Charles S. Maier

Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939) is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University. He taught European and international history at Harvard.

Early Life and education Maier was born into a non-affiliated Jewish family New York City. At the age of nine his family moved to Scarsdale, New York, where he went to a public high school.

Maier received a degree in history from Harvard University in 1960. He went to England for a year on a Henry Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford. In 1961, he married Pauline Rubbelke (Radcliffe '60) at Oxford and the couple toured through Europe including the Soviet Union.

Career From 1967 to 1975, Maier taught at Harvard. He held a visiting professorship of history at Bielefeld University in West Germany in from 1975 to 1976. He was an associate professor and professor of history at Duke University from 1976 to 1981. He returned to Harvard in 1981 and was appointed as the Krupp Foundation Professor of History in 1991. He then took up the Leverett Saltonstall Professorship of History in 2002, holding it until his retirement in 2019.

Partial bibliography

Books (excluding edited volumes) Reprinted with new prefaces, 1988 and 2015. In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988) Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006) Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; also in Worlds Connected, Emily Rosenberg, ed. Harvard University Press, 2012) Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016) The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023)

Articles

"Between Taylorism and technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s". Journal of contemporary history 5#2 (1970): 27-61. . "The politics of productivity: foundations of American international economic policy after World War II". International Organization 31#4 (1977): 607-633. . "Marking time: the historiography of international relations". in The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (1980): 355-87.

“The Cold War and the World Economy", in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds. (3 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 ), I, 44-66.

“In Merkel’s Crisis, Echoes of Weimar", NYR Daily: New York Review of Books, 12/4/2017. "H-Diplo Memories" (H-Diplo "Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars" 16 October 2020) online autobiography