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Areas
of Interest
Environmental History.
African History.
British Empire History.
Modern European History.
Irish History. |
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Current
Courses
Hist 105A: 19th Century Africa. |
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Publications
• "First along the River": A Brief History
of the Environmental Movement in
United States.
• Genesis of Apartheid: British African Policy in
the Colony of Natal
1845-93.
• Northern
Ireland: A Protracted Conflict.
• Winston Churchill
and Michael Colins 1919-22: Their Conflicting Views
of
Ireland and its Future.
• A contribution to the
Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. |
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Selected Achievements
• Coordinator and Presenter at the Cambridge University
Workshop on
British Empire, March 1993.
• Research
Director for the McNair Scholars Program, ASPIRE Program,
1996.
• Liaison Professor for the University College Cork, Ireland,
1990. |
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Biography
Dr. Benjamin Kline is a native of San José, California.
He received his B.A.
(1978) and M.A. (1980) from San José State University and a
Ph.D. from the
University College Cork, Ireland (1986). He has taught at San José
State
University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Wheelock College
in
Boston. In 1989 he taught at the University of Sierra Leone as a Fulbright
Scholar. His primary fields of interest are the British Empire, modern
Europe,
Britain, Ireland, and Africa. Among his many publications are four
books,
including "Genesis of Apartheid: British African Policy in the
Colony of Natal
1845-93" and numerous articles including "Northern Ireland:
A Protracted
Conflict", "Winston Churchill and Michael Colins 1919-22:
Their Conflicting
Views of Ireland and its Future", and a contribution to the Cambridge
Illust-
rated History of the British Empire. At present he is completing a
history
of the United States Computer Industry's role in shaping Ireland's
high-tech
industry. Of his other achievements that can be noted: Coordinator
and
Presenter at the Cambridge University Workshop on the British Empire
in
March 1993, Research Director for the McNair Scholars Program, ASPIRE
Program in 1996, and Liaison Professor for the University College
Cork,
Ireland in 1990. |
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