Eugen Weber’s roots are Thracian. Thracian belongs to the Indo-European racial subgroup which covers, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish.
Weber (/ˈwɛbər/, /ˈwiːbər/ or /ˈweɪbər/; German: [ˈveːbɐ]) is a surname of German origin, derived from the noun meaning “weaver”. In some cases, following migration to English-speaking countries, it has been anglicised to the English surname ‘Webber’ or even ‘Weaver
Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, at the time when Eugen Weber was born in 1925, in culture, style and taste was simply a colony of France. Any Romanian who mattered spoke French. Bucharest was even nick named Little Paris.
In his book highly personal book My France, published by Harvard University, Eugen Weber remarks that great Romanians when they are about to die go to France, and those Romanians who have means go there very early.
The statement suggests that most Romanians saw France as their roots and origin. People when they retire they often retracts their origin and go rest there.
Above being noted as a great historian in general, Eugen Weber was particularly known as historian with sharp awareness of France. Besides the reasons I have already provided about the French connection, Eugen Weber wife’s Jacqueline was French.
The New York Times calls Eugen Weber an authority on France. I see that observation by the New York Times giving a false impression.
Eugen Weber wrote great books Western Tradition some of those are:
Making reference to Eugen Weber as an authority of French history is far too misleading. Eugen Weber was an authority on the History of the Western Civilization. He has been teaching the Western Civilization since the 1950s until he passed on in 2007 as emeritus historian at the UCLA. To call Eugen Weber as a French historian is partial and fatal understanding.
Some if the books Eugen Weber published are as follows:
A Modern History of Europe: Men, Cultures and Societies from the Renaissance to the Present, 1971. Number of pages: 1245
The Western Tradition From the Renaissance to the Atomic Age, 1959. The book is 891 pages in length.
The European Right: A Historical Profile, 1965
Imagined histories : American historians interpret the past, 1998, [contributing author]
Romania : 40 years (1944-1984)
Georgescu, Vlad.; Georgetown University. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1985
Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century, 1964
The Western Tradition: From the Ancient World to Louis XIV, 1980, pages: 919
Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages, 1999
Movements, Currents, Trends: Aspects of European Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1992, pages: 618
I have just provided some of the books Eugen Weber published. Looking at this list, would you call Eugen Weber as merely an authority on French history or would you call him an authority on human history as very much influenced by the Western Tradition? So the New York Times is not accurate.
In 1987, WGBH the pioneer in public television, went on a search for a historian who will produce and present public lecture series on video for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in an encyclopedia format: The Western Tradition. After much search across America’s top universities, they settled for Eugen Weber.
