Events

You are cordially invited to attend a lecture in the 2017 “SouthHem” Lecture Series 'Methodologies Across Borders’

“Connectivity, ‘Globalisation’, and Divergence over Five Millennia: An Approach to Global History”

Professor James Belich (University of Oxford)

James Belich is the Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Prospect of Global History (ed. 2016); Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939 (2009); Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000 (2001): Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1996); and The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (1986). His research interests include global and imperial history; commonwealth history; race history; and war and military history. Current interests are the origins of West Eurasian expansionism; global nodes and global orders; and the Black Death and global history.

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