Over the years, I have taught and written in German History since 1815,
European History since 1848, 19th and 20th century
European diplomatic history, and German-Slav relations in the 19th
and 20th centuries.
I have been particularly interested in the roles of slogans and images in the
perceptions of one nation by another and the degree to which their respective
histories have been affected by these emotional and psychological phenomena.
Film and the arts have always fascinated me as dimensions by which to see and
understand changes in the histories of nations and societies.
Most recently I have focused on phenomena of political manipulation of
technology, notably in the example of the great rigid airships in the societies
of Germany, Great Britain, and America between 1919 and 1939.
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HENRY CORD MEYER
Ph.D., Yale University, 1941
Professor Emeritus of History
Department of History
260 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275
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Fields of Interest:
German History, 1815-1985; Political Manipulation of Technology
Publications:
Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1815-1945 (1955)
Five Images of Germany; Half a Century of American Views on German History (1965, 1969)
The Long Generation: Germany from Empire to Ruin, 1913-1945 (1973)
"France Perceives the Zeppelins, 1927-1934," South Atlantic Quarterly (1979)
"Politics, Personality, and Technology: Airships in the Manipulations of Dr.
Hugo Eckener and Lord Thompson, 1919-1930," Aerospace Historian
(1981)
Airshipmen, Businessmen and Politics, 1890-1940 (1991)
Drang Nach Osten. Fortunes of a Slogan-Concept in German-Slavic Relations, 1849-1990 (1996)
Count Zeppelin. A Psychological Portrait (1998)
Skyward Rivalries. Political Manipulation of Airship Wonder in International Affairs, 1900-1940 (2000)
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