Hamish Scott (historian)
Hamish Marshall Scott, FBA, FRSE, FSA Scot (12 July 1946 - 7 December 2022) was a Scottish historian and academic. He was Professor of International History (2000 to 2006) then Wardlaw Professor of International History (2006 to 2009) at the University of St Andrews. Having studied at the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics, he began his career lecturing at the University of Birmingham.[1][2][3][4]
Personal life
Scott was born on 12 July 1946, and educated at George Heriot's School, a private school in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2005, he married Julia Smith.[1]
Honours
In 2006, Scott was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[2] In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[5] He was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2009.[4]
Selected works
- Scott, H. M. (1990). British foreign policy in the age of the American Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198201953.
- Scott, H. M., ed. (1990). Enlightened absolutism: reform and reformers in later eighteenth-century Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333439616.
- Scott, H. M. (2001). The emergence of the Eastern powers, 1756-1775. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521792691.
- Scott, H. M. (2006). The birth of a great power system, 1740-1815. London: Pearson. ISBN 978-0582217171.
- Scott, H. M., ed. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Volume I: Peoples and Place. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199597253.
- Scott, H. M., ed. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Volume II: Cultures and Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199597260.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Scott, Prof. Hamish Marshall". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U151537. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Professor Hamish Scott". The British Academy. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ "Professor Hamish Scot". Jesus College. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Hamish M. Scott". Academy of Europe. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ "Professor Hamish Marshall Scott FRSE FBA". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- 1946 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Scottish historians
- 21st-century Scottish historians
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Academics of the University of Birmingham
- Academics of the University of St Andrews
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Members of Academia Europaea