James Joll

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James Bysse Joll (June 21, 1918-July 12, 1994) was an historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of anarchism and socialism.

Joll studied at the University of Bordeaux and University of Oxford, but left to join the British Army in 1940, eventually serving in the Special Operations Executive. He returned to Oxford after the War, completed his studies, and became an instructor.

While at Oxford, he wrote a book on the Second International (1955) and a book on Léon Blum, Walter Rathenau, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, called Intellectuals in Politics (1960). In 1964 he published The Anarchists, which showed his intertwined interests in the culture, events, political philosophy, and individual personalities forming the history of a Leftist movement.

In 1967 Joll left Oxford to teach at the London School of Economics. His next major work was Europe Since 1870: an International History, which appeared in 1973.

[edit] Works

• Joll, James (1968). The Second International, 1889-1914, New ed., Weidenfeld & Nicolson. LCCN 78-390757. 

• Joll, James (1960). Intellectuals in politics; three biographical essays. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. LCCN 60-051294. 

• Joll, James (1980). The anarchists, 2nd, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674036417. 

• Joll, James (1977). Antonio Gramsci. Viking Press. ISBN 0670129429. 

• Joll, James (1992). The origins of the First World War, 2nd, London, New York: Longman. ISBN 0582089204. 

• Joll, James (1983). Europe since 1870 : an international history, 3rd ed., Middlesex, England, New York: Penguin. ISBN 0140224777. 

[edit] References

• Blackbourn, David (1996). "James Bysse Joll 1918-1994". Proceedings of the British Academy 90: 413-37.