Norman Stone

Norman Stone ( born 1941 in Edinburgh, Scotland ) is a British historian of modern Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe.

Life

Between 1984 and 1997, Stone was Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. In addition to his teaching, he was employed as a State Department consultant, under the Thatcher government in the period from 1987 to 1990. Since 1997, Stone worked in Turkey, first at Bilkent University in Ankara; In 2005 he moved to the Koç University in Istanbul, where he still teaches. In Germany, he was primarily known for his book Hitler, which was presented by Guido Knopp on television to a wider public. 2004 Stone denied in magazines Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement - the theses Bernard Lewis' following - a genocide of the Armenians. He was criticized for some sharp, so for example, uncritically to follow the Swiss Hans -Lukas Kieser, who accused him in November 2006 in The World week the arguments of the Turkish national PR apparatus after Stone in a previous edition of the same Swiss publication was the genocide of the Armenians denied again.

Writings

  • The Eastern front. From 1914 to 1917. Hodder and Stoughton, London ua 1975, ISBN 0-340-12874-7.
  • Hitler. Hodder and Stoughton, London ua 1980, ISBN 0-340-24980-3.
  • Europe Transformed 1878-1919 ( = Fontana Paperbacks 4262 ). Fontana, London 1983, ISBN 0-00-634262-0 ( 2nd edition. Blackwell, Oxford, inter alia, 1999, ISBN 0-631-21507-7 ).
  • As editor with Eduard Strouhal: Czechoslovakia. Crossroads and Crises, 1918-88. Macmillan and others, Basingstoke 1989, ISBN 0-333-48507-6.
  • As editor of the edition: Geoffrey Barraclough (ed.): The Times Atlas of World History. 3rd edition.Times Books, London, 1989, ISBN 0-7230-0304-1.
  • Michael Glenny: The Other Russia. Faber and Faber, London ua 1990, ISBN 0-571-13574-9.
  • Islam in Turkey. In: Caroline Y. Robertson -von Trotha (eds): Europe in the world - the world in Europe ( = interdisciplinary cultural studies Vol 1. ). Nomos, Baden -Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1934-1, pp. 139-145.
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