James Belich (historian)

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James Christopher Belich ONZM (* 1956 in Wellington ) is a New Zealand historian of Croatian descent. He is the son of the politician and Mayor of Wellington James Belich .

He is best known for his work on the New Zealand Wars and New Zealand history. One of his important works on the clashes of the 19th century between the Māori and Pākehā , The New Zealand Wars from 1986, was also published in a US version and filmed in a television series and on DVD.

Academic career

Belich attended Onslow College . He holds an MA in History from Victoria University of Wellington . His I Shall Not Die ': Titokowaru ' s War from 1990 is based on his master's thesis. It received the Adam Award for New Zealand literature .

In 1978 he received a Rhodes Scholarship and went to Oxford University , where he at Nuffield College to Dr. phil attained.

His 1986 work The New Zealand Wars is based on his doctoral thesis and won the international Trevor Reese Memorial Prize . It was later filmed in an extensive documentary series for Television New Zealand .

Belich taught for several years at Victoria University of Wellington and then went to the University of Auckland . In 2007 he was appointed Professor of History at Victoria University's Stout Research Center for New Zealand Studies .

He expanded his research to include colonial societies in general and published Replenishing the earth in 2009 .

In 2011 Belich was appointed Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at Oxford University. He is the director of the Oxford Center for Global History .

Honors

Works

  • New Zealand Wars 1845-1870: An Analysis of Their History and Interpretation . 1982. PhD Thesis. Nuffield College / Oxford University
  • I Shall Not Die: Tītokowaru's war, New Zealand, 1868-9 . Bridget Williams Books, 1993. ISBN 0-04-614022-0
  • Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century . Penguin, 2007. ISBN 978-0-14-300704-3
  • The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict . Auckland University Press, 1986. ISBN 1-86940-002-X
  • Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000 . University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8248-2542-X
  • Replenishing the Earth: The Settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939 . Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780199297276

Web links

Commons : James Belich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Belich: The New Zealand Wars , 1998th edition, Penguin, Auckland 1998, ISBN 0-14-027504-5 , pp. 10 f.
  2. ↑ James Belich: Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-929727-6 , p. 573, (accessed December 18, 2009).
  3. ↑ a b Professor James Belich . In: Faculty of History website . Oxford University. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  4. ^ Historian James Belich heads to Oxford . In: stuff.co.nz . May 9, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ Previous winners . Creative New Zealand . Retrieved October 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Belich, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belich, James Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington