Books by Jurgen Osterhammel and Complete Book Reviews
Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel, trans. from the German by Jeremiah Riemer. Princeton Univ., $27.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-691-16521-9
In this authoritative primer, German historians Jansen and Osterhammel record the dramatic post-WWII dissolution of colonial rule throughout Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. The authors ably synthesize the vast literature on this “potentially...
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Jurgen Osterhammel, Author, Niels P. Petersson, Author, Dona Geyer, Translator Princeton University Press $35 (182p) ISBN 978-0-691-12165-9
If globalization represents a ""new historical epoch,"" it must, as this text asserts, have its origins in a history extending much further back than the recent past. With this concise and insightful work, Osterhammel and Peterson, who both teach...
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