Boris Barth

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Boris Barth (born October 9, 1961 ) is a German historian.

Barth studied history in Düsseldorf and received his doctorate in 1995 under Wolfgang J. Mommsen on German high finance and imperialism . He completed his habilitation in 2003 with a work on the stab in the back legend . His main research interests are genocide and genocide theories, German history in the 19th and 20th centuries, and global history . In addition to his work as a lecturer at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Konstanz , Barth has also worked as a historical consultant for the Gerling Group.

From September 2008 to the spring semester 2010 he taught as a visiting professor at Jacobs University Bremen . From October 2010 to July 2016 he taught at the University of Konstanz as a representative of the Chair of Modern History. At that time, the chair was Jürgen Osterhammel .

Barth has been teaching at the Institute for Economic and Social History at Charles University in Prague since September 2016 .

Works

Monographs

  • Working group “Space - Media - Politics”. Constance 2002.
  • German high finance and imperialism: banks and foreign policy before 1914. Stuttgart 1995 (dissertation).
  • Limitless markets? German-Latin American economic relations from the age of imperialism to the world economic crisis. Munster 1995.
  • Competitive partnership: the German and Czechoslovak economies in the interwar period. Essen 1999.
  • Stab in the back legends and political disintegration. The trauma of the German defeat in the First World War 1914–1933. Düsseldorf 2003.
  • Civilizing Missions: Imperial World Improvement Since the 18th Century. Constance 2005.
  • Genocide: Genocide in the 20th Century. History, theories, controversies. C. H. Beck, 1st ed. 2006, ISBN 978-3-40652-865-1 .
  • Europe after the Great War. The Crisis of Democracy in the Interwar Period 1918–1938. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, 2016, ISBN 978-3-59350-521-3 .

Essays

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Boris Barth ( Memento from September 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), website of the University of Konstanz, accessed on January 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1961