Dr. Jeremy Black is a native of Great Britain, a professor of history at the University of Exeter, England, and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Center for the Study of America and the West. His many books include Rethinking Military History (New York: Routledge, 2004); War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998); and War for America: The Fight for Independence, 1775-1783 (Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co., 2004). In 2008 the Society for Military History awarded him the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his contributions in the field of military history.
