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Jeremy Black (born 30 October, 1955) MBE is a British historian and a Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of over eighty books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations.

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Biography

He graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, with a starred first and then did postgraduate work at St John's and Merton at Oxford University. He then taught at Durham University from 1980 as a lecturer, then professor before moving to Exeter University in 1996. He has lectured extensively in Australasia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the U.S.. He was awarded an MBE for services to stamp design. He has also recently been involved with the Oxford Discovery Programme on the Transatlantic Crossing of the RMS Queen Mary 2; where he delivered a series of four lectures. Black is also an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas and was the keynote speaker at the center's 2008 fall conference.

Public Roles

  • Editor of Archives, the journal of the British Records Association from 1989-2005.
  • Member of the Council of the British Records Association 1989-2005
  • Member of the Council of the Royal Historical Society 1993-1996 and 1997-2000
  • Member of the Council of the List and Index Society 1997-present
  • Editorial board of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute (now the RUSI Journal)

Works

Black has authored over eighty books throughout his career.[1]

A comprehensive list of Black's publications is available on his website.[2]

Hardback edition

  • London: a history, Carnegie Publishing, 2009.
  • What If?: Counterfactualism and the Problem of History, Social Affairs Unit, 2008
  • The Curse of History, Social Affairs Unit, 2008
  • Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688-1783, Palgrave, 2008.
  • George III: America's Last King, Yale, 2007.
  • Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century, CUP, 2004 (in press).
  • The English Seaborne Empire, Yale, 2004 (in press).
  • Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe, I.B. Tauris, 2004
  • Rethinking Military History, Routledge, 2004
  • World War Two: A Military History, Routledge, 2003.
  • Italy and the Grand Tour, Yale University Press, 2003.
  • France and the Grand Tour, Palgrave, 2003.
  • Visions of the World: A History of Maps, Mitchell Beazley, 2003.
  • The British Abroad. The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century, Sutton, 2003.

Paperback edition

  • editor of, War in the Modern World 1815-2000, Routledge, 2003.
  • War. An Illustrated World History, Sutton, 2003.
  • Warfare in the Eighteenth Century, Cassell, 2002.
  • The World in the Twentieth Century, Longman, 2002.
  • America as a Military Power 1775-1882, Greenwood, 2002.
  • editor of, European Warfare 1494-1660, Palgrave, 2002.
  • European International Relations 1648-1815, Palgrave, 2002.
  • Europe and the World 1650-1830, Routledge, 2002.
  • with Donald MacRaild, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Palgrave, 2002.
  • A History of the British Isles (2 nd edition), Palgrave, 2002.
  • editor of, European Warfare 1815-2000, Palgrave, 2002.
  • Warfare in the Western World 1882-1975, Indiana University Press/Acumen, 2001.
  • War in the New Century, Continuum, 2001.
  • Western Warfare 1775-1882, Indiana University Press, 2001.
  • Walpole in Power : Britain 's First Prime Minister, Sutton, 2001.
  • The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen, Greenwood, 2001.
  • British Diplomats and Diplomacy 1688-1800, University of Exeter Press, 2001.
  • The English Press 1621-1861, Sutton, 2001.
  • Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688-1783, Palgrave, 2001.
  • A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society 1550-1800, 1991

External links

References

  1. ^ [from http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/712/full/ www.standpointmag.co.uk, accessed on 14 November 2009
  2. ^ [from http://www.jeremyblack.co.uk/all-publications.html, accessed on 02 November 2009







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