Stephen Alan Schuker (born 1939) is an American historian who is currently William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the

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University of Virginia, retrieved 11 July 2018. He was educated at

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, where he gained a BA in 1959. In 1958 Cornell awarded him a $500 prize for being their outstanding history student. He was awarded an MA and a PhD by

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in 1962 and 1969, respectively. According to

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, Schuker's book ''The End of French Predominance in Europe'' is the definitive work on the circumstances leading to the adoption of the 1924

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on German

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. The book was awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize (in 1976) and the

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(in 1977).'Books Received', ''Journal of International Affairs'' Vol. 33, No. 1, Technology and the New International Order (Spring/Summer 1979), p. 168.

Works

*''The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976). *''American "Reparations" to Germany, 1919-33: Implications for the Third-World Debt Crisis'' (Princeton: Princeton Studies in International Finance, 1988).

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What Historians Get Wrong About World War I
, ''Time'' (1 August 2014) {{DEFAULTSORT:Schuker, Stephen A. 1939 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people University of Virginia faculty Cornell University alumni Harvard University alumni American male non-fiction writers