Volker Berghahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German historian
Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1938
Place of Birth: Berlin
Profession: historian, university teacher, economic historian
Nationality: United States, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Volker Berghahn
- Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University.
- His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American relations.
- He received his M.A.
- from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and his Ph.D., under supervision of Francis L.
- Carsten, from the University of London in 1964.
- Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany.
- In 1988, he accepted a position at Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later. Berghahn now holds the chair of Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
- He has become widely cited in his field, and his works include: Der Stahlhelm: Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918-1935 (1966) Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971) Germany in the Age of Total War (with Martin Kitchen), (London: Croom Helm; Totowa N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1981) Modern Germany (1982) The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986) Imperial Germany: 1871–1914 economy, society, culture, and politics (1994) Quest for Economic Empire, ed.
- (1996) Der Untergang des alten Europas, 1900-1929 (1999) America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001) Der Erste Weltkrieg (2003) Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 (English translation 2005) Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus?: Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft (2006)
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