George F. Jewsbury (born November 26, 1941) is an American historian who has collaborated on several

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s in the ''Civilization: Past & Present'' series. He joined authors

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, Alastair M. Taylor, and Nels M. Bailkey, beginning with the single volume fifth edition. Jewsbury has also written several books on

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, including ''Russian Annexation of Bessarabia, 1774–1828''. He was a

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of history at

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, and is a specialist on

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and the

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. Jewsbury is the uncle of author

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, with whom he has collaborated on two different books, ''

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'' (1994) and '' The Cobweb'' (1996). For these books he adopted the

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J. Frederick George, and the two of them then adopted the collaborative pseudonym of Stephen Bury. It was revealed after the books' publications that Stephen Bury was a pseudonym for Stephenson and his uncle, and it was then further revealed, after several years had passed, that "J. Frederick George" was a pseudonym for George Jewsbury. Jewsbury is today a teacher at the

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, an elite private school in

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