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Jeremy Black
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Jeremy Black is professor
of history at the University of Exeter.  He is an authority on early
modern
British and continental European history, with special interest in
international relations, military history, the press, and historical
atlases. He
is known for challenging conventional wisdom with a “debater’s view of
history.”
One of the world’s most prolific academic historians, Black is the
author of
over sixty books in addition to over a dozen edited volumes. Among his
most
recently published books are The English Seaborne Empire (Yale University Press, 2004); Rethinking
Military History
(Routledge,
2004); The Hanoverians: The History of the Dynasty (Hambledon & London, 2004); Using
History (Hodder Arnold,
2005); and George III: America’s
Last King (Yale
University Press,
2006). Black was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge; St. John's
College,
Oxford; and Merton College, Oxford. He taught at the University of
Durham
before joining the University of Exeter in 1996. He is a fellow of the
Royal
Society of Arts, a former council member of the Royal Historical
Association,
and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. He is
editor
for several books series for Macmillan, Routledge, Arnold, and Reaktion
publishers and serves on a number of editorial boards, including History
Today, Journal of
Military
History, and Historically
Speaking.
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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