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Michael MillerPh.D., University of Pennsylvania (1976); e-mail: mbmiller@miami.edu |
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Michael Miller was born in Cincinnati and educated at Northwestern (BA 1967) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1976). His principal work has been in the fields of modern French history, modern European history, business history, and maritime history. His scholarly publications include The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920 (Princeton, 1981; French edition 1987) and Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars (Berkeley, 1994). Currently, he is completing a book on Europe and the maritime world in the twentieth century, based on research in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. This study examines how a maritime commercial world of ports, shipping companies, trading companies, plantations, commodities, markets, and intermediaries constructed the networks that moved people and goods around the world and thereby created a transportation and commercial infrastructure for modern societies of mass production and mass consumption. He has published a number of articles from this study, among these “The Business Trip: Maritime Networks in the Twentieth Century” (Business History Review, 2003) and “Pilgrims’ Progress: The Business of the Hajj” (Past and Present, 2006). Before joining the University of Miami faculty he taught at Rice University and Syracuse University. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Harvard-Newcomen Fellow, and, more recently, has held fellowships from the DAAD, the NEH, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the ACLS, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He teaches courses on a variety of subjects, including Modern France, Europe 1914-1945, the survey course on Modern Europe, History of the Modern Business Enterprise, and Europe and the World in Modern Times. |
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