David O. Morgan (1945–2019) was a British historian who was professor emeritus of history at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

. His book ''The Mongols'' is considered a standard in the field. Originally published in 1986, a new expanded edition was published in 2007. Morgan wrote several books on

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, particularly the subject of the

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. His previous functions involved being a reader in the history of the

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at the School of Oriental and African Studies,

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. He held a BA from the

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and an MA and PhD from the

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. Morgan died on October 23, 2019.

Bibliography

* ''The Mongols'', Blackwell Publishing, 2007, * ''Medieval Persia, 1040-1797'', second edition published 2016 by Routledge.

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University biography

Academic review of ''The Mongols''
American medievalists Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the University of London University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty 1945 births 2019 deaths {{US-historian-stub