David Priestland
David Priestland is a British historian. He teaches Modern History at the University of Oxford and is Fellow of St Edmund Hall.[1]
Career
Priestland's research focuses on the history of the Soviet Union and the development of communism and neoliberalism.[2]
He is an occasional political and cultural commentator for The Guardian and New Statesman.[3][4]
In 2013, Priestland published a book Merchant, soldier, sage: a history of the world in three castes, which focuses mainly of a power-struggle between three castes fighting for a domination within a society. Priestland's main argument is that humanity has shifted from warrior-class oriented societies, through periods of sage dominance into a modern hegemony of merchants, which has only culminated in a current state of things - a dominance of businesspeople and billionaire entrepreneurs.[5] In the book, Priestland' s voice is mostly critical of global capitalism, which has attracted some notable criticism from other academics.[6][7]
Selected Works
- Stalinism and the politics of mobilization: ideas, power, and terror in inter-war Russia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
- The Red Flag . Allen Lane 2009, ISBN 978-0-71399-481-0 (The three English language editions 2009-2010 each have different subtitles: How Communism Changed The World; Communism and the Making of the Modern World; A History of Communism)
- World History of Communism. From the French Revolution to today. Translated by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Siedler, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-708-6
- World History of Communism. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn ISBN 978-3-8389-0055-1.
- Russian edition: Красный флаг . история коммунизма, Krasnyi flag: Istorija kommunizma, ЭКСМО / EKSMO, Moskva 2011
- Merchant, soldier, sage: a history of the world in three castes. New York: The Penguin Press, 2013
References
- ^ "Professor David Priestland". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "Professor David Priestland". University of Oxford. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "David Priestland". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "Writer: David Priestland". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Priestland, David (2012-08-30). Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-197082-0.
- ^ "Priestland contends perpetual power struggle in Merchant, Soldier, Sage". The National. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- ^ Timmins, Adam. "review of Merchant Soldier Sage".
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