C. J. Bartlett

Christopher John Bartlett (12 October 1931 – 8 July 2008) was a British historian and biographer.

Biography[edit]

Bartlett was born in Bournemouth and educated at University College, Exeter, where he gained a BA in history in 1953.^[1] He was awarded a PhD in international history by the London School of Economics in 1956.^[1] From 1957 to 1959 he was assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.^[1] He was then lecturer in Modern History at the University of the West Indies (1959–1962) and Queen's College, Dundee(1962–1968).^[1] Afterwards, he was reader in international history (1968–1978).^[1] In 1978 he was appointed Professor of International History at the University of Dundee, from which he retired in 1996.^[1] He died in Bristol on 8 July 2008, at the age of 76.^[2]

Works[edit]

• Great Britain and Sea Power, 1815-1853 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).
• Bartlett, Christopher John (1966), Castlereagh, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
• (editor), Britain Pre-eminent: Studies in British World Influence in the Nineteenth Century (London: Macmillan, 1969).
• The Long Retreat: A Short History Defence Policy, 1945-1970 (London: Macmillan, 1972).
• The Rise and Fall of the Pax Americana (London: Paul Elek, 1974).
• A History of Postwar Britain, 1945-1974 (London: Longmans, 1977).

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