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V.G. Kiernan

V.G. Kiernan, an emeritus professor of history at Edinburgh University, is the author of The Duel in European History and Tobacco: A History.

Selected bibliography

  • America: The New Imperialism (2005)
  • Poems from Iqbal edited and translated by V.G. Kiernan (2004)
  • Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz edited and translated by V.G. Kiernan (2000)
  • Horace: Poetics and Politics (1999)
  • Colonial Empires and Armies: 1815-1960 (1998)
  • Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare (1996)
  • Imperialism and Its Contradictions (1995)
  • The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age (1995)
  • Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen (1993)
  • Tobacco: A History (1991)
  • The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy (1988)
  • History, Classes and Nation States (1988)

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 not available in archive The Unrewarded End · 17 September 1998

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