Steven Press

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Steven Press

  • Associate Professor of History
  • Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center

Lane History Corner

450 Serra Mall

200-324


 

(650) 723-2676 (voice)

Biography

Steven Press received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt before coming to Stanford. His research interests include sovereignty and commodity networks. Press's first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa (Harvard University Press, 2017) won the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. Press's second book, The Jewels of Empire: Germany, Africa, and the Rise of the Diamond (Harvard University Press, 2021) won the German Studies Association’s Barclay Book Prize in 2022.

 

publications

Books
April 2021

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

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Books
December 2017

Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa

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