Dr Bruce Kent

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, NEC

Research School of Humanities
College of Arts and Social Sciences

Short biography:

1953: BA (Melb); 1955: Victorian Rhodes Scholarship; 1957: BA (Oxon); 1962: PhD (ANU); 1962-1997: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader (History Department, ANU); Visiting Fellow at Stanford; 1975; Princeton (1975 and 1996); London School of Economics and Political Science, 1990; Department of Economic History, ANU, 1998-2000; Distinguished Visiting Fellow (National Europe Centre, ANU, 2001-)

Research Interests:

Dynamics of International Debt; Problem of Post-War Reconstruction After First and Second World Wars; The Contemporary European Far Right; The Question of Historical Agency in Social Movements

Current Research Projects:

Origins of Cold War in Europe; the Dardanelles Syndrome; Coming to terms with the Past – History Wars

Selected Publications:

Books and Monographs

1989 The Spoils of War: The Politics, Economics and Diplomacy of Reparations, 1918-1932, Oxford: OUP, Clarendon Press

Disciplines:

Modern West European History since 1789, Twentieth Century International Financial History

Teaching:

1) Modern Revolutions: France and Germany; (2) Modern Revolutions: Russia and China; (3) Social and Political Crises in Twentieth Century Western Europe: France, Germany and Spain; (4) From Fascism to Neo-Fascism (Via The Cold War, Eurocommunism and Stalinism); (5) Kingdoms, Classes and Cultures in Eighteenth Century Europe; (6) Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Civil War in France and Spain from 1789 to 1939

Activities:

Manning Clark House, ACT, Committee Member; Walter Burley Griffin Society, ACT Chapter, Vice-Chairman

Professional societies:

Australian Association of European History