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Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott ( June 6 , 1930 - ) is an eminent Historian , Regius Professor Emeritus in the University Of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge . Elliott was Professor of History, King's College, London between 1968 and 1973 . In 1972 he was elected to a Fellow ship at The British Academy . Elliott was Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute For Advanced Studies , Princeton, New Jersey from 1973 to 1990 , and was the Regius Professor Of Modern History, Oxford between 1990 and 1997 . For his outstanding contributions to the history of Spain and the Spanish Empire in the early modern period, Elliott was awarded the Balzan Prize For History, 1500-1800 in 1999 . His studies of the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Empire helped the understanding of the problems confronting 16th and 17th Century Spain, and the attempts of it's leaders to avert its decline. Elliott's principal publications are ''The revolt of the Catalan s'', 1963; ''The Old World and the New, 1492-1650'', 1970; and ''The Count-Duke of Olivares'', 1986. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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