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Biography
Education
Habilitation: University of Mannheim, 1970
Ph.D. - University of London, 1964
M.A. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1961
Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE (Fall 2009), IGH MA Program Chair (Spring 2010)
Interests and Research
Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of
History, specializes in modern German history and European-American
relations. He received his M.A. from the
University
of
North Carolina
,
Chapel Hill
(1961) and his Ph.D. from the
University
of
London
(1964). He taught in
England
and
Germany
before coming to
Brown
University
in 1988 and to
Columbia
ten years later. His publications include:
America
and the Intellectual Cold Wars in
Europe
(2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); and most recently Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006).
Teaching
Courses
Modern
Germany, 1871-2000
Europe,
1900-1945
European
Historiography
European-American
business relations
European-American cultural relations
Awards
Fellow, Royal Historical Society,
England
Order of Merit, First Class, Federal
Republic of Germany
Honorary Professor, University of
Warwick
Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Helmut-Schmidt Prize of ZEIT
Foundation
Selected Publications
Selected Books
Europe
in the Era of Two World Wars, 2006
America
and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe, 2001
Sarajewo
1914. Der Untergang des alten Europa, 1997
Imperial
Germany, 1871-1914, 1995
Otto
A. Friedrich. Ein politischer Unternehmer, 1993
The
Americanization of West German Industry, 1945-1973, 1986
Militarism.
The History of an International Debate, 1863-1979, 1982
Modern
Germany. Economy, Society, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, 1982
Germany
and the Approach of War in 1914, 1973
Selected Edited Volumes
with Simone Laessig, Between Structure and Agency, 2008
with Sigurt Vitols, Gibt es einen Deutschen Kapitalismus?, 2006
Quest for Economic Empire, 1996
with Wilhelm Deist, Rüstung im Zeichen der wilhelminischen
Weltpolitik, 1988
with Martin Kitchen, Germany in the Age of Total War, 1981
Militarismus, 1975
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