Randall Hansen
Randall Hansen (born February 2, 1970 ) is a political scientist and historian .
Life
Hansen received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1998 . He then taught as a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London . From 2000 to 2004 he was a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Since 2005 he has held a research chair at the University of Toronto . There he is director of the Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs .
His research interests are migration and citizenship / citizenship , eugenics and population policy, and the effects of war on the civilian population.
Hansen's book Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany 1942–1945 about the Allied bombing raids on German cities in World War II made it onto the bestseller lists in 2018, presumably because of the similar-sounding bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff.
plant
- Randall Hansen: Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain . Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780198297093 , OCLC 43419152 .
- Randall Hansen: Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany 1942-1945 . Doubleday Canada, Toronto 2008, ISBN 9780451227591 , OCLC 268795501 .
- Randall Hansen: Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Valkyrie . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780199927920 , OCLC 885970110 .
- Matthew J Gibney, Randall Hansen: Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present . ABC-CLIO , 2005, ISBN 9781849723305 , OCLC 941857240 .
- Randall Hansen, Desmond S King: Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America . Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 9781139507554 , OCLC 945695452 .
Web links
- Biography at the Munk School of Global Affairs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Randall Hansen . Munk School of Global Affairs.
- ↑ Book about World War II: "Fire and Fury" namesake is a bestseller . tagesschau.de. January 9, 2018.
- ↑ "In this contentious and ground-breaking study, the author draws on extensive archival research to provide a new account of the transformation of the United Kingdom into a multicultural society through an analysis of the evolution of immigration and citizenship policy since 1945. Against the prevailing academic orthodoxy, he argues that British immigration policy was not racist but both rational and liberal. "
- ↑ Review by Andrew Geddes ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2018 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.
- ↑ "superlative, scholarly read"
- ↑ "absorbing ... don't be deterred by its impeccable scholarship, it's also reads a bit like a whodunit thriller."
- ↑ https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-gibney
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hansen, Randall |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British political scientist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd February 1970 |