Matthew Seligmann

Matthew S. Seligmann (born December 31, 1967 ) is a British naval historian .

Life

Seligmann studied at the University of Edinburgh ( MA ) and the University of Sussex ( D.Phil. In History with John CG Röhl ) and in 1988/89 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. From 2007 to 2012 he was Reader in History at the University of Northampton . He has been with Brunel University since 2012 . His focus is on German-British relations before the First World War .

Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893-99. The transformation of German colonial policy . Macmillan Press, London 1998, ISBN 0-333-69572-0 .
Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918. Politics, hierarchy and elites (= European history in perspective ). Macmillan Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-333-72685-5 .
with Matthew Hughes: Does peace lead to war? Peace settlements and conflict in the modern age . Sutton, Stroud 2002, ISBN 3-506-77160-4 .
with John Davison, John McDonald: In the shadow of the swastika. Life in Germany under the Nazis 1933-1945 . Spellmount, Staplehurst 2003, ISBN 1-86227-204-2 .
(Ed.): Naval intelligence from Germany. The reports of the British naval attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914 (= Publications of the Navy Records Society . Vol. 152). Ashgate, Burlington, ISBN 978-0-7546-6157-3 .
The Royal Navy and the German threat, 1901-1914. Admiralty plans to protect British trade in a war against Germany . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-957403-2 .
with Frank Nägler , Michael Epkenhans : The Naval Route to the Abyss. The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914 (= Navy Records Society Publications. Vol. 161). Ashgate, Farnham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4724-4093-8 .