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Oliver Zimmer (* 1963 in Thalwil ) is a Swiss - British historian . He teaches Modern European History at the University of Oxford . Zimmer studied history, sociology and political theory at the University of Zurich and received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science . From 1999 to 2004 he taught at the University of Durham in North East England. After a long research stay as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Tübingen and Augsburg, he was appointed to Oxford in 2005. He is also a Sanderson Fellow at University College Oxford . In 2014, the University of Oxford's Humanities Division promoted him to Full Professor.

Oliver Zimmer's research and teaching relate primarily to the long nineteenth century in Europe. His thematic focuses include European nationalism and the history of religion and liberalism. He is currently studying the experience of time and speed in the railroad age in Great Britain and Germany. In all of his research, Zimmer tries to combine the perspectives of political, cultural and social history. Oliver Zimmer is a regular author of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Publications

  • A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761–1891. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-03980-2 .
  • Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940. Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke 2003, ISBN 978-0-333-94720-3 .
  • Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State. (OUP, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-957120-8 )
  • (ed. with Len Scales) Power and the Nation in European History. (CUP, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-60830-5 )
  • (ed. with William Whyte) Nationalism and the Reshaping of Urban Communities in Europe, 1848–1914 (Palgrave, 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-30651-6 )

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SURNAME Room, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich