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  1. David Christian (historian)

    Dr. David Gilbert Christian 1946 is an Anglo American historian. Christian was born in Brooklyn, New York , to British and American parents. He grew up in Africa and in England , where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Oxford University . Subsequently he taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia for twenty five years before moving to San Diego State University in 2002. Originally a historian of Russia who wrote several books on that subject, including a history of vodka, Christian has in recent years become interested in writing history, as he puts it, on very large scales. To this end, he has developed a World History course informally entitled Big History which tells the story of the universe the entire universe, from the moment of the Big Bang 13 billion years ago to the present day. Using this novel approach, Dr. Christian structures the course to reflect, roughly, the relatively minuscule role played by the human race in the Earth s overall development homo sapiens does not appear until more than midway through a 15 week semester . Dr. Christian s book Maps of Time , published by the University of California Press , mirrors the content of the course. Dr. Christian s presentation ... The Teaching Company course taught by David Christian Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Christian, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1946 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Christian, David Category 1946 births Category Living people Category American historians Category British historians UK historian stub US historian stub nl David Christian ... Company. Bill Gates presented David Christian at the TED conference TED 2011 Conference in Long Beach, CA. At that time, Dr. Christian announced his initiative, The Big History Project , to teach big ... Book Prize , Maps of Time External links worldcat id lccn n96 115443 http www.ted.com talks david christian big history.html David Christian Big history . 2011. TED Talk. http www.teach12.com ttcx ...   more details



  1. David Christian

    Dave or David Christian may refer to David Christian historian 1946 , American historian David A. Christian 1948 , American Vietnam war veteran Dave Christian 1959 , American ice hockey player hndis Christian, David ...   more details



  1. Christian Habicht (historian)

    Category Living people historian stub de Christian Habicht fr Christian Habicht ...otherpersons Christian Habicht Christian Habicht orphan date December 2011 Christian Habicht born 23 February 1926 in Dortmund is a German historian of ancient Greece and an Epigraphy epigrapher in ancient Greek. ref http www.ias.edu about faculty and emeriti habicht Brief biography from the Institute for Advanced Study ref Biography After his Promotierung PhD at the University of Hamburg in 1952, Habicht was an assistant professor there and after his Habilitation degree in 1957 Privatdozent . In 1961 he became ordentlicher professor at the University of Marburg and then in 1965 moved to the University of Heidelberg . In 1973, Habicht went as a faculty professor to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey Princeton , where he had already belonged, since the previous year, as a permanent member. At Heidelberg he remained Honorar professor. Since 1983 he additionally taught at Princeton University as a visiting professor he retired in 1998. Habicht s work focuses on Greek epigraphy and Athenian history in Hellenistic civilization Hellenistic times. He has written extensively on Pausanias and Marcus Tullius Cicero Cicero . In 1982 Habicht was Sather Professor in Classis at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1991 he received the Reuchlin Prize of the city of Pforzheim , in 1996 the Moe Prize of the American Philosophical Society and in 1998 the Criticos Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in London. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1970 , the German and Austrian Archaeological Institutes, the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy . and the Academy of Athens modern Academy of Athens . Habicht ... NAME Habicht, Christian ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 23 February 1926 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Habicht, Christian Category Historians of antiquity ...   more details



  1. David A. Christian

    primary sources date September 2010 BLP sources date September 2010 Infobox candidate name David Christian image David A Christian in dress uniform.jpg alt caption Christian in military dress uniform. birth ... Star 2 br Bronze Star Medal Bronze Star br Purple Heart 7 David A. Christian born October 26, 1948 ref name ourcampaigns cite web title Christian, David A. url http www.ourcampaigns.com CandidateDetail.html ... H. Capps. P. 4. 1990. Beacon Press ref Decorations File vietnam1 thumb.jpg thumb right David Christian ... career File reagan 2.jpg thumb right David Christian meets with Ronald Reagan . Christian was elected ... name WGBH http openvault.wgbh.org catalog vietnam 6891de interview with david christian 1983 Interview with David Christian, 1983 Video Interview WGBH Media Library & Archives. ref He was a founding Vice ... Victor Six . ref Victor Six David Christian & William Hoffer. 1990 Hb McGraw Hill, 1991 Pb Pocket ... first Bradley title Bucks County businessman David Christian ponders run for U.S. Senate url http ... cite web title David Christian We re In Officially Launches 2012 U.S. Senate Campaign Against Bob Casey, Jr. url http christian2012.org ?page id 85 publisher David Christian for U.S. Senate accessdate 24 September 2011 ref ref name pikecountyrc cite news title 2012 David Christian Enters U.S. Senate Race url http pike.mygopsite.net 2011 09 15 2012 david christian enters u s senate race accessdate ... United States Army Reflist External links http christian2012.org David Christian 2012 Senate Campaign website http www.davidchristian.us David Christian website http www.mastalk.com daily news2 06 ... &xcal numdocs 20&p perpage 10&p sort rank D&xcal ranksort 4&xcal useweights yes David Christian ... on appointment of David Christian Dave Lindorff Lindorff, Dave , http counterpunch.org lindorff06222011.html ... from Christian autobiography. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Christian, David ... DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Christian, David Category 1948 births Category Living ...   more details



  1. David Bates (historian)

    Professor David Bates born 1945 is a United Kingdom British historian . He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow from 1994 until 2003. He then took up the post of director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London between 2003 and 2008, and now holds a chair in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. External links worldcat id lccn n81 101729 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bates, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1945 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bates, David Category 1945 births Category Living people Category British historians UK historian stub fr David Bates no David Bates historiker ...   more details



  1. David King (historian)

    David King b. 1970 is an American Historian and writer. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky Lexington Kentucky ref cite web title About David King url http www.davidkingauthor.com about david king index.htm work Biography publisher davidkingauthor.com accessdate 5 October 2011 ref and has taught European History at the University of Kentucky . He is the author of three books, Vienna 1814 , Finding Atlantis , and Death in the City of Light The Serial Killer of Nazi Occupied Paris . Works 2005, USA, Finding Atlantis a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world . New York Harmony Books. ISBN 1400047528 2008, USA, Vienna, 1814 how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna . New York Harmony Books. ISBN 978 0307337160 2011, USA, Death in the City of Light The Serial Killer of Nazi Occupied Paris . New York Crown. ISBN 978 0307452894 References reflist Portal Biography History Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME King, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1970 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT King, David Category 1970 births Category Living people US historian stub US nonfiction writer stub ...   more details



  1. David Williams (historian)

    David Williams 1900 &ndash 1978 was a Wales Welsh historian. From 1945 until his retirement in 1967, Williams was Professor of Welsh History in the University of Wales . He is best known for his classic History of Modern Wales . ref http www.historytoday.com thomas dunlap reading history modern wales History Today , 2002 ref ref Neil Evans and Coleg Harlech, Writing the Social History of Modern Wales Approaches, Achievements and Problems , Social History Vol. 17, No. 3 Oct., 1992 , pp. 479 492 ref Works History of Modern Wales 1950 The Rebecca Riots 1955 References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Williams, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1900 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1978 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Williams, David Category 1900 births Category 1978 deaths Category Welsh historians Category Academics of the University of Wales Wales academic bio stub UK historian stub UK nonfiction writer stub Wales writer stub cy David Williams hanesydd ...   more details



  1. David Ditchburn (historian)

    Dr. David Ditchburn is a Scotland Scottish historian . He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Trinty College Dublin . Publications Aberdeen before 1800 A New History , East Linton Tuckwell Press, 2002 co edited with Patricia Dennison and Michael Lynch , Edinburgh ISBN 1862321140 Scotland and Europe The Medieval Kingdom and its Contacts with Christendom, c.1215 1545. Volume 1 Religion, Culture and Commerce . East Linton Tuckwell Press, 2001. ISBN 1 86232 172 8. Freedom and Authority Scotland, c.1050 1650 . East Linton Tuckwell Press, 2000. co edited with Terry Brotherstone , Aberdeen Atlas of Medieval Europe . London Routledge, 1997. co edited with Angus Mackay , Edinburgh ISBN 0415122317 Also published in Spanish edition as Atlas de Europa Medieval , Madrid C tedra, 1999 Medieval Scotland, 1100 1560 , in R.A. Houston and W. Knox eds. , The New Penguin History of Scotland . London Penguin, 2001. with Alastair J Macdonald , Aberdeen ISBN 0 14 026367 5 External links http people.tcd.ie ditchbud Dr. Ditchburn s University Home Page Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ditchburn, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ditchburn, David Category Living people Category Scottish historians Scotland academic bio stub UK historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Welch (historian)

    David Welch is an academic historian specialising in the study of twentieth century propaganda . He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent and also Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War. He is the editor of Routledge s Sources in History series and has also written many articles for History Today . Notable publications Germany, Propaganda & Total War 1914 18 2000 The Third Reich Politics and Propaganda 2002 Hitler Profile of a Dictator 2001 Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933 1945 2001 Propaganda and Mass Persuasion A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to Present 2003, co authored External links http www.kent.ac.uk history staff StaffPages Welch.html University of Kent staff profile Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Welch, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Welch, David Category Living people Category Academics of the University of Kent Category English historians UK historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Arnold (historian)

    David Arnold born 1946 is a historian and has held the position of Professor of Asian and Global History at Warwick University since 2006. ref cite web url http www2.warwick.ac.uk fac arts history people staff index d arnold title David Arnold accessdate 23 February 2011 author David Arnold publisher University of Warwick ref Previously he held the position of professor of South Asian History at the University of London University of London s School of Oriental and African Studies . He was one of the founding members of the subaltern studies group in the 1970s, remembered by Ranajit Guha in 1993 as an assortment of marginalised academics . ref Cite book page xiv first Ranajit last Guha title Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986 1995 isbn 0816627592 publisher University of Minnesota Press year 1993 ref Arnold contributed seven articles in total to the publication and co edited the eighth volume with David Hardiman in 1994. ref cite web url http www.lib.virginia.edu area studies subaltern ssauth.htm title By Authors From the Books of the Subaltern Studies Series accessdate 25 February 2011 author Philip McEldowney publisher University of Virginia ref He later described this period as consisting of the most inspiring and supportive atmosphere I have ever been in . ref cite web url http www.soas.ac.uk religions events comeandmeet arnold title David Arnold accessdate 25 February 2011 author Prabhjap Singh Jutla publisher School of Oriental and African Studies ref He is also an early contributor ... David last Arnold title Colonizing the Body State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century ... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Arnold, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Historian, professor DATE OF BIRTH 1946 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Arnold, David Category 1946 births Category Historians of South Asia Category Indian historians Category Living people UK historian stub ...   more details



  1. David C. Smith (historian)

    Infobox economist name David C. Smith school tradition color image image size caption birth date 1929 birth place Lewiston, Maine death date 2009 death place nationality flag United States institution University of Maine field History alma mater influences opposed influenced contributions awards signature file name only repec prefix repec id David C. Smith 1929 &ndash 2009 was Bird and Bird Professor of History at University of Maine , Orono. ref cite news url http bangordailynews.com 2009 11 10 news bangor seminal umaine figure david smith dies at 80 title Seminal UMaine figure David Smith dies at 80 last Bloch first Jessica work Bangor Daily News date November 10, 2009 accessdate June 21, 2011 ref ref cite news url http mainecampus.com 2009 11 16 university of maine scholar david smith dies at 80 title University of Maine scholar David Smith dies at 80 first Dylan last Riley journal The Maine Campus date November 16, 2009 ref His interests included in the Geography and wealth relationship between geography and wealth . He was born in Lewiston, Maine and wrote The First Century A History of the University of Maine, 1865 1965 , the seminal history of the University of Maine. In 1994, Smith won the James Madison Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government for his article with Judy Barrett Litoff, To The Rescue of the Crops The Women s Land Army in World War II . ref cite news url http news.google.com newspapers?nid 2457&dat 19941109&id qK1JAAAAIBAJ&sjid eQ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg 5433,2778810 title University to honor author, historian Smith newspaper Bangor Daily News date ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata NAME Smith, David C. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American historian DATE OF BIRTH 1929 PLACE OF BIRTH Lewiston, Maine DATE OF DEATH 2009 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smith, David C. Category 1929 births Category 2009 deaths Category American academics Category ... Historians of Maine US historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Starkey (maritime historian)

    Not to be confused with David Starkey , the British specialist on the Tudors. Dr David J Starkey ref http www.hull.ac.uk mhsc staff starkeydavid.htm Hull AC Staff Dr David J Starkey ref is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth century British maritime history. His research focusses on shipping, seafaring, privateering, fisheries and marine environmental history. He works at the University of Hull where he is director of the http www.hull.ac.uk mhsc Maritime Historical Studies Centre . Starkey is co president of the http www.hull.ac.uk nafha North Atlantic Fisheries History Association NAFHA , chairman of the British Commission for Maritime History, and a member of the History of Marine Animal Populations HMAP programme. References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Starkey, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Starkey, David Category British maritime historians Category Academics of the University of Hull Category Living people UK historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Scott (art historian)

    Other persons David Scott David W. Scott July 10, 1916 &ndash March 30, 2009 ref name LATObit cite news title David W. Scott dies at 92 National Museum of American Art s founding director first Joe last Holley date April 11, 2009 accessdate April 11, 2009 work Los Angeles Times url http www.latimes.com news obituaries la me david scott11 2009apr11,0,3553979.story ref was an art historian and artist who managed several important United States of America American art collections. Early life Scott was born in Fall River, MA Fall River , Massachusetts . After high school, he studied with Millard Sheets prior to enrolling in Harvard University . He graduated with honors in English literature in 1937. After college, he studied at the Art Students League of New York . References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Scott, David W. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1916 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2009 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Scott, David W. Category 1916 births Category 2009 deaths Category Art Students League of New York alumni Category Harvard University alumni Category American art historians art bio stub ...   more details



  1. David Carpenter (historian)

    David Carpenter born 1947 is an English historian and writer, currently Professor of Medieval History at King s College London He is the son of Rev. E.F. Carpenter, renowned ecclesiastical historian and Dean of Westminster Abbey between 1974 1986, and Lillian Carpenter. David Carpenter attended Westminster School along with David Piachaud, Professor of Social Policy at the LSE, and Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church , Oxford . He has written widely on English social, economic, architectural, military and political history in the thirteenth century many of his essays on this subject being brought together in a volume of his collected papers The Reign of Henry III of England Henry III Hambledon, 1996 . He is a particular exponent of the thickened political narrative , which he deployed in The Minority of King Henry III Methuen, 1990 , which traced the complex political history of the years 1216 1227 out of which a new monarchy, limited by the Magna Carta , emerged. His most recent book, The Struggle for Mastery in Britain 1066 1284 Penguin, 2004 , weaves together the histories of England, Scotland and Wales in a strikingly new way, arguing that the rulers of all three, in their different fashions, were competing for mastery in Britain. Since 2005, he has directed a major AHRC funded project on the Fine Rolls of Henry III. And, he is currently a Co Investigator of the AHRC funded project The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093 1286 . Carpenter is a proponent of the theory that feudalism was fundamentally important to everyday English society and politics after 1166. He has provided ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Carpenter, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1947 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH UK historian stub DEFAULTSORT Carpenter, David Category 1947 births Category Living people Category British medievalists Category Old Westminsters ... Place of birth missing living people pl David Carpenter ...   more details



  1. David Rock (historian)

    David Rock is a Latin America nist historian, who specializes in the history of Argentina . He has been described as a leading scholar in the field of 19th century Argentine political history . ref citation last Rock first David title Review of State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860 1916 journal The American Historical Review volume 103 issue 3 date June 2003 url http www.historycooperative.org cgi bin justtop.cgi?act justtop&url http www.historycooperative.org journals ahr 108.3 br 106.html ref His history of the country from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries was adjudged as a comprehensive, clearly written and intelligent account of the evolution of Argentina which will undoubtedly remain the standard work for years to come. ref citation last Little first Walter title Review of Argentina 1516 1982, from Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War journal History Today year 1987 url http www.historytoday.com MainArticle.aspx?m 16323&amid 16323 ref He is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara . List of works citation last Rock first David title State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860 1916 place Stanford, CA publisher Stanford University Press year 2002 . citation editor last Rock editor first David title Latin America in the 1940s. War and Post War Transitions place Berkeley publisher University of California Press year 1994 . citation last Rock first David title Authoritarian Argentina. The Nationalist Movement ... last Rock first David title Argentina, 1516 1987. From Spanish Colonization to Alfons n place Berkeley publisher University of California Press year 1987 . citation last Rock first David title ...?account id 49 Homepage at UCSB Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rock, David ... Rock, David Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category British historians Category Historians of Latin America UK historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Black (historian)

    David Black born 1936 is a Western Australia n historian . He has lectured and written extensively on Australia ... History Advisory Committee , and a Parliamentary Fellow History . David Black has had ... Australia Publications Cohen, Barry and Black, David 1966 . Australia A Topical History . Carroll s, Perth, Western Australia. Black, David and Wood, Michael 1979 . Western Australian Elections and Politics, 1965 1978 A Handbook and Guide . WAIT Press, Bentley, Western Australia. Black, David and Peachment ... of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia. Black, David 1989 . An index to Parliamentary Candidates ... House, Perth, Western Australia. Black, David 1989 . Legislative Council of Western Australia Membership ... House, Perth, Western Australia. Mandy, John and Black, David eds 1990 . The Western Australian Parliamentary ..., David ed 1991 . The House on the Hill A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832 1990. Parliament of Western Australia, Parliament House, Perth, Western Australia. Black, David ed 1995 .... Black, David 1996 . Women Parliamentarians in Australia 1921 1996 A Register of Women Members ... House, Perth, Western Australia. Black, David 1997 . Election statistics, Legislative Assembly ... Australia. Black, David 2000 . Making a Difference Women in the Western Australian Parliament 1921 1999 . Parliament of Western Australia, Parliament House, Perth, Western Australia. Black, David .... Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey 2001 . Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western ... Australia. Black, David 2001 . Friendship is a Sheltering Tree John Curtin s Letters 1907 to 1945 .... Black, David 2001 . Reflections on Foundation Day Western Australia Past, Present and Future . in Royal Western Australian Historical Society Early Days 12 1 . Black, David and Mandy, John eds ... House, Perth, Western Australia. Pendal, Phillip and Black, David 2004 House to House The Story of Western ..., Parliament House, Perth, Western Australia. References Dyson, Noel. 2001 David never in the dark politically ...   more details



  1. David Smith (baseball historian)

    David W. Smith is a baseball researcher and historian. He is best known as the founder of Retrosheet , an organization whose mission is to collect, digitized, and distribute play by play accounts from every game in Major League Baseball history. Smith s work has been widely praised as a huge boon to baseball research and he has received a number of awards for his work, most notably the SABR Bob Davids Award in 2005. http www.sabr.org sabr.cfm?a cms,c,1388,40,0 Smith was a contributor to Total Baseball and was co author of the book The Midsummer Classic The Complete History of Baseball s All Star Game with David Vincent baseball historian David Vincent and Lyle Spatz . That book received The Sporting News SABR Baseball Research Award in 2001. Since 1975, Smith has been a professor of biology at the University of Delaware , and is director of the Department of Biological Sciences undergraduate program. He won the University s Excellence in Teaching Award in 1977. Smith did his undergraduate work at the University of California, San Diego and received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin Madison . External links Portal box Baseball http www.retrosheet.org Retrosheet website http www.sportsplacement.com koufaxnews&eventsart2.htm New York Times article on Smith http online.wsj.com article SB1019595825294098160.html?mod The Numbers Guy Wall Street Journal profile of Smith http www.udel.edu PR Messenger 02 1 remember.html Remember the Game When? Article on Smith s work with LA Dodgers http www.udel.edu PR UDaily 2005 dec smith122004.html Biologist Also Baseball Stat Hound http unp.unl.edu bookinfo 4031.html The Midsummer Classic publicity from publisher http www.udel.edu bio people faculty dsmith.html Faculty Bio from University of Delaware Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smith, David Category Baseball statistics Category University ...   more details



  1. David Summers (art historian)

    for the Spanish musician and frontman of Hombres G David Summers Rodr guez David Summers is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Virginia . He holds a B.A. from Brown University 1963 and a Ph.D. from Yale University 1969 . He taught at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pittsburgh before accepting an appointment to the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia in 1981. In 1984, he was appointed William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Art. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. Summers is generally regarded as an expert on Renaissance art and a notable figure in the field of art historical research. Amongst his main contributions to art history is the influential book Real Spaces . Select list of Summers publications Michelangelo and the Language of Art , Princeton Princeton University Press 1981. The Judgment of Sense Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics , Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1987. Real Spaces Real Spaces World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism , London Phaidon 2003. Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting , Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2007. References http www.virginia.edu art artarch faculty summers.html Faculty page of Professor David Summers, University of Virginia Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Summers, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Summers, David Category American art historians Category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category University of Virginia faculty Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people US historian stub art historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Thomson (historian)

    David Thomson 1912 1970 was an English historian who wrote several books about British and European history. He was a Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1931 to 1934 where he took First Class Honours in both parts of the Historical Tripos. He had a long association with the college and was subsequently a Research Fellow, a Fellow and finally Master. He worked as a university lecturer in history and was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. His works include Europe Since Napoleon Longmans, 1957 World History from 1914 to 1961 1963 Democracy in France since 1870 1964 and two volumes of the Pelican History of England covering the 19th and 20th centuries. Source Europe Since Napoleon Longmans, 1957 frontispiece of 1978 Penguin edition External links http worldcat.org identities lccn n50 12251 WorldCat Identities David Thomson Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Thomson, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1912 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1970 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Thomson, David Category British historians Category 1970 deaths Category 1912 births UK nonfiction writer stub ...   more details



  1. David Crouch (historian)

    for the politician by the same name David Crouch David Crouch born 1953 is an English historian, and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull . Crouch s main focus is on the social and political history of the period from 1000 to 1300, primarily in England. ref name UofH cite web url http www2.hull.ac.uk fass history staff academic lecturing staff crouch, david.aspx title Crouch, David History University of Hull publisher University of Hull accessdate 29 June 2011 ref He has written influential biographies on Stephen, King of England King Stephen and William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal , and books on the aristocracy of England and France in the High Middle Ages , as well as a study of the medieval Tournament medieval tournament . ref name UofH Books cite book title The Beaumont Twins The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century year 1985 publisher Cambridge University Press location Cambridge isbn 0521302153 cite book title William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire 1147 1219 year 1990 publisher Longman location Harlow isbn 0582037867 cite book title The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000 1300 year 1992 publisher Routledge location London isbn 0415019117 cite book title The Reign of King Stephen, 1135 1154 year 2000 publisher Longman location Harlow isbn 0582226589 cite book title The Normans The History of a Dynasty year 2002 publisher Hambledon and London location London isbn 1852853875 cite book title Tournament year 2005 publisher Hambledon and London location London isbn 185285460X cite book title The Birth of Nobility Constructing Aristocracy in England and France 900 1300 year 2005 publisher Longman ... Persondata . NAME Crouch, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British historian DATE OF BIRTH 1953 PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Crouch, David Category 1953 births ... UK historian stub ...   more details



  1. David Beach (historian)

    first1 David authorlink David Beach historian journal Current Anthropology volume 39 pages 47 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Beach, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES ...Infobox scientist name David Norman Beach image filename only image size alt caption birth date 28 June 1943 birth place Midlands, United Kingdom death date 15 February 1999 death place residence citizenship nationality ethnicity fields History of Zimbabwe br Oral history workplaces University of Cape Town br University of Zimbabwe ref name Zeek alma mater University of Cape Town doctoral advisor academic advisors doctoral students notable students known for Precolonial history of the Shona people Mashona ref name Innocent author abbrev bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced awards signature filename only signature alt footnotes David Norman Beach 1943&ndash 1999 was a Zimbabwe an historian. ref name Zeek cite journal last Malaba first M.Z. authorlink title David Norman Beach, 1943&mdash 1999 journal Africa journal Africa volume 69 pages 448 449 jstor 1161217 issue 3 publisher Edinburgh University Press year 1999 ref He worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the University of Zimbabwe and pioneered the documentation of oral traditions in Zimbabwe. ref name Innocent cite journal last Pikirayi first I title David Beach, Shona history and the archaeology of Zimbabwe journal Zambezia volume 26 pages 135&ndash 144 publisher University of Zimbabwe location Harare year 1999 url http archive.lib.msu.edu DMC African 20Journals pdfs Journal 20of 20the 20University 20of 20Zimbabwe vol26n2 juz026002003.pdf issn 0379 0622 ref In his work on Great Zimbabwe , Beach has promoted the interpretation of the different complexes as dwellings of successive rulers, opposing the structuralist tradition favoured by historians such as Thomas Huffman Huffman . ref cite journal doi 10.1086 ... 15 February 1999 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Beach, David Category Zimbabwean academics Category University ...   more details



  1. David Tal (historian)

    David Tal is an Israel i historian and professor. Since 2009, he has been the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli ... PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tal, David historian Category Historians ... cv.htm title David Tal, Department of History publisher University of Tel Aviv accessdate 23 March 2011 ref ref cite web url http cmss.ucalgary.ca profiles david tal title David Tal, Research Fellow ... present . ref name cv Selected bibliography Books cite book first David last Tal title Hezbollah, Palestinian ... first David last Tal title Israel s Day to Day Security Conception Its origin and development, 1949 ... books?id DJVK9RfMEJAC&printsec frontcover&dq david tal&hl en&ei 3seJTennGIXRsgafvO2kDA&sa X&oi ... in the Middle East last Tal first David date 13 July 2001 publisher Routledge place London isbn 071464840X cite book first David last Tal title War in Palestine, 1948 Strategy and diplomacy url http books.google.com books?id dL29 RBATv0C&printsec frontcover&dq david tal&hl en&ei 3seJTennGIXRsgafvO2kDA ... 2003 publisher Routledge place London isbn 9780714652757 cite book first David last Tal title The American ... frontcover&dq david tal&hl en&ei 3seJTennGIXRsgafvO2kDA&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 3&ved ... Articles Tal, David 1995 . The American Israeli Security Treaty Sequel or means to the relief ..., David February 1996 . Israel s Road to the 1956 War . International Journal of Middle East Studies , 67. Tal, David 1998 . Israel s Conception of Routine Security Measures . Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Tal, David June 2000 . Symbol or Substance? Israel s campaign for U.S. Hawk missiles, 1960&ndash 1962 . International History Review , 22 2. Tal, David Spring Summer 2000 . The Forgotten ...&ndash 4. cite journal last Tal first David url http muse.jhu.edu login?uri journals journal of military ... 2004 pages 885&ndash 909 doi 10.1353 jmh.2004.0147 Tal, David 2004 . The Battle over Jerusalem The Israeli ... of Defense, 2004 , pp.  307&ndash 339. Tal, David Autumn 2005 . The 1948 War in Palestine ...   more details



  1. David Armitage (historian)

    David Armitage born 1965 is a British historian. Life and research Armitage studies imperial, international, and intellectual history at Harvard University where he is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History. Armitage graduated from the University of Cambridge , and spent 2000 and 2001 on a fellowship at Harvard, before moving there from Columbia University in the fall of 2004. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire 2000 , Greater Britain, 1516 1776 Essays in Atlantic History 2004 , and The Declaration of Independence A Global History 2007 the editor of Theories of Empire, 1450 1800 1998 , Grotius s The Free Sea 2004 , Bolingbroke s Political Writings 1997 , and British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory 2006 and the co editor of Milton and Republicanism 1995 , The British Atlantic World, 1500 1800 2nd edn., 2009 , Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought 2009 and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760 1840 2010 . He is currently working on a history of ideas of civil war from Rome to Iraq, a study of the foundations of modern international thought and an edition of John Locke s colonial writings. He is married to Harvard history professor Joyce Chaplin . External links http scholar.harvard.edu armitage home Faculty page http news.harvard.edu gazette 2004 10.07 03 armitage.html Article in the Harvard Gazette http www.hup.harvard.edu catalog ARMDEC.html The Declaration of Independence A Global History, Harvard University Press 2007 worldcat id lccn n96 19346 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Armitage, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1965 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Armitage, David Category Alumni of the University of Cambridge Category British historians Category Historians of the British Isles Category Historians of colonialism Category ... Place of birth missing living people UK historian stub de David Armitage ja ...   more details



  1. David Watkin (historian)

    Other persons David Watkin David John Watkin , Master of Arts postgraduate MA PhD LittD Hon Royal Institute ... architectural historian . He is an Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse , Cambridge University Cambridge .... http www.princes foundation.org David Watkin is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British ..., who is the proper subject of the historian, not the subterranean collective urges of the spirit of the age or of the needs of an as yet non existent society. David Watkin, Morality and Architecture References David Watkin, The Roman Forum , Profile Books, London, 2009. David Watkin, Carl Laubin The Poetry of Art And Architecture , Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2007. David Watkin, Radical Classicism ..., Charles Truman, David Watkin, and Matthew Winterbottom, Royal Goldsmiths The Art of Rundell and Bridge, jewellers Rundell & Bridge . John Adamson, London, 2006. David Watkin, A History of Western Architecture . Watson Guptill Publications, New York, 2005. David Watkin, The Architect King George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment . Royal Collection, London. 2004. David Watkin and Robin Middleton, Architecture of the Nineteenth Century . Phaidon Inc Ltd, London, 2003. David Watkin, Morality and Architecture Revisited , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001. David Watkin, English Architecture A Concise History , WW Norton and Co Inc, New York, 2001. David Watkin Ed . Sir John Soane The Royal Academy Lectures , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. David Watkin Ed , Sir ... of Architecture Cambridge University Press, 1996. David Watkin, The Royal Interiors of Regency England . Rizzoli, New York, 1985. David Watkin, Morality and Architecture The Development of a Theme in Architectural ... Press, Chicago, 1984 original 1977 . David Watkin, The English Vision . John Murray, London, 1982. David Watkin, Athenian Stuart Pioneer of the Greek Revival . Harper Collins, New York, 1982. David ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Watkin, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE ...   more details



  1. David Crane (historian)

    Notability date January 2011 BLP sources date January 2011 David Crane read history and English at Oxford University before becoming a lecturer at universities in Holland , Japan , and Africa . He lives in northwest Scotland . He has written three books two about Lord Byron and his family Lord Byron s Jackal A Life of Trelawny 1999 ref http www.worldcat.org title lord byrons jackal the life of edward john trelawny oclc 185425669&referer brief results WorldCat ref The Kindness of Sisters Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons 2002 , held in 390 librariesd according to WorldCat ref http www.worldcat.org title kindness of sisters annabella milbanke and the destruction of the byrons oclc 49225984&referer brief results WorldCat ref and most recently a biography of explorer Robert Falcon Scott , Scott of the Antarctic A Life of Courage and Tragedy 2006 ref http www.worldcat.org title men of war courage under fire in the nineteenth century navy oclc 310154406&referer brief results WorldCat ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Crane, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Crane, David Category Scottish historians Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Scotland bio stub UK historian stub ...   more details




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