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STARKVILLE, Miss.--One of Great Britain's most prolific military historians will lead the next Institute for the Humanities Lecture Series at Mississippi State University.
Jeremy Black, holder of the Established Chair in History at Exeter University, will speak March 22 at Mitchell Memorial Library. The two-hour public program begins at 4 p.m. in the John Grisham Room.
Black's research has focused primarily on early modern British and continental European history, with particular interest in international relations. His authorship of more than 45 books has been called "the most sustained presentation of British history in decades."
In 2002 alone, he published "European Warfare 1494-1660," "The World in the Twentieth Century" and "America as a Military Power, 1775-1865." A year earlier, he released "The Making of Modern Britain: The Age of Edinburgh to the New Millennium."
Black completed his higher education at Oxford and Durham universities.
The Institute for the Humanities is a unit of MSU's College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information on the lecture series, contact Gary Myers at (662) 325-2646 or gmyers@deanas.msstate.edu.