Roger Chickering
Roger Chickering (born August 15, 1942 in San Francisco ) is an American modern historian .
biography
Roger Chickering studied at Cornell University , New York , where he received his BA in 1964 , and at Stanford University , California . There he graduated with an MA in 1965 , received his doctorate in 1968 and moved to the University of Oregon , where he first worked as a research assistant and from 1974 as an associate professor . In 1981 he was appointed full professor of history. He stayed in Oregon until 1994, before joining the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University , Washington, DC , as Professor of History , where he retired in 2010.
In 1976/1977 he spent a semester as visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin , and in 1984/1985 at the University of Munich . A research semester in Freiburg at MGFA followed in 1991/1992. Roger Chickering speaks German very well and publishes some of his books in German. His main focus is the European history of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the history of the German Empire and the First World War.
Fonts
- Imperial Germany and a World Without War. The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1975, ISBN 0-691-05228-X .
- We Men Who Feel Most German. A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914. George Allen and Unwin, Boston 1984, ISBN 0-04-943030-0 .
- Karl Lamprecht . A German Academic Life (1856-1915). Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands 1993, ISBN 0-391-03766-8 .
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Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-521-56754-8 .
- Translation: The German Reich and the First World War. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47592-2 ( excerpts from Google books ).
- War, Peace and History. Collected essays on patriotic actionism, historical culture and total war. Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08937-1 .
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The Great War and Urban Life in Germany. Freiburg, 1914–1918. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85256-2 .
- Translation: Freiburg in the First World War. Total war and everyday urban life 1914–1918. Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76542-0 .
literature
- Gerd Krumeich : Total commitment. Roger Chickering's overall depiction of the First World War . Review: R. Chickering, The German Empire and the First World War. Munich 2002. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 23, 2002. Excerpts from the review at perlentaucher.de, accessed on August 7, 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Roger Chickering in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page at Georgetown University
- Page at the BWM Center for German and European Studies
Individual evidence
- ^ Rober Chickering: Germany in the First World War. Considerations on the historiography of the commemorative year. In: Archive for Social History , Vol. 55 (2015), pp. 395–444, ISSN 0066-6505.
- ↑ second edition 2004, third edition 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chickering, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California , USA |