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Jeremy Black (historian)
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Name
Jeremy Black
Role
Historian
Education
Queens' College, Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Merton College, Oxford
Books
Gods - Demons and Sym, The Power of Knowled, European Warfare in a Global, Rethinking Military History, The politics of James Bond
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Jeremy Black MBE (born 30 October 1955) 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 in Philadelphia. He is the author of over 100 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th century British politics and international relations, and has been described as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age".
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Background
Black graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge, with a starred first and then did postgraduate work at St John's and Merton Colleges, Oxford.
He 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 editor of Archives, journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. 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 Services Institute (now the RUSI Journal). He is an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas.
He was awarded an MBE in 2000 for services to stamp design, as advisor to the Royal Mail from 1997.
Works
Black has authored over 90 books: a full list is available on his website. In 2011, Black presented a lecturer on 'London History' at The Marc Fitch Lectures.
Black, Jeremy. "Could the British Have Won the American War of Independence?." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. (Autumn 1996), Vol. 74 Issue 299, pp 145-154. online 90 minute video lecture, requires Real Player
Hardback editions
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
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. 2013
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power. Routledge. 2002.
Paperback editions
George III: America's Last King. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-13621-0.
editor: 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: 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.
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.
