Articles By Jeremy Black
November 2018
How will posterity view Brexit? Historians may now ignore its causes, but their successors may see it as just another response to global events
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July/August 2018
Heavy-hitters tackling big subjects of direct relevance to Britain today — now that is good news
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December/January 2016/17
An account of myths, lies and blunders on maps reveals their fascination and beauty
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January/February 2016
Two new editions of classic texts illuminate the duality of deep histories
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July/August 2014
We historians are failing in our responsibility to illuminate past and present by focusing on the slaughter without explaining its purpose
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June 2014
Osterhammel's 'The Transformation of the World' shows up the work of all-too-many other historians
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April 2013
Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker is a masterpiece of historical scholarship, but fails entirely in its stated aim of linking political disaster to a changing climate
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November 2012
Two new works on the history of Mormonism by Paul C. Gutjahr and John G. Turner elucidate an element of 19th century American life too easily neglected
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October 2009
‘The Storm of War reminds us that Roberts is a first-rate writer’
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About Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and author of over 100 books, most recently The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World (Yale).
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