David J.B. Trim is a historian, archivist, and educator whose specialties are in
European military history and religious history. Currently, he is the director of Archives, Statistics, and Research at the World Headquarters of
Seventh-day Adventists.[1]
Trim is the author, editor, or co-editor of eighteen volumes, including: The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (Brill, 2003), Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (Brill, 2006), European Warfare 1350-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Humanitarian Intervention: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Harfleur to Hamburg (Oxford University Press, 2024).[4]
Trim's scholarship is credited with making important contributions to several academic areas. His work on
humanitarian intervention demonstrated that nations historically engaged in this strategy to limit or arrest human suffering; it is credited with being a significant intervention in the debate about humanitarian intervention, demonstrating that it has long-term historical roots.[5][6][7]
Bibliography
Co-editor, with Brendan Simms, Harfleur to Hamburg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Walter Utt: Adventist historian. Silver Spring, MD: Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, 2023.
Hearts of faith: How we became Seventh-day Adventists. Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2022.
Co-editor, with A.L. Chism and M.F. Younker, Adventist Mission in China in Historical Perspective, General Conference Archives Monographs, 2. Silver Spring, MD: Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, 2022.
We aim at nothing less than the whole world’: The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s missionary enterprise and the General Conference Secretariat, 1863–2019. Silver Spring, MD: Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, 2021.
A Passion for Mission: The Trans-European Division after Ninety Years. Bracknell, UK: Newbold Academic Press, 2019.
A Living Sacrifice: Unsung Heroes of Adventist Missions. Pacific Press, 2019.
Co-editor, with Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath, Curis J. VanderWaal, and Alina J. Baltazar, Promoting the public good: Policy in the public square and the Church. Cooranbong, NSW, Australia: Avondale Academic Press, 2018.
Co-editor, with Benjamin J. Baker, Fundamental Belief 6: Creation. Silver Spring, MD: Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, 2014.
Editor, The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011.
Co-editor, with Brendan Simms, Humanitarian Intervention—A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; South Asian edn, 2011; paperback edn, 2013.
Co-editor, with Frank Tallett, European Warfare, 1350–1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Co-editor, with Daniel Heinz, Pluralism, Parochialism and Contextualization: Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York & Vienna: Peter Lang, 2010.
Co-editor, with Richard Bonney, The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York & Vienna: Peter Lang, 2007.
Co-editor, with Richard Bonney, Persecution and Pluralism: Calvinists and Religious Minorities in Early-Modern Europe, 1550-1700. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York & Vienna: Peter Lang, 2006.
Co-editor, with Mark Charles Fissel, Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006; paperback edn, 2011.
Co-editor, with Peter J. Balderstone, Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England, 1400–1800. Oxford, Bern & New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
Editor, The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2003.
Editorships
Founder and co-editor, monograph series "Warfare, Society and Culture," Routledge (originally Pickering & Chatto), August 2007–present.
Associate editor, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (founded 1921) Jan. 2002–2010.
Consultant associate editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), for "Tudor army."