C. J. Bartlett

Christopher John Bartlett (born 12 October 1931) is a British historian and biographer.

He 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, Dublin (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]

Works
  • 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).

Notes
  1. International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (London: Europa Publications, 2003), p. 38.
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