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Maldwyn Jones

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Maldwyn Allen Jones (December 18, 1922 – April 12, 2007) was an historian who specialised in American history.

Jones studied at Jesus College, Oxford from 1946 to 1949, obtaining a first-class degree in history.^[1]^[2] He was a lecturer at Manchester University before becoming chairman of the British Association for American Studies in 1968 and Commonwealth Professor of American History at University College London in 1971.^[2]

His most famous work was the synthesis American History 1607-1980, a volume in the "Short Oxford History of the Modern World" series, published in 1983. This remains the most comprehensive single-authored book on American history.^[2]

Publications

Books

American Immigration (University of Chicago Press, 1961)
Destination America (Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1976)
American History 1607-1980 (Oxford University Press, 1983)

As editor

Maldwyn Jones, Henry Steele Commager and Marcus Cunliffe (eds.), The American Destiny: an Illustrated Bicentennial History of the United States (20 vols., 1976)

Articles

"From the Old Country to the New: The Welsh in nineteenth-century America", Flintshire Historical Society Publications, 27 (1975–76): 85-100.
"The background to emigration from Great Britain in the nineteenth century". In Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn (eds.), Dislocation and Emigration: The Social Background of American Immigration, pp. 3–92 (Cambridge, MA, 1973)
"Ulster emigration, 1783—1815". In E. R. R. Green (ed.), Essays in Scotch-Irish History (London: Routledge, 1969)
"The Scotch-Irish in British America". In Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan (eds.), Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991)

References

1. ^{{cite journal|year=2007|title=Deaths|journal=Jesus College Record|publisher=Jesus College, Oxford|pages=153}}
2. ^¹²{{cite news | last = White | first = John | title = Maldwyn Allen Jones Obituary | publisher = The Independent | date = 2007-04-15 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maldwyn-allen-jones-448884.html | accessdate = 2008-10-07}}

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