Roger Chickering

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Roger Chickering
OccupationHistorian, author
Notable worksThe Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918
Website
www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/chickerr/

Roger Chickering is an American historian of the German Empire and World War I. He was a professor at Georgetown University, retiring in 2010.

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Education

Chickering received his doctorate in 1968 at Stanford University, where he studied with Gordon A. Craig. Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914, published in 1975, was based on his dissertation.

Career

Chickering retired from Georgetown University in 2010. While he began his career as a historian focusing on the German Empire, his interests increasingly migrated to the First World War. During his career, he published multiple monographs, edited volumes, and articles. [1]

Selected publications

Endnotes

  1. "Roger Chickering" . Retrieved April 8, 2012.


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