Faculty Postholders
Dr Abigail Green
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: abigail.green@history.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
I have written widely on regionalism and state formation in nineteenth century Germany, but my current research focuses on international Jewish history, humanitarian philanthropy and religious internationalism.
Supervision Interests
19C European history, particularly international Jewish history; the history of international relations and transnational mobilisations in the long 19th century; the history of Germany c.1800-1870.
Selected Publications:
- Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany. (Cambridge, 2001) 386pp.
- 'Representing Germany? The Zollverein at the World Exhibitions, 1851-1862.', The Journal of Modern History. Vol 75(4) (2003) pp. 836-863
- 'The federal alternative? a new view of modern German history', The Historical Journal. Vol 46,1 (2003) pp. 187-202
- 'Rethinking Sir Moses Montefiore: Religion, Nationhood, and International Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century', American Historical Review. Vol 110(3) (2005) pp. 631-658
- 'The British Empire and the Jews: an imperialism of human rights?', Past & Present. Vol 199 (2008) pp. 175-205
- 'Nationalism and the 'Jewish International': religious internationalism in Europe and the Middle East, c.1840-c.1880', Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol 50: 2 (2008) pp. 535-558
Future Publications:
- Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. (Cambridge, Mass., 2010)
- 'Intervening in the Jewish Question' in A history of humanitarian intervention. (Cambridge, 2010)
Research Interests and Activities
- Eighteenth-Century Britain and Europe
- Modern Britain and Europe
- International, Imperial and Global History
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