Maldwyn Allen Jones (18 December 1922 – 12 April 2007) was a historian who specialised in

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. Jones studied at

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, from 1946 to 1949, obtaining a first-class degree in history. He was a lecturer at

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before becoming chairman of the

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in 1968 and Commonwealth Professor of American History at

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in 1971. His most famous work was the synthesis '' The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980'', a volume in the " Short Oxford History of the Modern World" series, published in 1983. This remains the most comprehensive single-authored book on American history.

Publications

Books

* ''American Immigration'' (

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, 1961) * ''Destination America'' (Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1976) * '' The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980'' (

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, 1983)

As editor

* Maldwyn Jones, Henry Steele Commager and Marcus Cunliffe (eds.), ''The American Destiny: an Illustrated Bicentennial History of the United States'' (20 vols., 1976)

Articles

* "From the Old Country to the New: The Welsh in nineteenth-century America", ''Flintshire Historical Society Publications'', 27 (1975–76): 85–100. * "The background to emigration from Great Britain in the nineteenth century". In Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn (eds.), ''Dislocation and Emigration: The Social Background of American Immigration'', pp. 3–92 (Cambridge, MA, 1973) * "Ulster emigration, 1783—1815". In E. R. R. Green (ed.), ''Essays in Scotch-Irish History'' (London:

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, 1969) * "The Scotch-Irish in British America". In Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan (eds.), ''Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire'' (

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, 1991)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Maldwyn 1922 births 2007 deaths Academics of University College London Historians of the United States People associated with the History Department, University College London Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford 20th-century English historians