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Field-Of-Study: Intellectual and Cultural History
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Michael D. Bess
Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is a specialist in twentieth-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change. He is the author of three books: Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II (Knopf, 2006); The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France,
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