Biddiss, Michael Denis

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BIDDISS, Michael Denis

BIDDISS, Michael Denis. British, b. 1942. Genres: History, Intellectual history, International relations/Current affairs. Career: Downing College, Cambridge, Fellow, 1966-73, Director of Studies in History, 1970-73; University of Leicester, Lecturer, 1973-78, Reader in History, 1978-79; University of Reading, Professor of History, 1979-, Dean, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, 1982-85. Royal Historical Society, Vice President, 1995-99; Historical Association, President, 1991-94. Publications: Father of Racist Ideology: The Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau, 1970; (with F.F. Cartwright) Disease and History, 1972, rev. ed., 2000; The Age of the Masses: Ideas and Society in Europe since 1870, 1977; The Nuremberg Trial and the Third Reich, 1992. EDITOR: Gobineau: Selected Political Writings, 1970; Images of Race, 1979; (with K. Minogue) Thatcherism: Politics and Personality, 1987; (with M. Wyke) The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity, 1999; (with S. Peters and I. Roe) The Humanities in the New Millennium, 2002. Address: School of History, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, England. Online address: [email protected]