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John P. McKay

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John P. McKay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a professor of history and an author. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He became a professor of history at the University of Illinois in 1976,^[1] where he holds the position of Professor Emeritus of history. McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history.^[2]

In 1970 McKay won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 (1970). He has translated Jules Michelet's The People (1973) and has written Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe (1976), as well as more than a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews. He contributed to Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997), edited by Charles C. Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, as well as Europe, 1789-1914 (2006), edited by John Merriman and Jay Winters.^[1]

Among other publications, McKay has written the textbooks A History of World Societies and A History of Western Society, both published in several editions. A History of Western Society is often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.^[3]

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1. ^¹McKay, John P.; Hill, Bennett D.; Buckler, John; Ebrey, Patricia B.; & Beck, Roger B. (2007). A History of World Societies (7th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, vi. {{ISBN|978-0-618-61093-8}}.
2. ^University of Illinois - Department of History. Retrieved on 2009-10-18.
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-european-history/course-audit|title=AP European History: Course Audit {{!}} AP Central – The College Board|date=2017-03-06|work=AP Central|access-date=2018-10-21|language=en}}

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