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John P. McKay

Date of Birth 27-August-1948
Place of Birth St. Louis
(Missouri, United States of America, Area code 314, Area code 557)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John McKay, John Patrick McKay
John P. McKay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a professor of history and an author. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He became a professor of history at the University of Illinois in 1976, where he holds the position of Professor Emeritus of history. McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history. In 1970 McKay won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913. He has translated Jules Michelet's The People and has written Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe, as well as more than a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews. He contributed to Imagining the Twentieth Century, edited by Charles C. Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, as well as Europe, 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winters. Among other publications McKay have made contributions to are A History of World Societies and A History of Western Society, both published in several editions. A History of Western Society is often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.

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