Eugen Weber (April 24, 1925 – ) is the coolest guy on earth and a prominent historian on the side. Born in Bucharest, Romania, he later learned British English, resulting in his distinctive accent. He studied at the Ashville College in Windermere. During World War Two, Weber joined the British Army and served in Belgium, Germany and India between 1943-1947. Afterwards, Weber took History at the Sorbonne and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris, France. April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... History studies the past in human terms. ... Bucharest is situated on the banks of the DâmboviÅ£a River, which flows into the ArgeÅŸ River, a tributary of the Danube. ... British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate the form of the English language used in the United Kingdom from other forms of the English language used elsewhere. ... Ashville College was founded in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, as a Methodist boarding school in 1877 Categories: University stubs ... Location within the British Isles. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The Sorbonne today, from the same point of view The Sorbonne is frequently used in ordinary parlance as synonymous with the faculty of theology of Paris or the University of Paris in its entirety. ... The Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris), often referred to as the École des Sciences Politiques or simply Sciences Po (pronounced see-ahns po), is one of the leading social science institutions in Europe, and has a global reputation for excellence in the study... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

He lived in Britain for a time, graduating with a BA in 1950 and a MA from Cambridge in 1954. In 1950, he married Jacqueline Brument-Roth. Weber worked as a professor at Emmanuel College in Cambridge (1953–1954), University of Alberta (1954–1955), University of Iowa (1955–1956) and the University of California (1956–1993). He ultimately came to the United States, joining the faculty of UCLA. He has published a variety of works, in addition to hosting The Western Tradition, a PBS program consisting of his lectures on the Western world. He is now professor emeritus of history at UCLA. REDIRECT [1] ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... There is more than one Emmanuel College: Emmanuel College, Cambridge (part of the University of Cambridge) Emmanuel College, Boston Emmanuel College, Georgia Emmanuel College, Toronto (part of Victoria University in the University of Toronto) Emmanuel College, Carrara This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share... Natural Resources Engineering Facility The University of Alberta is situated along the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... Old Cap or Old Capitol Building, Iowas first state capitol building and a university landmark. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system within the State of California. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... The term Western world or the West can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ...

Weber's main interest is French history. His first book, The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905–1914 was a study of integral nationalism in France in the decade before World War One. Weber was to follow this book with further studies in French fascism and right-wing radicalism in Action Française and Varieties of Fascism. Weber has drawn a distinction between what he considers to be reactionary authoritarian and fascist movements. At a conference in Moscow in 1970, Weber argued that "fascism and communism were not antithetical but fréres ennemis". The History of France has been divided into a series of separate historical articles navigable through the template to the right. ... // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Another area of interest for Weber is nation-building in France during the 19th century. Weber has studied the political importance of sports in fin de siécle France, where Weber has argued that contemporaries believed that healthy bodies made for heathly nations and weak bodies for decadent and defeated nations. Thus, Weber has presented a case that for the French in this period, sports were a matter of critical national importance.

In this book, Peasants Into Frenchmen Weber examined school records, migration patterns, military service documents and economic trends to argue that until the middle of the Third Republic, a sense of French nationhood was weak in the provinces. Weber then looked at how the policies of the Third Republic created a sense of French nationality in rural areas. The book was widely praised, but was criticized by some historians who argued that a sense of Frenchness existed in the provinces before 1870. A map of France under the Third Republic, featuring colonies. ...

Works

• The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914, 1959.
• Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth Century France (1962).
  
• "Nationalism, Socialism and National-Socialism in France" pages 273-307 from French Historical Studies, Volume 2, 1962.
• Satan France-Maçon: la mystification de Leo Taxil, 1964.
• Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twenthieth Century (1964).
  
• co-edited with Hans Rogger, The European Right: A Historical Profile, 1965.
• "Pierre de Coubertin and the Introduction of Organized Sports in France" pages 3-26 from Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 5, 1970.
• "Gymnastics and Sports in Fin-de-Siécle France: Opium of the Classes?" pages 70-98 from American Historical Review, Volume 76, 1971.
• A Modern History of Europe: Men, Cultures, and Societies from the Renaissance to the Present (1971).
  
• Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880–1914 (1976).
  
• "Comment la politique vint aux paysans: A Second Look at Peasant Politicization" pages 357-389 from American Historical Review, Volume 87, 1982.
• "Reflections on the Jews in France" from The Jews in Modern France edited by Frances Malino and Bernard Wasserstein, 1985.
• France, Fin de siécle (1986).
  
• My France: Politics, Culture, Myth, 1991.
• The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s (1994).
  
• Apocalypses (1999).
  

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Reference

• Amato, Joseph "Eugen Weber's France" pages 879–882 from Journal of Social History, Volume 25, 1992.

External link

• Weber's UCLA Homepage
• The Western Tradition homepage at Annenberg/CPB