MIT World Speakers

Charles S. Maier

Charles Maier also served as the Director of Harvard's Center for European Studies from 1994 to 2001. He is currently at work on two main projects, a history of the world in the 20th century, and a book on the subject of America’s place in the world, entitled Among Empires: American Ascendency and Its Predecessors. His many academic interests include the question of territoriality as a factor in 20th century history, political trials, the two World Wars and their aftermath, modern social and economic history, and world history especially since 1945. Among his many publications are Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War I (Princeton University Press, 1975), and The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Harvard University Press, 1988).