William I. Hitchcock
William I. Hitchcock (* 1965 in Fukuoka , Japan ) is an American historian . His research focus is on the history of the 20th century, which he views from the historical point of view of world history , the history of diplomacy and military history. His main focus is on the period of the two world wars and the Cold War .
Life
Hitchcock was born in Japan in 1965, the son of a Foreign Service Officer . He later studied at Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1986 . In 1994 , he received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He then took up his first academic teaching position at Yale University and spent the next six years there. During this time he also served as Associate Director of International Security Studies . In 1999 he moved to Wellesley College and taught there for the next five years. He then became Dean and Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia . Later he was also chairman of the History Department there . In 2010 he was appointed professor in the History Department of the University of Virginia . There you he Randolph P. Compton Professor also at the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the university.
His book The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe won the 2009 George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association .
Publications (selection)
- France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe (1998, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
- with Paul Kennedy (Ed.): From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the 20th Century (2000, New Haven: Yale University Press )
- The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-present (2003, New York: Doubleday ; London: Profile Books)
- The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (2008, New York: The Free Press / Simon & Schuster )
- with Petra Goedde, Akira Iriye (Eds.): The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (2012, New York: Oxford University Press )
- with Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey W. Legro (Eds.): Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (2016, Cambridge: Harvard University Press )
Web links
- Entry on the website of the University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Individual evidence
- ^ A b William I. Hitchcock: The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-present (2003, New York: Doubleday; London: Profile Books)
- ^ Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize , American Historical Association website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hitchcock, William I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fukuoka , Japan |