Stephen Alan Schuker (born 1939) is an American historian who is currently William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the

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University of Virginia, retrieved 11 July 2018. He was educated at

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, where he gained a BA in 1959. In 1958 Cornell awarded him a $500 prize for being their outstanding history student. He was awarded an MA and a PhD by

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in 1962 and 1969, respectively. According to Walter A. McDougall, Schuker's book ''The End of French Predominance in Europe'' is the definitive work on the circumstances leading to the adoption of the 1924

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on German

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. The book was awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize (in 1976) and the George Louis Beer Prize (in 1977).'Books Received', ''Journal of International Affairs'' Vol. 33, No. 1, Technology and the New International Order (Spring/Summer 1979), p. 168.

Works

*''The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976). *''American "Reparations" to Germany, 1919-33: Implications for the Third-World Debt Crisis'' (Princeton: Princeton Studies in International Finance, 1988).

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What Historians Get Wrong About World War I
, ''Time'' (1 August 2014) {{DEFAULTSORT:Schuker, Stephen A. 1939 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people University of Virginia faculty Cornell University alumni Harvard University alumni American male non-fiction writers