T. Hunt Tooley

Publications and Conference Presentations


Books

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

(Book) 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)

(Book)  National Identity and Weimar Germany:  Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922.  Lincoln:  The University of Nebraska Press, 1997.  On sale at the University of Nebraska Press!
 

Articles and Chapters

“'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).

"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, 17 Reviews in The American Historical Review, Locus, The Austrian History Yearbook, The German Studies Review, 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

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--Liberty and Property Society 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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