Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Jürgen Osterhammel
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Curriculum vitae
Areas of research / Research focus
- General history since the 18th century
- European and Asian history since the 18th century
- History and theory of international, intercultural relationships and perceptions
- Global history with a special focus on the interrelations between global processes and regional dynamics;
especially since the 18th century - History and theory of historiography
- World history and writing of world history of the present
- History of global history
- Colonization and history of decolonization
Homepages
Balzan-FRIAS-Project in Project in Global History
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Selected publications
Monographs
Jansen, Jan C. / Osterhammel, Jürgen: Decolonization. A Short History, Princeton, NJ / Oxford 2017; Paperback ed. (corrected and updated) 2019.
Osterhammel, Jürgen: Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, München 62020.
Jansen, Jan C. / Osterhammel, Jürgen: Kolonialismus. Geschichte, Formen, Folgen, München 92021.
Articles and book contributions
Osterhammel, Jürgen: Britain and China 1842-1914, in: Porter, Andrew (Ed.): The Oxford History of the British Empire. The Nineteenth Century 3 (1999), 146-169.
Osterhammel, Jürgen: Expansion und Imperium, in: Burschel,
et al. (Ed.): Historische Anstöße. Festschrift für Wolfgang Reinhard zum 65. Geburtstag am 10. April 2002, Berlin (2002), 371-392.Osterhammel, Jürgen: Hierarchien und Verknüpfungen. Aspekte einer globalen Sozialgeschichte, in: Conrad. S. / Osterhammel. J. (Hrsg.): Wege zur modernen Welt 1750-1870, München (2016), 627-836.
Osterhammel, Jürgen: Global History, in: Burke, P. / Tamm, M. (Hrsg.), Debating New Approaches to History, London (2018), 21-47.
Editorship
Mommsen, Wolfgang J. / Osterhammel, Jürgen (Hrsg.): Imperialism and After. Continuities and Discontinuities, London 1986.
Dejung, Christof / Motadel, David / Osterhammel, Jürgen (Hrsg.): The Global Bourgeoisie. The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire, Princeton (NJ) 2019.