Michael B. Gross is Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University.
"Michael Gross has written a fascinating account of the centrality
of confessional polemic to the development of nineteenth-century
German liberalism, offering not only new and important insights
into the nature of the liberal 'imagination' between the 1850s and
1870s, but also demonstrating with impressive verve, the extent to
which the scholarly study of religion in modern Germany has
progressed over the past couple decades."
---German Studies Review--Derek Hastings "German Studies Review"
(5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM)
"The studies of Catholic piety, associational life, and political
movements have...promoted major revisions in our understanding of
modern German society, culture, and politics. Historians have
devoted much less attention, however, to the equally impressive
reaction to this Catholic revival, namely, the unleashing of a
lively and wide-ranging anti-Catholic polemic...a thoroughgoing
analysis of nineteenth-century anti-Catholicism has long been
lacking. With the publication of Michael B. Gross's [book], this
lacuna has been finally addressed, and in a first-rate
fashion."
---Journal of Modern History--Anthony J. Steinhoff "Journal of
Modern History" (9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM)
"Whatever the course of future debate, it is certain that all
future discussions of Germany's conflicted, confusing path to
modernity will have to take note of Gross's powerful, outrageous,
and disturbing exploration of the troubled liberal
imagination."
---American Historical Review--Raymond C. Sun "American Historical
Review" (4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM)
"A lucid, innovative work of top-flight scholarship. Gross shows us
the depths of anti-Catholicism in nineteenth-century Germany; he
explains why the German Kulturkampf had such force and why
prominent liberals imagined it as a turning point not only in
Germany but in world history."
---Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University--Helmut Walser Smith,
Vanderbilt University (2/26/2004 12:00:00 AM)
"A marvelously original account of how the Kulturkampf emerged from
the cultural, social, and gendered worlds of German liberalism.
While not neglecting the 1870s, Gross's analysis directs
historians' attention to the under researched 1850s and
1860s---decades in which liberals' anti-Catholic arguments were
formulated against a backdrop of religious revival, democratic
innovation, national ambition, and the articulation of new roles
for women in society, politics, and the church. The drama of these
decades resonates in every chapter of Gross's fine study."
---James Retallack, University of Toronto--James Retallack,
University of Toronto
"Gross has read all the pertinent archival sources for this
trenchant, revisionist study of nineteenth-century German
liberalism and the Kulturkampf. His sensitivity to such varied,
often neglected aspects of the topic as the role of women in the
community and the impact of Catholic missionaries on German
Protestantism, is a refreshing expansion of focus."
---American Catholic Historical Association, announcing The War
Against Catholicism as the 2004 John Gilmary Shea Prize winner--
"American Catholic Historical Association" (3/1/2005 12:00:00
AM)
"Michael Gross has put the culture back into the Kulturkampf!
Integrating social and political analysis with illuminating
interpretations of visual and linguistic evidence, Gross explores
the work of religious cleavage in defining German national
identity. An emerging women's movement, liberal virtues, and
Catholic difference come together to explain why, in a century of
secularization, Germany's Catholics experienced a religious
revival, and why its liberals responded with enmity and
frustration. Vividly written and a pleasure to read, this
groundbreaking study offers real surprises."
---Margaret Lavinia Anderson, University of California,
Berkeley--Margaret Lavinia Anderson, University of California,
Berkeley (3/12/2004 12:00:00 AM)
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