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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: German history

Monographien in Auswahl:

• Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914 (Cambridge, 2018)
• Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820 (Oxford, 2017)
• The People's Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888 (Oxford, 2017)
• History and Causality (Basingstoke, 2014)
• Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866: Revolutionary Nation (Basingstoke, 2010)
• Germany and the Causes of the First World War (Oxford, 2004)
• National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Perceptions of the French Third Republic (Oxford, 2000)

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• 'A War of Words: The Cultural Meanings of the First World War in Britain and Germany', European Review of History, 25 (2018): 746-777
• 'The Violent Art: Caricatures of Conflict in Germany', Cultural History, 6 (2017): 57-79
• 'German Soldiers and the Horror of War: Fear of Death and the Joy of Killing in 1870 and 1914', History, 101 (2016): 396-424
• 'Explaining Historical Change; or, The Lost History of Causes', American Historical Review, 120 (2015): 1369-1423
• 'On War and Peace: German Conceptions of Conflict', Historical Journal, 57 (2014): 447-483
• 'Belligerence, Patriotism and Nationalism in the German Public Sphere, 1792-1815', English Historical Review, 128 (2013): 839-876
• 'Princes' Wars, Wars of the People or Total War? Mass Armies and the Question of a Military Revolution in Germany', War in History, 20 (2013): 452-490
• 'Black Humour: Caricature in Wartime', Oxford German Studies, 41 (2012): 213-235
• '"The Old Forms Are Breaking Up,… Our New Germany Is Rebuilding Itself": Constitutionalism, Nationalism and the Creation of a German Polity during the Revolutions of 1848-49', English Historical Review: 125 (2010): 1173-1214
• '"I Witnesses": Soldiers, Selfhood, and Testimony in Modern Wars', German History, 28 (2010): 310-325
• 'Wilhelmine Germany', in James Retallack (ed.), Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (Oxford UP, 2008): 40-60
• ‘Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern Wars’, in M. Fulbrook (ed.), Uncivilizing Processes? Excess and Transgression in German Society and Culture: Perspectives Debating with Norbert Elias. Amsterdam, 2007 (Rodopi): 117-56
• 'Nationalism and the Nineteenth Century', in Timothy Baycroft and Mark Hewitson (eds.), What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914 (Oxford UP, 2006): 312-55
• 'What was a Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe?', co-authored with Timothy Baycroft, in Timothy Baycroft and Mark Hewitson (eds.), What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914 (Oxford UP, 2006): 1-13
• ‘Images of the Enemy: German Depictions of the French Military, 1890-1914’, War in History 11 (2004): 4-33
• ‘The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates about Modern Nation-States’, in Geoff Eley and James Retallack (eds.), Wilhelminism and Its Legacies, Oxford/ New York, 2003 (Berghahn): 73-90
• ‘The Kaiserreich in Question: Constitutional Crisis in Germany before the First World War’, Journal of Modern History 73 (2001): 725-780
• 'Germany and France before the First World War: A Reassessment of Wilhelmine Foreign Policy', English Historical Review 115 (2000): 570-606
• 'Nation and Nationalismus: Representation and National Identity in Imperial Germany', in M.Fulbrook and M.Swales (eds.), Representing the German Nation. Manchester, 2000 (Manchester University Press): 19-62
• 'German Public Opinion and the Question of Industrial Modernity: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Economy', European Review of History 7 (2000): 45-61

Dissertation (Titel): Reflections on the Republic in France: Political Thought and National Comparison in Germany, 1898-1914.

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation: 1995

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl: Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the Idea of Europe, 1917-1957 (New York, 2012), edited with Matthew D'Auria What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914 (Oxford, 2006), edited with Timothy Baycroft

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte :

• The Violence of War: Germany, 1792-1919
• Birth of a Nation: Germany, 1848-1888
• Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914
• Europe and the East, 1792-1989.

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :

• German History Society, Secretary (2000-7); Modern German History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, Convenor (1999-present)
• Early Stage Training Network, European Commission, Coordinator (2004-8)
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Member (2010-11)
• AHRC Research Leadership Fellow (2013-14)
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2018-19).

Stipendien: British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-9;; AHRC Research Leave, 2008-9.

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