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Anthony F. Upton (13 October 1929 – 4 July 2015) was a British professor of Nordic history. Born in Stockton Heath, he graduated B.A. in Modern History from the Queen's College, Oxford, with First Class honours in 1951, subsequently M.A. (Oxon) After leaving Oxford he travelled to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar and graduated A.M. in history from Duke University, NC in 1953. On his return from the United States, He was appointed as an Assistant-lecturer in history at the University of Leeds. He moved to the University of St. Andrews in 1956 as a Lecturer in history. He was promoted to Reader before being appointed Professor of Nordic History in 1983. He retired from St Andrews as Professor emeritus in 1996. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published about the first decennies 1918–1944 of the Finnish independency. He received the Hon. D. from the University of Helsinki on 2 June 2000. He is best known for sinking the so-called "Driftwood theory"〔Erkki Tuomioja: (Puheenvuoro "Historiography and Politics" The Politics of the Past -symposiumissa. Jyväskylä, 9.6.2007 )〕 ((フィンランド語:Ajopuuteoria)) of Finnish passivity in the Operation Barbarossa.〔Markku Jokisipilä: (Finnish History, Culture and the Second World War )〕 ==Works== * A Short History of Finland, 1998, 209 p. * Europe 1600-1789, 2001. 437 p. * The Finnish Revolution 1917-1918, 1980, 608 p. * Finland in Crisis, 1940–1941, 1964, 318 p. * Finland, 1939–1940, 1974, 174 p. * Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1998, 281 p. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony F. Upton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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