Paul Dukes (historian)
Paul Dukes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 April 1934 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Years active | 1951- |
| Employer | University of Aberdeen |
| Known for | History of Russia and Europe |
Paul Dukes (5 April 1934- ) is a retired Scottish historian at the University of Aberdeen who is known for his work relating to Russia and Europe.
Early life
Paul Dukes was born 5 April 1934 [1] in Wallington, Surrey, a suburb of London. He was an Exhibitioner at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1951 to 1954, and then from 1954 to 1956, he was Teaching Fellow in American history at the University of Washington in Seattle, completing an MA thesis under the supervision of Max Savelle, Jonathan Boucher, Tory Parson, Teacher and Political Theorist,
He then returned to the UK to carry out his National Service from 1956 to 1958, studying the Russian Language at the Joint Services School for Linguists in Crail, Fife, Scotland. After demobilisation, he taught American History for the University of Maryland Overseas at US bases in Germany and France from 1958 to 1959 and then began work for a PhD at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He completed his doctoral dissertation, The Russian Nobility and the Legislative Commission of 1767 under Hugh Seton-Watson and John L. H. Keep in 1964.*
Academic career
In September of 1964, John D. Hargreaves, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen appointed him as Assistant Professor. Dukes remained at Aberdeen except for visiting appointments at Auckland in 1974 and Cornell in 1988. Successive appointments at Aberdeen included a term as Head of Department. Beginning in 1989, he was Director of the Centre for Soviet (later Russian) and East European Studies.
His first book, on Catherine the Great, based on his PhD dissertation, was published in 1967 (and reissued in 2008) He then collaborated in the compilation of a collection of documents. Nations and Empires Next, he turned to the relationship between the USA and the USSR, publishing over many years several books on various aspects of this, and on various periods of Russian history.
In 1999, after 35 years at Aberdeen, he retired. He was honoured by a Festschrift and also by election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh – the Scottish Academy. He has continued to publish on relevant topics. A new interest in how the study of history should adapt itself to the imperatives of the Anthropocene era led to his most recent book, with an approach stemming from the Scottish Enlightenment. This has encouraged him to produce an intermittent blog Pandisciplinarity. He has been working since 2007 on a history of the Urals. He was invited to The People's Republic of China: Nankai University, Tianjin in 2005 and to Nankai University and Jilin University, Changchun in 2012.
Publications
- Catherine the Great and the Russian Nobility: A Study Based on the Materials of the Legislative Commission of 1767, Cambridge University Press, 1967, 2008.[2]
- (Joint editor with R. C. Bridges, J. D. Hargreaves and William Scott) Nations and Empires: Documents on the History of Europe and on its Relations with the World since 1648, Macmillan, 1969.
- The Emergence of the Superpowers: A Short Comparative History of the USA and the USSR, Macmillan and Harper & Row, 1970 (Dutch translation,Amerika Rusland : vergelijkende geschiedenis 1974).
- A History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, 1974;. 2nd. ed., Macmillan and Duke UP, 1990; 3rd. ed., Macmillan and Duke UP, 1997. (Romanian translation, 2009)
- Russia under Catherine the Great, 2 vols., Oriental Research Partners, 1978-9.
- October and the World: Perspectives on the Russian Revolution, Macmillan, 1979.
- The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613-1801, Longman History of Russia, Longman, 1982; 2nd ed., 1990.
- A History of Europe, 1648-1948: The Arrival, The Rise, the Fall, Macmillan, 1985.
- The Last Great Game, USA versus USSR: Events, Conjunctures, Structures, Pinter, 1989.[3]
- Culture and Revolution, Pinter, 1989.
- Russia and Europe, Collins & Brown, 1991.
- The Trotsky Reappraisal, Edinburgh UP, 1992. (Japanese translation, トロツキー再評価 /Torotsukī saihyōka, 1994)
- The Universities of Aberdeen and Europe: The First Three Centuries, Quicentennial Studies in the History of the University of Aberdeen, General Editor Jennifer Carter, Aberdeen UP, 1995.
- Frontiers of European Culture, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
- World Order in History: Russia and the West, Routledge, 1995.
- The Superpowers: A Short History, Taylor and Francis, 2000. This is his most widely held book; According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1050 libraries[4]
- Paths to a New Europe: From Pre-Modern to Post-Modern Times, Palgrave, 2004.
- The USA in the Making of the USSR: The Washington Conference, 1921-1922, and ‘Uninvited Russia’, Taylor and Francis, 2004.[5]
- Stuarts and Romanovs: The Rise and Fall of a Special Relationship, Dundee UP, 2009.
- Minutes to Midnight: History and the Anthropocene Era since 1763, Anthem, 2011.
References
- This account of his early life is derived largely from the introduction to the Festschrift Cathryn Brennan and Murray Frame, eds, Russia and the wider world in historical perspective: essays for Paul Dukes, Macmillan, 2000. ISBN 9780333683002. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 309 libraries[6]
- ^ LC identities
- ^ Review, by Roderick E McGrew; The American Historical Review, v74n2
- ^ Review by Teddy J Uldricks; The American Historical Review, v97 n3
- ^ WorldCat identities
- ^ Review, by B Holden Reid, The Slavonic and East European review. 84, no. 2, (2006): 354
- ^ WorldCat item record
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