Author
Volker Berghahn
Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University
Volker Berghahn specializes in modern German history and European-American relations.
He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964).
He taught in the UK and Germany before coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later.
His publications include: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001), Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996), Imperial Germany(1995), The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945-1973 (1986), Modern Germany (1982), Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971), Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006) and Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer, Goettingen (2010).