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Professor Hamish Scott FBA

History; Western Europe Germany; Early Modern History; Europe
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Year of death
2022
Subjects
History
Sections
Early Modern History to 1850
Website
https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-hamish-scott

Last post

University of St Andrews Wardlaw Professor of History Emeritus

Jesus College, Oxford Senior Research Fellow

Past appointments

University of St Andrews Wardlaw Professor of International History

2000 -

University of St Andrews Lecturer to Professor

1979 -

University of Birmingham Lecturer in Modern History

1970 - 1978

Publications

British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution

Published in 1990

The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-75

Published in 2001

The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815

Published in 2006

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French Revolution of 1789; historical methods and epistemology; cultural history; human rights

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Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature

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