Jonathan Sperber

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  • Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849 (Princeton University Press, 1992, ISBN   9780691008660)
  • The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany (Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN   9780521591386)
  • Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850 (Routledge, 2000, ISBN   9780582294462)
  • Europe in 1848: Revolution and Reform (Berghahn Books, 2001, ISBN   9781800733602 , 1800733607)
  • Germany, 1800-1870 (Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0199258384 , 9780199258383)
  • Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN   9780199284757)
  • The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 (New Approaches to European History) (Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN   9780521547796)
  • Europe 1850-1914: Progress, Participation and Apprehension (Routledge, 2008, ISBN   9781405801348)
  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright, 2013, ISBN   9780871404671)
  • Bourgeois Europe, 1850-1914 2nd Ed. (Routledge, 2022, ISBN   9780815364795)
  • The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2023, ISBN   9780190918958) [5] [6] [7]
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    Jonathan Sperber
    Born (1952-12-26) 26 December 1952 (age 70)
    Occupations
    SpouseNancy Lynn Katzman
    ChildrenAdam Philip
    Academic background
    Education Abraham Lincoln High School
    Alma mater Cornell University (AB)
    University of Chicago (PhD)
    Doctoral advisor Leonard Krieger