ pers were loosely placed into folders and not fastened.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: “Between Two Worlds” Hans Gerth

  • Book Subtitle: Eine Biografie 1908–1978

  • Authors: Nobuko Gerth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09396-1

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3282-9Published: 31 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-09396-1Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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