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Munro Price is a British historian noted for his award winning work on French history. Price was educated at Cambridge University. For most of his career he has been based at the University of Bradford, where he is currently professor of Modern European History.[1] He has also taught at the University of Swansea and the University of Lyon.

Bibliography

  • The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil (Macmillan, 2002) won the Franco-British Society’s Enid McLeod Literary Prize. It was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Prize,[2] and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize. It was published in the U.S. in 2003 with the title The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy by St. Martin's Press.
  • The Perilous Crown: Ruling France 1814-1848 (Macmillan, 2007) was well received in the UK,[3] and France where it was published as Louis-Philippe, le prince et le roi : La France entre deux révolutions (Éditions de Fallois, 2009).
  • The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) with Stanley Price. This book was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.[4]
  • Napoleon The End Of Glory OUP, Oxford, 2014

References

  1. ^ "Staff Profile". University of Bradford. 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  2. ^ Peter Furtado announces the winners of the Longman-History Today Awards 2003.
  3. ^ Zamoyski, Adam (August 2007). "The forgotten reigns". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  4. ^ 2013 Shortlist