William Brock (historian)

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

• 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)

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