Dr. Jeremiah Riemer
Political scientist, translator
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1983

Email:jeremiahriemer@gmail.com

Select Translations:

Jürgen Osterhammel and Jan C. Jansen, Decolonization: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Arndt Brendecke, The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge. München: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016.

Heinz D. Kurz, Economic Thought: A Brief History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Jürgen Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Daniel Jütte, The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets (1400-1800). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Michael Brenner, A Short History of the Jews. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Translated Andrei S. Markovits, Amerika, dich hasst sich's besser (Hamburg: Konkret-Verlag, 2004) for incorporation into Markovits, Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).

Hermann Scheer, Energy Autonomy. London: Earthscan, 2006.

Christof Mauch, The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Dieter Dettke, ed., The Spirit of the Berlin Republic. New York: Berghahn Books, June 2003. [Translated chapters by Conradi, Duerr, Faulenbach, Glotz, Nida-Rümelin, Wolf-Poweska.]

Sepp Graessner, Nobert Gurris, and Christian Pross, eds., Torture: At the Side of the Survivors. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Jürgen Kocka, Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. [Chapters 7-9]

Robert Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Controversy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Dieter Dettke, ed., The Challenge of Globalization for Germany's Social Democracy: A Policy Agenda for the 21st Century. New York: Berghahn Books, 1998. [Essays by Wolfgang Streeck, Gerhard Schröder, Hermann Schmidt, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Wolfgang Thierse, Ernst Schwanhold and Reinhard Pfender.]

Select Publications:
"Streitkultur als Leitkultur – Amerikanische Juden als Außenseiter und Insider der Einwanderungsgesellschaft," Informationsdienst Soziokultur, 1-2002 (Nr. 47, May 2001), pp. 5-7.

"Grace? Under Pressure? The Goldhagen Controversy After Two Years." In Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough: Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity, ed. Carl Lankowski. New York: Berghahn, 1999.

"Germany Reaches a Crossroad (In the 1990s, Germans confront their past)," Dimensions (A Journal of Holocaust Studies, published by the Anti-Defamation League), vol. 13, no. 1 (1999), pp. 3-8.

"Burdens of Proof." In Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Controversy, ed. Robert Shandley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

"Reproduction and Reunification: The Politics of Abortion in United Germany." In From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland,ed. Michael Huelshoff and Andrei Markovits. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

"The ECU as the 'Mark' of Unity: Europe Between Monetary Integration and Monetary Union," Social Education 57 (4), 1993 (April/May) pp. 184-86.

(With Chistopher Allen) "The Industrial Policy Controversy in West Germany: Organized Adjustment and the Emergence of Meso-Corporatism." In The Politics of Economic Adjustment: Pluralism, Corporatism, and Privatization, ed. Richard Fogelsong and Joel Wolfe. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.