Clio's Battles

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including War and Technology (IUP, 2013), Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871 (IUP, 2011), and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.

• Preface1. Introduction: Academic, State, and Public Histories2. A Selective Narrative to 16503. The Long Eighteenth Century4. The Nineteenth Century5. The Twentieth Century6. New States and the Possibilities of Lineage 7. The Historical Dimension of Manifest Destiny8. Post-Communism and the New History9. Western Europe 10. Contesting the Past, Claiming the Future11. Historiographies of the Present12. Historiographies of the Future13. A Personal Note14. Conclusions NotesSelected Further ReadingIndex

"Because of the strengths of Clio's Battles, all working academics and graduate students in the discipline should read it. All practicing historians should take Black's views—and his warnings—seriously."—History: Reviews of New Books"Remarkable both for its geographical scope and historical scale, and for its command of scholarship on a breathtaking range of subjects. I can't imagine another historian who could attempt such an ambitious work or pull it off with such aplomb."—William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University"Refreshing . . . Black eschews 'Eurocentricism' and includes considerable material on other areas of the world that one does not usually find in such a work. Typical of Black's writing, there is much to learn in the numerous small asides throughout the text. Taken together these form an impressive whole."—Spencer C. Tucker, VMI