Schweizer, Karl W.

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SCHWEIZER, Karl W.

SCHWEIZER, Karl W. American (born Germany), b. 1946. Genres: Criminology/True Crime, History, International relations/Current affairs, Military/Defense/Arms control. Career: Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, professor of history, 1976-88; London School of Economics, academic visitor, 1986-87, 1994; Cambridge, visiting fellow at Darwin College, 1986-87, 1994, senior research associate at Peterhouse, 2003; New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, chairman of humanities, 1988-93, Dept. of Social Science, professor, 1993-2001, chairman, 2001-03; visiting fellow, Princeton, Yale, 1994; Rutgers University, Center for Global Change, faculty, 1997-. Publications: (with M. Keens-Soper) Francois de Callieres: The Art of Diplomacy, 1983; (co-author) The Origins of War in Early Modern Europe, 1987; England, Prussia, and the Seven Years War, 1989; Cobbett and His Times, 1990; Frederick the Great, William Pitt, and Lord Bute, 1991; Lord Chatham, 1993; Francois De Callieres: Diplomat and Man of Letters, 1995; War, Politics and Diplomacy, 2001; Seeds of Evil: The Gray-Snyder Murder Case, 2001; Politics, Diplomats and the Press, 2002. EDITOR: (with P.D. Brown) The Devonshire Diary: Memoranda on State of Affairs, 1759- 1762, 1982; (with J. Black, and contrib.) Essays in European History, 1648- 1815, 1985; (and contrib.) Lord Bute, 1988; (with J. Black, and contrib.) Politics and the Press in Hanoverian Britain, 1989; Herbert Butterfield: Essays on the History of Science, 1998. Contributor to books. Address: New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A.

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