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Colin David Hugh Jones CBE is a British historian of France and Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. Jones attended Hampton Grammar School. He then studied at Jesus College, Oxford, 1967–71 where he obtained a First Class Honours degree in Modern History and Modern Languages (French) and St Antony's College, Oxford from where he obtained his D.Phil (Doctoral Thesis) in 1978. He began working as a Temporary Lecturer in History at Newcastle University, 1972–73 before moving on to the University of Exeter where he remained until 1995. He was then appointed Professor of History in the History Department of the University of Warwick where he stayed until 2006. He is known especially for his important history of Paris, ''Paris, Biography of a City'', which won the Enid MacLeod Prize of the Franco-British Society as the book published in 2004 which contributed most to Anglo-French understanding. Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to historical research and higher education.〔(2014 Birthday Honours List page 15 )〕 == Main publications == *''Charity and 'Bienfaisance': The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region, 1740-1815'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, xvi + 317 pp. *''The Longman Companion to the French Revolution'', London: Longman, 1988, xiv + 473 pp.; Paperback edition, 1990 *''The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France'', London: Routledge, November 1989, xiii + 317 pp. *(With John Ardagh), ''Cultural Atlas of France,'' New York and Oxford: Facts on File, 1991, 240 pp.; French, German, Dutch, Polish translations *''The Cambridge Illustrated History of France'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 352 pp. Paperback edition, 1999; German, Korean, Chinese translations *(With Laurence Brockliss) ''The Medical World of Early Modern France'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, xii + 960pp. *''The Great Nation. France from Louis XV to the 1715-99'', London: Penguin, 2002, xxx + 651pp.; US hardback edition published by Columbia University Press, 2003 *''Madame de Pompadour and her Image'', London: National Gallery Publications with Yale University Press, 2002), 176 pp. Associated with the international exhibition on the same topic held in Versailles, Munich and at the National Gallery, London, 2002 *''Paris: Biography of a City'', London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2004, xxviii + 643 pp. US edition, 2005, Penguin/Viking; paperback, 2006; Russian and Chinese translations. Awarded the Enid MacLeod Prize of the Franco-British Society as the book published in 2004 which contributed most to Anglo-French understanding. 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「Colin Jones (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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