Sydney Nettleton Fisher (August 8, 1906 – December 10, 1987) was an American historian of the

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Life

Fisher was born in

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. He studied at

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, gaining an economics degree in 1928 and an M. A. degree in history in 1932. He received his PhD in history from the

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in 1935. After teaching mathematics at

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, he joined the history faculty of

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in 1937. He gained full professorship in 1955, and retired in 1972.RG 30/187 - Sydney Nettleton Fisher (1906-1987)
Oberlin College Archives, 2012

Works

* ''The Foreign Relations of Turkey, 1481-1512'', 1948 * ''Social Forces in the Middle East'', 1955 * ''The Middle East: A History'', 1959 * ''The Military in the Middle East; Problems in Society and Government'', 1963 * (ed.) ''France and the European Community'', 1963 * (ed. with John J. TePaske) ''Explosive Forces in Latin America'', 1964 * (ed.) ''New Horizons for the United States in World Affairs'', 1966

References

1906 births 1987 deaths Historians of the Middle East Oberlin College alumni University of Illinois alumni Ohio State University faculty People from Warsaw, New York 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians from New York (state) 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub