John H. Parry

John Horace Parry (born April 26, 1914 in Harmondsworth , Birmingham , † August 25, 1982 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was a British historian and professor at Harvard University ( Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs ).

life and work

Parry was educated at Clare College of the University of Cambridge , where he received his doctorate in history 1938th Before that, he was at Harvard University for a few years. From 1940 to 1945 he was an officer in the Royal Navy , most recently as Lieutenant-Commander. From 1945 he was a tutor for history and from 1946 a lecturer at Clare College. From 1949 to 1956 he was a history professor at the newly established University College of the West Indies in Kingston (Jamaica) . In 1954/55 he was visiting professor at Harvard and in 1956 principal at University College in Ibadan in Nigeria . In 1960 he went to the University College of Swansea as a principal and in 1963 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales at Cardiff . In 1965 he became a professor at Harvard.

He dealt with discovery and colonial history (especially Spain and South America) and maritime history. At Harvard he also gave courses in sailing. He had been married to Joyce Carter since 1938 and had three daughters and a son.

Honors and memberships

Parry was MBE (1942, for services in the Royal Navy, in which he was torpedoed three times) and Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and Commander of the Order of Alfonso of Castile . In 1964 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ceara. In 1967 Parry was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• European colonial empires. World trade and world domination in the 18th century , Kindler's cultural history , Kindler Verlag 1972
• English edition Trade and dominion: the European oversea empires in the eighteenth century , Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1971, 1974, 2000
• Europe and a wider world, 1415-1715 , London: Hutchinson 1949, 1966, reprinted as The establishment of the European hegemony, 1415-1715: trade and exploration in the age of the Renaissance , 1961
• The age of discovery. From 1450 to 1630 , Kindler Kulturgeschichte, Kindler Verlag 1963
  • English original: The age of reconnaissance , Cleveland, World Pub., 1963, 1966, 1973, University of California Press 1981
• The Spanish theory of empire in the sixteenth century , Cambridge University Press 1940, 1949, 1974, 1978
• The audiencia of New Galicia in the sixteenth century: a study in Spanish colonial government , Cambridge University Press 1948, 1968
• The sale of public office in the Spanish Indies under the Habsburgs , Berkeley, University of California Press 1953
• with PM Sherlock, AP Maingot A short history of the West Indies , 1956, 4th edition St. Martin's Press 1987
• The cities of the Conquistadores , London 1961 (Canning House Lecture)
• The Spanish seaborne empire , London: Hutchinson 1966, 1973, 1977, 1990
• The European reconnaissance: selected documents , New York: Walker 1968
• The discovery of the sea , New York: Dial Press 1974, University of California Press 1981
• The discovery of South America , New York: Taplinger Pub. 1979
• Romance of the sea , Washington DC, National Geographic Society 1981

Web links

• Obituary in the New York Times, August 29, 1982

Individual evidence

1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 7, 2016