Martin Thomas
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Martin Thomas is a British Historian
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Thomas did both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Oxford University, completing his D.Phil in 1991. He joined the history department at the University of the West of England
, Bristol
in 1992 before leaving to take up a post at the History Department of Exeter University in 2003. He is the Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society.
He is considered one of the leading specialists on French Colonial History and in November 2002 was awarded a £50 000 prize from the Leverhulme Trust
for the outstanding quality of his research.
Thomas has published five monographs on aspects of French foreign and colonial policy, Franco-British relations, colonial security services and the colonial state.
He has served on the editorial boards of the International History Review and Intelligence and National Security.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
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Thomas did both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Oxford University, completing his D.Phil in 1991. He joined the history department at the University of the West of England
University of the West of England
The University of the West of England is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles north of the city centre...
, Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
in 1992 before leaving to take up a post at the History Department of Exeter University in 2003. He is the Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society.
He is considered one of the leading specialists on French Colonial History and in November 2002 was awarded a £50 000 prize from the Leverhulme Trust
Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support "scholarships for the purposes of research and education."...
for the outstanding quality of his research.
Thomas has published five monographs on aspects of French foreign and colonial policy, Franco-British relations, colonial security services and the colonial state.
He has served on the editorial boards of the International History Review and Intelligence and National Security.
Books
- Britain, France and Appeasement: Anglo-French Relations in the Popular Front Era, Oxford: Berg, 1996.
- The French Empire at War, 1940-45, Manchester University Press, 1998, paperback 2007.
- The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62, London: Macmillan, 2000.
- (co-editor with Kent Fedorowich), International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat, London: Frank Cass, 2001.
- The French Empire between the Wars. Imperialism, Politics, and Society, Manchester University Press, 2005, paperback 2007.
- Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Control, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.