Jonathan Steinberg

Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania and former Chair of the Department of History. He is the author of Yesterday's Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet (1965 and 1993); Why Switzerland? (1976; paperback 1980, 2nd ed. 1996); All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to 1943, (1990, new edition, 2003); and The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions during the Second World War, (1999). In 2003 he recorded European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914, a series of 36 recorded lectures published by the Teaching Company in audio and visual form. The series tells the story of the modernization of Europe between 1715 and 1914 through biographies of key figures such as Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Goethe, Napoleon, Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the Krupp family, Darwin, Tolstoy, David Lloyd George and many others.