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John Morris Roberts

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born

April 14, 1928 in Bath, The United Kingdom

died

May 30, 2003

gender

male

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History

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John Morris Roberts is a British historian with many significant published works.

Roberts took a First in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford, in 1948. After National Service, he was elected a Prize Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he completed a doctoral thesis on the Italian republic set up during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In 1953 he was elected a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford, and in the same year went as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow to Princeton and Yale.

His interest in the revolutionary era continued and also broadened beyond European history. Back in Oxford he edited with Richard Cobb a volume of French Revolution Documents (1966) that underpinned the specialist option they taught together...more

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Books by John Morris Roberts

Average rating: 3.74 · 642 ratings · 96 reviews · 64 distinct works

	A Short History of the World 3.74 avg rating — 164 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The New Penguin History of the World 3.82 avg rating — 152 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Penguin History of the World 3.85 avg rating — 130 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	A History of Europe 3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Penguin History of Europe 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Triumph of the West 2.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Europe 1880-1945 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ancient History: From the First Civilizations to the Renaissance 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004	My rating: