Dirk Bonker

Associate Professor of History

History

dirk.bonker@duke.edu

Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719

206 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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Scholarly Works - Book reviews

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

Book review 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

Book review H-Soz-Kult · September 14, 2015 Cite

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

Book review 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

Book review German studies review · 2015 Cite

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

Book review H-Diplo · October 16, 2014 Cite

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

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

Josephus Daniels: His Life and Time by Lee Craig

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

Book review First World War Studies · 2014 Cite

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

Book review German studies review · 2014 Cite

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

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

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

Book review German History · June 1, 2013 Full text Cite

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

Book review German History · 2013 Cite

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

Book review German Studies Review · 2013 Cite

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

Book review · 2010 Cite

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

Book review European History Quarterly 40 (2010): 375-376 · 2010 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

Book review 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

Book review 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).

Book review 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

Book review H-SOZ-KULT · June 27, 2008 Cite

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

Book review 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

Book review 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

Book review 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

Book review H-GERMAN · July 2006 Cite

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

Book review European Review of History · 2005 Cite

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

Book review H-Soz-Kult · November 2004 Cite

Ubi-sumus? The state of naval and maritime history

Book review MILITARGESCHICHTLICHE MITTEILUNGEN · 1998 Link to item Cite