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Ivor Norman Richard Davies
PhD, FBA, F.R.Hist.S., D.Litt.</span></th></tr>
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Born</th> (1939-06-08) 8 June 1939 (age 76)
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK </tr>
Fields</th> European History </tr>
Institutions</th> School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London
Wolfson College, University of Oxford </tr>
Alma mater</th> Magdalen College, University of Oxford (B.A. Hons)
University of Sussex (MA)
Jagiellonian University (PhD) </tr>
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Notable awards</th> Order of the White Eagle
Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland </tr></table> Ivor Norman Richard Davies[1] FBA, FRHistS (born 8 June 1939) is a British-Polish historian[2][3] noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He is widely regarded as one of the preeminent historians of Central and Eastern European history. He is the UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Professor Emeritus at the University College London, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and an Honorary Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
1 Academic career
3 Criticism
4 Awards and distinctions
5 Personal
Davies was born to Richard and Elizabeth Davies in Bolton, Lancashire. He is of Welsh descent. He studied in Grenoble, France, from 1957 to 1958 and then under A. J. P. Taylor at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he earned a BA in History in 1962. He was awarded an MA at the University of Sussex in 1966 and also studied in Perugia, Italy. He intended to study for a PhD in the Soviet Union but was denied an entry visa, so instead he went to Kraków, Poland, to study at the Jagiellonian University and did research on the Polish–Soviet War. As this war was denied in the official communist Polish historiography of that time, he was obliged to change the title of his dissertation to The British Foreign Policy towards Poland, 1919–20. After he obtained his PhD in Kraków in 1968, the English text appeared under the title White Eagle, Red Star. The Polish–Soviet War 1919–20 in 1972.
From 1971, Davies taught Polish history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College, London, where he was professor from 1985 to 1996, when he retired. He subsequently became Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006. Throughout his career, Davies has lectured in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Poland and in most of the rest of Europe as well.
Stanford University's History Department denied him a tenured faculty position in 1986 (on an 11 against, 10 for and 1 abstaining, vote).[4] Davies subsequently sought to obtain $3 million in damages from the university, arguing he had been the victim of discrimination on the grounds of his political views (with the claim being "defamation," "breach of contract" and "tortious interference" with a business. The case ultimately collapsed when Davies was unable to depose Professor Harold Kahn of Noe Valley as to what Kahn (who refused to be deposed) had said about Davies in closed faculty hearings. The court ruled that because of California's right of privacy "even if we assume that... a candidate may be denied tenure for improper" [e.g., defamatory] "reasons, we are of the opinion that the right of a faculty member to discuss with his colleagues the candidate's qualifications thoroughly and candidly, in confidence and without fear of compelled disclosure, is of such paramount value that it ought not to be impaired." The court then upheld the university's right to decide on faculty appointments on the basis of any criteria .[1][5]
He is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.[6]
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Norman Davies, Warsaw, 2004
Davies' first book, White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919–20 was published in 1972. His 1981 book God's Playground, a comprehensive overview of Polish history, was published officially in Poland only after the fall of communism. In 1984, Davies published Heart of Europe, a briefer history of Poland, in which the chapters are arranged in reverse chronological order.
In the 1990s, Davies published Europe: A History (1996) and The Isles: A History (1999), about Europe and the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, respectively. Each book is a narrative interlarded with numerous sidepanel discussions of microtopics.
In 2000, Davies' Polish publishers Znak published a collection of his essays and articles under the title Smok wawelski nad Tamizą ("The Wawel Dragon on the Thames").
In 2002, at the suggestion of the city's mayor, Bogdan Zdrojewski, Davies and his former research assistant, Roger Moorhouse, co-wrote a history of Wrocław / Breslau, a Silesian city. Titled Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City, the book was published simultaneously in English, Polish, German, Czech and Italian.
Davies also writes essays and articles for the mass media. Among others, he has worked for the BBC as well as British and American magazines and newspapers, such as The Times, The New York Review of Books and The Independent. In Poland, his articles appeared in the liberal Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny.
Davies' book Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw describes the Warsaw Uprising. It was followed by Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory (2006). In 2008 Davies participated in the documentary film "The Soviet Story".[7]
Historians Lucy Dawidowicz[8] and Abraham Brumberg,[9] object to Davies' historical treatment of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. They accuse him of minimising historic antisemitism, and of promoting an idea that academic views of the Holocaust in international historiography largely overlook the suffering of non-Jewish Poles. Davies's supporters contend that he gives due attention to the genocide and war crimes perpetrated by both Hitler and Stalin on Polish Jews and Poles. Davies himself argues that "Holocaust scholars need have no fears that rational comparisons might threaten that uniqueness. Quite the opposite." and that "... one needs to re-construct mentally the fuller picture in order to comprehend the true enormity of Poland's wartime cataclysm, and then to say with absolute conviction 'Never Again'."[10][11]
In 1986, Dawidowicz's criticism of Davies' historical treatment of the Holocaust was cited as a factor in a controversy at Stanford University in which Davies was denied a tenured faculty position for alleged "scientific flaws". Davies sued the university for breach of contract and defamation of character, but in 1989 the court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction in an academic matter.[1][4]
Davies holds a number of honorary titles and memberships, including honorary doctorates from the universities of the Jagiellonian University (since 2003), Lublin, Gdańsk and Warsaw (since 2007), memberships in the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU), the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea,[12] and the International Honorary Council[13] of the European Academy of Diplomacy, and fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.[14] Davies received an honorary DLitt degree from his alma mater the University of Sussex.[15]
Davies is also an honorary citizen of Polish cities of Warsaw, Wrocław, Lublin and Kraków.[16]
Member of the committee for the Order of the Smile.
President of the Polish government-in-exile Edward Bernard Raczyński decorated Davies with the Order of Polonia Restituta. On 22 December 1998 President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded him the Grand Cross (1st class) of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Finally, on 11 November 2012, Davies was decorated with the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian award.
Norman Davies has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Association of History Educators – EUROCLIO. In 2008 he was awarded the Order of the Cross of St Mary's Land 3rd Class by the Republic of Estonia.
Davies also received the Knight of Freedom Award in 2006 for his promotion of Polish history and the values represented by General Casimir Pulaski.[17][18]
In 2012 he received the Aleksander Gieysztor Prize for his promotion of Polish cultural heritage abroad.[16]
Norman Davies married Maria Korzeniewicz, a Polish scholar born in Dąbrowa Tarnowska. Norman Davies lives in Oxford and Kraków, and has two sons.[19] His uncle Donny died in the Munich air disaster.[20]
1972: White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish–Soviet War, 1919–20. (2004 edition: ISBN 0-7126-0694-7)
1977: Poland, Past and Present. A Select Bibliography of Works in English. ISBN 0-89250-011-5
1981: God's Playground. A History of Poland. Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-925339-0 / ISBN 0-19-925340-4
1984: Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285152-7
2001: Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present Oxford University Press, USA; New edition ISBN 0-19-280126-0
1991: Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939–46. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-06200-1
1996: Europe: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-820171-0
1997: Auschwitz and the Second World War in Poland: A lecture given at the Representations of Auschwitz international conference at the Jagiellonian University. Universitas. ISBN 83-7052-935-6
1999: Red Winds from the North. Able Publishing. ISBN 0-907616-45-3
1999: The Isles. A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513442-7
2002 (with Roger Moorhouse): Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06243-3
2004: Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-333-90568-7
2006: Europe East and West: A Collection of Essays on European History. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06924-1
2006: Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-69285-3
2008: To and From. Modern Poland: a journey through postal history. Rosikon Press. ISBN 978-83-88848-64-3
2011: Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-84614-338-0
^ a b c "State appellate court upholds Stanford in Davies case". Stanford University News Service. Stanford University. 5 September 1991. Retrieved 3 August 2008. Davies's works have been criticized at Stanford and elsewhere, by such experts as Lucy S. Dawidowicz (author of The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945) who said they felt Davies minimized historic anti-Semitism in Poland and tended to blame Polish Jews for their fate in the Holocaust. Davies' supporters contend that Poles suffered as much as Jews did in the war and could have done very little to save any of the 3 million Jews living in Poland at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1939. Davies had sought $3 million in damages from the university for what he called fraud, misrepresentation, breach of contract, discrimination and defamation.
^ The News, 05 July 2014
^ The Independent, Saturday, 29 August 2009
^ a b Applebaum, Anne (May 1997). "Against the old clichés – Review of Europe: A History by Norman Davies". The New Criterion (New York). Retrieved 2 August 2008.
^ http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp3d/188/752.html.
^ http://www.coleurope.eu/sites/default/files/uploads/page/coebrochure2013_lr.pdf, College of Europe | Collège d'Europe Brochure
^ "The Soviet Story " People in the film". Retrieved 3 August 2008. [dead link]
^ Lucy Dawidowicz, "The Curious Case of Marek Edelman". Observations. Commentary, March 1987, pp. 66–69. See also reply by Norman Davies and others in Letters from Readers, Commentary, August 1987 pp. 2–12.
^ Abraham Brumberg, "Murder Most Foul", Times Literary Supplement, 2 March 2001. Essay on Neighbors by Jan T. Gross. Tony Judt and Abraham Brumberg. Letters, Times Literary Supplement, London 6 April 2001. See also response by Norman Davies, Letters, Times Literary Supplement, London 13 April 2001.
^ Norman Davies, "Russia, the missing link in Britain's VE Day mythology", The Times, London, 1 May 2005.
^ Norman Davies, lecture, University of Cincinnati Department of History and the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Cincinnati, OH. 26 April 2005.
^ "Gesamtliste der Mitglieder". European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg. Retrieved 3 August 2008. [dead link]
^ http://diplomats.pl/en/component/content/article/464.html
^ "Fellows of the Royal Historical Society, D – F" (MSWORD). Retrieved 3 August 2008.
^ Sussex Lectures 2006: Europe at war, 1939–45: not freedom's victory
^ a b "Poland honours historian Norman Davies"
^ http://pulaski.pl/en.html/
^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/483059/Kazimierz-Pulaski/
^ Davies, Norman, Biography .
^ "Norman Davies: "Podejrzewaliśmy Niemców"" (in polski). Wawrzyn Info. Feb 6, 2015.
Schwarz, Benjamin (December 2002), "God's Playground: A History of Poland", Atlantic Monthly (review): 127 .
Snowman, Daniel "Norman Davies" pp. 36–38 from History Today, Volume 55, Issue 7, July 2005.
Taylor, Gilbert (15 December 1997), "A History of Europe", Booklist: 682 .
America, 18 December 1982, p. 394.
American Historical Review, April 1991, p. 520.
American Scholar, Fall, 1997, p. 624.
Booklist, 15 September 1996, p. 214; 1 February 2000, p. 1006; 1 May 2004, Jay Freeman, review of Rising '44: The Battle of Warsaw, p. 1538.
Commentary, March 1987, p. 66.
Current History, November 1984, p. 385.
Economist, 6 March 1982, p. 104; 10 February 1990, p. 92; 16 November 1996, p. S3; 4 December 1999, p. 8; 27 April 2002, "What's in a Name: Central European History."
History Today, May 1983, p. 54; March 2000, Robert Pearce, "The Isles: A History," p. 55.
Kirkus Reviews, 15 March 2004, review of Rising '44, p. 256.
Library Journal, 15 March 1997, p. 73; 1 February 2000, p. 100.
Nation, 21 November 1987, p. 584.
National Review, 5 June 2000, John Derbyshire, "Disunited Kingdom"; 17 May 2004, David Pryce-Jones, "Remember Them," p. 46.
New Republic, 15 November 1982, p. 25; 22 September 1997, p. 36.
New Statesman, 21 May 1982, p. 21; 31 August 1984, p. 26.
New Statesman & Society, 20 December 1996, Norman Davies, "How I Conquered Europe," pp. 36–38; 17 October 1997, David Herman, review of Europe: A History, pp. 30–32; 15 May 1998, Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, "The Hunted, Not the Hunters," p. 35. 15 November 1999, Alistair Moffat, "Jobs and Foxes Will Flee to England," p. 35; 13 December 1999, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Forging Our History," p. 57.
New York Review of Books, 29 September 1983, p. 18; 15 May 1997, p. 30.
New York Times Book Review, 5 December 1982, p. 52; 4 March 1984, p. 34; 23 December 1984, p. 5; 22 June 1986, p. 34; 7 December 1986, p. 84; 1 December 1996, p. 15.
Observer (London, England), 10 October 1999, Andrew Marr, "A History Lesson for Wee Willie," p. 29.
Publishers Weekly, 26 August 1996, p. 83; 24 November 1997, "A History of Europe," p. 64; 24 January 2000, p. 301.
Sunday Times (London, England), 17 October 1999, Niall Ferguson, "Breaking up Is Hard to Do if You're British," p. NR4.
Times (London, England), 30 October 1999, Richard Morrison, "Britain Dies as Mr. Tough Rewrites the Past," p. 21.
Wilson Library Bulletin, October 1986, p. 68.
World and I, August 2004, Richard M. Watt, "The Warsaw Insurrection: How Polish Capital Ferociously Resisted World War II Occupiers."*
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Books by Norman Davies
White Eagle, Red Star
Poland, Past and Present
God's Playground
Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR
Europe: A History
Auschwitz and the Second World War in Poland
Red Winds from the North
The Isles: A History
Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City
Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw
Europe East and West
Europe at War 1939 - 1945. No simple victory
To and From. Modern Poland
Vanished Kingdoms: Exploring Europe's Lost Realms
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Name Davies, Norman
Short description British historian
Date of birth 8 June 1939
Place of birth Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
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