文档介绍：European History
and
European Lives:
1715 to 1914
Part I
Professor Jonathan Steinberg
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Jonathan Steinberg, .
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of
Pennsylvania and Chair of the Department of History. He was born in New York in 1934, graduated from Harvard
in 1955, and was immediately drafted into the . Army, where he served two years in the Medical Corps. After a
period in investment banking, he took his doctorate at Cambridge and was University Lecturer (from 1993, Reader)
in European History; Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from 1966 to 1999; and Vice-Master from 1990 to 1994.
From January 1, 1991, to December 31, 2000, he co-edited The Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press). In
1992, he served as an expert witness in monwealth of Australia war crimes prosecution.
In December 1997, Professor Steinberg was appointed to the mission of the Deutsche Bank AG,
Frankfurt am Main, set up to look into the bank’s activities under the Nazis, and was principal author of the
commission’s report. He gave the biennial Leslie Stephen lecture on November 25, 1999, in the Senate House of the
University of Cambridge with the title “Leslie Stephen and Derivative Immortality.” Previous Leslie Stephen
lecturers include A. E. Housman, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, and Seamus Heaney.
Professor Steinberg is the author of Yesterday’s Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet (1965),
Why Switzerland? (1976; paperback, 1980; 2nd ed., 1996), and All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to
1943 (1990; paperback, 1992; second edition 2002; also available in German- and Italian-language translations). All
or Nothing tries to explain why Fascist Italy in its zones of occupation in Greece, Croatia, and southern France
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