Volker Berghahn
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Volker Rolf Berghahn is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University. His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and his PhD, under supervision of Francis L. Carsten, from the University of London in 1964. Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1988, he accepted a position at Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.
Volker Berghahn's Published Works
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- America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001) (112)
- Germany and the approach of war in 1914 (1973) (102)
- Militarism: The History of an International Debate 1861-1979 (1981) (47)
- Imperial Germany, 1871-1914: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics (1994) (46)
- Reflections on Werner Bonefeld's ‘Freedom and the Strong State: On German Ordoliberalism' and the Continuing Importance of the Ideas of Ordoliberalism to Understand Germany's (Contested) Role in Resolving the Eurozone Crisis (2013) (46)
- The Americanisation of West German industry, 1945-1973 (1987) (39)
- Industrial relations in West Germany (1990) (37)
- Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century (1983) (34)
- The debate on ‘Americanization’ among economic and cultural historians (2010) (33)
- “Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable (2010) (33)
- Philanthropy and Diplomacy in the “American Century” (1999) (31)
- :Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. (2005) (17)
- Militarism. The History of an International Debate, 1861-1979 (1985) (15)
- Germany in the Age of Total War (1981) (14)
- Reign of Terror (1998) (13)
- The Triumph of Propaganda: Film and National Socialism 1933-1945 (1995) (13)
- Quest for Economic Empire: European Strategies of German Big Business in the Twentieth Century (1999) (11)
- German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler (2017) (11)
- Perceptions of History: International Textbook Research on Britain, Germany and the United States (1988) (11)
- The Naval Strategy of the World War (1989) (10)
- The German Empire, 1871–1914: Reflections on the Direction of Recent Research (2002) (9)
- German big business and the quest for a European economic empire in the twentieth century (1996) (8)
- Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 (2005) (8)
- Perceptions of History. An Analysis of School Textbooks (1989) (7)
- Ordoliberalism, Ludwig Erhard, and West Germany’s “Economic Basic Law” (2015) (7)
- The origins of the First World War (2012) (6)
- A Deafening Silence (1999) (6)
- West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle: A History of Mentality and Recovery (2018) (5)
- The Political Economy of West Germany, 1945-1985 (1988) (5)
- Modern Germany (2020) (4)
- Introduction [American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the 20th Century] (2014) (3)
- The Unmastered and Unmasterable Past (1991) (3)
- War Preparations and National Identity in Imperial Germany (1999) (3)
- Steel and sovereignty : the deconcentration of the West German steel industry, 1949-54 (1998) (3)
- The Third Reich, 1933–1945 (1987) (2)
- The Allies and the Reorientation of German Culture after 1945 (2006) (2)
- CHAPTER 17. Modern Europe in American Historical Writing (1999) (2)
- The United States and the Shaping of West Germany's Social Compact, 1945–1966 (1996) (2)
- Fragile Rise: Grand Strategy and the Fate of Imperial Germany, 1871–1914 (2018) (2)
- Familienunternehmen in Westdeutschland: Corporate Governance und Gesellschaftskultur seit den 1960er Jahren [Family Business in West Germany: Corporate Governance and Company Culture since the 1960s]. By Christina Lubinski. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2010. 316 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliograp (2012) (1)
- War and civil war, 1914–1923 (1987) (1)
- The Ambiguous Legacy: Philanthropy and Diplomacy in the American Century (1999) (1)
- Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer (2018) (1)
- Reintegrating Germany into the Atlantic Community: The Role of the Big American Foundations (2016) (1)
- Review Article : Big Business in the Third Reich (1991) (1)
- Nachdenken uber die deutsche Geschichte: Essays. Thomas NipperdeyFrom Kaiserreich to Third Reich: Elements of Continuity in German History, 1871-1945. Fritz Fischer , Roger Fletcher (1989) (1)
- Ordoliberalism, social Catholicism, and West Germany’s social market economy (1949–1976) (2019) (1)
- American Big Business in Britain and Germany (2014) (1)
- John Gimbel. Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1990. Pp. xv, 280. $29.50 (1991) (1)
- Memorial: Allan Mitchell, 1933–2016 (2018) (0)
- V. Nazi Germany, Appeasement, and Anglo-American Big Business, 1933–1941 (2014) (0)
- American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955. Edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, Hermann-Josef Rupieper. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. xviii + 537. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-43120-4. (1994) (0)
- Book Review:Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: The Germans and French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community. John Gillingham (1993) (0)
- Modern Germany: The two Germanies since the 1960s (1987) (0)
- German Industry and Global Enterprise. BASF: The History of a Company . By Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, and Raymond Stokes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. 677. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82726-4. (2005) (0)
- The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany During the Machine Age, 1870–1918 . By Eric Dorn Brose. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. 318. $35 00. ISBN 0-19-514335-3 (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER 7. Philanthropy and Diplomacy (2001) (0)
- The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History ed. by Helmut Walser Smith (review) (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Political Economy of West Germany, I945-I985. By Jeremy Leaman. London: Macmillan. 1988. xii + 287 pp. 29.50 cloth; I2.95 paperback (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- European Elitism, American Money, and Popular Culture (2019) (0)
- Naval Armaments and Social Crisis (2020) (0)
- Modern Germany: Preface (1987) (0)
- Demographic growth, industrialization and social change (2020) (0)
- Political Democracy and the Shaping of Capitalism in pre-1914 America and Germany (2016) (0)
- The Intellectual Journey of Marion Countess Dönhoff (2018) (0)
- Defiance and Resistance to Nazism from the Perspective of Gender, Class, and Generation (2021) (0)
- Benjamin Ziemann. Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture. (2014) (0)
- Paul Sethe (2018) (0)
- A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, the UK and German Unification, 1945–1990 (2019) (0)
- The ultimate modern (1997) (0)
- CHAPTER 10. Transatlantic Cultural Relations in the "American Century" (2001) (0)
- Modern Germany: The Weimar Republic between stabilisation and collapse, 1924–1933 (1987) (0)
- The Origins of World War I . Edited by Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. iii + 537. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81735-8. (2004) (0)
- From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (2005) (0)
- Book Review:The Thanks of the Fatherland: German Veterans after the Second World War. James M. Diehl (1995) (0)
- Edward Anthony Wrigley: In Memory and Appreciation (2022) (0)
- Heinrich Brüning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic. By William L. Patch, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. ix+358. $54.95. (2000) (0)
- Revisionism in Germany (1993) (0)
- Imperial Germany 1871-1918 (2022) (0)
- III. From the Outbreak of War in July 1914 to the Genoa Conference, 1922 (2014) (0)
- Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. By Jeffrey Herf. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997. Pp. xi + 527. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-21303-3. (1999) (0)
- Hanseatic Journalism and Its Networks (2018) (0)
- CHAPTER 2. Defeating and Rebuilding Germany (2001) (0)
- Coping with the American Challenge (2014) (0)
- Reviews : K. H. Jarausch, The Enigmatic Chancellor, Bethmann Hollweg and the Hubris of Imperial Germany, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1973. xiv + 560 pp., £7.95 (1978) (0)
- The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire. By Jan Rüger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xv+337. Cloth $95.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87576-9. (2008) (0)
- The German History Society (1988) (0)
- Douglas M. O’Reagan. Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War. (2021) (0)
- Recasting Bourgeois Germany (2020) (0)
- Book Review: Germany: A New Social and Economic History (2005) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. Europe before World War I, 1895–1914 (2005) (0)
- I. The North Atlantic Business Triangle and the Constellation of 1900–1901 (2014) (0)
- Hans Zehrer’s Intellectual Journey from Weimar Berlin to Postwar Hamburg (2018) (0)
- Occupation and division, 1945–1960 (1987) (0)
- II. Cooperation, Peaceful Competition, and the Specter of War, 1902–1914 (2014) (0)
- The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century, ed. John E. Lesch (Dortrecht/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; PP.472. NLG 360) (2001) (0)
- Isabel V. Hull. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 384. $45.00 (2005) (0)
- Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries (2018) (0)
- Las relaciones laborales en Alemania Occidental (1993) (0)
- Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. Translated by William Templer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 [1985]. xi + 510 pp. $79.95 cloth. (1999) (0)
- VI. British and German Business and Politics under the Pax Americana, 1941–1957 (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 3. Public Opinion and High Politics in Semisovereign West Germany (2001) (0)
- Reviews : The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914. By Paul M. Kennedy. London-Boston-Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. xiv + 604 pp. £30 (1982) (0)
- Journalists and Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth Century (2018) (0)
- Richard J. Shuster. German Disarmament after World War I: The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection 1920–1931 (Cass Series: Strategy and History, number 14.) New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. viii, 259. $113.00 (2007) (0)
- Review Article : Germany and Europe: What Lessons from History? (1996) (0)
- Modern Germany: Select bibliography (1987) (0)
- CHAPTER 6. Internationalizing the Ford Foundation (2001) (0)
- WEST GERMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY BETWEEN CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: SOME CROSS‐CULTURAL COMPARISONS (1981) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1982) (0)
- The Kaiser: Structure and agency in Wilhelmine Germany: the history of the German Empire – past, present, and future (2003) (0)
- War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present (review) (2000) (0)
- IV. The North Atlantic Triangle Economic Reconstruction and Collapse, 1923–1933 (2014) (0)
- Book Review:Englisches Interesse am Kaiserreich: Die Attraktivitat Preussen-Deutschlands fur Konservative und Liberale Kreise in Gross-Brittannien 1860-1914 Gunter Hollenberg (1977) (0)
- Modern Germany: Wilhelmine Germany, 1900–1914 (1987) (0)
- The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990: America and Social Change in Germany (2004) (0)
- Review: Barry Eichengreen, The European Economy Since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond, Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2006; xx + 495pp.; 9780691127101, £24.95 (hbk) (2009) (0)
- The Sword and the Sceptre, vols. iii and iv, (London: Allen Lane, 1972-3, £9.50 (1975) (0)
- Power, Ideology, and Economics during the Cold War (2022) (0)
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