Big Business and the Question of American Neutrality, 1914-1916/17- Dr. Volker Berghahn

This lecture was delivered at the National World War I Museum and Memorial's Symposium -- 1916 | Total War -- which was held in Kansas City, Mo. November 4-5, 2016.

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Combining the usage of archival documents, social and economic history, Volker Berghahn will unpack the complex and often misunderstood economic and political relationship between the United States’ and Great Britain’s business communities between 1914 and 1916 and the changes in American business opinion that persuaded the nation’s entry into the Great War in April 1917. Berghahn will also highlight Germany’s role as another major trading partner of the United States and underscore the many affinities these two countries shared despite American neutrality until the US entered the war on the Allied side. This presentation argues for a more nuanced look and understanding of the rapidly changing American business decisions that would irrevocably change the course of United States’ history.
Volker Berghahn is the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His publications include: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945-1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006); and most recently Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer, Goettingen (2010). Dr. Berghahn has received many accolades including his fellowship at the Royal Historical Society in England and an Order of Merit, First Class at the Federal Republic of Germany.

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