Andreas Kunz (Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany)

Contact details:

Institute of European History,
Section World History,
Alte Universitaetsstrasse 19,
D-55116 Mainz, Germany

Tel: +49 6131 3939363

Fax: +49 6131 3930154

E-mail: kunz@inst-euro-history.uni-mainz.de

Career:

I am a social and economic historian by training and received my Ph.D. in history in 1983 from the University of California at Berkeley. I have worked and taught in various capacities at UC Berkeley, the University of Freiburg (Germany), the European University Institute at Florence, and the Free University of Berlin. Currently I am Deputy Director in the Department of World History at the Institute of European History at Mainz, which is an independent research institute losely affiliated with the University of Mainz.

Elected officer in AGE, the German Section of IAHC.

Selected Publications:

Andreas Kunz, ‘Mapping 19th Century Transport. The Application of Computer Cartography to Historical-Statistical Data’. in Histoire et Informatique, ed. by J. Smets, Montpellier 1992, pp. 325-331 (with J. R. Moeschl).

Andreas Kunz, ‘Transnational Traffic Flows on Central European Inland Waterways: A Cartographic Approach’, in A. Carreras et al., eds., European Networks, 19th-20th centuries: New approaches to the formation of a transnational transport and communications system (=Proceedings Eleventh International Economic History Congress, Milan, September 1994), Milan 1994, pp. 105-118.

Andreas Kunz, ‘Coordinates for Historical Maps on the Development of German Transport since 1835’, in: M. Goerke, ed., Coordinates for Historical Maps, St. Katharinen 1994, pp. 109-120.

Walter Asmus, Andreas Kunz, and Ingwer E. Momsen, eds., Atlas zur Verkehrsgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins im 19. Jahrhundert, Neumünster: Wachholtz Verlag, 1995.

Andreas Kunz, ‘Transport and Regional Development in Historical Perspective: A Computerized Atlas on the History of Transport in the North-German Region of Schleswig-Holstein during the Nineteenth Century,’ in Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV, ed., Geschichte und EDV, Bochum 1997, pp. 29-43.

Andreas Kunz, ‘Zur wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung der Wasserstraßen Westfalens in der Epoche der Industrialisierung. Eine historisch-kartographische Studie’, in Wilfried Reininghaus and Ernst Teppe, eds., Verkehr und Region im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Paderborn 1999, pp. 155-177.

Andreas Kunz, Steamship Companies in Industrializing Germany. A Contribution to a Sectoral Analysis of the German Inland Shipping Industry during the Nineteenth Century, in: Lena Andersson-Skog und Olle Krantz, eds., Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries. State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990, Canton (Mass./USA) 1999, pp. 173-198.

Andreas Kunz, Verkehrsgeschichte und Computerkarthographie, in: Dietrich Ebeling, ed., Historisch-thematische Karthographie. Konzepte, Methoden, Anwendungen, Bielefeld 1999, pp. 48-59, 229-230.

Current Research

Transportation and economic development in ninteenth and twentieth century Europe. Interested in putting together a computer-based atlas on the development of European transport and/or maritime shipping.


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