Books
Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany,
1945-1990 (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2007).
Patricians and Parvenus: Wealth and High Society in
Wilhelmine Germany (Oxford and Providence: Berg Publishers,
1994).
Articles
“Wunderwaffen of a Different Kind: Nazi Scientists in East
German Industrial Research,” German Studies Review XXIX/3 (October
2006), pp. 581-588.
“Walter Ulbricht,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators, ed.
Frank Coppa (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 320-322.
“ ‘Es sind zwei Welten Gewesen’: Eine Informatikerin in
der DDR und in der Bundesrepublik,” in Rüdiger Hohls, Iris Schröder
und Hannes Siegrist (eds.): Europa und die Europäer. Quellen und
Essays zur modernen europäischen
Geschichte. Festschrift für Hartmut Kaelble zum 65. Geburtstag
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, pp. 115-120.
“The Impact of Two Reunification-Era Debates on the East German
Sense of Identity,” German Studies Review 27 (Fall 2004), pp.
563-578.
“Werner Hartmann und der Aufbau der Mikroelektronikindustrie in
der DDR,” Dresdener Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Technikwissenschaften 28 (2003), pp. 3-32.
“Patricians, Parvenus, and Professionals: The Recruitment
and Reproduction of Economic Elites in Imperial Germany,” in Franz
Bosbach, Keith Robbins and Karina Urbach, eds., Geburt oder
Leistung? Elitenbildung im deutsch-britischen Vergleich. Birth or
Talent? The Formation of Elites in British-German Comparison,
Prince Albert Studies, vol. 21 (Munich: K.G. Saur Verlag,
2003), pp. 159-180.
“Berufliches Selbstbild, Arbeitshabitus und
Mentalitätsstrukturen von Software-Experten der DDR,” in Peter
Hübner, ed., Eliten im Sozialismus. Studien zur Sozialgeschichte
der DDR (Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau-Verlag, 1999), pp.
405-433.
“The Socialist ‘Silicon Ceiling’: East German Women in
Computer Science,” in 1999 International Symposium on Technology
and Society. Women and Technology: Historical,
Societal, and Professional Perspectives. Proceedings (IEEE:
Piscataway, NJ, 1999), pp.347-355.
“Frustrated Technocrats: Engineers in the Ulbricht Era,”
in Kristie Macrakis and Dieter Hoffmann, eds., Science under
Socialism. East Germany in Comparative Perspective
(Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999),
pp. 183-198.
Articles “Bleichröder, Gerson von (1822-93)” “Bourgeoisie
(Bürgertum),” "Family," "Fürstenberg, Carl (1850-1933),” “Hamburg,”
and “Warburg, Max” by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr, eds.,
Modern Germany. An Encyclopedia of History, People, and
Culture, 1871-1990 (New York and London: Garland Publishing,
1998), pp. 120; 131-132; 297-298; 360-361; 430-432; 1048-1049.
"Zwischen Privilegierung und Entmachtung: Ingenieure in
der Ulbricht-Ära," in Dieter Hoffmann and Kristie Macrakis (eds.),
Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der DDR (Berlin: Akademie Verlag,
1997), pp. 173-191.
"The Banking Families in Berlin and Vienna around 1900," in
Herman Diederiks and David Reeder (eds.), Cities of Finance
(Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,
1996).
"Frustrierte Technokraten. Zur Sozialgeschichte des
Ingenieurberufs in der Ulbricht-Ära," in Ralph Jessen and
Richard Bessel (eds.), Die Grenzen der Diktatur. Staat und
Gesellschaft in der DDR (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht 1996), pp. 49-75.
"Die jüdische Wirtschaftselite im wilhelminischen Berlin:
Ein jüdisches Patriziat?," in Reinhard Rürup (ed.), Jüdische
Geschichte in Berlin. Essays und Studien (Berlin:
Edition Hentrich, 1995), pp. 101-116.
"GDR History between Historicization and Structure Analysis,"
Monatshefte (a publication of the University of Wisconsin at
Madison), vol. 85 (1993), pp. 303-312.
"The Banker in German Society," in Youssef Cassis (ed.), Finance
and Financiers in European History, 1880-1960 (London:
Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 161-185.
"The Business Elites of Hamburg and Berlin," Central European
History, vol. 24 (1991), pp. 132-146.
"Arriving in the upper class: the wealthy business elite
of Wilhelmine Germany," in David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans
(eds.), The German Bourgeoisie (London: Routledge, 1991), pp.
46-86.
"Die soziale Stellung der jüdischen Wirtschaftselite im
wilhelminischen Berlin," in Werner E. Mosse and Hans Pohl (eds.),
Jüdische Unternehmer in Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
(64th special issue of Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte), pp.
225-246.
"Very Wealthy Businessmen in Imperial Germany," Journal of
Social History, 22 (1988), pp. 299-321.
"Una ricerca sui plurimilionari nella germania guglielmina,"
Bollettino di Informazione a Cura del Gruppo di Studio Sulle
Borghesie del XX Secolo (Pisa), 4 (1987), pp. 5-6.
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