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Jeremy Black (historian)

February 15, 2024

Jeremy Black MBE (born 30 October 1955) is a British historian, writer, and former 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 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.[1]

Jeremy Black

MBE
Born (1955-10-30) 30 October 1955 (age 68)
Cambridge, England
Occupation(s)Historian, writer
Years active1984–present
Known for18th century British foreign policy, historiography, political history

Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age".[2] He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).[3]

Background edit

Black studied at Queens' College Cambridge, St John's College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980.[4] There he earned his PhD and subsequently a professorship in 1994.His doctoral thesis was entitled British Foreign Policy 1727–1731, and completed in 1983.[5] As a staff candidate he was not attached to any of the Durham colleges.[5]

He was editor of Archives, journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005.[6] He has served on the Council of the British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the List and Index Society (from 1997). He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (now the RUSI Journal).

Awards and honours edit

Works edit

Books edit

  • A Brief History of History (2023)
  • Geographies of War (2022)
  • A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power To ? (2022)
  • A Brief History of London (2022)
  • A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021 (2022)
  • A Brief History of the British Monarchy. From the Iron Age to King Charles III (2022)
  • A Brief History of Germany (2022)
  • A Brief History of the Atlantic (2022)
  • A History of Britain in 100 Maps (2022)
  • The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (2022)
  • The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes. 2022
  • The Importance of Being Poirot. 2022
  • A Short History of War. 2021
  • Strategy and the Second World War. 2021
  • A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to? 2022
  • England in the Age of Austen. 2021
  • England in the Age of Dickens. 2021
  • France: A Short History. 2021
  • A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps. 2020
  • Military Strategy: A Global History. 2020
  • George III: Madness and Majesty. 2020
  • Tank Warfare 2020
  • A Brief History of Portugal. 2020
  • A Brief History of the Mediterranean. 2020
  • History of the Twentieth Century. 2020
  • A History of The World: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. 2019
  • Introduction to Global Military History: 1750 to the Present Day. 2019
  • England in the Age of Shakespeare. 2019
  • Charting the Past. The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England. 2019
  • A Brief History of Spain. 2019
  • War and its Causes. 2019
  • The English Press, a History. 2019
  • The World at War 1914–45. 2019
  • History of Europe: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. 2019
  • Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World. 2019
  • English Nationalism: A Short History. 2018
  • Mapping Naval Warfare: A Visual History of Conflict at Sea. 2017
  • Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860. 2017
  • Plotting Power: Strategy in the Eighteenth Century. 2017
  • Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815. 2017
  • Combined Operations: A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare. 2017
  • The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007. 2017
  • A History of Britain 1945 to Brexit. 2017
  • Maps of War: Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries. 2016
  • Air Power. 2016
  • The Holocaust: History and Memory. 2016
  • Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. 2016
  • (ed.) The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679–2014. 2015
  • The Cold War. 2015
  • The City on the Hill: A Life of the University of Exeter. 2015
  • Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and its Legacy. 2015
  • War in Europe. 2015
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History. 2015
  • Metropolis: Mapping the City. 2015
  • A Short History of Britain. 2015
  • Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures. 2015
  • Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice. 2015
  • Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance. 2015
  • The British Empire. 2015
  • A Century of Conflict. 2014
  • Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714–1727. 2014
  • British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727–44. 2014
  • The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World. 2014
  • London: A History. 2013
  • War in the Eighteenth Century World. 2013
  • War and Technology. 2013
  • Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day. 2012
  • A History of the British Isles (3rd edn). 2012
  • Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918–40. 2012
  • War and the Cultural Turn. 2012
  • Slavery. 2011
  • Fighting for America. 2011
  • Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth Century Britain. 2011
  • The Great War and the Making of the Modern World. 2011
  • War in the World 1450–1600. 2011
  • Crisis of Empire. 2010
  • A History of Diplomacy. 2010
  • Waterloo. 2010
  • War: A Short History. 2010
  • The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon. London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8264-3612-2.
  • London: a history. Carnegie Publishing. 2009.
  • Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500. 2008
  • What If?: Counterfactualism and the Problem of History. Social Affairs Unit. 2008.
  • The Curse of History. Social Affairs Unit. 2008. ISBN 9781904863298.
  • Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688–1783. Palgrave. 2008.
  • George III: America's Last King. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-13621-0.
  • Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century. CUP. 2004.
  • The English Seaborne Empire. Yale. 2004.
  • Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe. I.B. Tauris. 2004.
  • Rethinking Military History. Routledge. 2004.
  • War Since 1945. 2004. e-book
  • World War Two: A Military History. Routledge. 2003.
  • Italy and the Grand Tour. Yale University Press. 2003.
  • Italy 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.
  • From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power. Routledge. 1999.
  • editor: War in the Modern World 1815–2000. Routledge. 2003.
  • War: An Illustrated World History. Sutton. 2003.
  • Georgian Devon. 2003.
  • Warfare in the Eighteenth Century. Cassell. 2002.
  • The World in the Twentieth Century. Longman. 2003.
  • America as a Military Power 1775–1882. Greenwood. 2002.
  • editor: 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 (2nd ed.). Palgrave. 2002.
  • editor: European Warfare 1815–2000. Palgrave. 2002.
  • War in the New Century. 2001.
  • 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.
  • The Making of Modern Britain: The Age of Empire to the New Millennium. 2001.
  • War, Past, Present and Future. 2000.
  • A New History of Wales. 2000.
  • Europe in the Eighteenth Century (2nd ed.). 2000 [1990].
  • Modern British History since 1900 (2000)
  • A New History of England (2000)
  • Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle to the Georgian Era (2000)
  • Britain as a Military Power, 1688–1815 (1999)
  • Why Wars Happen (1998)
  • War and the World, 1450–2000 (1998)
  • Maps and History (1997)
  • Maps and Politics (1997)
  • America or Europe: British Foreign Policy, 1739–63 (1997)
  • History of the British Isles (1996)
  • Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain (1996)
  • Warfare Renaissance to Revolution, 1492–1792 (1996)
  • British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolution (1994)
  • Convergence or Divergence? Britain and the Continent (1994)
  • European Warfare, 1660–1815 (1994)
  • The Politics of Britain, 1688–1800 (1993)
  • History of England (1993)
  • The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. 1992.
  • Pitt the Elder (1992)
  • A System of Ambition? British Foreign Policy, 1660–1793 (1991)
  • A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society 1550–1800. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1991. ISBN 0-333-51906-X.
  • War for America: The Fight for Independence 1775–1783 (1991)
  • Sir Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth Century Britain (1990)
  • Culloden and the '45 (1990)
  • The Rise of the European Powers 1679–1793 (1990)
  • The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (1987)
  • The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance 1727–31 (1987)
  • Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo-French Relations in the Eighteenth Century (1986)
  • The British and the Grand Tour (1985)
  • British Foreign Policy in the Age of Austria (1985)

Articles edit

  • Black, Jeremy (Autumn 1996). "Could the British have won the American War of Independence?". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 74 (299): 145–154. (See also a 2006 talk at Ohio State University about this.)

References edit

  1. ^ "Jeremy Black". Foreign Policy Research Institute. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  2. ^ Browning 2004, p. 31.
  3. ^ Black, Jeremy (2003). World War Two: A Military History. New York, USA: Routledge.
  4. ^ "Jeremy Black". GBH. 2003. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Higher Degrees". Durham University Gazette 1982/83. 1 (Combined Series): 88. 1983. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  6. ^ Browning 2004.
  7. ^ "Samuel Eliot Morison Prize previous winners". Society for Military History. Retrieved 25 December 2017.

Further reading edit

  • Browning, Reed (2004). "An Editor in Review". Archives. 29 (111): 31–58.

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Jeremy Black (historian).
  • Official website
  • Roberts, Andrew (December 2008). "Jeremy Black: Underrated". Standpoint. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  • War Disease and the World 1450–2000, 4 May 2005 on YouTube
  • Jeremy Black, H-France Forum Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer 2007), No. 3
  • Great Military Leaders – Interview with author Jeremy Black, 14 August 2008 on YouTube

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Jeremy Black MBE born 30 October 1955 is a British historian writer and former 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 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 1 Jeremy BlackMBEBorn 1955 10 30 30 October 1955 age 68 Cambridge EnglandOccupation s Historian writerYears active1984 presentKnown for18th century British foreign policy historiography political historyBlack is the author of over 180 books principally but not exclusively on 18th century British politics and international relations and has been described by one commentator as the most prolific historical scholar of our age 2 He has published on military and political history including Warfare in the Western World 1882 1975 2001 and The World in the Twentieth Century 2002 3 Contents 1 Background 2 Awards and honours 3 Works 3 1 Books 3 2 Articles 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksBackground editBlack studied at Queens College Cambridge St John s College Oxford and Merton College Oxford before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980 4 There he earned his PhD and subsequently a professorship in 1994 His doctoral thesis was entitled British Foreign Policy 1727 1731 and completed in 1983 5 As a staff candidate he was not attached to any of the Durham colleges 5 He was editor of Archives journal of the British Records Association from 1989 to 2005 6 He has served on the Council of the British Records Association 1989 2005 the Council of the Royal Historical Society 1993 1996 and 1997 2000 and the Council of the List and Index Society from 1997 He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today International History Review Journal of Military History Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution now the RUSI Journal Awards and honours editIn 2008 he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement as afforded by the Society for Military History 7 Works editBooks edit A Brief History of History 2023 Geographies of War 2022 A Brief History of Britain 1851 2021 From World Power To 2022 A Brief History of London 2022 A Brief History of Britain 1851 2021 2022 A Brief History of the British Monarchy From the Iron Age to King Charles III 2022 A Brief History of Germany 2022 A Brief History of the Atlantic 2022 A History of Britain in 100 Maps 2022 The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 2022 The Game Is Afoot The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes 2022 The Importance of Being Poirot 2022 A Short History of War 2021 Strategy and the Second World War 2021 A Brief History of Britain 1851 2021 From World Power to 2022 England in the Age of Austen 2021 England in the Age of Dickens 2021 France A Short History 2021 A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps 2020 Military Strategy A Global History 2020 George III Madness and Majesty 2020 Tank Warfare 2020 A Brief History of Portugal 2020 A Brief History of the Mediterranean 2020 History of the Twentieth Century 2020 A History of The World From Prehistory to the 21st Century 2019 Introduction to Global Military History 1750 to the Present Day 2019 England in the Age of Shakespeare 2019 Charting the Past The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth Century England 2019 A Brief History of Spain 2019 War and its Causes 2019 The English Press a History 2019 The World at War 1914 45 2019 History of Europe From Prehistory to the 21st Century 2019 Imperial Legacies The British Empire Around the World 2019 English Nationalism A Short History 2018 Mapping Naval Warfare A Visual History of Conflict at Sea 2017 Naval Warfare A Global History since 1860 2017 Plotting Power Strategy in the Eighteenth Century 2017 Geographies of an Imperial Power The British World 1688 1815 2017 Combined Operations A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare 2017 The World of James Bond The Lives and Times of 007 2017 A History of Britain 1945 to Brexit 2017 Maps of War Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries 2016 Air Power 2016 The Holocaust History and Memory 2016 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency 2016 ed The Tory World Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy 1679 2014 2015 The Cold War 2015 The City on the Hill A Life of the University of Exeter 2015 Rethinking World War Two The Conflict and its Legacy 2015 War in Europe 2015 The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History 2015 Metropolis Mapping the City 2015 A Short History of Britain 2015 Other Pasts Different Presents Alternative Futures 2015 Clio s Battles Historiography in Practice 2015 Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance 2015 The British Empire 2015 A Century of Conflict 2014 Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I 1714 1727 2014 British Politics and Foreign Policy 1727 44 2014 The Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World 2014 London A History 2013 War in the Eighteenth Century World 2013 War and Technology 2013 Introduction to Global Military History 1775 to the Present Day 2012 A History of the British Isles 3rd edn 2012 Avoiding Armageddon From the Great War to the Fall of France 1918 40 2012 War and the Cultural Turn 2012 Slavery 2011 Fighting for America 2011 Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth Century Britain 2011 The Great War and the Making of the Modern World 2011 War in the World 1450 1600 2011 Crisis of Empire 2010 A History of Diplomacy 2010 Waterloo 2010 War A Short History 2010 The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon London New York Continuum International Publishing Group 2010 ISBN 978 0 8264 3612 2 London a history Carnegie Publishing 2009 Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony The World Order since 1500 2008 What If Counterfactualism and the Problem of History Social Affairs Unit 2008 The Curse of History Social Affairs Unit 2008 ISBN 9781904863298 Eighteenth Century Britain 1688 1783 Palgrave 2008 George III America s Last King New Haven and London Yale University Press 2008 ISBN 978 0 300 13621 0 Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century CUP 2004 The English Seaborne Empire Yale 2004 Kings Nobles and Commoners States and Societies in Early Modern Europe I B Tauris 2004 Rethinking Military History Routledge 2004 War Since 1945 2004 e book World War Two A Military History Routledge 2003 Italy and the Grand Tour Yale University Press 2003 Italy 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 From Louis XIV to Napoleon The Fate of a Great Power Routledge 1999 editor War in the Modern World 1815 2000 Routledge 2003 War An Illustrated World History Sutton 2003 Georgian Devon 2003 Warfare in the Eighteenth Century Cassell 2002 The World in the Twentieth Century Longman 2003 America as a Military Power 1775 1882 Greenwood 2002 editor 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 2nd ed Palgrave 2002 editor European Warfare 1815 2000 Palgrave 2002 War in the New Century 2001 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 The Making of Modern Britain The Age of Empire to the New Millennium 2001 War Past Present and Future 2000 A New History of Wales 2000 Europe in the Eighteenth Century 2nd ed 2000 1990 Modern British History since 1900 2000 A New History of England 2000 Historical Atlas of Britain The End of the Middle to the Georgian Era 2000 Britain as a Military Power 1688 1815 1999 Why Wars Happen 1998 War and the World 1450 2000 1998 Maps and History 1997 Maps and Politics 1997 America or Europe British Foreign Policy 1739 63 1997 History of the British Isles 1996 Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain 1996 Warfare Renaissance to Revolution 1492 1792 1996 British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolution 1994 Convergence or Divergence Britain and the Continent 1994 European Warfare 1660 1815 1994 The Politics of Britain 1688 1800 1993 History of England 1993 The British Abroad The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century 1992 Pitt the Elder 1992 A System of Ambition British Foreign Policy 1660 1793 1991 A Military Revolution Military Change and European Society 1550 1800 Basingstoke Macmillan Education 1991 ISBN 0 333 51906 X War for America The Fight for Independence 1775 1783 1991 Sir Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth Century Britain 1990 Culloden and the 45 1990 The Rise of the European Powers 1679 1793 1990 The English Press in the Eighteenth Century 1987 The Collapse of the Anglo French Alliance 1727 31 1987 Natural and Necessary Enemies Anglo French Relations in the Eighteenth Century 1986 The British and the Grand Tour 1985 British Foreign Policy in the Age of Austria 1985 Articles edit Black Jeremy Autumn 1996 Could the British have won the American War of Independence Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 74 299 145 154 See also a 2006 talk at Ohio State University about this References edit Jeremy Black Foreign Policy Research Institute Retrieved 8 January 2021 Browning 2004 p 31 Black Jeremy 2003 World War Two A Military History New York USA Routledge Jeremy Black GBH 2003 Retrieved 30 November 2023 a b Higher Degrees Durham University Gazette 1982 83 1 Combined Series 88 1983 Retrieved 30 January 2021 Browning 2004 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize previous winners Society for Military History Retrieved 25 December 2017 Further reading editBrowning Reed 2004 An Editor in Review Archives 29 111 31 58 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Jeremy Black historian Official website Roberts Andrew December 2008 Jeremy Black Underrated Standpoint Retrieved 6 June 2020 Jeremy Black Islam and the West A Historical Perspective Foreign Policy Research Institute Volume 4 Number 2 May 2003 War Disease and the World 1450 2000 4 May 2005 on YouTube Jeremy Black H France Forum Volume 2 Issue 3 Summer 2007 No 3 Great Military Leaders Interview with author Jeremy Black 14 August 2008 on YouTube Jeremy Black What Students Need to Know About War and Why 25 February 2009 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jeremy Black historian amp oldid 1199584658, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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