David F. Crew
David Francis Crew (born February 14, 1946 ) is a historian .
In 1967 he received his BA (Honors) in History from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. In 1970 he earned an MA in History and in 1975 a Ph.D. from Mack Walker. (Thesis: Industry and community: the social history of a German town, 1860–1914 ) from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 1983 followed by an MA at Cambridge University .
From 1974 to 1980 he was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University in New York City. He then spent as a Fellow and Lecturer at Fitzwilliam College , Cambridge University in Cambridge (UK). From 1984 to 1987 he was Assistant Professor and from 1987 to 1998 Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. In 1998 he became Professor of History and in 2009 Distinguished Teaching Professor there. In 2011 he was visiting professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
He became a member of the Boards of Editors / Editorial Boards of the journals Central European History , Social History, and WerkstattGeschichte as well as the Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in German series (University of Michigan Press).
Fonts (selection)
- Town in the Ruhr: a social history of Bochum, 1860-1914 . Columbia University Press, New York 1979, ISBN 0-231-04300-7 .
- German translation by Rolf Peter Sieferle : Bochum: Social history of an industrial city 1860–1914 (= social history library ). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-548-35054-2 .
- (Ed.): Nazism and German society, 1933–1945 (= Rewriting histories ). Routledge, London a. a. 1994, ISBN 0-415-08239-0 .
- Germans on welfare: from Weimar to Hitler . Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 1998, ISBN 0-19-505311-7 .
- (Ed.): Consuming Germany in the Cold War (= Leisure, consumption and culture ). Berg, Oxford et al. a. 2003, ISBN 1-85973-771-4 .
- Hitler and the Nazis: a history in documents (= Pages from history ). Oxford University Press, Oxford u. a. 2005 ISBN 0-19-515285-9 .
- Bodies and ruins: imagining the bombing of Germany, 1945 to the present (= social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany ). University Of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2017, ISBN 978-0-472-13013-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about David F. Crew in the catalog of the German National Library
- David F. Crew at the University of Texas at Austin
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Crew, David F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crew, David Francis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1946 |