Thomas M. Barker

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Thomas Mack Barker (* 1929 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American historian .

Barker studied at Carleton College (BA magna cum laude 1951) in Northfield, Minnesota and at Harvard University (MA 1952) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1957 he obtained a Ph.D. from Harold C. Deutsch. in History (Thesis: The historical development of the Carinthian Slovene minority: the Klagenfurt Basin question ) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With a Fulbright scholarship, he stayed in 1952/53 to study European Studies at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. There he came into scientific contact with the history of the Habsburgs , which he then dealt with.

He is emeritus Professor of History at the University at Albany, The State University of New York .

Fonts (selection)

(Some of the author's works are distributed by Columbia University Press )

  • Double eagle and crescent. Vienna's second Turkish siege and its historical setting . State University of New York Press, Albany 1968.
  • German translation: double eagle and crescent moon. Decision year 1683 . Publishing house Styria, Graz u. a. 1982, ISBN 3-222-11407-2 . (translated and edited by Gertraud and Peter Broucek )
  • (Ed.): Frederick the Great and the making of Prussia . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York et al. a. 1972, ISBN 0-03-082860-0 .
  • The military intellectual and battle. Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Thirty Years' War . State University of New York Press, Albany 1975, ISBN 0-87395-250-2 .
  • Army, aristocracy, monarchy. Essays on war, society, and government in Austria, 1618–1780 . East European Monographs, Boulder 1982, ISBN 0-930888-14-6 .
  • with Andreas Moritsch: The Slovene minority of Carinthia . East European Monographs, Boulder 1984, ISBN 0-88033-061-9 .
  • with Rafael Bañón Martínez (Ed.): Armed forces and society in Spain past and present . Social Science Monographs, Boulder 1988, ISBN 0-88033-959-4 .
  • Social revolutionaries and secret agents. The Carinthian Slovene partisans and Britain's special operations executive . East European Monographs, Boulder 1990, ISBN 0-88033-173-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Department of History , University at Albany, The State University of New York, accessed September 6, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Barker, Thomas M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barker, Thomas Mack (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota