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Geoffrey Howard "Geoff" Eley (born 4 May 1949) is aBritish-bornhistorian ofGermany. He studied history atBalliol College, Oxford, and received hisPhD from theUniversity of Sussex in 1974. He has taught at theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Department of History since 1979 and the Department ofGerman Studies since 1997. He now serves as the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History atMichigan.

Eley's early work focused on the radicalnationalism inImperial Germany andfascism, but has since grown to include theoretical and methodological reflections onhistoriography and the history of the politicalleft inEurope.

Eley is particularly well known for his early study,The Peculiarities of German History (first published in German asMythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung in 1984), co-authored withDavid Blackbourn (a fellow Briton, who now teaches atVanderbilt University), which challenged the orthodoxy in German social history known as theSonderweg thesis. His most successful book isForging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, which has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Korean, Turkish and Greek. Recently, he published a collection of essays onfascism calledNazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945 with Routledge Press.

(This list does not include edited volumes.)

• Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945. London: Routledge, 2013ISBN 978-0415812634
• After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.ISBN 978-0472033447
• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (with Keith Nield). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.ISBN 978-0472069644
• A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.ISBN 0472069047
• Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.ISBN 0195044797
• Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980; new ed. 1991.ISBN 0472081322
• Wilhelminismus, Nationalismus, Faschismus: Zur historischen Kontinuität in Deutschland. Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1991.ISBN 3924550476
• Review article: "Labor History, Social History,Alltagsgeschichte: Experience, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday--a New Direction for German Social History?"The Journal of Modern History Vol. 61, No. 2, June 1989
• From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German Past. London: Routledge, 1986.ISBN 0415084881
• The Peculiarities of German History (with David Blackbourn). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.ISBN 0198730578

• Faculty page on Eley at the University of MichiganArchived 12 November 2013 at theWayback Machine
• Geoff Eley,"No Need to Choose: History from Above, History from Below",Viewpoint Magazine, June 2014.

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