Jeremy Black (historian)

Jeremy Black (born October 30, 1955 ) is a British modern-day historian and military historian. He was a professor at the University of Exeter until 2020 .

Black studied at Cambridge University (Queen's College) and then went to Oxford University . He was a Lecturer and Professor at the University of Durham from 1980 and Professor at Exeter from 1996 to 2020.

He has been visiting professor at West Point , Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He is Advisory Fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas , Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and served on the Council of the Royal Historical Society . In 2000 he became a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for contributions to stamp design .

It deals with British history specifically of the 18th century, diplomacy history and military history. He is the author of over 100 books.

From 1989 to 2005 he was editor of the British Records Association's Archives magazine . He was associate editor of the Journal of Military History , the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute , the International History Review, and History Today .

In 2004 he received The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award and in 2008 the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize .

Fonts (selection)

He is the author and co-author of over 100 books.

• The Rise of the European Powers 1679-1793 , Arnold, London et al. a. 1990, ISBN 0-7131-6537-5
• with Donald MacRaild: Studying history , How to study series , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke u. a. 1997, 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 0-333-68795-7
• From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power , UCL Press, London a. a. 1999, ISBN 1-85728-933-1 (History of France from Louis XIV to Napoleon), also available as an e-book
• A new history of England , Sutton, Phoenix Mill et al. a. 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2319-9
• The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen , Greenwood 2001; Praeger, Westport, Conn. 2001, ISBN 0-275-96859-6
• British Diplomats and Diplomacy 1688-1800 , University of Exeter Press, Exeter 2001, ISBN 0-85989-613-7
• The English Press 1621-1861 , Sutton, Stroud et al. a. 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2524-8
• A History of the British Isles , 2nd edition, Palgrave, London 2002, ISBN 978-1-137-57361-2
• The World in the Twentieth Century , Longman, London a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-582472-84-9
• European International Relations 1648-1815 , Macmillan Education, Palgrave, Oxford 2002, ISBN 978-0-333-96450-7
• Europe and the World 1650-1830 , Routledge, London et al. a. 2002, ISBN 0-415-25568-6
• with Donald MacRaild: Nineteenth-Century Britain , Palgrave Foundations, Palgrave, Houndmills, Basingstoke u. a. 2002, ISBN 978-0-333-72559-7
• Visions of the World: A History of Maps , Mitchell Beazley, London 2003, ISBN 1-84000-834-2
  • German: history of the map. From antiquity to the present ,, Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7338-0339-6
• The British Seaborne Empire , Yale University Press, New Haven, etc. a. 2004, ISBN 0-300-10386-7
• Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe. A Revisionist History , Tauris, London 2004, ISBN 1-86064-985-8
• The Atlantic Slave Trade , 4 volumes, Ashgate, Aldershot u. a. 2006:
  • Volume 1: The Atlantic slave trade. 1. Origins - 1600 , Ashgate, Aldershot, etc. a. 2006, ISBN 0-7546-2571-0
  • Volume 2: The Atlantic slave trade. 2. Seventeenth century , ISBN 0-7546-2576-1
  • Volume 3: The Atlantic slave trade. 3. Eighteenth century , ISBN 0-7546-2579-6
  • Volume 4: The Atlantic slave trade. 4. Nineteenth century , ISBN 0-7546-2582-6
• Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy 1689-1815. Politics of a Commercial State , Routledge, London a. a. 2007, ISBN 0203964500
• Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony. The World Order since 1500 , Routledge, London a. a. 2008, ISBN 0-415-39579-8
• What If?: Counterfactualism and the Problem of History , Social Affairs Unit, London 2008, ISBN 978-1904863342
• The Curse of History , Social Affairs Unit, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-904863-29-8
• London: a history , Carnegie Publishing, Lancaster 2009, ISBN 978-1-85936-172-6
• A History of Diplomacy , Reaction Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-86189-696-4
• Slavery. A new global history , Running Press 2011
• Geopolitics , Social Affairs Unit, London 2009, ISBN 1-904863-42-6

18th century literature:

• British foreign policy in the age of Walpole , Donald, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-126-6
• Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo-French Relations in the Eighteenth Century , Duckworth, London 1986, ISBN 0-7156-2094-0
• The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance 1727-31 , Sutton, Gloster 1987, ISBN 0-86299-300-8
• Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early-Eighteenth Century Britain , Macmillan, Basingstoke u. a. 1990, ISBN 0-333-45574-6
• Pitt the Elder , British Lives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 978-0-511-56035-4
• Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688–1783 , Palgrave (Palgrave History of England), Basingstoke u. a. 2001, ISBN 0-333-53831-5
• Walpole in Power: Britain's First Prime Minister , Stroud, Sutton 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2523-X
• British Foreign Policy in the Age of Revolutions. 1783 - 1793 , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge a. a. 1994, ISBN 0-521-45001-2
• Italy and the Grand Tour , Yale University Press, New Haven u. a. 2003, ISBN 0-300-09977-0
• France and the Grand Tour , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke u. a. 2003
• The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century , Sutton 2003
• Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century , Cambridge UP 2004
• George III: America's Last King , Yale University Press 2007
• Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain , Ashgate 2013

Military history:

• War for America. The Fight for Independence 1775-1783 , 1991
• A military revolution? Military Change and European Society 1550-1800 , Basingstoke, Macmillan Education 1991
• European Warfare 1660-1815, UCL Press 1994. Britain as a Military Power 1688-1815 , UCL Press 1999
• As editor: War in the Early Modern World 1450-1815 , UCL Press, Routledge 1999
• War: Past, Present and Future , 2000
• Western Warfare 1775-1882 , Indiana University Press 2001
• Warfare in the Western World 1882-1975, Indiana University Press 2001
• Was in the New Century, Continuum 2001
• War: A short history, Continuum 2002
• Warfare in the Eighteenth Century, Cassel, London 2002.
  • German: The wars of the 18th century , translated by Klaus-Dieter Bosse, Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89488-137-2
• America as a Military Power 1775-1882, Greenwood 2002
• European Warfare 1494-1660, Routledge 2002
• As editor: European Warfare 1815–2000, Palgrave 2002
• World War Two: A Military History, Routledge, 2003
• As editor: War in the Modern World 1815-2000 , Routledge 2003
• Was: An Illustrated World History, Sutton 2003
• War since 1945, reaction Books 2004
• Rethinking Military History, Routledge 2004
• Introduction to Global Military History, 1775 to the present day, Routledge 2005
• A military history of Britain: from 1775 to the present, Praeger Security International 2006
• The Age of Total War 1860-1945, 2006
• European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660–1815, Warfare and History Series, Routledge 2007
• Was in the Nineteenth Century, 2009
• Naval Power A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 Onwards, Palgrave Macmillan 2009
• Has been since 1990, 2009
• The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group 2010
• The Battle of Waterloo, Random House 2010
• The Politics of World War Two, Social Affairs Unit 2011
• Beyond the Military Revolution: War in the Seventeenth Century World, Palgrave Macmillan 2011

Web links

• Official website