Victor Kiernan

Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) was a distinguished Marxist historian, a former member of the Communist Party Historians Group and has written in particular about imperialism.

Selected works/articles

The Dragon and St. George : Anglo-Chinese relations 1880-1885 (1939)
British diplomacy in China, 1880 to 1885 (1939)
The revolution of 1854 in Spanish history (1966)
The lords of human kind : European attitudes towards the outside world in the Imperial Age (1969)
Marxism and imperialism : studies (1974)
America, the new imperialism : from white settlement to world hegemony (1978)
State & society in Europe 1550-1650 (1980)
European empires from conquest to collapse 1815-1960 (1982)
The duel in European history : honour and the reign of aristocracy (1988)
History, classes and nation-states / selected writings of V.G. Kiernan ; edited and introduced by Harvey J. Kaye.(1988)
Shakespeare, poet and citizen (1993)
Imperialism and its contradictions / V.G. Kiernan ; edited & introduced by Harvey J. Kaye (1995)
Eight tragedies of Shakespeare : a Marxist study (1996)
Colonial empires and armies 1815-1960 (1998)
Horace : poetics and politics (1999)

History & humanism : essays in honour of V.G. Kiernan / edited by Owen Dudley Edwards (1977)
Across time and continents : a tribute to Victor G. Kiernan / edited by Prakash Karat (2003)
Review of America, the new imperialism