William W. Corcoran Professor (1991)

Modern Europe

Office Hours: Tues. 1:00-2:00 and Thur. by appointment

Office: 201 Randall Hall

Phone: (434) 924-6405

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: sas4uvirginia.edu

Education

B.A. Cornell 1959
M.A. Harvard 1962
Ph.D. Harvard 1969

Publications, Awards, and Activities

(ed.) Die westeuropäische Sicherheit und die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen, 1914-1963. With the assistance of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner. (München: Oldenbourg Verlag, forthcoming 2000).

American "Reparations" to Germany, 1919-33: Implications for the Third-World Debt Crisis. Princeton Studies in International Finance, 1988.

The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan. University of North Carolina Press, 1976. Paperback edition, 1988.

"The European Union from Jean Monnet to the Euro: A Historical Overview," in Joan Hoff and Ann Fidler, eds., The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro (Athens OH: Ohio University Press, forthcoming).

"The Gold-Exchange Standard: A Reinterpretation," in Carl-L. Holtfrerich and Harold James, eds., The International Financial System: Past and Present (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

"Bayern und der rheinische Separatismus, 1923-24," in Jahrbuch des Historischen Kollegs Nr. 3 (Munich, 1998): 75-111.

"American Foreign Policy: The European Dimension," in John M. Haynes, ed., Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s (Hanover and London: University Press of New England/Library of Congress, 1998), pp. 289-308.

"The Rhineland Question: West European Security at the Paris Peace Conference," in Manfred Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser, eds., The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after Seventy-five Years (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 275-312.

"Woodrow Wilson versus American Public Opinion: The Unconditional Surrender Movement of 1918," in Guido Müller, ed., Internationale Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert: Deutschland und der Westen. Festschrift for Klaus Schwabe (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1998), pp. 101-10.

"The Candidacy That Never Was: Owen D. Young and the Presidential Election of 1932," in Kenneth W. Thompson, ed., Statesmen Who Were Never President (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996), 2:125-44 .

"Europe's Banker: The American Banking Community and European Reconstruction, 1918-1922," in Marta Petricioli, ed., A Missed Opportunity? 1922: The Reconstruction of Europe/Une Occasion Manquée? 1922: La Reconstruction de l'Europe (Bern: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 47-59.

"Ambivalent Exile: Heinrich Brüning and America's Good War," in Christoph Buchheim, Michael Hutter, and Harold James, eds., Zerrissene Zwischenkriegszeit. Wirtschaftshistorische Beiträge: Knut Borchardt zum 65. Geburtstag (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994), pp. 329-56.

"Origins of American Stabilization Policy in Europe: The Financial Dimension, 1918-1924," in Hans-Jürgen Schröder, ed., Deutschland und Amerika in der Epoche des Ersten Weltkrieges 1900-1924/Germany and the United States in the Era of World War I, 1900-1924. (Berg, 1992).

"American Policy toward Debts and Reconstruction at Genoa, 1922," in Carole Fink, Axel Frohn, and Jürgen Heideking, eds., Genoa, Rapallo, and the Reconstrucion of Europe in 1922. (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

"Owen D. Young" and "Charles Gates Dawes," in Larry Schweikart, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance, 1913-1989. Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1990.

"The End of Versailles," in Gordon Martel, ed., "The Origins of the Second World War" Reconsidered: The A.J.P. Taylor Debate after Twenty-Five Years. (Allen & Unwin, London: 1986,1999).

"France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936," French Historical Studies, 1986. Abridged Chinese-language version, "The Military and Economic Background of France's Concession Policy in the Rhineland Crisis, 1936," trans. Quan Yi, in The Second World War History Bulletin 10 (1989).

Research fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, 1998-99

Stipendiat, Historiesches Kolleg (Munich), Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft, 1996-97

Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow, Naval War College, 1992-93

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in International Security, 1987-89.

American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1976-77, 1986.

Senior Scholar, Western European Area, Fulbright Commission, 1985.

American Philosophical Society grantee, 1985.

Tauber Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Fellow, 1982.

George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, 1977.

Current Research

Watch on the Rhine: The Rhineland and the Security of the West, 1914-1950, Now in progress. Political, diplomatic, and strategic study of the Franco-German conflict, conceived in the widest sense, from the debates over World War I war aims through Hitler's remilitarization in 1936, with a final section treating transformation of the West European security problem after World War II.