Victor Kiernan

Victor Kiernan (born 1913) is a distinguished Marxist historian, a former member of the Communist Party Historians Group and has written in particular about imperialism.

elected works/articles

*The Dragon and St. George : Anglo-Chinese relations 1880-1885 (1939)
*British diplomacy in China, 1880 to 1885 (1939)
*The revolution of 1854 in Spanish history (1966)
*The lords of human kind : European attitudes towards the outside world in the Imperial Age (1969)
*Marxism and imperialism : studies (1974)
*America, the new imperialism : from white settlement to world hegemony (1978)
*State & society in Europe 1550-1650 (1980)
* European empires from conquest to collapse 1815-1960 (1982)
*The duel in European history : honour and the reign of aristocracy (1988)
*History, classes and nation-states / selected writings of V.G. Kiernan ; edited and introduced by Harvey J. Kaye.(1988)
*Shakespeare, poet and citizen (1993)
*Imperialism and its contradictions / V.G. Kiernan ; edited & introduced by Harvey J. Kaye (1995)
*Eight tragedies of Shakespeare : a Marxist study (1996)
*Colonial empires and armies 1815-1960 (1998)
*Horace : poetics and politics (1999)

External links

* History & humanism : essays in honour of V.G. Kiernan / edited by Owen Dudley Edwards (1977)
* Across time and continents : a tribute to Victor G. Kiernan / edited by Prakash Karat (2003)
* [http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=167&issue=109 "Review of America, the new imperialism"]