# David Wetzel

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**David Wetzel** is an international historian who teaches at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California,_Berkeley), specializing in the diplomacy of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. He has written on the [Crimean War](/source/Crimean_War) and on the three wars of German Unification. The focus of his scholarly concern is the political history of Europe, and especially Germany, since 1800.

## Education

David Wetzel earned a bachelor's degree from the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania) and a doctorate in history from the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago) with a dissertation on the Crimean War.

## Career

### Teaching

Wetzel started working at Berkeley in 1986 in the billing and payments services department, and was hired as a lecturer in 2003 after completing *A Duel of Giants*. In 2012 he was one of seven Berkeley faculty members listed among America's best professors in a book published by *[The Princeton Review](/source/The_Princeton_Review)*.

## Selected bibliography

### Books

(With William Carr) *A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present*, 5th Edition ( Bloomsbury: London and New York, 2023)

*A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870–1871* (Madison, Wisconsin: [University of Wisconsin Press](/source/University_of_Wisconsin_Press), 2012)

*Duell der Giganten: Bismarck, Napoleon III. und die Ursachen des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges 1870–71* (Paderborn, Germany: FerdinandSchöningh Verlag, 2005)

Translation of:

*A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War* (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001). Paperback, 2003

*The Crimean War: A Diplomatic History* (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1985)

### Edited books

*Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on the International History of Modern Europe /* Paul W. Schroeder; edited and with an introduction by David Wetzel, [Robert Jervis](/source/Robert_Jervis) and Jack S. Levy (New York: Palgrave, 2004)

*International Politics and German History: The Past Informs the Present* / edited by David Wetzel and Theodore S. Hamerow (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997)

*From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall: Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany* / edited by David Wetzel (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996)

### Online bibliography

The Wars of German Unification” in: Oxford Bibliographies (an online cooperative research guide)*.* Section: Military History. (Editor-in-chief: Dennis Showalter) ; URL: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0064.xml

## Media

- [C-Span *Book Discussion on A Duel of Giants*](http://www.c-span.org/video/?170318-1/book-discussion-duel-giants)
- [Appearance on the Book Edwards Show](https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102550/http://www.bobedwardsradio.com/blog/2013/8/16/david-wetzel-on-otto-von-bismarck.html)

## External links

- [David Wetzel](https://web.archive.org/web/20150217163324/http://history.berkeley.edu/people/david-wetzel) at Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

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