Victor Kiernan

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Victor Kiernan (born 1913) is a distinguished Marxist historian, a former member of the Communist Party Historians Group and has written in particular about imperialism.

[edit] Selected works/articles

  • The Dragon and St. George : Anglo-Chinese relations 1880-1885 (1939)
  • British diplomacy in China, 1880 to 1885 (1939)
  • The revolution of 1854 in Spanish history (1966)
  • The lords of human kind : European attitudes towards the outside world in the Imperial Age (1969)
  • Marxism and imperialism : studies (1974)
  • America, the new imperialism : from white settlement to world hegemony (1978)
  • State & society in Europe 1550-1650 (1980)
  • European empires from conquest to collapse 1815-1960 (1982)
  • The duel in European history : honour and the reign of aristocracy (1988)
  • History, classes and nation-states / selected writings of V.G. Kiernan ; edited and introduced by Harvey J. Kaye.(1988)
  • Shakespeare, poet and citizen (1993)
  • Imperialism and its contradictions / V.G. Kiernan ; edited & introduced by Harvey J. Kaye (1995)
  • Eight tragedies of Shakespeare : a Marxist study (1996)
  • Colonial empires and armies 1815-1960 (1998)
  • Horace : poetics and politics (1999)

[edit] External links

  • History & humanism : essays in honour of V.G. Kiernan / edited by Owen Dudley Edwards (1977)
  • Across time and continents : a tribute to Victor G. Kiernan / edited by Prakash Karat (2003)

Review of America, the new imperialism