Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history at

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. His research interests have included the

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period in Europe, the origins of

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, and German-American relations. He received his M.A. from the

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in 1961 and his PhD, under supervision of Francis L. Carsten, from the

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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. Berghahn now holds the chair of

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Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of the

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Bibliography

* * ''Der Tirpitz-Plan'' (1971) * ''Germany And The Approach Of War In 1914'' (1973) * ''Germany in the Age of Total War'' (with

Martin Kitchen Martin Kitchen (December 21, 1936, Nottingham, England) is a British-Canadian historian, who has specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on Germany. He is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary ...

), (London: Croom Helm; Totowa N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1981) * ''Modern Germany'' (1982) * ''The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973'' (1986) * ''Imperial Germany: 1871–1914 economy, society, culture, and politics'' (1994) * ''Quest for Economic Empire'', ed. (1996) * ''Der Untergang des alten Europas, 1900–1929'' (1999) * ''America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe'' (2001) * ''Der Erste Weltkrieg'' (2003) * ''Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900–1950'' (English translation 2005) * ''Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus? Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft'' (2006) * *''Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer: Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert''. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, *''Umbau im Wiederaufbau: Amerika und die deutsche Industrie im 20. Jahrhundert''. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013, *''Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany.'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, *''Hans-Günther Sohl als Stahlunternehmer und Präsident des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie: 1906–1989''. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020,

External links

Columbia University faculty page

Books by Volker Berghahn at Amazon.com

Criticism
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