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Jeremy Black

Senior Fellow - Center for the Study of America and the West

Research Areas:

history (18th C British, European, and American political, diplomatic, and military), history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture

Jeremy Black, a Senior Fellow, is professor of history at Exeter University. He studied at Queens’ College Cambridge, St John’s College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining the University of Durham as a lecturer in 1980. There he gained his PhD and ultimately his professorship in 1994.

Black is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history. But he has also broadened his perspective, both temporally and geographically, and published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. Jeremy’s work adds up to the most sustained presentation of British history in recent decades. He is a major exponent of military, diplomatic and cartographic history and has been important in helping the British to look at their past, as well as in representing British history to foreign audiences.

His books include Modern British History (Palgrave, 2000), The Politics of James Bond (Praeger, 2001), America as a Military Power 1775-1882 (Praeger, 2002), The World in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 2002), Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 2004), The English Seaborne Empire, Yale, 2004, and World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003), Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns (Oct. 2008), Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries (Conway, October 11, 2016), The Holocaust: History and Memory (Indiana University Press, August 14, 2016), Air Power: A Global History (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, March 10, 2016), War in Europe: 1450 to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, February 11, 2016), Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, August 3, 2016). The Society of Military History recognized Jeremy Black’s work in April 2008, presenting him with the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement.

Jeremy Black
Professor of History,
The University of Exeter
The Queen’s Drive, Exeter

Devon, EX4 4QJ United Kingdom

Books

Combined Operations A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare
The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History
Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries
War in Europe: 1450 to the Present
Naval Warfare: A Global History Since 1860
The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything
The Holocaust: History and Memory
Air Power: A Global History
Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance
The British Empire: A History and a Debate
Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures
Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice
A Short History of Britain, 2nd Edition
A Century of Conflict: War 1914-2014
War in the Modern World, 1990-2014
London: A History
The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
War and the Cultural Turn
War in the World: A Comparative History, 1450-1600
Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
The Cold War
A History of Diplomacy
The British and the Grand Tour
The English Press in the Eighteenth Century
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2010 : A Nation Transformed
Beyond the Military Revolution: War in the Seventeenth Century World
Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Waterloo: The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon
Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century
War: A Short History
The Age of Total War, 1860-1945
The British Seaborne Empire
Battle of Waterloo: A New History
Culloden and the ’45
The Battle of Waterloo
Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500
The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
Defence: Policy Issues for a New Government
The Politics of World War Two
Ideas for the Universities: The Case for Independence
Geopolitics
War in the Nineteenth Century: 1800-1914
Europe Since the Seventies
A History of the British Isles
Studying History
War Since 1990
George III: America’s Last King
Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1688-1783
What If?: Counterfactualism and the Problem of History
Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns
A New History of England
The Curse of History
The Holocaust
Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500
George II: Puppet of the Politicians?
Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century
A Short History of Britain
European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660-1815
Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815: Politics of a Commercial State
The Slave Trade
The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty
Culture in Eighteenth-Century England: A Subject for Taste
A Military History of Britain: From 1775 to the Present
Visions of the World: A History of Maps
The Dotted Red Line: Britain’s Defence Policy in the Modern World
European Warfare, 1660-1815
War in European History, 1494-1660: The Essential Bibliography
The European Question and the National Interest
The Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the present day
The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming’s Novels to the Big Screen
Using History
War since 1945
World History Atlas: Mapping The Human Journey
Why Wars Happen
Rethinking Military History
Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe
War and the New Disorder in the 21st Century
Britain since the Seventies: Politics and Society in the Consumer Age
Italy and the Grand Tour
France and the Grand Tour
The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century
New Century War
War: An Illustrated History
Nineteenth-Century Britain
America as a Military Power, 1775-1865: From the American Revolution to the Civil War
The World in the Twentieth Century
European International Relations, 1648-1815
Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975
Europe and the World, 1650-1830
The English Press 1621-1861
War for America: The Fight for Independence 1775-1783
Western Warfare, 1775-1882
British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800
The Making of Modern Britain: The Age of Empire to the New Millennium
Walpole in Power
War: Past, Present and Future
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past
Historical Atlas of Great Britain: The End of the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era
Modern British History: Since 1900
War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
A New History of Wales
Eighteenth-Century Europe (History of Europe)
From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power
Britain As A Military Power, 1688-1815
America Or Europe? British Foreign Policy, 1739-63
A Military Revolution: Military Change and European Society, 1550-1800
An Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688-1793
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution, 1492-1792
British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793
Convergence or Divergence?: Britain and the Continent
The Politics of Britain, 1688-1800
British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole (Modern Revivals in History)
Pitt the Elder
A System of Ambition?: British Foreign Policy 1660-1793
Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth Century England
Eighteenth Century Europe: 1700-1789 (History of Europe)
The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793
The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731
Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo French Relations in the Eighteenth Century

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