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John Talbott

Current Courses

Winter 2010 (tentative)


Spring 2010 (tentative)


Department Fields

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19th and 20th Century Europe, War and Society


Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1966

Office: HSSB 3259 Fall 2009 Hours: W 1:00-3:00 & by appointment
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: talbott@history.ucsb.edu

I teach courses on the history of Western civilization, modern Europe, warfare, the writings of George Orwell, and historical writing. I write about war.

Current Projects

  • Mind Wounds; War and Psychic Injury from Bull Run to Fallujah

Selected Publications

  • The Politics of Educational Reform in France, 1918-1940
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969
  • The War Without A Name; France in Algeria, 1954-1962
    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
  • The Pen-and-Ink Sailor: Sir Charles Middleton and the King's Navy, 1778-1813
    London: Frank Cass, 1998
  • Europe, 1945 to the Present
    New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
  • "Soldiers, Psychiatrists, and Combat Trauma,"
    Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27:3 (Winter 1997), 437-54.

Honors and Professional Activities

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 1975-76
  • University of California President's Fellow in the Humanities, 1993-94
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellow in the Humanities, 1993-94
  • John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1994-1996