James Belich | |
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Born | 1956 (age 68–69) Wellington, New Zealand |
Relatives | Jim Belich (father) Camilla Belich (niece)[1] |
Awards | Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (2011) |
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Discipline | History |
Website | University of Oxford profile |
James Christopher Belich ONZM (born 1956) is a New Zealand historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars and on New Zealand history more generally. One of his major works on the 19th-century clash between Māori and Pākehā, the revisionist study The New Zealand Wars (1986), was also published in an American edition and adapted into a television series and DVD.[2][3]
In 2011, Belich was appointed the Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and he is a co-founder and former director of the Oxford Centre for Global History at the University of Oxford.