Dirk Bonker

Associate Professor of History

dirk.bonker@duke.edu

Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719

208 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Office hours Tuesday 3:00-4:00 PM, Wednesday 10:00-11:00 AM and by appointment

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Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919 by Erik Grimmer-Solem

Journal Article German Studies Review · 2020 Full text Cite

Joshua E. Kastenberg. To Raise and Discipline an Army: Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I.

Journal Article The American Historical Review · October 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Michael G. Thompson: For God and Globe: Christian Internationalism in the United States between the Great War and the Cold War. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015; pp. xi + 250.

Journal Article Journal of Religious History · December 2017 Full text Cite

Violence: A Modern Obsession. By Richard Bessel.London: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Pp. vi+374. £11.99.

Journal Article The Journal of Modern History · June 2017 Full text Cite

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Other · 2016 Cite

Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century eds. Joanne Miyang Cho and David M. Crowe

Other H-German · October 13, 2015 Cite

The Naval Route to the Abyss. The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914, eds. Matthew S. Seligmann, Frank Nägler, and Michael Epkenhans

Other H-Soz-Kult · September 14, 2015 Cite

Naval Race between Germany and Great Britain, 1898-1912

Other · January 11, 2015 Link to item Cite

Power, Law and the End of Privateering by Jan Martin Lemnitzer

Other American Historical Review · 2015 Cite

To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War, eds. Vincent P.O. Hara, W. David Jackson and Richard Worth

Other German studies review · 2015 Cite

From Isolationism to Neutrality: A New Framework for Understanding American Political Culture, 1919-1941 by Brooke L. Blower

Other H-Diplo · October 16, 2014 Cite

Maritime Industry in Germany: Shipping-Shipyards-Trade-Naval Power in the19th and 20th Century

Other GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW · October 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

Josephus Daniels: His Life and Time by Lee Craig

Other Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era · July 2014 Full text Link to item Cite

Maritime Force and the Limits of Empire: Naval Warfare, Commerce, and Law in Germany and the United States before the First World War

Other · 2014 Cite

The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War against Germany by Matthew S. Seligmann

Other First World War Studies · 2014 Cite

Maritime Wirtschaft in Deutschland, eds. Jürgen Elvert, Sigurd Hess and Heinrich Walle

Other German studies review · 2014 Cite

A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870-1871

Other GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW · October 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Warum Krieg? Die Sinndeutung des Krieges in der deutschen Militarelite 1871-1945

Other German History · June 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Global Politics and Germany's Destiny “from an East Asian Perspective”: Alfred von Tirpitz and the Making of Wilhelmine Navalism

Journal Article Central European History · March 2013 Full text Cite

Niklaus Meier, Warum Krieg? Die Sinndeutungen des Krieges in der deutschen Militärelite 1871-1945

Other German History · 2013 Cite

A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870-1871 by David Wetzel

Other German Studies Review · 2013 Cite

Militarism in a global age: Naval ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I

Book · January 1, 2012 At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth ... Cite

Ein German Way of War? Deutscher Militarismus und maritime Kriegführung im Ersten Weltkrieg

Other · April 12, 2011 Cite

A German Way of War? Narratives of German Militarism and Maritime Warfare in World War I

Other · 2011 Cite

Bellizismus und Nation. Kriegsdeutung und Nationsbestimmung in Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten 1750-1914 by Jörn Leonhard

Other · 2010 Cite

Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters by William N. Still Jr.

Other European History Quarterly 40 (2010): 375-376 · 2010 Cite

Crisis at Sea: The US Navy in European Waters in World War I

Journal Article EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY · 2010 Full text Cite

Creating Good Neighbors? Die Kultur- und Wirtschaftspolitik der USA in Lateinamerika, 1940-1946 (Creating good neighbors? American cultural and economic foreign politics in Latin America, 1940-1946). By Ursula Prutsch. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. 476 pp. 56.00, ISBN 978-3-515-09009-4.) In German

Other Journal of American History · December 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Creating Good Neighbors? Die Kultur- und Wirtschaftspolitik der USA in Lateinamerika, 1940-1946 by Sabine Prutsch

Other Journal of American History · 2009 Cite

Jan Rüger. The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 337. $95.00 (cloth).

Other Journal of British Studies · July 2008 Full text Cite

Naval Intelligence from Germany: The Reports of the British Naval Attaches in Berlin, 1906-1914 edited by Matthew S. Seligmann

Other H-SOZ-KULT · June 27, 2008 Cite

Deutscher Militarismus und maritime Kriegführung im Ersten Weltkrieg

Other · 2008 Cite

The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in an Age of Empire by Jan Rüger

Other Journal of British Studies · 2008 Cite

Kameradschaft.Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. Jahrhundert [Comradeship. The Soldiers of the Nazi War and the 20th Century] by Thomas Kuehne

Other H-GERMAN · April 23, 2007 Cite

Die Washingtoner Konferenz, das Deutsche Reich und die Reichsmarine: Deutsche Marinepolitik 1921 bis 1935 [The Washington Conference, the German Empire, and the Imperial Navy: German Naval Policy 1921-1935] by Peter Doepgen

Other Nautical Research Journal · 2007 Cite

Militär, Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR: Forschungsfelder, Ergebnisse, Perspektiven [Military, State, and Society in the GDR: Fields of Research, Results, Perspectives], ed. Hans Ehlert and Matthias Rogg

Other H-GERMAN · July 2006 Cite

Military History, Militarization, and the "American Century"

Journal Article Zeithistorische Forschungen · March 2005 Cite

Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971 by Hubert Zimmerman

Other European Review of History · 2005 Cite

Maritimer Imperialismus. Seemachtideologie, seestrategisches Denken und der Tirpitzplan 1876 bis 1914 by Rolf Hobson

Other H-Soz-Kult · November 2004 Cite

Matters of Public Knowledge: The Baltimore Jewish Times and Nazi Germany’s War Against the Jews, 1933-1942

Other · 2004 Cite

Zwischen Bürgerkrieg und Navalismus: Marinepolitik und Handelsimperialismus in den USA, 1865-1890 [Between Civil War and Navalism: Naval Policy und Trade Imperialism in the U.S., 1865-1890]

Other · 2003 Cite

Admiration, Enmity, and Cooperation: U.S. Navalism and the British and German Empires before the Great War

Journal Article Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History · March 2001 Cite

Maritime Aufrüstung zwischen Partei-und Weltpolitik. Schlachtflottenbau in Deutschland und den USA um die Jahrhundertwende [Naval Armaments between Domestic Politics and Global Diplomacy: Battlefleet Building in Germany and the United States at the Turn of the Century."

Other · 1998 Cite

Naval professionalism and the state in turn-of-the-century Germany and America

Other NEW INTERPRETATIONS IN NAVAL HISTORY · January 1, 1998 Link to item Cite

Ubi-sumus? The state of naval and maritime history

Other MILITARGESCHICHTLICHE MITTEILUNGEN · 1998 Cite

The Specter of Militarism: The United States in the Twentieth Century, book-in-progress

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