Finding Aid for the Eugen Joseph Weber Papers, 1950-
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Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Eugen Joseph Weber Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1950-
Collection number: 1115
Creator: Weber, Eugen Joseph, 1925-
Extent:
40 boxes (20 linear ft.)
11 cartons (11 linear ft.)
Abstract: Eugen Joseph Weber (b.1925) was a professor (1956- ) and chairman of the department of history at UCLA (1965-68), dean of
social sciences (1976-77), and dean of the College of Letters and Sciences (1977-82). The collection consists of Weber's notes,
manuscripts, galley and proof sheets, correspondence, microfilm, and UCLA course lecture notes. Manuscripts include his
A modern history of Europe,
The western tradition: a book of readings,
The European right: a historical profile,
The nationalist revival in France, 1905-1914,
My France: politics, culture, myth,
France, fin de siècle,
Action française: royalism and reaction in twentieth century France, and articles for journals.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Professor Eugen Weber, 1972- .
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Eugen Joseph Weber Papers (Collection 1115). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Weber was born on April 24, 1925 in Bucharest, Romania; attended Institut d'études politiques, Paris, 1948-49, 1951-52; BA
(1950), MA (1954) and M.Litt (1956), Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge; lecturer, University of Alberta, 1954-55;
assistant professor, University of Iowa, 1955-56; assistant professor (1956), associate professor (1959-63), professor and
chairman of the department of history, UCLA (1965-68); dean of social sciences (1976-77) and dean of the College of Letters
and Sciences (1977-82), UCLA; published works include
The nationalist revival in France, 1905-1914 (1959),
Action française: royalism and reaction in twentieth century France (1962),
Varieties of fascism: doctrines of revolution in the twentieth century (1964),
Peasants into Frenchmen: the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914 (1976),
France, fin de siècle (1986), and
The hollow years: France in the 1930s (1994).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of notes, manuscripts, galley and proof sheets, correspondence, microfilm, and UCLA course lecture notes
of history professor Eugen Weber. Manuscripts include his
A modern history of Europe;
The western tradition: a book of readings;
The European right: a historical profile;
The nationalist revival in France, 1905-1914;
My France: politics, culture, myth;
France, fin de siècle;
Action française: royalism and reaction in twentieth century France, and articles for journals.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Weber, Eugen Joseph, 1925- --Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of History--Faculty--Archival resources.
Historians--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Manuscripts for publication.
A Modern History of Europe.
Box 1, Folder 1
Part I: “The renaissance & reformation.”
Physical Description: (Holograph manuscript in two spiral notebooks)
Box 1, Folder 2
Part II: “Early modern Europe.”
Physical Description: (Holograph manuscript in two spiral notebooks)
Box 2, Folder 1
Part III: “An age of revolutions: 1715-1848.”
Physical Description: (Holograph manuscript in three spiral notebooks)
Box 3, Folder 1
Holograph manuscript in four spiral notebooks.
Box 4, Folders 1-3
Part I.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 4, Folder 1
First draft.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 4, Folder 2
Second draft.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 4, Folder 3
Final draft [p.1-251].
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Boxes 4-5
Part II.
Physical Description: (3 folders)
Box 4, Folder 4
First draft.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 4, Folder 5
Second draft.
Physical Description: (Carbon typescript)
Box 5, Folder 1
Final draft [p.259-570].
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Boxes 5-6
Part III.
Physical Description: (4 folders)
Box 5, Folder 2
First draft.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 5, Folder 3
Second draft.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 6, Folder 1
Final draft [p.580-1014].
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 6, Folder 2
Illustrations for Part III.
Physical Description: (Photocopies)
Boxes 7-8, Folder 1
Part IV.
Physical Description: (3 folders)
Box 7, Folder 1
First draft.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 7, Folder 2
Second draft [lacking p.1-8].
Physical Description: (Carbon typescript)
Box 8
Final draft [p.1015-1750].
Physical Description: (Typescript, 3 folders)
Box 9, Folder 1
Index.
Physical Description: (Carbon typescript)
Box 9, Folders 2-3
Miscellaneous notes, etc.
re text.
Box 10
Records and note cards.
Scope and Content Note
Records are second stage of mas., between holograph notebook and typescript.
Box 15, Folder 1
[p.705-end]; Proof sheets.
Box 15, Folder 2
Partial text; Galley proofs.
Box 15, Folder 3
Bibliography and index; Galley proofs.
Box 16
Text, table of contents [lacks bibliography and index]; Galley proofs.
Box 27, Folder 1
Correspondence with publisher (room in box).
The Western Tradition: a Book of Readings . . ..
Box 17, Folder 3
Index.
Physical Description: (Typescript and galley proofs)
Box 25, Folder 6
Correspondence, drafts, etc.
Box 32, Folder 1
Galley proofs (front matter).
Box 32, Folder 2
vol.1.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 32, Folder 3
vol.2.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
The Nationalist Revival in France.
Box 24, Folder 1
Correspondence with publisher.
A Century of Modern Taste: from Romanticism to Surrealism.
Box 25, Folder 1
Outline, and correspondence with publishers.
Box 25, Folder 3
“The Anti-Utopia of the Twentieth Century.”
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, drafts.
Box 25, Folder 7
“An Anxious Pride: Old and New Orientations in French Foreign. .”
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and carbon typescripts.
Box 25, Folder 4
“Sartre and Surrender,” and other journal articles.
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts and correspondence.
Box 25, Folder 5
“Some Comments on the Nature of the Nationalist Revival in France.”
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts and correspondence.
Note
(see previous folder)
Box 26, Folder 1
“Pas d'ennemis a gauche,” and other journal articles.
Physical Description: (Typescript and carbon typescript)
Box 26, Folder 3
Articles on French Left/Right.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and notes.
Box 26, Folder 2
“No Enemies on the Left?”
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, drafts, and typescripts.
Box 26, Folder 4
“New Wine in Old Bottles: les Families Spirituelles de la France.”
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, typescript and carbon typescripts
Box 26, Folder 5
“Gymnastics and Sports in fin-de-siecle France: Opium of the Classes.”
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, notes, and carbon typescripts
Box 31, Folder 2
“The Betrayal of the Intellectuals,” and other articles.
Scope and Content Note
Carbon typescripts, clippings, etc.
Box 43
Draft.
ca. 1982
Scope and Content Note
EW still retains original manuscript copies of his publications; he often typed rewrites from his handwritten copy, then had
a typist produce subsequent copies.
Boxes 41, 45
My France.
Scope and Content Note
Publisher's proofs[?].
Note
One of EW's most notable publications collection boxed 17 Aug 1993 as per call from EW. cbb
Box 46
A Simple Life.
Scope and Content Note
Publisher's proofs[?].
Box 46
Peasants into Frenchmen.
Scope and Content Note
Research notes.
Box 47
Movements, Currents, Trends....
Box 47
Typed manuscript of publication.
Box 51
Publisher's proofs[?].
1992
Box 44
Part I.
Scope and Content Note
First of EW's publications; originally filed in a notebook
Box 49
Research notes
re
Action Francaise.
Box 50
“Action Francaise and Catholicism” file.
Boxes 55-56
Hollow Years.
Note
Addition, December 1997
Box 55
Holograph manuscript, various versions.
Box 56
Copy of Dutch translation.
Box 56
Weber correspondence advocating reprint.
ca.1980
Note
Addition, December 1997
Box 18
First chapter: “A country of savages.”
Physical Description: (Holograph, in 3 spiral notebooks, no.1-3)
Box 19
Holograph, in 2 spiral notebooks, no.6-7.
Box 20
Holograph, in 2 spiral notebooks, no.6-7.
Box 21
Holograph, in 4 spiral notebooks, no.8.
Box 22
Holograph, in 3 spiral notebooks and one ledger.
Box 23, Folder 1
First chapter: “The age of masses.”
Physical Description: (Typescript, photocopy)
Box 29
First chapter: “A country of savages.”
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, printer's copy.
Box 30
Typescript, printer's copy (begins Box 29).
Box 31, Folder 3
Unidentified Manuscript.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 33
Typescript (photocopy) in four folders.
Box 31, Folder 1
Introduction to Jean Barois.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and typescript (photocopy) and . .
Box 41
“The Western Tradition” (television lecture notes).
ca. 1989
Scope and Content Note
Grant funded series on public television, originating from WGBH (Boston); first aired in 1989; still being broadcast
Boxes 42-43
Dissertation, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
Note
[Weber] did not receive degree - dissertation committee never approved of final draft.
Box 42
First draft.
Physical Description: (vol.1, blue binding)
Box 43
First and second drafts.
Scope and Content Note
- First draft (vol.2, blue binding)
- Second draft (vol.1 & 2, red bindings)
Box 44
[...Readings...], University of Iowa.
1956
Scope and Content Note
Fist edition of Western civilization readings; created to use as a text ins EW's courses
Box 45
Anti-clerical poster, France.
ca. 1890's
Physical Description: (Poster is extremely fragile and in 2 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Acquired by EW while conducting research on Leo Taxil, French journalist who attacked the catholic church and Masonic orders.
Box 48
Reprint files for course no.472[?].
Physical Description: (Photocopies)
Box 48
Untitled manuscript of publication.
Box 48
“Socialists and the Jewish Question.”
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of typscript by Edmund Silberuer[?].
Box 49
“Zones.”
Physical Description: (2 folders)
Boxes 45, 49-50
Correspondence.
ca. 1956-1982
Box 45
Files maintained by secretary in notebooks.
ca. 1979-1982
Physical Description: (2 vols.)
Box 49
1960-1961.
Scope and Content Note
Mostly about research in France (
re “Action Francaise?”)
Box 50
ca. 1956-.
Scope and Content Note
Short papers (lectures?) interfiled.
Boxes 49-50
Historical time lines compiled by EW (“Chart”).
Box 50
University of Alberta files.
ca. 1955
Box 50
Publication, no title.
Physical Description: (Typescript)
Box 50
Publisher's files.
ca.1955-1958
Scope and Content Note
re D.C. Heath & Company, University of Iowa, etc.
Box 48
Research notes.
Scope and Content Note
Card files
Box 51
Microfilm reels.
Scope and Content Note
Film copies of primary French documents (?) have bibliographers review (?).
Boxes 52-54
E. Weber handwritten notes
re publications correspondence with publisher/Norton.
ca. 1985-
Scope and Content Note
re
Hollow Years revisions of 5th edition
Western Tradition (D.C. Heath)
Fin de Siecle (holograph manuscript)
Note
Addition, December 1997
Boxes 44, 46, 49, 52-54
UCLA course files.
1952 and n.d.
Box 49
Course lecture notes.
Physical Description: (.50 cu.ft.)
Box 44
“Intellectual History” (?) course lecture notes.
Box 46
Course lectures notes.
ca. 1952
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from other institutions.
Box 52-54
[No further description available].
Note
Addition, December 1997
