Donald Cameron Watt

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Donald Cameron Watt

Donald Cameron Watt (born May 17, 1928 in Rugby , Warwickshire , † October 30, 2014 ) was a British historian.

Life

Watson went on a scholarship to Oriel College , Oxford in 1948 , where the historian Christopher Seton-Watson was one of his teachers.

1951–54 he worked in the Foreign Office. 1954–1966 he was a lecturer in history at the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 1981 he became a full professor there.

He was Professor of International History from 1972 to 1981 and Stevenson Professor of International History from 1982 to 1993 at the University of London. In 1990 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

For his book How War Came he was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 1989. Watt died on October 30, 2014 at the age of 86.

Publications

  • Documents on the Suez Crisis, July 26 to November 6, 1956
  • England looks to Germany: Germany in England's politics and public opinion since 1945
  • Historical prerequisites for the present British image of Germany; 1965
  • Studies in international history: essays presented to W. Norton Medlicott; 1967
  • A history of the world in the twentieth century; 21967
  • Contemporary history in Europe
  • Too serious a business: European armed forces and the approach to the Second World War; 1975
  • The North Sea: a new international regime? ; records of an International Conference at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich 2, 3 & 4 May 1979
  • Offshore Britain: today and tomorrow
  • Great Britain and Europe 1951-1959: The Years of Conservative Government
  • Churchill and the Cold War; 1981
  • Succeeding John Bull, America in Britain's place, 1900-1975: a study of the Anglo-American relationship and world politics in the context of British and American foreign-policy-making in the twentieth century
  • The Western Security Community 1948 - 1950: Common Problems and Contradicting National Interests in the Founding Phase of the North Atlantic Alliance; 1988
  • How war came: the immediate origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939; 1989
  • with Guido di Tella: Argentina between the great powers, 1939-46
  • An integrated marine policy; A meaningful concept ?; 1990
  • British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print; 1997, 4 volumes

literature

  • Kathleen Burk: Donald Cameron Watt, May 17, 1928 - October 30, 2014 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XVIII , 2019, p. 135-154 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Professor Donald Cameron Watt - obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph of November 13, 2014 (accessed November 15, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Watt, Donald Cameron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Rugby , Warwickshire
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2014