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About the Editor(s)
Prof. Roger Chickering with
Dr. Steven Chase Gummer and Seth Rotramel


Prof. Dr. Roger Chickering
Professor Emeritus of History
BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University
Ph.D., Stanford University, l968


Select Publications:

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Krieg, Frieden und Geschichte: Gesammelte Aufsätze über Patriotischen Aktivismus, Geschichtskultur und Totalen Krieg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007.

(Ed., with Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner) A World at Total War: Global Conflict and
the Politics of Destruction, 1939-1945.
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

(Ed., with Marcus Funck) Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. 2nd edition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

(Ed., with Stig Förster) The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939.
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Das Deutsche Reich und der Erste Weltkrieg. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2002.

(Ed., with Stig Förster) Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

(Ed., with Manfred F. Boemeke and Stig Förster) Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (1856-1915). Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1993.

Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886- 1914. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984.

Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.



Dr. Steven Chase Gummer
Department of History, Georgetown University
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2010
Dissertation: "The Politics of Sympathy: German Turcophilism and the Ottoman Empire, 1871-1914"
M.A., Georgetown University, 2004

Publications:

"Germany and the Ottoman Empire," in Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters, eds., Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File, 2007.

"Vorläufer des IWF im 19. Jahrhundert? Eine historische Betrachtung der Osmanischen Staatsschuldverwaltung," in Alexander Brand and Stefan Robel, eds., Internationale Beziehungen – Aktuelle Forschungsfelder, Wissensorganisation und Berufsorientierung. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Monika Medick-Krakau. Dresden, 2007.

Research Interests:

Modern Germany and the Ottoman Empire/modern Turkey; 19th- and 20th-century history with an emphasis on economic, cultural, and intellectual history.