![]() ![]() His publications include German Civil Wars: Nation Building and Historical Memory, 1756-1914, co-authored with James Retallack (forthcoming, Oxford UP), and The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property and Politics in Leipzig, 1750-1840 (Brill, 2005). Beachy also has written extensively about modern and early-modern European history. It suggests that it was in Berlin, rather than in other European and American metropolises, that contemporary gay identity first emerged and flourished. His current project, Long Knives, focuses on homosexuality under the Nazi regime and analyzes the complex evolution of Nazi policies toward homosexuality from open toleration to persecution. ![]() His work, Gay Berlin (Knopf, 2011), situates the origins of modern homosexual identity in debates about national unification, politics, and masculinity in Germany from the 1860s through the 1920s. Born in Puerto Rico, Robert Moses Beachy received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1998. ![]()
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