Charles Townshend (historian)

Charles Townshend FBA (born 1945)^[1] is a British historian with particular expertise on the historic role of British imperialism in Ireland and Palestine.

Townshend is currently Professor of International History at Keele University.^[2] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008.^[3]

Works

• Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (Penguin, 2005) (ISBN 1-56663-704-X)
• "Religion, War, and Identity in Ireland," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 76, No. 4, December 2004
• Terrorism: A very short introduction (Oxford, 2002) (ISBN 0-19-280168-6)
• Ireland: The twentieth century (Hodder Arnold, 1999) (ISBN 0-340-66336-7; ISBN 0-340-66335-9)
• Making the peace: public order and public security in modern Britain (Oxford, 1993) (ISBN 0-19-822978-X)
• "The Making of Modern Irish Public Culture," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 61, No. 3, September 1989
• Britain's Civil Wars: Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century (Faber and Faber, 1986) (ISBN 0-571-13802-0)
• Political violence in Ireland: government and resistance since 1848 (Oxford, 1983) (ISBN 0-19-821753-6)
• The British campaign in Ireland, 1919-1921: the development of political and military policies (Oxford, 1975) (ISBN 0-19-821863-X)

References

1. "Library of Congress Name Authority File". Errol.oclc.org. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
2. "Charles Townshend". Keele University. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
3. "Professor Charles Townshend". British Academy. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

External links

• Works by or about Charles Townshend in libraries (WorldCat catalog)