Author: 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 abo...

A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centurie...

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country''s ability to acquire kno...

Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the histor...

There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The bat...

The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was publishe...

In War in the Modern World, 1990-2014, Jeremy Black looks at the most modern of conflicts from the perspective that war is a central feature of the...

Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliame...

This is a new account of the changing relationship between Britain and America in the 18th Century that helped to define both nations. Britain and ...

This fourth and final volume in the wonderfully concise Brief HIstory of Britain series begins with Queen Victoria opening the Great Exhibition in ...