Peter
Paret
Curriculum
Vitae, May, 2006
Andrew
W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, School of Historical
Studies, Institute for Advanced Study.
Raymond
A. Spruance Professor of International History, Emeritus, Stanford
University.
Place
and date of birth: Berlin, 13 April
1924.
Military
service: Staff Sgt., 1st
Bn., 1st Inf. Rgt., U.S. Army, New Guinea, Luzon, Korea,
1943-46.
Education: University of California, Berkeley,
1943, 1946-49, B.A.; University of
London, 1956-60,
Ph.D.
Married:
Isabel Harris.
Children:
Suzanne Aimee Paret, Paul Louis Paret.
Address:
Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton. N.J. 08540.
Doctor
of Literature, University of London.
Doctor
of Letters, University of South Carolina.
Doctor
of Humanities, The College of Wooster.
Thomas
Jefferson Medal of the American Philosophical Society.
Officer’s
Cross, Order of Merit, German Federal Republic.
Samuel
Eliot Morison Prize of the Society
for Military History.
Member,
American Philosophical Society (Member of Council,
1991-97).
Fellow,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Honorary
Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political
Science.
Fellow,
Leo Baeck Institute.
Honorary
Member, Clausewitz-Gesellschaft.
Member,
Historische Kommission zu Berlin.
Fellow,
Royal Historical Society.
Academic
Appointments and Principal Fellowships:
1959-60
Resident Tutor, Delegacy of Extra-Mural Studies, Oxford
University
1960-62
Research Associate, Center of International Studies, Princeton
University
1962-63
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of California,
Davis
1963-66
Associate Professor of History, University of California,
Davis
Fall
1963
Research Associate, Center of International Studies, Princeton
University
1966-69
Professor of History, University of California,
Davis
1966-67
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton
1968-69
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo
Alto
1969-77
Professor of History, Stanford University
1971-72
Visiting Research Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political
Science
1977-86
Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford
University
1977-78
Research Fellow, Historische Kommission zu Berlin
1980-81
Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the
Humanities
1986-97
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, School of Historical
Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
1988-93
Senior Fellow by Courtesy, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and
Peace, Stanford University
1993-95
Senior Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers
University
Academic
autobiography: “Crossing Borders,”
Historically Speaking, III, (November 2002).
Publications:
I
Monographs and Collected Essays
1.
Guerrillas in the 1960s [with John Shy], Princeton Studies in
World Politics No. 1, Praeger, New York, 1961. Revised edition: Praeger, New York, 1962; U.K. edition: Pall Mall Press, London,
1962.
2. French
Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria, Princeton Studies in World
Politics No. 6, Praeger, New York, 1964.
U.K. edition: Pall Mall
Press, London, 1964.
3. Yorck
and the Era of Prussian Reform, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1966. U.K. edition: Oxford University Press, Oxford and
London, 1967.
4.
Clausewitz and the State, Oxford University Press, New York, 1976.
U.K. edition: Clarendon Press,
Oxford and London, 1976. Revised
edition: Princeton University
Press, Princeton, 1985.
3rd revised edition, Princeton University Press,
forthcoming. Spanish edition: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales,
Madrid, 1979. Japanese
edition: Chuokoron-sha Inc., Tokyo,
1991. Paperback edition, 2006. German edition: Dümmler, Bonn,
1993.
5. The
Berlin Secession: Modernism and its Enemies in Imperial Germany, Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1980. German
edition: Siedler, Berlin,
1981. Revised German editions: Siedler, Berlin, 1982; Ullstein, Berlin,
1982.
6. Art as
History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany,
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988. Revised edition: Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1989. German edition: C. H. Beck, Munich,
1990.
7.
Understanding War: Essays
on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 1992.
8.
Persuasive Images [with Beth Irwin Lewis and Paul Paret],
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992.
9. Imagined
Battles: Reflections of War in European Art, University of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Hill, 1997.
10. German Encounters
with Modernism, 1840-1945, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
11.
An
Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938,
Cambridge University Press, 2003. German edition, wjs Verlag, Berlin,
forthcoming.
II
Editions
1. Editor and
translator, Gerhard Ritter, Frederick the Great, University of California
Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968.
Revised edition: University
of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1974. UK edition: Eyre and Spottiswoode, London,
1968.
2.
Editor: Frederick the
Great: A Profile, Hill and
Wang, New York, 1972. UK
edition: Macmillan, London,
1972.
3. Editor,
Siegfried Bernfeld, Sisyphus or the Limits of Education, University of
California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1973. Introduction
reprinted in revised form in Siegfried Bernfeld oder die Grenzen der
Psychoanalyse, eds. Karl Fallend and Johannes Reichmayr, Nexus Verlag,
Frankfurt a. M., 1992.
4. Co-editor
and co-translator [with Michael Howard],
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 1976. Revised
edition: Princeton University
Press, Princeton, 1984. Everyman's
Library edition, London, 1993.
Spanish edition of Introductions, Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid,
1999.
5. Editor,
Friedrich Meinecke, The Age of German Liberation, University of
California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1977.
6. Co-editor
[with Maria-Luise von Graberg]:
Berliner Secession (Catalogue of the exhibition in the Staatliche
Kunsthalle, West Berlin, July 4 - August 23, 1981), Neuer Berliner
Kunstverein, Berlin, 1981.
7. Co-editor
and co-translator [with Daniel Moran]:
Two Letters on Strategy by Carl von Clausewitz, Army War College
Foundation, Carlisle, Penn., 1984.
8. Editor, Makers
of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, 1986. U.K.
edition: Oxford University Press,
Oxford and London, 1987. Japanese edition:
Chuokoron-sha Inc., Tokyo, 1990.
Italian
edition: Casa Editrice Marietti,
Genoa, 1992. Spanish edition:
Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid, 1992. Greek edition: Constantine Tourikis
Editions, Athens, 2001.
2nd edition, 2006.
Brazilian Edition:
Biblioteca do Exército Edítora, 2002. English
language edition, World Affairs Press, China, 2002.
9. Co-editor
and co-translator [with Daniel Moran], Carl von Clausewitz, Historical and
Political Writings Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1992.
10. Co-editor [with
Ekkehard Mai], Sammler, Stifter und Museen, Böhlau Verlag,
Köln-Weimar-Wien, 1993.
11. Guest editor, The
History of War as Part of General History, The Journal of Military
History, LVII, No. 5 (Special Issue) October 1993.
III Articles,
Lectures, Chapters.
1. "The French
Army and la Guerre Révolutionnaire," Journal of the Royal United Service
Institution, CIV (February 1959).
Reprinted in Survival, I (March-April 1959).
2. "An
Aftermath of the Plot Against Hitler:
The Lehrterstrasse Prison in Berlin, 1944-45," Bulletin of the Institute of
Historical Research, XXXII (May 1959).
3. "Eine
totale Waffe im begrenzten Krieg," Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, IX
(October 1959). A
revised version appeared as "A Total Weapon of Limited War," in the Journal
of the Royal United Service Institution, CV (February
1960).
4. Internal
War and Pacification: The Vendée,
1789-1796; Research Monograph
No. 12, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Princeton,
1961. Reprinted: U.S. Military Academy, West Point,
1970.
5. "Guerilla
War and U.S. Military Policy: A
study," [with John Shy], Marine Corps Gazette, XLVI (January 1962). Reprinted in Survival, IV
(January-February 1962); The Airman, VI (May 1962); The Guerilla - and
How to Fight Him, ed. T. N. Greene, Praeger, New York, 1962;
Components of Defense Policy, ed. Davis B. Bobrow, Rand McNally, New
York, 1965.
6. "Jena," Great
Military Battles, ed. Cyril Falls, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London,
1964. U.S. edition: Macmillan, New York,
1964.
7. "Colonial
Experience and European Military Reform at the End of the Eighteenth Century,"
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, XXXVII (May 1964). Reprinted in Warfare and Empires,
ed. Douglas M. Peers, Variorum, Aldershot, 1997.
8.
"Clausewitz: A
Bibliographical Survey," World Politics, XVII (January 1965). Reprinted in condensed form in
Military Review, XVII (July 1965).
9. "Clausewitz
and the Nineteenth Century," The Theory and Practice of War, ed. Michael
Howard, Cassels, London, 1965.
10. Innovation and Reform in
Warfare, 8th Annual Harmon Memorial Lecture, U.S. Air Force Academy,
Colorado, 1966. Reprinted in The
Harmon Memorial Lectures, ed. Harry R. Borowski, Office of Air Force
History, Washington, D.C. 1989.
11. "Education, Politics,
and War in the Life of Clausewitz," Journal of the History of Ideas, XXIX
(July-September 1968).
12. "Nationalism and the
Sense of Military Obligation," Moncado Prize Essay, Military Affairs,
XXXIV (February 1970).
13. "An Anonymous Letter by
Clausewitz on the Polish Insurrection of 1830-31," Journal of Modern
History, XLII (June 1970).
14. "Assignments Old and
New," American Historical Review, LXXVI (February
1971).
15. "The History of War,"
Daedalus, C (Spring 1971).
Reprinted in Historical Studies Today, eds. Felix Gilbert and
Stephen Graubard, Norton, New York, 1973.
16. "The Control of
International Violence," [with Gordon Craig], Stanford Journal of
International Studies, VII (Spring 1972).
17. "Introduction," John
Alger, Antoine-Henri Jomini: A
Bibliographical Survey, West Point Library Press, West Point,
1975.
18. "Introduction," [with
Donald Rae], John Hans Ostwald:
Architect, Greenwood Press, San Francisco,
1975.
19. "Armed Forces and the
State: The Historical Essays of
Otto Hintze," War and Society, II (1975).
20. "Bemerkungen zu dem
Versuch von Clausewitz zum Gesandten in London ernannt zu werden," Jahrbuch
für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, XXVI
(1977).
21. "The Relationship
between the American Revolutionary War and European Military Thought and
Practice of the Period," Militärgeschichte, Militär-wissenschaft und
Konfliktforschung, eds. Dermot Bradley and Ulrich Marwedel, Biblio Verlag,
Osnabrück, 1977. Reprinted in
revised form in Reconsiderations on the Revolutionary War, ed. Don
Higginbotham, Greenwood Press, 1978; Warfare in Europe, 1650-1792, ed.
Jeremy Black, Ashgate Publ., Aldershot, Hants., 2005.
22. "Art and the National
Image: The Conflict Over Germany's
Participation in the St. Louis Exposition," Central European History, XI
(June 1978).
23. "Die politischen
Ansichten von Clausewitz," Freiheit ohne Krieg, ed. Ulrich de Maizière,
Bonn, 1980. Japanese edition: Nihon Kogyo Shimbunsha,
1982.
24. "Gleichgewicht als
Mittel der Friedenssicherung bei Clausewitz und in der Geschichte der Neuzeit,"
Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, XXIX (May-June
1980).
25. "Clausewitz's
Bicentennial Birthday," Air University Review, XXXI (May-June
1980).
26. "The Tschudi Affair,"
Journal of Modern History, LIII (December 1981). Reprinted in an expanded German version
in Manet bis Van Gogh, catalogue of the exhibition in the
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1996-97,
Prestel-Verlag, Munich-New York, 1996.
27. "Kleist and Clausewitz:
A Comparative Sketch," in Festschrift für Eberhard Kessel, ed.
Manfred
Schlenke, Fink, Munich, 1982.
28. "Revolutions in
Warfare: An Earlier Generation of
Interpreters," National Security and International Stability, eds.
Bernard Brodie, Michael Intrilligator, and Roman Kolkowicz, Oelgeschlager, Gunn
and Hain, Cambridge, Mass., 1983.
29. "The Artist as
Staatsbürger," German Studies Review, VI (October
1983).
30. "The Enemy Within" -
Max Liebermann as President of the Prussian Academy of Arts, Leo Baeck
Memorial Lecture, Leo Baeck Institute, New York, 1984. Reprinted in an expanded German version
in Max Liebermann - Jahrhundert-wende, catalogue of the exhibition
in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Ars Nicolai, Berlin, 1997.
31. "Napoleon as Enemy," Banquet
Address, Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1983, Proceedings, ed.
Clarence B. Davis, University of Georgia, 1985.
32. "Between Strategy and
Mass Murder: The Third Reich at
War," German Studies Review, VII (May 1985).
33. "Literary Censorship as
a Source for Historical Understanding," Central European History, XVIII
(September-December 1985).
34. "Art, Society, and
Politics in Wilhelmine Germany," [with Beth Irwin Lewis], Journal of Modern
History, LVII (December 1985).
35. "Some Comments on the
Continuity Debate in Recent German History," German-American Interrelations -
Heritage and Challenge, ed. James F. Harris, Attempto Verlag, Tübingen,
1985.
36. "The German Revolution
of 1848 and Rethel's Dance of Death," Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, XVII (Summer 1986).
Reprinted in Art and History, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore
K. Rabb, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.
37. "Clausewitz,"
Military Leadership and Command:
The John Biggs Cincinnati Lectures, ed. Henry S. Bausum, The VMI
Foundation, Lexington, 1987.
38. "Continuity and
Discontinuity in Some Interpretations by Tocqueville and Clausewitz," Journal
of the History of Ideas, XLIX (January-March 1988).
39. "Conscription and the
End of the Old Regime in France and Prussia," Geschichte als Aufgabe: Festschrift für Otto Büsch, ed.
Wilhelm Treue, Colloquium Verlag, Berlin, 1988.
40. "Introduction," Harold
R. Winton, To Change an Army, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence,
1988.
41. "National Identity in a
Divided Nation: The New Historical
Museum in West Berlin," Working Papers in International Studies, Hoover
Institution, Stanford, 1988.
42. "Commentary on
'Psychoanalysis and History'," Psychology and Historical Interpretation,
ed. William McKinley Runyan, Oxford University Press, New York,
1988.
43. "Military Power,"
Moncado Prize Essay, The Journal of Military History, LIII (July
1989).
44. "John Keegan's The
Price of Admiralty and Popular History," The Journal of Military
History, LIV (April 1990).
45. "An Unknown Letter by
Clausewitz," The Journal of Military History, LV (April
1991).
46. "The New Military
History," Parameters, XXXI (Fall 1991).
47. "God's Hammer,"
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, CXXXVI, No. 2
(June 1992).
48. "Introduction," Carl
Boyd, Hitler's Japanese Confidant, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence,
1993.
49. "Jefferson and the
Birth of European Liberalism," Bernard Bailyn and Peter Paret, Two Lectures
on Jefferson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1993. Also printed in Proceedings of the
American Philosophical Society, CXXXVII, No. 4, 1993.
50. "Jüdische Sammler,
Mäzene und Kunsthändler," Sammler, Stifter und Museen, eds. Ekkehard Mai
and Peter Paret, Böhlau Verlag, Köln-Weimar-Wien, 1993.
51. "Justifying the
Obligation of Military Service," The History of War as Part of General
History, The Journal of Military History, LVII, No. 5 (Special Issue)
October 1993.
52. "Introduction," Peter
Grosz, George Haddow, & Peter Scheimer, Austro-Hungarian Aircraft of
World War One, Flying Machine Press, Princeton, 1993.
53. "The Recovery of
Prussia after Jena," The Aftermath of Defeat, eds. George J. Andreopoulos
and Harold E. Selesky, Yale University Press, New Haven,
1994.
54. "Ernst Cassirer und
neuere Richtungen der Kulturgeschichte in den Vereinigten Staaten,"
Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, IV (September 1994). Reprinted in Ernst Cassirer:
Kulturkritik im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Enno Rudolph, Felix Meiner Verlag,
Munich, 1995.
55. "Kolberg as Film and
as Historical Document," Special issue of the Historical Journal of Film,
Radio, and Television, XIV, 4 (1994).
Reprinted in World War II, Film, and History, eds. John Chambers
and David Culbert, Oxford University Press, 1996.
56. "Betrachtungen über
deutsche Kunst und Künstler im ersten Weltkrieg," Kultur und Krieg, ed.
Wolfgang
J. Mommsen, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1995.
57. "The Discovery of the
Common Soldier in Modern Art," Proceedings of the 18th International Congress
of Historical Sciences, Montreal, 1995.
58. "Berlin in Menzel's
Time," Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905, Catalogue of the exhibition of the
Berlin Nationalgalerie in Paris, Washington, and Berlin; also in French
and German editions, Yale University Press, New Haven-London, 1996,
1997.
59. Witnesses to
Life: Women and Infants in some
Images of War, 1789-1830.
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1996.
60. “Expressionism in
Imperial Germany,” Expressionismo Arte e Società 1909-1923, Catalogue of
the exhibition in the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, RCS Libri & Grandi Opere; also
in an Italian language edition, 1997.
61. “Max Liebermann als
Künstler und Kulturpolitiker,” Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz, XXXIV
(1998). A
shorter version appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17
December 1997.
62. “La historia de la
guerra como historia cultural,” En la Encrucijada de la Ciencia Historica
Hoy, eds. V. Vazquez de Prada, I. Olabarri, and F.J. Caspistegui, Ediciones
Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, 1998.
63. “Das Problem der
Darstellung des Krieges in der bildenden Kunst,” Die Wiedererweckung des
Krieges, eds. Joachim
Kunisch and Herfried Münkler, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin,
1999.
64. “Modernism and the ‘Alien
Element in German Art’,” Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture,
1890-1918, ed. Emily Bilski, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los
Angeles, 1999.
65.
“Wege
der Annäherung an das Werk des Generals von Clausewitz,” Sonderheft,
Akademie-Information, Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, August
1999.
66. “Fontane und Liebermann
- Versuch eines Vergleiches,” Theodor Fontane. Am Ende des Jahrhunderts, ed. Hanna
Delf von Wolzogen, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2000. A shorter version appeared in the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 October 1998.
67. “Fontane und der nicht
gegenwärtige Clausewitz,” Fontane Blätter, LXIX
(2000).
68. “Three Perspectives on
Art as a Force in German History,” Central European History, (January
2001).
69. “The History of Armed
Force,” Companion to Historical Thought, eds. Lloyd Kramer and Sarah
Maza, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.
70. “Crossing Borders,”
Historically Speaking, III, (November 2002).
71. “Bemerkungen zu einem
‘seltsamen Freundespaar’,” Berlin SW-Victoriastrasse 35, eds. Volker
Probst and Helga Thieme, Güstrow, 2003.
72. “Zehn unbekannte Briefe
Barlachs,” Berlin SW-Victoriastrasse 35, eds. Volker
Probst and Helga Thieme, Güstrow, 2003.
73. “From Ideal to
Ambiguity: Johannes von Müller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms,” Journal
of the History of Ideas, LXV, 1 (2004).
74. “Einstein, Freud, and
their Pamphlet Why War?” Historically Speaking, VI, 6 (July-August
2005).
75. “Bemerkungen über den
Krieg als Thema der Kunst in der frühen Neuzeit,” in Mars und die Musen,
eds. Jutta
Nowosadtko and Matthias Rogg, LIT- Verlag, Hamburg, 2006.
76. “Comment on Gray, The
Future of War,” Historically Speaking, VII, 3 (January-February
2006).
77. “Images as Documents in
the History of War,” Central European History,
forthcoming.
78. “Staatsoberhaupt und
Fabeltier: Bemerkungen über die Ikonographie des Kaisers im 19. Jahrhundert,”
Annali dell’ Istituto storico italo-germanico,
forthcoming.
79. “Max Liebermann: Triumph and Catastrophe of
Assimilation,” Jewish Studies Quarterly,
forthcoming.
IV Book
Reviews and Shorter Articles in
The Air University Review
The American Historical Review
American National Biography
The Art Bulletin
The Atlantic Monthly
Central European History
European
History Quarterly
Forschungen zur Brandenburgischen und Preussischen
Geschichte
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
German Life and Letters
German
Studies Review
The [Manchester] Guardian
H-Net Humanities & Social Science Online
History
The International Encyclopedia of The Social
Sciences
The International History Review
The Journal of the History of Ideas
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
The Journal of Military History
The Journal of Modern History
The Journal of the Royal United Service
Institution
Middle Eastern Studies
Military Affairs
The Oxford Companion To Politics of The
World
The New Leader
The New Republic
The New York Times Book Review
Parameters
Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society
Societas
Studies in Burke and his Time
Survival
The Times Literary Supplement
The Washington Post