Maier was born into a non-affiliated Jewish family New York City. At the age of nine his family moved to Scarsdale, New York, where he went to a public high school.[1]
Maier received a degree in history from Harvard University in 1960. He went to England for a year on a Henry Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford.[2] In 1961, he married Pauline Rubbelke (Radcliffe '60) at Oxford and the couple toured through Europe including the Soviet Union. .[1] He completed his PhD thesis on The Strategies of Bourgeois Defense, 1918–1924: A Study of Conservative Politics and Economics in France, Germany, and Italy, supervised by Franklin Ford and then by H. Stuart Hughes, at Harvard in 1967.[3][4]
Maier was married from 1961 to the late Pauline Maier (née Rubbelke), Professor at MIT and noted American historian until her early death from lung cancer in 2013. In 2017 he married Marjorie Anne Sa'adah, professor emerita of government at Dartmouth College. He has three children and eight grandchildren.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt research prize fellowship, the Cross of Honor of the German Federal Republic, and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class, of the Republic of Austria. The University of Padua awarded him a laurea honoris causa in European Studies in January 2018. Prizes include the Premio Nazionale Cherasco Storia alla Carrera (2019); the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction (2018); the Helmut Schmitt Prize for German-American American Economic History conferred by the German Historical Institute, Washington, and the Zeit and Bucerius Foundations in 2011; the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize in 1978 and its Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 1977, both for Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I[5]
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1975. Reprinted with new prefaces, 1988 and 2015.
Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; also in Worlds Connected, Emily Rosenberg, ed. Harvard University Press, 2012)
"Between Taylorism and technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s". Journal of contemporary history 5#2 (1970): 27-61. JSTOR259743.
"The politics of productivity: foundations of American international economic policy after World War II". International Organization 31#4 (1977): 607-633. JSTOR2706316.
"Marking time: the historiography of international relations". in The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (1980): 355-87.
“The Cold War and the World Economy", in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds. (3 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 ), I, 44-66.
“In Merkel’s Crisis, Echoes of Weimar", NYR Daily: New York Review of Books, 12/4/2017.
"H-Diplo Memories" (H-Diplo "Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars" 16 October 2020) online autobiography
↑ Maier, Charles S. (1975), Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p.xix
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