Harold James

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Harold James (born January 19, 1956 in Bedford ) is a British historian who specializes in German history and European economic history. James has produced a large number of publications on both subjects. He is Professor of History at Princeton University and Professor of International Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .

Life

Harold James was born in the UK. He attended Perse School in Cambridge and then studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . He received his PhD from Peterhouse in 1982 . At Cambridge University he received the Ellen MacArthur Prize in Economic History. He has been teaching at Princeton since 1986. In 1998/1999 he was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. In 2004 he received the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History from the German Historical Institute in Washington . The University of Lucerne awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2013. He is co-editor of World Politics magazine and Chairman of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History . He is considered "one of the most important economic historians of our day".

James is fluent in German; his mother comes from northern Germany. He is married to Marzenna Kowalik (* 1964), a political scientist who specializes in Soviet-Polish economic relations; the two have three children. Marzenna James is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University .

German history

At the beginning of his career, James focused on recent German history , especially the economic and financial history of the interwar period . His most significant contributions include a study by the Deutsche Bank , an investigation into the role of the Reichsbank in the expropriation of Jewish assets during the Nazi era , and a study of German identity. James' consideration emphasizes the role of an “economic identity” in the development of a common German identity in the 19th century.

globalization

Harold James has recently dealt extensively with the economic consequences of globalization and placed particular emphasis on comparing it with earlier attempts at globalization that led to the Great Depression (from 1929). James emphasizes the “global” character of this originally American crisis. Furthermore, he examines current problems of globalization in the context of long-term economic developments, within which the world wars and the world economic crisis represented interruptions. He attributes an important stabilizing function to family businesses in phases of market failure and the loss of the state's regulatory function. The role of family businesses is more pronounced in Europe, which is plagued by war, revolutions and inflation, than in the United States, for example.

Works (selection)

as an author
  • Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany, 1924–1933. A study of the politics of economics during the great depression. Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1985, ISBN 3-7819-0321-4 .
  • The German slump. Oxford University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-19-821972-9 .
  • A German identity. Routledge 1989, ISBN 978-0-415-90180-2 .
  • When the wall came down. Reactions of German unification. Routledge, New York 1992, ISBN 0-415-90589-3 .
  • From historians 'dispute to historians' silence. The rebirth of the nation state. Siedler, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88680-410-0 .
  • International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods. Oxford University Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-19-510448-X .
  • Rambouillet, November 15, 1975. The globalization of the economy. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-30615-7 .
  • Monetary and Fiscal Unification in Nineteenth Century Germany (= Essays in international finance. Vol. 202). University Press, Princeton, NJ 1997, ISBN 0-88165-109-5
  • with Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich and Manfred Pohl : Requiem on a currency. The Mark, 1873-2001. DVA, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05568-8 .
  • Association policy in National Socialism. From advocacy to business group. Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-492-04335-6 .
  • The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi economic war against the Jews. 2001
  • Interwar Depression in an International Context. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56610-5 .
  • Deutsche Bank in the Third Reich. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50955-X .
  • The end of globalization. 2001
  • Europe reborn. 2003
    • History of Europe in the 20th Century. Fall and rise 1914–2001. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51618-1 .
  • Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-83874-6 .
  • Family capitalism. Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model . Belknap Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-674-02181-5 .
  • The Roman Predicament. How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13635-6 .
  • Croup. German legend and global company. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62414-8 .
  • Making the European Monetary Union , with a foreword by Mario Draghi . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), USA 2012, ISBN 978-0-674-06683-0 .
as editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History College - Harold James. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Honorary doctorates - University of Lucerne. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Who is eabh? ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the European Association for Banking and Financial History , accessed August 5, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bankinghistory.org
  4. ↑ http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2014-2-046
  5. ↑ Harold James: How to Break the Banking Cartel . Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 26, 2010 (accessed September 2015).
personal data
SURNAME James, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford