John "Jack" Trumpbour

John Trumpbour studied history at Stanford University and later received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950 (Cambridge Univ Press, 2002) and served as editor of The Dividing Rhine: Politics and Society in Contemporary France and Germany (Berg, 1989). He has contributed an array of essays examining the following topics: Latino contributions to the labor movement for the book Latinos: Remaking America (Univ of California Press, 2002); “the clash of civilizations” thesis in The New Crusades (Columbia Univ Press 2003); and the U.S. culture industry’s global dominance in The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry (Blackwell, 2008). In Winter 2007, he served as guest editor of The Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal for its special issue on “The Crisis in Workplace Governance.” Working in cooperation with the late Eric Hobsbawm, he provided new forewords, introductions, and epilogues to Victor Kiernan’s classic works including The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age and America: From White Settlement to World Hegemony (both re-published by Zed Books in 2015).