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John Morris Roberts

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in Bath, The United Kingdom

April 14, 1928

died

May 30, 2003

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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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	A Short History of the World 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 218 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Penguin History of The World 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1976 — 27 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Europe 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin History of Europe 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Triumph of the West 3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mythology of the Secret Societies 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient History: From the First Civilizations to the Renaissance 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eastern Asia and Classical Greece (Illustrated History of the World, Vol 2) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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História Ilustrada do Mundo (8 books)
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“What men do is shaped by what they believe they can do.”
― John Morris Roberts

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“If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emerging from the financial impasse.”
― John Morris Roberts, The New History of the World

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“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a contest to capture state power has at times apparently replaced religion (sometimes even appearing to eclipse market economics) as the focus of faith that can move mountains.”
― John Morris Roberts, The New History of the World

tags: politics