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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.

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

External links

• Faculty web page University of Cambridge (Retrieved October 7, 2007)

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