Jeremy 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 published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. View all publications
“Why are things as they are? Why do things change? How and by whom should that process of change be explained? In A brief history of history, one of the world’s leading historians pushes before, beyond and after the stadial theories that are so widely assumed in the post-enlightenment west to show how globalising perspectives…
Review of On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War by Holger Afflerbach for StrategyPage. Originally published in The Journal of European Studies and published here with the kind permission of the editors and Jeremy Black.
There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onward, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were involved and, later, to use mapping to actually plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary maps, Jeremy Black‘s Maps of War: Mapping Conflict through the Centuries (Conway, 2016) covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war.
Jeremy Black addresses the Foreign Policy Research Institute on turmoil in Europe — from Brexit to the rise of nationalist parties to Russian machinations in Ukraine.
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