William W. Hagen is a prominent historian and Professor of History at the University of California-Davis. Hagen's focus is on Modern European History, primarily in relation to Germany and Eastern Europe. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago

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. Starting as Assistant Professor in 1970, http://www.countrybookstore.co.uk/authorsatoz/authordet.phtml?name=Hagen,%20William%20W. he became Associate Professor of History in 1977 and Professor of History in 1981. From 1992-1998, Hagen served as Director of the UC Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture. In 1996, he served as President of the Conference Group for Central European History (American Historical Association

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• Ordinary Prussia
  Prussia
  Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
  
  ns: Brandenburg
  Brandenburg
  Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
  
   Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840 (Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
  
  , 2002). This work has been awarded the 2002-2003 Hans Rosenberg
  Hans Rosenberg
  Hans Rosenberg, born February 26, 1904 in Hanover and died on June 26, 1988 in Freiburg, was a German refugee historian whose works influenced a whole generation of post-war German scholars.-Life:...
  
   Prize of the Central European Conference Group (American Historical Association) for best North American book on German history
  History of Germany
  The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul , which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the...
  
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• The Moral Economy of Popular Violence: The Pogrom in Lwów
  Lwów pogrom (1918)
  The Lwów pogrom of the Jewish population of Lwów took place on November 21–23, 1918 during the Polish-Ukrainian War. In the course of the three days of unrest in the city, an estimated 52-150 Jewish residents were murdered and hundreds injured, with widespread looting carried out by Polish...
  
  , November 1918. This article appeared in Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
  (Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 124–47.
• Germans, Poles and Jews: the Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772-1914 (University of Chicago Press
  University of Chicago Press
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  , 1980).
• Seventeenth-Century Crisis in Brandenburg: The Thirty Years' War
  Thirty Years' War
  The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
  
  , the Destabilization of Serfdom
  Serfdom
  Serfdom is the status of peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to Manorialism. It was a condition of bondage or modified slavery which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted to the mid-19th century...
  
  , and the Rise of Absolutism (American Historical Review, 94 (1989): 302-335).
• Before the "Final Solution
  Final Solution
  The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust...
  
  ": Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Antisemitism in Interwar Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   and Poland (Journal of Modern History (July, 1996): 1-31). This work has received the Chester Penn Higby Prize for best article in the Journal of Modern History in a two-year period (conferred by the Modern European History Section of the American Historical Association).