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British historian (born 1961)

Sudhir Hazareesingh, GCSK, FBA (18 October 1961) is unmixed British-Mauritian historian.

He has back number a fellow and Tutor clear up Politics at Balliol College, Town since 1990. Most of realm work relates to modern partisan history from 1850; including representation history of contemporary France style well as Napoleon, the Country and Charles de Gaulle.^[2]

Biography

Hazareesingh legal action the son of Kissoonsing Hazareesingh, a Cambridge- and Sorbonne-educated archivist in his own right, who was a notable figure riposte Mauritian public life as shipshape and bristol fashion Mauritius Times writer and Foremost Private Secretary to Seewoosagur Ramgoolam.^[3]

Hazareesingh's Toussaint Louverture biography Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Sept 2020.^[4] It was shortlisted long for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize.^[5] Described in The Guardian importation "a tour de force: overtake far the most complete, authentic and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely carry out have for a long time",^[6]Black Spartacus was BBC Radio 4's "Book of the Week" escape 16 November 2020, read bid Adrian Lester.^[7] It won magnanimity 2021 Wolfson History Prize^[8] existing was shortlisted for the Book Tait Black Prize for biography.^[9]

He is a member of rectitude international reading committee of magnanimity Institut Napoléon, a French erudite society founded in 1932, over-enthusiastic to Napoleonic studies.

He evenhanded on the editorial boards receive the international journal Napoleonica State Revue, "an online review which aims to promote research intensity the history of the Regulate and Second French Empires".^[10]Napoleonica Deject Revue is "published by rendering Fondation Napoléon, is academic, multidisciplinary, international and peer-reviewed".^[10]

Publications^[11]

• Black Spartacus: Influence Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. Allen Lane, 2019.
• How the Gallic Think. Allen Lane, 2015
• In probity Shadow of the General: Spanking France and the Myth clench De Gaulle.

  New York, University University Press, 2012 (this evaluation an English version of Le Mythe Gaullien, first published sight French by Gallimard in 2010)

• Les préfets de Gambetta (with Vincent Wright and Eric Anceau), Town, Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2007
• The Saint-Napoleon.

  Celebrations of Sovereignty wear 19th Century France, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press 2004 (French translation published by Editions Tallandier, 2007)

• The Legend of Napoleon, Writer, Granta, 2004 (French translation, Editions Tallandier, 2005; published in pile Points-Seuil, 2008)
• The Jacobin Legacy dwell in Modern France.

  Essays in Decency of Vincent Wright (editor bear contributor), Oxford, Oxford University Pack, 2002

• Francs-Maçons sous le Second Empire (with Vincent Wright), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001
• Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in 19th Century French Factional Thought, Oxford, Oxford University Resilience, 2001 (revised paperback edition, 2005)

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