Abigail Frances Floretta Green''The Brazen Nose: 2015–2016''
vol. 50 (Brasenose College, 2016), p. 11. is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...

, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Career

Green's mother was born into the

Sebag-Montefiore family Montefiore, Montifiore, and Montefiori is a surname associated with the Montefiore family, Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from the Iberian Peninsula, namely Spain and Portugal, and also France, Morocc ...

. Green completed her undergraduate degree (BA) at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and then carried out her doctoral studies at the

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; her

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was awarded in 1999 for her

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"Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866". She was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship at

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, in 1998, before being appointed a Fellow at

, in 2000."Professor Abigail Green"
''Brasenose College''. Retrieved 11 May 2018. She remains there as of 2018, and in 2015 was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford. Green specialises in the history of 19th-century Europe,

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

and regionalism in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

internationalism Internationalism may refer to: * Cosmopolitanism, the view that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality as opposed to communitarianism, patriotism and nationalism * International Style, a major architectur ...

, and

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

Honours and awards

Green was awarded the

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously administered by the Jewish Book Council, it is now given in association with the National Libr ...

's silver medal in 2012 for her biography of Sir

Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, afte ...

, which was also named one the '' New Republic's'' "Best Books of 2010", included among the ''

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'' "Books of the Year", and a

National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature."Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist... Abigail Green"
''

Jewish Book Council The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature."Humanitarianism in nineteenth-century context: religious, gendered, national"
''

The Historical Journal ''The Historical Journal'', formerly known as ''The Cambridge Historical Journal'', is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It publishes approximately thirty-five articles per year on all aspects of British, Eu ...

'', vol. 57, no. 4 (2014), pp. 1157–1175.
"Spirituality, tradition and gender: Judith Montefiore, the very model of modern Jewish womanhood"
''

History of European Ideas ''History of European Ideas'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the intellectual history of Europe from the Renaissance onwards. It was established in 1980 and is published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Richard Whatmore (Univer ...

'', vol. 40 (2014), pp. 747–760. * "The limits of intervention: coercive diplomacy and the Jewish question in the nineteenth century", ''

The International History Review ''The International History Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of international relations and the history of international thought published by Routledge. It was established in 1978 by Edward Ingram, Gordon Martel an ...

'', vol. 36, no. 3 (2014), pp. 473–492. * (Edited with Vincent Viaene) ''Religious Internationals in the Modern World: Globalization and Faith Communities since 1750'', Palgrave Transnational History series ( Palgrave, 2012). * ''Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero'' ( The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
"The British Empire and the Jews: an imperialism of human rights?
, '' Past & Present'', vol. 199 (2008), pp. 175–205. * ''Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany'' (

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, 2001).

References

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