John P. McKay

John P. McKay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a professor of history and an author. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He became a professor of history at the University of Illinois in 1976,McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D.; Buckler, John; Ebrey, Patricia B.; & Beck, Roger B. (2007). "A History of World Societies" (7th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, vi. ISBN 978-0-618-61093-8.] where he holds the position of Professor Emeritus of history. McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history. [ [http://www.history.uiuc.edu/people/jpmckay/ University of Illinois - Department of History] . Retrieved on 2008-08-30.]

In 1970 McKay won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his book "Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepeneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913" (1970). He has translated Jules Michelet's "The People" (1973) and has written "Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe" (1976), as well as more than a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews. He contributed to "Imagining the Twentieth Century" (1997), edited by Charles C. Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, as well as "Europe, 1789-1914" (2006), edited by John Merriman and Jay Winters.

Among other publications McKay have made contributions to are "A History of World Societies" and "A History of Western Society", both published in several editions.

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