Michael Lang
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
My field of research is modern Europe with emphasis in intellectual history, international relations, and the connections between the two. I define Europe within the context of world history and strive for a reflective understanding of the historical practice. I teach the European survey as well as advanced and graduate courses in international affairs, globalization, the history of theory, and methodology.
Lobby card for the 1941 film “To Be or Not to Be”.
Publications:
2021
- Review of Kellie Jones, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), Journal of African American History 106 (Winter): 160-162
2020
- Review of Robert C. Holub, Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Journal of Modern History 92 (June): 458- 460
2019
- Review of Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche’s Great Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), Journal of Modern History 91 (June): 468-469
2016
- “The Harmony of Interests,” Arnold J. Toynbee, Il mondo oltre le civiltà, eds. Federico Leonardi and Luca Maggioni (Milano: Edizione Unicopli/The University of Milan), 87-92
2015
- “Evolution, Rupture, and Periodization,” Cambridge History of the World, Volume 1: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE, ed. David Christian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 84-109
2014
- “Histories of Globalizations,” A Companion to Global Historical Thought, eds. Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthi, and Andrew Sartori (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell), 399-411
2013
- Review of H.L. Wesseling, A Cape of Asia: Essays on European History, (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2011), Reviews and Critical Commentary: A Forum for Research and Commentary on Europe (online)
2011
- “Globalization and Global History in Toynbee,” Journal of World History 22 (December): 747-783
2010
- “It’s Only a Job: The Social Organization of Indifference in Losey’s ‘Mr. Klein,’” Jura Gentium Cinema, 2010
- Review of John M. Headley, The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), European History Quarterly 40 (July): 525-526
2009
- “David S. Ware,” African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbothom, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press) (online)
2008
- Review of Steven L. Isoardi, The Dark Tree: Jazz and Community Arts in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), Journal of African-American History 93 (Spring): 307-309
2006
- “Globalization and Its History,” The Journal of Modern History 78 (December): 899-931
2005
- “Modern, Postmodern, World,” Palgrave Advances in World Histories, ed. Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan): 168-188
2004
- Review of Brian W. Blouet, Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century(London: Reaktion Books, 2001),” Journal of World History 15 (September): 405-407
2003
- “Mapping Globalization or Globalizing the Map: Heidegger and Planetary Discourse,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 36 (Fall/Winter): 239-250
- “Globalization Discourse and the European Perspective,” Global Dialogue 5,(Summer/Autumn): 118-127
- “Germany between Nietzsche and Wagner,” Intellectual News: Review of the International Society for Intellectual History 11/12 (Summer): 86-89
