David Stevenson (historian)

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David Stevenson
Professor David Stevenson delivering a Gresham College lecture in November 2014.
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineMilitary History
Sub-disciplineFirst World War
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics

David Stevenson is a British historian specialising in the period of the First World War. He is Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).[1]

Academic career[edit]

Stevenson studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, before receiving a Ph.D. from the same university. He became a Lecturer at the LSE in 1982. In 1998, he was appointed Professor of International History. Between 2004 and 2005, he also received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship "for research on supply and logistics in 1914-1918"[2]

His most recent books are: With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, released by Penguin (in the UK) and Belknap Press[2] and 1917: War, Peace and Revolution, published by OUP.

Personal life[edit]

Stevenson is married and lives in Essex. He is the Loughton and District Historical Society and is one of the founding members of the erstwhile Loughton Festival.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Stevenson, D., French War Aims against Germany, 1914-1919, 1982 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-198-22574-1, OCLC 8170511
  • Stevenson, D., The First World War and International Politics, 1988 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-198-73049-7, OCLC 16833256
  • Stevenson, D., Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914, 1996 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-198-20208-3, OCLC 33079190
  • Stevenson, D., The Outbreak of the First World War: 1914 in Perspective, 1997 (Macmillan) ISBN 0-333-58327-2, OCLC 35212787
  • Stevenson, D., 1914-1918: the History of the First World War, 2004 (Penguin Press), also published as Cataclysm: the First World War as Political Tragedy (by Basic Books, USA) ISBN 0-465-08184-3, OCLC 54001282
    • La Grande Guerra: Una Storia Globale (by Rizzoli, Italy)
    • Der Erste Weltkrieg (by Artemis and Winkler, Germany)
  • Stevenson, D., With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, 2011 (Penguin Books, Harvard University Press) ISBN 0-674-06226-4, OCLC 709670290
  • Stevenson, D., 1917. War, Peace, and Revolution 2017 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198702382
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