Assistant Professor of History; Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptor. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Chair of the Blue Plaques Committee. Victorious Century catches the relish and humour of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today.". %PDF-1.7 Queen Victoria's ascendance to the throne in 1837 marks a new era for Britain, one where active enthusiasm and drive for global empire becomes a popular ideal. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Parliamentary victory of the Liberal Party in 1906, Queen Victoria's ascendance to the throne, "Why pessimism is key to understanding the Victorians", "Victorious Century by David Cannadine review – a sparkling history of 19th-century Britain", "Britain über alles: Victorious Century reviewed", "A History of the British Empire at Its Peak", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victorious_Century&oldid=926320372, Articles lacking reliable references from December 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 November 2019, at 15:51. David Cannadine describes himself as “staggeringly lucky”: he found what he wanted to do early in life, and it has rewarded him richly. Cannadine has delivered many public lectures including the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (1997), the Carnochan Lecture at Stanford University (2001), the Linbury Lecture at the National Gallery (2002), the T. S. Eliot Lecture at Washington University, St Louis (2003), the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the University of Cambridge (2007), the Inaugural Lecture for the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin (2010), the Crosby Kemper Lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, the Jon Sigurosson Lecture at the University of Iceland (2012), the Haaga Lecture at the Huntington Library (2012), the Creighton Lecture at the University of Toronto (2013), the Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2015), the Wolfson Anniversary Lecture at the University of Glasgow (2015), the Oxford University Press Centenary Lecture (2017) and the Founder's Lecture at St John’s College, Oxford (2019). Sir David Cannadine is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University. Ω-\�E�u��T�ꢁ��%Or���&֩�A2�R�T�W��(��F�փ���n�Ң��T [1] Professor Maya Jasanoff of Harvard University offers considerable praise for the book, stating that Cannadine has "pulled off the hat-trick of commanding erudition, original interpretation and graceful writing. Sir David Cannadine FBA FRSL FSA FRHistS FRSA (born 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. Sir David Cannadine FBA FRSL FSA FRHistS FRSA (born 1950) is a British author and historian, who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. Janet Chen. Étudiant des universités de Cambridge et d'Oxford puis professeur à l'université de Princeton, il est depuis 2014 rédacteur en chef du Dictionary of National Biography[3]. Cannadine argues, Sir David Cannadine joined Princeton in the fall of 2008, having previously held positions at Cambridge, Columbia and London Universities. Il est rédacteur en chef de la série Penguin History of Europe[2]. [23] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. He also serves as the Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of Past & Present. [7], Cannadine was appointed to the professorial chair of history at Columbia University in 1988, returning to Britain ten years later as director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and, subsequently, as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1017 USA E-mail addresses: dcannadi@princeton.edu David.Cannadine@sas.ac.uk Telephone numbers: UK: 0207 862 8740 US: 609 258 8228 ii. David Cannadine. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research (2005), Christ's College, Cambridge (2005), the Historical Association (2011), and Clare College, Cambridge (2012) and an Honorary Churchill Fellow of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (2012).