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James Vernon is a historian of modern Britain with interests in imperialism, decolonization, neoliberalism and global history. He has published several books and articles on topics such as hunger, liberalism, Heathrow Airport and soccer.
James Vernon is a British historian. Vernon studied at the University of Manchester beginning in 1984. At Manchester he also received his Ph.D. and was a professor until 2000, when he was appointed professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley .
Jun 26, 2024 · This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work.
- James Vernon
- 2017
Dec 6, 2016 · In this book, James Vernon sets out to reveal how ‘a profoundly new and modern social condition emerged in Britain between the middle of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries’. He seeks ‘to rehabilitate modernity as an analytic category for historians’.
- James Thompson
- 2016
May 30, 2016 · James Vernon, is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Politics and the People (1993), Hunger: A Modern History (2007) and Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (2014).
- James Vernon
- 2016
Apr 20, 2017 · This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an...
Aug 19, 2020 · They were also – as James Vernon asserts in his new Modern Britain: 1750 to the Present – duplicitous about Britain’s relationship to the wider world. The Brexit debate contained a sinister racialised undercurrent which erased the imperial past.
