James Belich (historian)

James Belich
Belich in 2010
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Wellington, New Zealand
RelativesJim Belich (father)
Camilla Belich (niece)[1]
AwardsPrime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (2011)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
WebsiteUniversity 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.

  1. ^ Wade, Amelia (24 May 2020). "Labour Party's latest candidate to contest key Epsom seat". The New Zealand Herald.
  2. ^ Belich, James (1998). The New Zealand Wars (1998 ed.). Auckland: Penguin. pp. 10, 11. ISBN 0-14-027504-5.
  3. ^ "The New Zealand Wars". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 29 October 2016.

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