Derek Croxton
{{short description|American academic specialized in history|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_name = Charles Derek Croxton
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|01|02}}
| birth_place = Fairfax, Virginia, US
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| thesis_title = Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe
| thesis_year = 1996
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| doctoral_advisor = Geoffrey Parker
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| discipline = History
| sub_discipline = European history
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| main_interests = Thirty Years' War
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Charles Derek Croxton (born 1969) is an American historian. He authored several articles on military and diplomatic aspects of the Thirty Years' War. Croxton wrote Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and The Congress of Westphalia, 1643–1648. He also worked as adjunct professor at Madonna College and has taught at Ohio State University and at Columbus State Community College.
Alongside Anuschka Tischer, he wrote The Peace of Westphalia: A Historical Dictionary. Most recently, he was the author of Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace.
Derek is also a game designer, having designed The King's Coalition (Play To Z games), Rommel's War, and Archie's War, the latter two by Worthington Publishing.
External links
- [http://h-france.net/reviews/levin.html Review of one of Croxton's books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108010013/http://www.h-france.net/reviews/levin.html |date=2007-01-08 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070317235814/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH33/croxto33.html The Cabot Dilemma - a text by Derek Croxton]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060520070151/http://www.wadsworthtours.com/ptours/tourx.cfm?book_id=109 Exploring the European Past] - A project in which Croxton worked
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927032259/http://www.kubrussel.ac.be/agenda/pers/dies/2005/data/curriculum_g_parker.doc Geoffrey Parker's Curriculum Vitae] - Contains reference to Croxton
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050504020834/http://www.sfn.uni-muenchen.de/rezensionen/rez505.htm Review of one of his books, and a book by Anuschka Tischer] - In German
- [http://greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?sku=GR1004 Reviews of A Historical Dictionary]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050831154145/http://www.susqu.edu/su_press/Book%20Reviews/PeacemakingEurope.html Review of Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe]
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40109077?searchText=peace%20of%20westphalia%20and%20sovereignty&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fscope%3DeyJwYWdlTmFtZSI6ICJUaGUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBIaXN0b3J5IFJldmlldyIsICJwYWdlVXJsIjogIi9qb3VybmFsL2ludGVyaGlzdHJldiIsICJ0eXBlIjogImpvdXJuYWwiLCAiamNvZGVzIjogImludGVyaGlzdHJldiJ9%26Query%3Dpeace%2Bof%2Bwestphalia%2Band%2Bsovereignty%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2afc2ac0562675358dc0146e2c2d2d20 The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 and the Origins of Sovereignty, one of his most-cited articles]
- [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/335652/kings-coalition King's Coalition at Boardgame Geek]
- [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/407575/rommels-war Rommel's War at Boardgame Geek]
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:Madonna University faculty
Category:Ohio State University faculty
Category:21st-century American male writers
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