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Peter Paret |
Peter Paret is a cultural and intellectual historian with particular interest in the modern historiography of war, the interaction of war and society since the eighteenth century, and the relationship of art, society, and politics. He has published two books on contemporary military theory, Guerrillas in the 1960s (with John W. Shy, 1961), and French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria (1964); a study of military innovation, Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform (1966); a biography, Clausewitz and the State (1976); a study of the clash of tradition and innovation in Napoleonic warfare, The Cognitive Challenge of War (2009); two books on conflict over modernism in modern art, The Berlin Secession (1980) and An Artist against the Third Reich (2003); as well as Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and History of Nineteenth-Century Germany (1988), Imagined Battles; Reflections of War in European Art (1997), and two volumes of essays. He has also edited or coedited ten volumes. His most recent book, written with Helga Thieme, Myth and Modernity: Ernst Barlach’s Drawings on the Nibelungen (2012), discusses a modern interpretation of a medieval myth as a document of German history in the 1920s and ’30s.
University of London, Ph.D. 1960; Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Research Associate 1960–62; University of California, Davis, Visiting Assistant Professor 1962–63, Associate Professor 1963–66, Professor 1966–69; Stanford University, Professor 1969–77, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History 1977–86; Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1966–67, Andrew W. Mellon Professor 1986–97, Professor Emeritus 1997–; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow; American Philosophical Society, Member; University of Cambridge, Lees Knowles Lecturer 2008; Society for Military History, Moncado Prize 1970, Samuel Eliot Morison Prize 1993; American Philosophical Society, Thomas Jefferson Medal 1993; German Federal Republic, Officer’s Cross, Order of Merit; The Historical Society, Jack Miller Center Prize 2010 |