Staff Profile:Professor Patrick Major

Name:

Professor Patrick Major

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

I am chair of exams and teach two optional courses on 'Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945' and 'Cold War Berlin: Politics and Culture in a Divided City'.

I would be glad to supervise any research student with an interest in the history of modern Germany, the world wars, the Cold War, film history and popular cultural history.

Areas of Interest:

My research interests are primarily the political, social and cultural history of divided Germany in the Cold War. I have recently completed a large project on the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. I am currently undertaking a project on Anglo-American and German film depictions of 'bad Nazis' and 'good Germans', which has been funded by the British Academy.

 

Research groups / Centres:

Research groups / Centres: I am an associate of the Centre for East German Studies at Reading.

Publications:

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Number of items: 18.

2012

• Major, P. (2012) Listening behind the Curtain: BBC broadcasting to East Germany and its Cold War echo. Cold War History, 13 (2). pp. 255-275. ISSN 1743-7962 doi: 10.1080/14682745.2012.746840

2011

• Major, P. (2011) Walled in: ordinary East Germans' responses to 13 August 1961. German Politics and Society, 29 (2). pp. 8-22. ISSN 1558-5441 doi: 10.3167/gps.2011.290202

2010

• Major, P. (2010) Unusual censor readings: G.D.R. science fiction and the Ministry of Culture. In: Hochscherf, T., Laucht, C. and Plowman, A. (eds.) Divided, but not disconnected: German experiences of the Cold War. Berghan Books, New York and Oxford, pp. 204-219. ISBN 9781845457518

2009

• Major, P. (2009) Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the frontiers of power. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp336. ISBN 9780199243280
• Major, P. and Moran, C., eds. (2009) Spooked: Britain, empire and intelligence since 1945. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp164. ISBN 9781443813129

2008

• Major, P. (2008) Our friend Rommel: the Wehrmacht as "worthy enemy" in postwar British popular culture. German History, 26 (4). pp. 520-35. ISSN 1477-089X doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghn049

2006

• Major, P. (2006) "Smut and trash": Germany's culture wars against pulp fiction. In: Führer, K.-C. and Ross, C. (eds.) Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany. New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 234-250. ISBN 9780230008380
• Major, P. and Mitter, R. (2006) Culture. In: Dockrill, S. and Hughes, G. (eds.) Palgrave Advances in Cold War History. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 240-262. ISBN 9781403934475

2004

• Major, P. and Mitter, R., eds. (2004) Across the Blocs: exploring comparative Cold War cultural and social history. Cold War History. Cass, London, pp160. ISBN 9780714684642
• Major, P. (2004) Future perfect?: Communist science fiction in the Cold War. In: Major, P. and Mitter, R. (eds.) Across the Blocs: exploring comparative Cold War cultural and social history. Cold War History. Cass, London, pp. 56-74. ISBN 9780714684642

2002

• Major, P. (2002) Going West: the open border and the problems of Republikflucht. In: Major, P. and Osmond, J. (eds.) The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945-71. Manchester University Press, Mancheseter, pp. 190-209. ISBN 9780719062896
• Major, P. and Osmond, J., eds. (2002) The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945-71. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp320. ISBN 9780719062896
• Major, P. (2002) Coming in from the cold: the GDR in the British spy thriller. In: Bauerkämper, A. (ed.) Britain and the GDR: relations and perceptions in a divided world. Philo, Vienna, pp. 339-352. ISBN 9783825702960
• Major, P. (2002) Innenpolitische Aspekte der zweiten Berlinkrise (1958-1961). In: Hertle, H.-H., Jarausch, K. and Kleßmann, C. (eds.) Mauerbau und Mauerfall: Ursachen, Verlauf, Auswirkungen. Ch. Links, Berlin, pp. 97-110. ISBN 9783861532644

2000

• Major, P. (2000) Symptom der zweiten Berlinkrise. In: Ciesla, B., Lemke, M. and Lindenberger, T. (eds.) Sterben für Berlin?: Die Berliner Krisen 1948: 1958. Metropol, Berlin, pp. 221-243. ISBN 9783932482274
• Major, P. (2000) 'Torschlußpanik und Mauerbau: "Republikfluht". In: Ciesla, B., Lemke, M. and Lindenberger, T. (eds.) Sterben für Berlin? Die Berliner Krisen 1948: 1958. Metropol, Berlin, pp. 221-243. ISBN 9783932482274

1999

• Major, P. (1999) Vor und nach dem 13. August 1961: Reaktionen der DDR-Bevölkerung auf den Bau der Berliner Mauer. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 39. pp. 325-354. ISSN 0066-6506

1998

• Major, P. (1998) The death of the KPD: communism and anti-communism in West Germany 1945-1956. Oxford Historical Monographs. OUP, Oxford, pp370. ISBN 9780198206934

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