Jeremy Black

"Could the British Have Won the American War of Independence?"

Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Lecture at noon, book discussion panel at 2 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Jeremy Black is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter in Great Britain. His expertise is in post-1500 military history and on 18 th century British history, international relations, cartographic history and newspaper history.

Black is author of numerous books, including most recently Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century (CUP, 2004), The English Seaborne Empire (Yale, 2004), World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003), Italy and the Grand Tour (Yale, 2003), France and the Grand Tour (Palgrave, 2003), Visions of the World: A History of Maps (Mitchell Beazley, 2003), War: An Illustrated World History (Sutton, 2003), Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (Cassell, 2002), The World in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 2002), America as a Military Power 1775-1882 (Greenwood, 2002), Europe and the World 1650-1830 (Routledge, 2002), Nineteenth-Century Britain (with Donald MacRaild, Palgrave, 2002), Warfare in the Western World 1882-1975 (Indiana/Acumen, 2001), War in the New Century (Continuum, 2001), Western Warfare 1775-1882 (Indiana, 2001), Walpole in Power: Britain's First Prime Minister (Sutton, 2001), The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen (Greenwood, 2001), British Diplomats and Diplomacy 1688-1800 (Exeter, 2001), The English Press 1621-1861 (Sutton, 2001), Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688-1783 (Palgrave, 2001). He is also editor of Archives, the journal of the British Records Association.

Black became a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for his work on the 1999 stamps as advisor to the Royal Mail. This involved selecting the topics which covered British history, writing briefings for the stamp designers, and writing the text for the presentation packs.

Jeremy Black
Professor of History,
University of Exeter