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Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939) is the
Leverett Saltonstall Leverett Atholville Saltonstall (September 1, 1892June 17, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the List of Governors of Massachusetts, 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more th ...
Professor Emeritus of History at
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. He teaches European and international history at Harvard.


Biography

Maier served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, 1994-2001, and currently co-directs (with Sven Beckert) the Weatherhead Research Cluster in Global History. He taught at Duke University 1976-81 and has also held various visiting professorships in Europe. He was married from 1961 to 2013 to the late Pauline Maier ( Rubbelke), Professor at MIT and noted American historian. In 2017 he married Marjorie Anne Sa'adah, professor emerita of government at Dartmouth College. He has three children and eight grandchildren.


Awards and honors

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt research prize fellowship, the Cross of Honor of the German Federal Republic, and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class, of the Republic of Austria. The University of Padua awarded him a laurea honoris causa in European Studies in January 2018. Prizes include the Premio Nazionale Cherasco Storia alla Carrera (2019); the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction (2018); the Helmut Schmitt Prize for German-American American Economic History conferred by the German Historical Institute, Washington, and the ''Zeit'' and Bucerius Foundations in 2011; the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize in 1978 and its Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 1977, both for ''Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I''


Partial bibliography


Books (excluding edited volumes)

* Reprinted with new prefaces, 1988 and 2015. * '' In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) *
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity
' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988) * '' Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) * '' Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006) *
Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood
' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; also in ''Worlds Connected'', Emily Rosenberg, ed. Harvard University Press, 2012) *
Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016) *
The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023)


Articles

* "Between Taylorism and technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s". ''Journal of contemporary history'' 5#2 (1970): 27-61. . * "The politics of productivity: foundations of American international economic policy after World War II". ''International Organization'' 31#4 (1977): 607-633. . * "Marking time: the historiography of international relations". in ''The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States'' (1980): 355-87. * * *“The Cold War and the World Economy", in ''The Cambridge History of the Cold War'', Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds. (3 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 ), I, 44-66. * * “In Merkel’s Crisis, Echoes of Weimar", ''NYR Daily: New York Review of Books'', 12/4/2017. * "H-Diplo Memories" (H-Diplo "Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars" 16 October 2020
online autobiography


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maier, Charles S. 1939 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Educators from New York City Harvard University alumni Harvard University Department of History faculty Historians from New York (state) Historians of American foreign relations Scarsdale High School alumni American male non-fiction writers