Staff profiles
Professor Bruce Collins
Professor of modern history, MA, PhD, F.R.Hist.S.
Phone 0114 225 3776
E-mail b.collins@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- British power projection and military/naval imperialism 1775-1902, for a two-volume study commissioned by Longman/Pearson
- American politics 1857-59
Recent publications
'Confederate Identity and the Southern Myth since the Civil War' in Susan-Mary Grant and Peter J. Parish (eds.), Legacy of Disunion (Baton Rouge, 2003), pp. 30- 47.
'Siege warfare in the age of Wellington' in C.M. Woolgar (ed.), Wellington Studies IV (University of Southampton, 2008), 22-53
'Trust in Alliance Warfare: America 1965-67' in Thean Potgeiter (ed.) Regions, Regional Organizations and Military Power. XXXIII International Congress of Military History (Stellenbosch, 2008), 13-25
'Southern Secession in 1860-61' in Susan-Mary Grant and Brian Holden Reid (eds.), Themes of the American Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2010, 2nd edn.), 39-63 (Reprint of 2000 essay)
War and Empire: the Expansion of Britain 1790-1830 (Harlow: Longman, 2010), xxii + 510 pp
