T. Hunt Tooley

Publications and Conference Presentations


Books

Anima and the Goat (Thoroughfare Press, 2016).

The Great War: Western Front and Home Front (2016, Palgrave/Macmillan, UK) (this is an expanded and revised edition of the title just below)

The Western Front:  Battleground and Home Front in the First World War (May 2003, Palgrave/Macmillan, UK)

Steven Bela Vardy and T. Hunt Tooley, eds., Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (May 2003, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press)

National Identity and Weimar Germany:  Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922.  Lincoln:  The University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 
 

Articles and Chapters

"Some Costs of the Great War:  Nationalizing Private Life,"  The Independent Review 14, no. 2 (Fall 2009):  165-174.

"Bloody Germany:  Berghahn's View of Twentieth-Century State Violence,"  The Independent Review 12, no. 4 (Spring 2008):  607-612.

“'All the People are Now Guerillas':  The Warfare of Sherman, Sheridan, and Lincoln and the Brutality of the Twentieth Century," The Independent Review 11, no.  3  (Winter 2007):  355-379.

"Merchants of Death Revisited:  Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War,"  Journal of Libertarian Studies 19 (Winter 2005):  37-78.

"Teaching the Great War,"  History Teaching Review Yearbook  (Journal of the Scottish Association of Teachers of History) 18 (2004):  10-17.

"World War I and the Emergence of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe," in Steven Bela Vardy and T. Hunt Tooley, eds., Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (Social Science Monographs, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press, 2003), 63-97.

 "The Hindenburg Program of 1916:  A Central Experiment in Wartime Planning," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 2 (Summer 1999):  51-62.

 "The Polish-German Ethnic Dispute in the 1921 Upper Silesian Plebiscite," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 24 (1997):  13-20.

 "The Internal Dynamics of Changing Frontiers:  The Plebiscites on Germany's Borders, 1919-1921,"  in  The Establishment of European Frontiers After the Two World Wars  (Peter Lang, 1996), ed. Carole Fink and Peter Baechler, 149-165.

 "German Political Violence and the Border Plebiscite in Upper Silesia, 1919-1921,"  Central European History  21 (March 1988):  56-98.

 "Nazi Technocracy and Coerced Labor:  A Case Study of the Synthetic Fuel Industry,"   The Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History 3 (Autumn 1978):  161-172.
 

1987-present, 25 Reviews in The American Historical Review, Locus,  The English Historical Review,  The Austrian History Yearbook, German Studies Review, Central European History, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, The Independent Review, and  History: Reviews of New Books, including the feature review in the Spring 1989 issue of the latter.

Conference Presentations

March 2013--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "War, Politics, and Money:  Some Economic Aspects of America's Crusades Since 1900")

September 2012--Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey (paper delivered:  "Engineering Tragedy:  The Meaning of the CIA Coup d'Etat in Iran, 1953")

March 2011--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "Barbed Wire Security and the Heart of the Modern State:  The Origins of Mass Internment, 1895-1933")

May 2010--Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey (paper delivered:  "World War II:  Western Imperialism and the New Middle East")

March 2010--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "Philippe Egalité:  Power and Corporate Welfare in the French Revolution")

March 2009--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "Peace in the Middle East: Empire, Oil, and the Reshaping of the Middle East After World War I")

October 2007--German Studies Association Conference, San Diego (paper delivered:  "Cohesion in Crisis, 1920:  The East Prussia Conference and the Border Plebiscite in Allenstein")

May 2007--Property and Freedom Conference, Bodrum, Turkey (paper delivered:  "Divide, Rule, Manipulate:  Western Strategies for the Middle East in the Period between the World Wars")

November 2006--Southern Historical Association Meeting (session of the European History Section of the SHA), Birmingham (paper delivered: "The Human Costs of the Matchstick Solution:  The Dynamics of Changing Borders and Ethnic Cleansing in Poland, 1945")

March 2006--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  Heroism, Despair, and Some Last Stands in the History of Western Imperialism")

March 2005--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered: "Empire and Brutality:  The Origins of the Concentration Camp")

March 2004--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "Merchants of Death Revisited:  Bankers, Armaments, and the First World War")

March 2003--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "William Tecumseh Sherman and the Brutality of the Twentieth Century")

October 2002--German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA (paper delivered:  "State, Region, and Nation on the Periphery:  Poles, Germans, and Silesians in the Crisis of 1914 to 1921")

March 2002--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "The Orwellian State System and International Politics")

April 2001--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "Social Darwinism and the Building of the Warfare-Welfare State")

November 2000--Conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Duquesne University (paper delivered:  "World War I and the Emergence of Population Politics")

April 2000--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "Outliving Communism?")

November 1999--European Section of the Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth (paper delivered:  "Self-Determined Identity:  Humor, the Plebiscite, and the Ethnic Divide in Upper Silesia, 1918-1921")

April 1999--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University (paper delivered:  "The Reality and Rhetoric of Self-Determination and Secession in the First World War")

April 1998--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn  Universtity (papers delivered:  "The Hindenburg Program:  A Forgotten Experiment  in Wartime Planning" and "Technocratic Elites and the Planning for Two German  Wars")

April 1997--Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn  Universtity (paper delivered:  "War Finance and Social Crisis in World War I:  A Hobbesian World in the Higgsian Moment")

September 1995--International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montréal, colloquium of  the Association Internationale d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Europe (paper  delivered:  "The Internal Dynamics of Changing Frontiers:  The Plebiscites on  Germany's Borders, 1919-1921")

October 1993--German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C. (paper  delivered:  "Wilhelm von Gayl in the Cabinet of Barons")

October 1992--German Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis (paper delivered:   "Polish-speaking Germans in the 1921 Plebiscite")

December 1987--Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D. C. (paper delivered:  "Regionalism and Reform in Weimar Prussia")

March 1979--Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting, Fort Worth (paper delivered:  "Nazi Technocracy and the Entry into the Elite:  Carl Krauch and Synthetic Fuel Planning")

March 1978--Conference on War and Diplomacy, the Citadel, Charleston (paper delivered:  "Nazi Technocracy and Coerced Labor:  A Case Study  of the Synthetic Fuel Industry")
 
 

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