Honorary Associate Professor

BERT BECKER

1st State Exam Bochum, PhD Bochum, Habilitation Rostock

becker@hku.hk
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RESEARCH

Research Interests

  • Modern European History
  • Prussian-Germany History
  • Transnational maritime and business History in Europe and East Asia

PUBLICATIONS

Books

France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power

Michael Jebsen: Reeder und Politiker 1835-1899. Eine Biographie [Michael Jebsen: Shipowner and Politician, 1835-1899: A Biography]

Georg Michaelis: Preußischer Beamter, Reichskanzler, Christlicher Reformer 1857-1936. Eine Biographie [Georg Michaelis: Prussian Civil Servant, Imperial Chancellor, and Christian Reformer, 1857-1936: A Biography]

Georg Michaelis. Ein preußischer Jurist im Japan der Meiji-Zeit. Briefe, Tagebuchnotizen, Dokumente 1885-1889 [Sole editor: Georg Michaelis: A Prussian Lawyer in Meiji Japan: Letters, Diary Notes, Documents, 1885-1889]

Geist und Gestalt im historischen Wandel: Facetten deutscher und europäischer Geschichte 1789-1989 [Co-editor with Horst Lademacher: Mind and Form in Historical Change: Facets of German and European History 1789-1989]

Die DDR und Großbritannien 1945/49 bis 1973: Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Kontakte im Zeichen der Nichtanerkennungspolitik [The German Democratic Republic and Britain, 1945/49 to 1973: Political, Economic, and Cultural Contacts in the Context of the Policy of Non-Recognition]

Full list of publications

TEACHING AND COURSES TAUGHT

  • HIST 1018 Europe in the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914
  • HIST 2073 Prussia in the age of absolutism and reform, 1648-1815
  • HIST 2076 Germany and the Cold War
  • HIST 2086 Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor
  • HIST 2133 The Weimar Republic through documents, 1918-1933
  • HIST 2134 The Third Reich through documents, 1933-1945
  • HIST 2135 Cold War Germany through documents, 1945-1990
  • HIST 2142 The German Empire, 1871-1918
  • HIST 2147 Germany’s Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
  • HIST 3025 Hitler and the National Socialist ideology

LATEST PUBLICATION

France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power

Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021 (hardcover)