David Kenneth Fieldhouse

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David Kenneth Fieldhouse (born June 7, 1925 - October 28, 2018 ) was a British historian who dealt with (British) colonial history ( Commonwealth ) and especially its economic history.

He went to Cheltenham to school and studied at Queen's College of the University of Oxford . From 1950 he taught at Haileybury College and in 1953 he became a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. In 1958 he became a Beit Lecturer for the history of the Commonwealth at Oxford University and from 1981 he taught at the University of Cambridge , where he became a Fellow of Jesus College and was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History until his retirement in 1992 . Since 1996 he has been a member of the British Academy .

Fonts

  • The colonial empires since the 18th century (= Fischer Weltgeschichte . Vol. 29). Translated from English by Günter Schütze. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1965, (In English: The Colonial Empires. A Comparative Survey from the Eighteenth Century (= The Weidenfeld and Nicolson Universal History. 29, ZDB -ID 1404253-8 ). Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1966).
  • Economics and Empire, 1830-1914. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1973, ISBN 0-297-99494-8 .
  • Unilever overseas. The anatomy of a multinational 1895-1965. Croom Helm, London 1978, ISBN 0-85664-805-1 .
  • Colonialism, 1870-1945. An Introduction. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1981, ISBN 0-297-77873-0 .
  • Black Africa, 1945-80. Economic Decolonization & Arrested Development. Allen & Unwin, London et al. 1986, ISBN 0-04-325017-3 .
  • Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization. The United Africa Company, 1929-1987. Clarendon Press, Oxford et al. 1994, ISBN 0-19-822625-X .
  • The West and the Third World. Trade, colonialism, dependence, and development. Blackwell, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-631-19438-X .
  • Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 0-19-928737-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor David Fieldhouse (1925-2018). In: jesus.cam.ac.uk. October 31, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Biography based on Fischer Weltgeschichte, Volume 29
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fieldhouse, David Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1925
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2018