Jonathan Sperber

Jonathan Sperber (born 1952) is an American professor at the University of Missouri and author of modern European History.

Academic career

Sperber was an undergraduate at Cornell University and went to graduate school at the University of Chicago. While there he studied with historian Leonard Krieger.^[1] He received his Ph.D. from Chicago in 1980, and went to work at the University of Missouri in 1984, where he still resides. He was appointed Curators’ Professor of History in 2003, and served as chair of the history department between 2005–2010.^[1]

Author

Sperber has written a number of books on the political, social and religious history of nineteenth-century Europe. His 2013 book Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life was critically well-reviewed, which the New York Times described as an "absorbing, meticulously researched biography".^[2]

Bibliography

• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton University Press, 1984, ISBN 9780691054322)
• Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849 (Princeton University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780691008660)
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany (Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780521591386)
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850 (Routledge, 2000, ISBN 9780582294462)
• Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780199284757)
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 (New Approaches to European History) (Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521547796)
• Europe 1850-1914: Progress, Participation and Apprehension (Routledge, 2008, ISBN 9781405801348)
• Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright, 2013, ISBN 9780871404671)

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