Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black (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.

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". 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).

Background

Black studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford, and Merton College, Oxford, before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980, 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. As a staff candidate he was not attached to any of the Durham colleges. 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).

Awards and honours

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

Works

Books

A History of Britain's Transport (2025) 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 A Brief History of Italy: Indispensable for Travellers. 2018 English Nationalism: A Short History. 2018 Fortifications and Siegecraft: Defense and Attack through the Ages. 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 Beyond the Military Revolution: War in the Seventeenth Century World. 2011 War in the World 1450–1600. 2011 Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century. 2010 A History of Diplomacy. 2010 Waterloo. 2010 War: A Short History. 2010

Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500. 2008

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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)

Pitt the Elder (1992) A System of Ambition? British Foreign Policy, 1660–1793 (1991)

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)

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