Christopher Clark is an Australian historian specialising in modern Germany and continental Europe. He is Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and was knighted in 2015 for services to Anglo-German relations. Clark’s work combines political, diplomatic, religious and cultural history, examining how institutions, rulers and competing systems of belief shaped European society from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
His major books include Iron Kingdom, a history of Prussia from its rise to its dissolution; Kaiser Wilhelm II, a study of the last German emperor; and The Sleepwalkers, which reassesses the decisions and international tensions that led to the First World War. In Revolutionary Spring, Clark presents a wide-ranging account of the European revolutions of 1848–49, while Time and Power and Prisoners of Time explore political authority and the ways historians interpret the past. His books are works of narrative history rather than historical fiction, but their detailed reconstructions of people, conflicts and political crises make them accessible to general readers.
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