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Professor Sir Michael Howard FBA

Military history; war studies; international relations

Elected 1970

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth: 1922
Year of death: 2019
Year elected: 1970
Sections: Modern History from 1850
Website: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-sir-michael-howard

Past appointments

Yale University Professor of Military and Naval History

1989 - 1993

University of Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History

1980 - 1989

University of Oxford Chichele Professor of the History of War

1977 - 1980

All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow

1968 - 1980

King's College London University of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of War Studies

1953 - 1968

Top picks

Great Thinkers: Hew Strachan FBA on Michael Howard FBA

Publications

Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace

Michael Howard - Published in 2006 by Continuum

War in European History

Michael Howard - Published in 1976 by Oxford University Press

Carl von Clausewitz: On War

Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret - Published in 1976 by Princeton University Press

The Franco-Prussian War

Michael Howard - Published in 1961 by Routledge

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