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Peter Alter

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Peter Alter (b. 1940) is emeritus professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and a specialist in nationalism and the twentieth century history of the United Kingdom. He is a former research fellow and deputy director of the German Historical Institute London.[1][2]

Selected publications

English language

  • The reluctant patron: Science and the state in Britain, 1850-1920. 1987.
  • Nationalism. 1989.
  • Out of the Third Reich: Refugee historians in post-war Britain. I.B.Tauris, London, 1998. (Ed.)
  • The German question and Europe: A history. 2000.

German language

  • Nationalismus. Ein Essay über Europa. Alfred Körner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-520-71301-8, 190 S.

References

  1. ^ Former Research Fellows. German Historical Institute London. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. ^ Alter, Peter (2017). "Das britische Schwarzhemd". Damals (in German). Vol. 49, no. 4. pp. 58–63.