Jürgen Osterhammel

Dr. Jürgen Osterhammel

Distinguished Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

e-mail: juergen.osterhammel@uni-konstanz.de

Some recent publications

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia. Princeton University Press. [German original: Die Entzauberung Asiens. Beck C. H, 2010].

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. Princeton University Press.

Globalization: A Short History. Princeton University Press.

Texts to download

Europe, the “West” and the Civilizing Mission. The German Historical Institute London.

“A ‘Transnational’ History of Society. Continuity or New Departure?”, in Haupt, H.-G. & Kocka, J., eds. Comparative and Transnational History. Central European Approaches and New Perspectives. Bergham Books, pp. 39-51.