Jeremy Black (historian)

Jeremy Black MBE (born 30 October 1955) is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.^[1]

Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and was described in 2004 as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age".^[2] He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).^[3]

Black studied at Queens' College Cambridge, St John's College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980,^[4] where he earned his PhD and subsequently a professorship in 1994. His doctoral thesis was entitled British Foreign Policy 1727–1731, and completed in 1983.^[5] As a staff candidate he was not attached to any of the Durham colleges.^[5]

He was editor of Archives, journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005.^[6] He has served on the Council of the British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the List and Index Society (from 1997). He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today , International History Review, Journal of Military History , Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (now the RUSI Journal ).

• In 2008, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement as afforded by the Society for Military History.^[7]

• A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps (2024)
• Rethinking Geopolitics (2024)
• Paris: A Short History (2024)
• A Brief History of History (2023)
• Geographies of War (2022)
• A Brief History of London (2022)
• A Brief History of the British Monarchy. From the Iron Age to King Charles III (2022)
• A Brief History of Germany (2022)
• A Brief History of the Atlantic (2022)
• A History of Britain in 100 Maps (2022)
• The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Strategies for a World War (2022)
• The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes. 2022
• The Importance of Being Poirot. 2022
• A Short History of War. 2021
• Strategy and the Second World War. 2021
• A Brief History of Britain 1851–2021: From World Power To ? (2021)
• England in the Age of Austen. 2021
• England in the Age of Dickens. 2021
• France: A Short History. 2021
• A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps. 2020
• Military Strategy: A Global History. 2020
• George III: Madness and Majesty. 2020
• Tank Warfare 2020
• A Brief History of Portugal. 2020
• A Brief History of the Mediterranean. 2020
• History of the Twentieth Century. 2020
• A History of The World: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. 2019
• Introduction to Global Military History: 1750 to the Present Day. 2019
• England in the Age of Shakespeare. 2019
• Charting the Past. The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England. 2019
• A Brief History of Spain. 2019
• War and its Causes. 2019
• The English Press, a History. 2019
• The World at War 1914–45. 2019
• History of Europe: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. 2019
• Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World. 2019
• English Nationalism: A Short History. 2018
• Mapping Naval Warfare: A Visual History of Conflict at Sea. 2017
• Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860. 2017
• Plotting Power: Strategy in the Eighteenth Century. 2017
• Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815. 2017
• Combined Operations: A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare. 2017
• The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007. 2017
• A History of Britain 1945 to Brexit. 2017
• Maps of War: Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries. 2016
• Air Power. 2016
• The Holocaust: History and Memory. 2016
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. 2016
• (ed.) The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679–2014. 2015
• The Cold War. 2015
• The City on the Hill: A Life of the University of Exeter. 2015
• Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and its Legacy. 2015
• War in Europe. 2015
• The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History. 2015
• Metropolis: Mapping the City. 2015
• A Short History of Britain. 2015
• Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures. 2015
• Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice. 2015
• Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance. 2015
• The British Empire. 2015
• A Century of Conflict. 2014
• Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714–1727. 2014
• British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727–44. 2014
• The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World. 2014
• London: A History. 2013
• War in the Eighteenth Century World. 2013
• War and Technology. 2013
• Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day. 2012
• A History of the British Isles (3rd edn). 2012
• Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918–40. 2012
• War and the Cultural Turn. 2012
• Slavery. 2011
• Fighting for America. 2011
• Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth Century Britain. 2011
• The Great War and the Making of the Modern World. 2011
• War in the World 1450–1600 . 2011
• Crisis of Empire. 2010
• A History of Diplomacy. 2010
• Waterloo. 2010
• War: A Short History. 2010
• The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon. London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8264-3612-2.
• London: a history. Carnegie Publishing. 2009.
• Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500. 2008
• What If?: Counterfactualism and the Problem of History. Social Affairs Unit. 2008.
• The Curse of History . Social Affairs Unit. 2008. ISBN 9781904863298.
• Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688–1783. Palgrave. 2008.
• George III: America's Last King. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-13621-0.
• Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century. CUP. 2004.
• The English Seaborne Empire. Yale. 2004.
• Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe. I.B. Tauris. 2004.
• Rethinking Military History. Routledge. 2004.
• War Since 1945. 2004. e-book
• World War Two: A Military History. Routledge. 2003.
• Italy and the Grand Tour. Yale University Press. 2003.
• Italy and the Grand Tour. Palgrave. 2003.
• Visions of the World: A History of Maps. Mitchell Beazley. 2003.
• The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. Sutton. 2003.
• From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power. Routledge. 1999.
• editor: War in the Modern World 1815–2000. Routledge. 2003.
• War: An Illustrated World History. Sutton. 2003.
• Georgian Devon. 2003.
• Warfare in the Eighteenth Century. Cassell. 2002.
• The World in the Twentieth Century. Longman. 2003.
• America as a Military Power 1775–1882. Greenwood. 2002.
• editor: European Warfare 1494–1660. Palgrave. 2002.
• European International Relations 1648–1815. Palgrave. 2002.
• Europe and the World 1650–1830. Routledge. 2002.
• with Donald MacRaild: Nineteenth-Century Britain. Palgrave. 2002.
• A History of the British Isles (2nd ed.). Palgrave. 2002.
• editor: European Warfare 1815–2000. Palgrave. 2002.
• War in the New Century. 2001.
• Warfare in the Western World 1882–1975. Indiana University Press/Acumen. 2001.
• War in the New Century. Continuum. 2001.
• Western Warfare 1775–1882. Indiana University Press. 2001.
• Walpole in Power: Britain's First Prime Minister. Sutton. 2001.
• The Politics of James Bond: from Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen. Greenwood. 2001.
• British Diplomats and Diplomacy 1688–1800. University of Exeter Press. 2001.
• The English Press 1621–1861. Sutton. 2001.
• Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688–1783. Palgrave. 2001.
• The Making of Modern Britain: The Age of Empire to the New Millennium. 2001.
• War, Past, Present and Future. 2000.
• A New History of Wales. 2000.
• Europe in the Eighteenth Century (2nd ed.). 2000 [1990].
• Modern British History since 1900 (2000)
• A New History of England (2000)
• Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle to the Georgian Era (2000)
• Britain as a Military Power, 1688–1815 (1999)
• Why Wars Happen (1998)
• War and the World, 1450–2000 (1998)
• Maps and History (1997)
• Maps and Politics (1997)
• America or Europe: British Foreign Policy, 1739–63 (1997)
• History of the British Isles (1996)
• Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain (1996)
• Warfare Renaissance to Revolution, 1492–1792 (1996)
• British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolution (1994)
• Convergence or Divergence? Britain and the Continent (1994)
• European Warfare, 1660–1815 (1994)
• The Politics of Britain, 1688–1800 (1993)
• History of England (1993)
• The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. 1992.
• Pitt the Elder (1992)
• A System of Ambition? British Foreign Policy, 1660–1793 (1991)
• A Military Revolution? Military Change and European Society 1550–1800. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1991. ISBN 0-333-51906-X.
• War for America: The Fight for Independence 1775–1783 (1991)
• Sir Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth Century Britain (1990)
• Culloden and the '45 (1990)
• The Rise of the European Powers 1679–1793 (1990)
• The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (1987)
• The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance 1727–31 (1987)
• Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo-French Relations in the Eighteenth Century (1986)
• The British and the Grand Tour (1985)
• British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole (1985)

• Black, Jeremy (Autumn 1996). "Could the British have won the American War of Independence?". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 74 (299): 145–154. (See also a 2006 talk at Ohio State University about this.)

• Browning, Reed (2004). "An Editor in Review". Archives. 29 (111): 31–58.

• Official website
• Roberts, Andrew (December 2008). "Jeremy Black: Underrated". Standpoint. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
• Jeremy Black, "Islam and the West: A Historical Perspective," Foreign Policy Research Institute, Volume 4, Number 2, May 2003
• War Disease and the World 1450–2000, 4 May 2005 on YouTube
• Jeremy Black, H-France Forum Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer 2007), No. 3
• Great Military Leaders – Interview with author Jeremy Black, 14 August 2008 on YouTube
• Jeremy Black, "What Students Need to Know About War, and Why", 25 February 2009

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