Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black

JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. 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. He joined Exeter University as Established Chair in History in 1996. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was editor of Archives, journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. His main area of research focuses on British and continental European history, with particular interest in international relations, military history, the press and historical atlases. He is the author of more than 100 books. His key publications include British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744–57 Mid-Century Crisis (Routledge, 2015), The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World (2015), A History of Diplomacy (2010), and Crisis of Empire (2010).

THE VALUE OF EMPIRE

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