Zara Steiner

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Zara Shakow Steiner (born November 6, 1928 in New York as Zara Alice Shakow , † February 13, 2020 in Cambridge ) was a British historian . She dealt with British foreign policy and international relations from the late 19th century to the 1950s.

biography

Zara Steiner's ancestors were Lithuanian Jews . She met George Steiner in London and married him in 1955. She was with him in Princeton in the late 1950s and in Cambridge from the early 1960s. In 1965 she became a Fellow of New Hall College (now Murray Edwards College) at Cambridge University ; In 1995/96 she was its president. In 1996 she retired.

She wrote books on the prehistory of the First World War (with a focus on Great Britain) and the Second World War. Its two-volume, around 2000-page presentation of European foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s was highly praised in Anglo-Saxon countries and is considered a standard work.

In 2007 she became a Senior Fellow at the British Academy .

She was visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Stanford University .

She died ten days after her husband in February 2020.

Her son David Steiner is Dean of the School of Education at Hunter College in New York; her daughter Deborah Steiner is Professor of Classical Philology at Columbia University .

Fonts

  • The Foreign Office and foreign policy, 1898-1914, Cambridge University Press 1969, Ashfield Press 1986
  • Britain and the Origins of the First World War, London: Macmillan 1977, 2nd edition with Keith Nelson, Macmillan 2003
  • The Lights That Failed: European International History, 1919 to 1933, Oxford University Press 2005
  • The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933–1939, Oxford University Press 2011
  • The State Department and the Foreign Service; the Wriston report - four years later, Center for International Studies, Princeton University 1958
  • Present Problems of the Foreign Service, Center for International Studies, Princeton University 1961
  • Editor: The Times survey of foreign ministries of the world, Times Books 1982
  • Editor with Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance : History and neorealism, Cambridge University Press 2010
    • therein by Steiner: The British decisions for peace and war 1938–1939: the rise and fall or realism , pp. 129–154
  • with Michael G. Ekstein: The Sarajevo Crisis, in: FH Hinsley (Ed.), British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Gray, Cambridge, London 1977, pp. 397-410
  • The league of nations and the quest for security, in R. Ahmann, A. Birke, M. Howards The quest for stability: problems of West European Security 1918–1957 , Oxford UP 1993, pp. 35–70
  • Editor and introduction: The league of nations in retrospect, De Gruyter 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maya Jaggi George and his dragons , The Guardian, March 17, 2001 , on George Steiner
  2. ^ Piers Brendan, Review Triumph of the Dark, The Independent, May 20, 2011
  3. ^ Review of The lights that failed, Patricia Clavin, Oxford
  4. ↑ H-Diplo Roundtable 2013, pdf
  5. ↑ Dr Zara Steiner FBA
  6. ^ È morta Zara Shakow Steiner, dieci giorni dopo il marito George. Retrieved February 14, 2020 (Italian).
  7. ↑ Columbia University website
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Zara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steiner, Zara Shakow (full name); Shakow, Zara Alice (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2020
Place of death Cambridge