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Roger ChickeringGreat War Urban Life

Research Interests:

Modern Germany


Selected Publications:
Roger Chickering, Freiburg im Ersten Weltkrieg. Totaler Krieg und städtischer Alltag 1914-1918 (Schoeningh Verlag, 2009)—translation of The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918(Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Roger Chickering. Total War in a German Town: Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

World Total War

Roger Chickering, with Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner. A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1939-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.









Sandra Horvath-Peterson

Research Interests:

Modern France
Social
Religious


John McNeillsoils

Research Interests:

Environmental
Mediterranean
Atlantic


Selected Publications:

John McNeill and Verena Winiwarter, eds. Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History. The White Horse Press, 2006.

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John McNeill. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World. New York: Norton, 2000.








Kathryn OleskoPhysics

Research Interests:

European science and technology (17th-20th century)
Modern European intellectual history

Selected Publications:

Kathryn Olesko. Physics as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in the Koenigsberg Seminar for Physics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Kathryn Olesko, ed. Science in Germany. Philadelphia, PA: Osiris, new series, volume 5, 1989.



Aviel RoshwaldEndurance of Nationalism

Research Interests:

19th- and 20th-century European diplomatic
Ethnic politics
Nationalism

Selected Publications:

Aviel Roshwald. The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Ethnic Nationalism


Aviel Roshwald. Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923. London: Routledge, 2001.








James P. Shedel

Research Interests:

Habsburg Austria
Germany
Central Europe


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