Jeremy Black

Jan 21, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Black

President Donald Trump, in his first days in office, has made a series of statements. Among these is the assertion that the USA will “take back” the Panama Canal. In historical terms, this is a revival of the Monroe Doctrine under which the US has sought to keep hostile powers out of the Western hemisphere.

Nov 11, 2024 | press.uchicago.edu | Jeremy Black

The first international history of railroads and railroad infrastructure told through stunningly reproduced maps. Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they lived and moved. Railroads rewrote not only world geography but also the history of maps and mapping.

Nov 5, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Jeremy Black

Advanced search The RUSI Journal Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/03071847.2024.2419248?needAccess=true "Seapower in the Post-Modern World." The RUSI Journal, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional information Notes on contributors Jeremy Black Jeremy Black’s books include histories of war, strategy, naval power since 1500, air power, logistics, the Atlantic,...

Sep 30, 2024 | wsj.com | Jeremy Black

International confrontations and the strains within alliances remain both topical and fascinating, and few instances have been as central to our understanding of history as the tensions between the Allies during World War II. Britain and America had opposed the Soviet Union from the outset, sending troops to fight the Communists during the Russian Civil War (1917-22), but from 1941 to 1945 they had to make an unexpected alliance work.

Jul 13, 2024 | strategypage.com | Jeremy Black

by Jeremy Black, editorRoma: Società Italiana di Storia Militare, 2024. Pp. 549. Illus., maps, notes. Downloadable *. ISBN:978-88-946984-6-6  Strategy Across the Ages and Around the GlobeProf. Black, who numbers among his books several on strategy, most recently Military Strategy: A Global History, and the Italian Society for Military History, have collected over a score of scholarly papers examining strategy as practiced across the ages by a broad range of different nations and peoples.