David Stevenson | |
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 Professor David Stevenson delivering a Gresham College lecture in November 2014. | |
| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Discipline | Military History |
| Sub-discipline | First World War |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
David Stevenson is a British historian specialising in the period of the First World War. He is Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). [1]
Stevenson studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge,before receiving a Ph.D. from the same university. He became a Lecturer at the LSE in 1982. In 1998,he was appointed Professor of International History. Between 2004 and 2005,he also received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship "for research on supply and logistics in 1914-1918" [2]
His most recent books are:With Our Backs to the Wall:Victory and Defeat in 1918,released by Penguin (in the UK) and Belknap Press [2] and 1917:War,Peace and Revolution,published by OUP.
Stevenson is married and lives in Essex. He is one of the founding members of the erstwhile Loughton Festival as well as being a former President of the Central London HA and the Loughton &District Historical Society. He was also previously the Secretary of the Herts &Essex Architectural Society.
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Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, is a British military historian, well known for his leadership in scholarly studies of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is currently professor of international relations at the University of St Andrews. Before that Strachan was the Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford.
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This list contains a selection of books on World War I, using APA style citations.
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The bibliography of Niall Ferguson, a Scottish historian based in the United States who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard, the London School of Economics and New York University, a visiting professor at the UK New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, England.
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