Hermann Beck is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles after studying Germanistik and ancient and modern history at German universities (Mannheim, Freiburg, and Berlin), the London School of Economics, and the Sorbonne. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at the Berliner Historische Kommission, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. In addition to his book publications, he has published more than twenty articles in edited collections and in American, British, and German journals, including the Historische Zeitschrift and the Journal of Modern History.
