Donald Cameron Watt
{{Short description|British historian (1928–2014)}}
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| birth_date = 17 May 1928
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| death_date = 30 October 2014
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| education = Rugby School
| alma mater = Oriel College, Oxford
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| occupation = Historian
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- Felicia Stanley
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Donald Cameron Watt (17 May 1928 – 30 October 2014) was a British historian.
Early life
Donald Cameron Watt was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and then was educated at Rugby School.{{cite news|title=Professsor Donald Cameron Watt - obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11229261/Professsor-Donald-Cameron-Watt-obituary.html|access-date=July 1, 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cite news|title=Professor Donald Cameron Watt|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/professor-donald-cameron-watt-9ggccg79567|access-date=July 1, 2016|work=The Times|date=February 4, 2015}} He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1951.
Career
Watt served as a Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, where he served as the Head of the Department and Stevenson Chair of International History from 1981 to 1993.
Watt edited Survey of International Affairs at Chatham House from 1962 to 1971. He was the author or co-author of 25 books. He won the Wolfson History Prize in 1990.
Personal life and death
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=Donald Cameron|title=Documents on the Suez Crisis, 26 July to 6 November 1956|date=1957|publisher=Royal Institute of International Affairs|location=London, U.K.|oclc=818220}}
- {{cite book|last1=Mayall|first1=James|last2=Navari|first2=Cornelia|last3=Watt|first3=Donald Cameron|title=Documents on International Affairs, 1963|date=1973|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=London, U.K.|oclc=1331464}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=Donald Cameron|title=Personalities and Policies: Studies in the Formulation of British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century|date=1965|publisher=University of Notre Dame Press|location=Notre Dame, Indiana|oclc=404671}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=Donald Cameron|title=Britain Looks to Germany: British Opinion and Policy Towards Germany Since 1945|url=https://archive.org/details/britainlookstoge0000watt|url-access=registration|date=1965|publisher=O. Wolff|location=London, U.K.|oclc=358292}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Neville|last2=Spencer|first2=Frank|last3=Watt|first3=Donald Cameron|title=A History of the World in the Twentieth Century|date=1968|publisher=Scott Foresman|location=New York|oclc=6536389}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=Donald Cameron|title=Contemporary History in Europe: Problems and Perspectives|date=1969|publisher=Praeger|location=New York|oclc=11705}}
- {{cite book|last1=Mayall|first1=James|last2=Watt|first2=Donald Cameron|title=Current British Foreign Policy: Documents, Statements, Speeches, 1971|date=1973|publisher=Temple Smith|location=London, U.K.|isbn=9780851170411|oclc=55644303}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=Donald Cameron|title=Too Serious a Business: European Armed Forces and the Approach to the Second World War|date=1975|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=9780520028296|oclc=1370478}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watt|first1=Donald Cameron|title=Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place, 1900-1975: A Study of the Anglo-American Relationship and World Politics in the Context of British and American Foreign Policy-Making in the Twentieth Century|date=1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, U.K.|isbn=9780521250221|oclc=9686557|url=https://archive.org/details/succeedingjohnbu0000watt}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watts|first1=Donald Cameron|title=How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939|date=1989|publisher=Pantheon Books|location=New York|isbn=9780394579160|oclc=19921655|url=https://archive.org/details/howwarcameimmedi00dona}}
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Category:People educated at Rugby School
Category:Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
Category:20th-century English historians
Category:Academics of the London School of Economics
Category:Wolfson History Prize winners
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