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British historian (born 1955)
Jeremy Black
MBE
Born (1955-10-30 ) 30 October 1955 (age 68) Occupation(s) Historian, writer Years active 1984–present Known for 18th century British foreign policy, historiography, political history
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]
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
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
Works
Books
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
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
Further reading
Browning, Reed (2004). "An Editor in Review". Archives . 29 (111): 31–58.
External links
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
International National Academics People Other