Michael Denis Biddiss (born 1942) is emeritus professor of history at the University of Reading. He specialises in the history of the development of
racist ideology, and the
history of medicine.
Early life
Michael Denis Biddiss was born in 1942. He was educated at
St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, and
Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received a first in Part II of the historical
tripos in 1964.
Career
Biddiss was formerly a fellow of
Downing College, Cambridge. He has been professor of history at the
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...
since 1979 (emeritus since 2004), and was dean of letters and social sciences from 1982 to 1985. He was president of the
Historical Association from 1991 to 1994. He specialises in the history of the development of racist ideology.
Selected publications
* ''The age of the masses: Ideas and society in Europe since 1870''. Penguin, 1977.
* ''Father of racist ideology: The social and political thought of Count Gobineau''.
Weybright & Talley, New York, 1970.
Reviewed Work: ''Father of Racist Ideology: The Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau''
by Michael D. Biddiss Review by: George W. Stocking, Jr. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 77, No. 2 (Sep. 1971), pp. 349–351. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
* ''Gobineau: Selected political writings''. Jonathan Cape, London, 1970. (Editor and introduction) ( Roots of the Right series)
* ''Thatcherism: Personality and politics''. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1987. (Edited with Kenneth R. Minogue)
* ''Images of race''. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1979. (Editor)
* ''The uses and abuses of antiquity''. Peter Lang, 1999. (Editor with Maria Wyke)
* ''Themes in modern European history, 1890–1945''. Routledge, 2009. (Edited with Nicholas Atkin)
* ''The Wiley-Blackwell dictionary of modern European history since 1789''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. (Edited with Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett)
References
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Cambridge
1942 births
British historians
Historians of fascism
Academics of the University of Reading
Living people
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