Professor
II of History
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
(Campus at Camden); Armitage Hall, 353
Email: alees@camden.rutgers.edu
Telephone numbers:
856-225-6071, 6080 (office)
215-222-4784 (home)
Dr. Lees is a historian of modern Europe and of the United States. He specializes on the social and intellectual history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany in a comparative perspective. Among his publications, the best known are Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940 (Columbia University Press and Manchester University Press, 1985) and Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2002). His edition of the autobiography of Alice Salomon, Character Is Destiny was published in 2004 (also by the University of Michigan Press). With his wife, Lynn Hollen Lees, he has also written Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2007). A member of the Rutgers-Camden faculty since 1974, he teaches broadly in the areas of European and comparative European/American history. Scroll down for more information.
OFFICE HOURS, FALL 2008
Thursdays, 12:30-2:00
Other times by appointyment.
CURRICULA VITAE: Brief
Version
Longer Version
COURSES BEING TAUGHT OR TO BE TAUGHT:
Fall Semester, 2008:
510:331 --
Europe in the Era of the First
World War, 1890-1939
Syllabus
Bibliography
Outlines
Other
Materials
512:529 --
Politics and Culture in an Age of War, Revolution, and Dictatorship
(may
be taken by students who have
taken
another
version of 512:529)
510:332 -- Europe in the Era of the Second World War and the Cold War, 1939-1991
Syllabus
Bibliography
Outlines
Other
Materials
510:480 -- Senior Seminar
In Later Semesters
510:352 -- Modern
Britain (to 1914)
Syllabus
Bibliography
Outlines
Other
Materials
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