Professor Thomas Weber
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Professor Thomas Weber
MSt., DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS
Chair in History & International Affairs
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Department of History, University of Aberdeen
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Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn and Senior Associate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present.
A native of Breckerfeld in Westphalia, he earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2003. He also has taught or has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow.
His 1st book, Lodz Ghetto Album, won a 2004 Golden Light Award and a 2005 Infinity Award. His 2nd book, Our Friend “The Enemy” was the recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize for the best book of a general nature, intended for a wide public, on the history and culture of the European continent. His 3rd book, Hitler's First War, was published in nine languages. It is the recipient of the 2010 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium for the best book on military history. His latest book, Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi , was published in 2017. A El Mundo Top 10 Best Seller, it was translated into several languages and was shortlisted for the 2018 for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. He also is the editor of Als die Demokratie starb: Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten – Geschichte und Gegenwart (Freiburg: Herder, forthcoming).
Thomas Weber occasionally serves as an analyst on history and contemporary international affairs for news outlets and organizations in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
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Partnership in Leadership: A New Beginning – Neue Impulse für die transatlantischen Beziehungen. Bericht der Task Force ‘Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen’ bei der Henry-Kissinger-Professur für Sicherheits- und Strategieforschung der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Bonn: Bonn University. 52 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsSkating into the Abyss: The Struggle between the Revolutionary Spirit of 1776 and the Reformist Spirit of 1783 in the Establish- ment of the New International Order in 1919 and After
Vom Nachkrieg zum Vorkrieg. Schlie, U., Lojko, M., Weber, T. (eds.). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 33-56, 24 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersVom Nachkrieg zum Vorkrieg: Die Pariser Friedensverträge und die internationale Ordnung der Zwischenkriegszeit
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden Baden. 180 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748921240
לפני 1914 בחינה מחודשת של שורשי האנטישמיות של היטלר
Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, vol. 33, pp. 143-163Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDie Ursprünge von Hitlers Antisemitismus vor 1914: Eine Neubewertung
Ich traf Hitler. Giebel, W. (ed.). Berlin Story Verlag, pp. 521-548, 28 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Pre-1914 Origins of Hitler’s Antisemitism Revisited
Journal of Holocaust Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 70-86Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBavaria’s Seminal Catastrophe: The Revolution of 1918/1919
The Global Impacts of Russia’s Great War & Revolution. Marshall, A., Saboll, S., Steinberg, J. (eds.). Slavica, pp. 177-212Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHitlers langer Schatten: Der Umgang der Deutschen mit Adolf Hitler im 21. Jahrhundert
Modernes Regierungshandeln im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. Schlie, U. (ed.). Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDe Adolf a Hitler: La Construcción de un Nazi
Taurus, MadridBooks and Reports: BooksResponse
Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 149-153Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23256249.2018.1485820
[Becoming Hitler]: [The Making of a Nazi]
Gingko, ChinaBooks and Reports: Books[Brazilian edition of Becoming Hitler]
Editora RecordBooks and Reports: Books[Italian edition of 'Becoming Hitler']
Leg Edizioni, GoriziaBooks and Reports: BooksBecoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Oxford University Press, OxfordBooks and Reports: BooksHow Hitler used a lie about November 9 as the foundation for the Third Reich
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesBecoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Basic Books, New York. 445 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksLa Grande Guerra di Hitler: 1914-1918
Leg Edizioni, GoriziaBooks and Reports: BooksHitler im bayerischen Heer: Eine politisch-soziale Binnenperspektive seines Weltkriegsregiments, 1914-1945
Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft, vol. 28, no. 2016, pp. 135-144Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHitlers Metamorfose: Hoe een gewone soldaat de architect van nazi-Duitsland werd
Nieuw Amsterdam, AmsterdamBooks and Reports: BooksWie Adolf Hitler zum Nazi wurde: Vom unpolitischen Soldaten zum Autor von ‚Mein Kampf’
Propyläen, Berlin. 528 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAdolf Hitler
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesAdolf Hitler und der Erste Weltkrieg: Erfahrungen und Konsequenzen
Das Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Piper, E. (ed.). Bundeszentrale fuer politische BildungChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Creation of a World Freed from Jews
Contemporanea, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 331-338Contributions to Journals: EditorialsAdolf Hitler und der Erste Weltkrieg: Erfahrungen und Konsequenzen
Das Zeitalter der Weltkriege 1914 bis 1945. Piper, E. (ed.). Edition Lingen, pp. 202-211, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersWas gehen uns die Toten des Ersten Weltkriegs an?: Why do we care about the dead of the First World War?
Contributions to Conferences: Papers