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American historian
Bradford Perkins (March 6, 1925 – June 29, 2008) was an American
historian who spent the bulk of his career at the
University of Michigan . He was the son of the historian
Dexter Perkins .
Life
Perkins was born in
Rochester, New York , in 1925, where his father was a professor at the
University of Rochester . He served in the
U.S. Army during World War II in the European theater. He received his A.B. in 1947 from
Harvard University , and completed his doctoral work there in 1952 under the direction of
Frederick Merk .
Perkins taught at the
University of California, Los Angeles . He joined the
University of Michigan history department in 1962 and retired in 1997.
[1] He was Professor Emeritus at the
University of Michigan . He was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at
University College London .
[2]
Honors and awards
Works
"Impressions of Wartime," The Journal of American History , September 1990
"Interests, Values, and the Prism: The Sources of American Foreign Policy", Journal of the Early Republic , 1994
The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805 (1955)
Prologue to war, England and the United States, 1805-1812 (1961)
full text online
Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823 (1964)
England and the United States (1967)
The
Great Rapprochement : England and the United States, 1895-1914 (1968, reprinted 2003)
The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 (Volume 1 of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, ed.
Warren I. Cohen )(1995)
References
External links
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