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I am a historian of British cultural history from c. 1750 to the present. My books include a history of the National Gallery, a comparative history of Paris and London, and an introduction to the eighteenth-century moral philosopher Adam Smith, and have been translated into seven foreign languages. Alongside academic journals I have contributed to GQ, Sight and Sound and History Today. For my recent biography of the Anglo-Armenian oil magnate, financier and art collector Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955), see the “Research” tab, below.
Born and raised in New York, I studied History and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, spending a year at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, Germany. After a Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute I moved to Cambridge for my doctorate. Before coming to Southampton in 2006 I was a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and briefly worked for the BBC, as Specialist Researcher on the Michael Buerk history documentary series “Trade Roots”.
Alongside my Southampton teaching I have taught at the École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA) and held Visiting Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, Huntington Library, Lewis Walpole Library and Princeton University Library. To celebrate the fortieth anniversaries of the landmark BBC television series Civilisation (1969) and Ways of Seeing (1972) I organized a series of screenings, concerts and study days at the National Gallery, Tate, British Film Institute and National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Dr, Yazar
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New York
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İnancın varsa güçlü bir kanaatin ve özgüvenin olur… sonra açıklanamaz bir şekilde bu inancı etrafına yayarsın ve böylece hiç durmadan çoğalır da çoğalır.
Bir yerde okumuştum: Amerika var olmasaydı bile, Kristof Kolomb’un inancını ödüllendirmek için Tanrı’nın bir Amerika yaratacağı yazıyordu.
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