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William Brock (historian)

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William Ranulf Brock, FBA (16 May 1916 – 12 November 2014) was a British historian of the United States.

Brock was educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Thirlwall Prize.[1] He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow from 1967 to 1981, and life fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, from 1947 to 2014.[1][2][3] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1990.[1]

Publications

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  • Lord Liverpool and Liberal Toryism 1820 to 1827 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941; 2nd edn, Hamden, CT: Archon, 1967)
  • Britain and the Dominions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951)
  • The Effect of the Loss of the
  • American Colonies upon British Policy (London: Historical Association, 1957; 2nd edn, 1966)
  • The Character of American History, Aids for Teachers, vol. 3 (London: Macmillan, 1960; 2nd edn, 1965)
  • An American Crisis: Congress and Reconstruction, 1865–1867 (New York: St Martin's Press, 1963)
  • The Evolution of American Democracy (New York: Dial Press, 1970)
  • Conflict and Transformation in the U.S., 1844-1877 (Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1973)
  • The United States, 1789-1890: Sources of History (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975)
  • Parties and Political Conscience (Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1979)
  • Scotus Americanus: A Survey of the Sources for Links Between Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981)
  • Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
  • Welfare, Democracy, and the New Deal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  • (with P. M. H. Cooper) Selwyn College: A History (Durham: Pentland Press, 1994)

References

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  1. ^ a b c Brian Holden Reid, "William Ranulf Brock", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, vol. 15 (2016), pp. 345–371.
  2. ^ "Brock, Prof. William Ranulf", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2023). Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Obituary notices", The Cambridge Reporter, vol. 145, no. 9 (19 November 2014). Retrieved 27 January 2024.