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'''Christopher Clark''' (born ]), is an ]n ] working in ]. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D at the ]. He is Reader in Modern Modern ] at the ] and a Fellow of ]. He is a co-editor of the scholarly book series ''New Studies in European History'' from ]. He has been criticised for his book about Prussia, which according to reviewers is seeing Prussia through "pink lenses", and "doesn't contain any condemnation of Prussia". '''Christopher Clark''' (born ] in ]), is an ]n ] working in ]. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D at the ]. He is Reader in Modern Modern ] at the ] and a Fellow of ]. He is a co-editor of the scholarly book series ''New Studies in European History'' from ]. He is the author of a study of Christian-Jewish relations in Prussia (The Politics of Conversion. Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1941; OUP, Oxford, 1995) a biography of the last German Kaiser (Kaiser Wilhelm II; Longman, Harlow, 2000) and a history of Prussia (Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947; Penguin Books, London, 2006). He is also the co-editor with Wolfram Kaiser of a transnational study of secular-clerical conflict in nineteenth-century Europe (Culture Wars. Catholic-Secular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, CUP, Cambridge, 2003).
Clark himself described Prussia's policies discriminating Polish nationality as "pragmatic", and claimed that this policy was not nationalistic. According to Clark Prussia should serve as role model for "strong state" which is under threat by "neoliberals".
In other statements he supported reinstatment of soldiers that were nationalist icons from German Empire as symbols for modern German military, calling WW1 a war between "normal states" alledgedly in contrast to Nazi Reich(disregarding the fact that both states planned ethnic cleansing of milions of non-Germans<ref name="Geiss"> Imannuel Geiss, Der polnische Grenzstreifen 1914-1918. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kriegszielpolitik im Ersten Weltkrieg, Hamburg/Lübeck 1960</ref>).





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This article is about the Australian historian. He is not to be confused with Christopher Clark, the English historian of North American social and cultural history, and Professor at the University of Connecticut.
This article is about the Australian historian. For the Virginia congressman and lawyer, see Christopher H. Clark.

Christopher Clark (born 1960 in Sydney), is an Australian historian working in England. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge. He is Reader in Modern Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. Catharine's College. He is a co-editor of the scholarly book series New Studies in European History from Cambridge University Press. He is the author of a study of Christian-Jewish relations in Prussia (The Politics of Conversion. Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1941; OUP, Oxford, 1995) a biography of the last German Kaiser (Kaiser Wilhelm II; Longman, Harlow, 2000) and a history of Prussia (Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947; Penguin Books, London, 2006). He is also the co-editor with Wolfram Kaiser of a transnational study of secular-clerical conflict in nineteenth-century Europe (Culture Wars. Catholic-Secular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, CUP, Cambridge, 2003).


Awards

  • 2007 - Wolfson History Prize
  • 2007 - H-Soz-u-Kult prize "Das historische Buch"
  • 2007 - winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, History Book Award for Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

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Publications

Books

  • Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Allen Lane, Penguin, 2006. Published in the USA by Harvard University Press. Published in Germany as Preussen: Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600-1947 by DVA, 2007
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II. Longman, 2000 (in the series "Profiles in Power")
  • The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1947. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1995

Books edited

  • Culture Wars: Secular–Catholic conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe. (with Wolfram Kaiser) Cambridge University Press, 2003

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