George Norman Clark

George Norman Clark ( born February 27, 1890 in Halifax; † 6 February 1979) was a British historian.

Clark attended school in Manchester (Manchester Grammar School ) and studied at Oxford University ( Balliol College). In 1931 he became a Fellow of Al Souls College in Oxford and professor of economic history. In 1943 he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and Fellow of Trinity College, a position he held until 1947. 1947 to 1957 he was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.

He wrote in 1953 the General Introduction to The New Cambridge Modern History ( published in the first volume ). Unlike the author of the first The Cambridge Modern History, Lord Acton, from the late 19th century, he emphasized the fact that time -bound historiography. He was editor of the book series Oxford History of England and editor of the English Historical Review.

He wrote aggregated form to the English and Dutch history, especially in the 17th century and focused on economic history.

In 1953 he was knighted.

Writings

  • The Later Stuarts, 1660-1714, The Oxford History of England, 1934
  • The Dutch alliance and the war against French trade, 1688-1697, New York: Russell and Russell 1971
  • Early modern Europe from about 1450 to about 1720, Oxford University Press 1957
  • English history: a survey, Clarendon Press, 1971
  • Science and social welfare in the age of Newton, Clarendon Press 1937, 2nd edition 1970
  • Seventeenth Century, Clarendon Press, 1929
  • War and Society in the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge University Press 1958
  • Three aspects of Stuart England, Oxford University Press 1960
  • Unifying the World, New York, Harcourt Brace, 1920
  • The wealth of England from 1496 to 1760, Oxford University Press 1946
  • A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 4 volumes, Clarendon Press, 1964
  • The idea of ​​the Industrial Revolution, Glasgow 1953
  • The Birth of the Dutch Republic, 1947
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