James J. Sheehan is an historian of modern Germany and a former president of the American Historical Association (2005). He was born in San Francisco, obtained his B.A. from Stanford and earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Northwestern University between 1964 and 1979 and thereafter at Stanford. His research and writing focus on German and modern European history, especially the history of German Liberalism, the German Empire, and war and the modern European state. He is the author of numerous articles and important books, including: “The Career of Lujo Brentano: A Study of Liberalism and Social Reform in Imperial Germany” (1966), “German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century”(1978), “German History, 1770-1866” (1989), and “Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe” (2008). He is married to Margaret L. Anderson, an historian at the University of California, Berkeley.
The subject of the talk will be Western Europe’s abandonment of the ability and willingness to make war as the essence of sovereign statehood and its implications for America.
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