Munro Price
Munro Price (* 1963 in London ) is a British modern historian , university lecturer and non-fiction author . His research focus is France in modern times .
Life
Munro Price was born in London in 1963 as the son of the writer Stanley Price. He studied history at the University of Cambridge , where he received his doctorate (Ph. D.) in 1989 and specialized in the fields of: France in the 18th century, French Revolution , First French Republic and Napoleonic Wars . Munro Price also wrote relevant monographs and presented personalities such as Louis XVI. , Marie Antoinette , Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil , Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , Louis-Philippe I , Lewis Way and Napoleon Bonaparte .
He taught modern history as a lecturer in 1988/89 at Swansea University and as an associate professor at the University of Lyon in 1994/95 and then as a professor in Bradford at the University of Bradford. Munro Price is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Historical Association .
Works
- with John Hardman: Louis XVI and the Comte de Vergennes. Correspondence 1774–1787 . Voltaire Foundation , Oxford 1998
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The Fall of the French Monarchy. Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil . Macmillan Publishers, London 2002
- US edition: The Road from Versailles. Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy . St. Martin's Press, New York City 2003
- Portuguese translation (Brazil): A Queda da Monarquia Francesa. Luis XVI, Maria Antonieta et o barao de Breteuil. Editora Record, Rio de Janeiro , 2007
- Preserving the Monarchy. The Comte de Vergennes 1774–1787 . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 2004
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The Perilous Crown. Ruling France 1814-1848 . Macmillan Publishers, London 2007
- french Translation by Isabelle Hausser : Louis-Philippe. Le prince et le roi. La France entre deux révolutions . Editions de Fallois, Paris 2009
- with Stanley Price (father): The Road to Apocalypse. The Extraordinary Journey of the Lewis Way . Notting Hill Editions, London 2011
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Napoleon. The End of Glory . Oxford University Press , Oxford 2014
- German translation by Enrico Heinemann and Heike Schlatterer: Napoleon. The downfall . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8275-0056-4 .
Awards
- 2002: Enid McLeod Literary Prize from the Franco-British Society for The Fall of the French Monarchy
- 2003: Hessell-Tiltman History Prize for The Fall of the French Monarchy
- 2003: Nomination for Longman-History Today Awards with The Fall of the French Monarchy
- 2013: Nomination for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize with The Road to Apocalypse
- 2013: Nomination for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize with Preserving the Monarchy. The Comte de Vergennes 1774–1787
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Munro Price at perlentaucher.de
- Works by and about Munro Price at Open Library
- Presence of Prof. Munro Price (English)
- Munro Price - short biography
- Munro Price - About Munro
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Munro Price. University of Bradford , accessed October 16, 2016 .
- ^ Munro Price. Random House (publisher) , accessed October 16, 2016 .
- ^ Peter Furtado announces the winners of the Longman-History Today Awards 2003
- ↑ 2013 Shortlist ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Price, Munro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British modern historian, university professor and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |