James Belich (historian)
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James Belich ONZM | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Wellington, New Zealand |
Relatives | Jim Belich (father) Camilla Belich (niece)[1] |
Awards | Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (2011) |
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Discipline | History |
Website | University of Oxford profile |
James Christopher Belich
In 2011, Belich was appointed the Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and he is a co-founder and former director of the Oxford Centre for Global History at the University of Oxford.
Background
Of
Academic career
Belich lectured at Victoria University of Wellington for several years before moving to the University of Auckland. In 2007, he was appointed professor of history at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University.
I Shall Not Die':
Belich has written a two-volume work A History of the New Zealanders, consisting of Making Peoples (1996) and Paradise Reforged (2001).
He expanded his area of research to colonial societies in general and the place of settler colonialism in world history with Replenishing the earth (2009).[9] The book was the choice of Maya Jasanoff in a list of the 11 best scholarly books of the 2010s by The Chronicle of Higher Education.[10]
In 2011, Belich was appointed Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford, where he is a former director and co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Global History.[8][11]
Honours and awards
In the
Belich was the winner of the non-fiction category at the 2011 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[13] His book, The World the Plague Made, was shortlisted for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize.[14]
Works
- Titokowaru's War and Its Place in New Zealand's History. MA Thesis. Victoria University of Wellington, 1979.[15]
- New Zealand Wars 1845–1870: An Analysis of Their History and Interpretation. 1982. PhD Thesis. Oxford University
- I Shall Not Die: Tītokowaru's war, New Zealand, 1868-9. Bridget Williams Books, 1993. ISBN 0-04-614022-0
- Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Penguin, 2007. ISBN 978-0-14-300704-3
- The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict. Auckland University Press, 1986. ISBN 1-86940-002-X
- Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000. University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8248-2542-X
- Replenishing the Earth: The Settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world, 1783–1939. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-929727-6
- The Prospect of Global History. co-edited with John Darwin, Margret Frenz and Chris Wickham. Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-873225-9
- The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe. Princeton University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-691-21566-2
See also
- New Zealand literature
- New Zealand Wars
- New Zealand history
References
- ^ Wade, Amelia (24 May 2020). "Labour Party's latest candidate to contest key Epsom seat". The New Zealand Herald.
- ISBN 0-14-027504-5.
- ^ "The New Zealand Wars". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ^ "James Belich". Auckland University Press. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ Winter, Chloe (18 September 2015). "Hundreds farewell former Wellington mayor Sir James Belich". Stuff. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "Canvas books wrap: Jumping Sundays by Nick Bollinger, and a conversation with Kiran Dass canvas". The New Zealand Herald. 20 August 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
... Onslow College, where I was entering my 4th Form year, a threatened strike by students (led by future historian James Belich who ...
- ^ "James Belich". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ a b "James Belich at Keble College, Oxford". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-19-929727-6.
- ^ "The Best Scholarly Books of the Decade". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ "Historian James Belich heads to Oxford". Stuff. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2006". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2006.
- ^ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- ^ "Kochanski wins £50k Wolfson History Prize". Books+Publishing. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- OCLC 154215317. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
External links
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- Victoria University of Wellington Stout Research Centre page
- University of Auckland website
- University of Auckland personal page
- Profile on the New Zealand Book Councilwebsite
- Staff page at Oxford University