__NOTOC__ John E. Toews is a Canadian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

in the U.S., and Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program,

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

from 1981 to 2010. He graduated from

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, with a Ph.D. in 1973.

Awards

* 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program * 2004-2005 Hans Rosenberg Prize of the

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for the best book in German and Central European History

Works

*''Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004). *"Refashioning the Masculine Subject in Early Modernism", in Marke Micale, ed. ''The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America 1880-1940'', Stanford University Press, 2003. *"The Linguistic Turn and Discourse Analysis in History," ''

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'', Elsevier Press, 2001, XIII, 8916-1932. *''The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels'', edited, Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. *"Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable", in Michael Roth ed., ''Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture'', Alfred Knopf, 1998. *''Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805-1841'', Cambridge University Press, 1981.
"A New Philosophy of History? Reflections on Postmodern Historicizing"
( JSTOR) ''

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'', 1997. 36 (2):235–248

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