Bøker av Professor Jeremy Black

"In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. However, while the traditional storytelling process--what we think of as "history" in the proper sense--is useful, it is also misleading, not least because it leads to the repetition of bias and misinformation. Black suggests that the conventional idea of history and historians is constructed too narrowly, as it fails to engage with the broad nature of lived experience. By focusing on a singular idea or story within the history being explored, we fail to understand the interconnectivity of the everyday experience. A Brief History of History challenges accepted norms of the historical perspective and offers a view of human history that will surprise many and (perhaps) infuriate some. But above all, it is a history of historians written for this moment in time, a time when the traditional Eurocentric approach to history now appears wholly inappropriate"--

Written by one of Britain''s leading historians, Professor Jeremy Black.

"Looks at modern conflicts between 1990 and 2014 from a historical perspective. Argues that understanding non-Western developments is crucial if the potential of Western war-making is to be assessed accurately"--

Takes the analysis of modern warfare into the twentieth century. Beginning with the British conquest of Egypt in 1882, this book goes on to examine the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Boer War and the Balkan conflicts leading to world war in 1914.

A wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of warfare from the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the British conquest of Egypt. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, it offers an account of civil and international conflicts involving Western powers, integrating both naval and land warfare.

In 1688, Britain was invaded, its army and navy unable to prevent the overthrow of the government. By 1815, it was a strong power with the largest empire in the world. This book focuses on the military aspects of this shift.

Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in Western and Asian history. This concise, up-to-date survey assumes little prior knowledge and provides cutting-edge historical insights into a crucial period of world history.

Focusing on Europe's impact on the world, Jeremy Black analyses European attitudes, exploration, trade and acquisition of knowledge. Europe and the World, 1650-1830 is an important thematic study of the first age of globalisation.

War was a central theme in the world history of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with military capability and activity central to its states, societies, economies and cultures.

The 17th century has been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. Jeremy Black explores this crucial period in world history from the perspective of war and military institutions. Genuinely global in range, the book engages with and challenges the idea of a 'military revolution'.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are included, as are social and cultural dimensions of military activity.

This is a scholarly study of the British Parliament and its role in foreign policy during the eighteenth century, and the quality and impact of contemporary parliamentary debates. It also provides a major reassessment of the public debate over foreign policy.

Provides an overview of Great Power politics and world order. This book offers historical case-studies, which throw light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. It is intended for students of international relations, strategic studies and international history.

This book provides a historical perspective on the concept of the 'national interest' and of Britain's relationship with Europe, and its 'continental commitment'.

The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history. This biography deals comprehensively with the politics, the wars, and the domestic issues, and harnesses the richest range of unpublished sources in Britain, Germany, and the United States.

The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494 provides the starting point for this impressive survey of European Warfare in early modern Europe. This sharp and compact analysis will interest anyone studying this period of military history

Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analysing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures all over the world, Black provides an overview of the most significant debates within the field.

In this work, Jeremy Black provides fresh insights into the operations at the Eastern Front and the war against Japan and argues against a trend to demilitarise, giving due weight to the campaings and battles that made up World War II.

This new edition of this highly successful and influential work includes two entirely new chapters - on Europe and the wider world and on the Revolutionary crisis - and is extensively revised throughout.

This bold new 'thought book' re-positions military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century, reveals the main trends in the practice and approach to military history and proposes a new manifesto for the subject to move forward.

This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.