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Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (2 July 1913-22 March 1999) was a British historian. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.

Max Beloff was the oldest child of a gifted Jewish family.^[1] He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Scholar; MA; Honorary Fellow, 1993).

He was made a Life peer with the title Baron Beloff, of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire in 1981.

Career

• Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, 1937
• Assistant Lecturer in History, Manchester University, 1939-46
  • World War II service: Royal Corps of Signals, 1940-41.
• Nuffield Reader in Comparative Study of Institutions, Oxford University, 1946-56
• Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1947-57
• Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, Oxford University, 1957-74, then Professor Emeritus
• Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1957-74, Emeritus Fellow, 1980-99
• Supernumerary Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1975-84
• Principal, University College of Buckingham, 1974-79
• Honorary Professor, St. Andrews University, 1993-98.

He was a governor of the University of Haifa.

Works

• Public order and popular disturbances 1660-1714 (1938).
• The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia 1929-41 (2 volumes) (1947/1949).
• Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy (1948).
• Soviet Policy in the Far East, 1944-51 (1953).
• The Age of Absolutism, 1660-1815 (1954).
• Foreign Policy and the Democratic Press (1955).
• Europe and the Europeans (1957).
• The Great Powers (1959).
• New Dimensions in Foreign Policy (1961).
• The United States and the Unity of Europe (1963).
• The Balance of Power (1968).
• Imperial Sunset-Volume 1: Britain’s Liberal Empire 1897-1921 (1969).
• The American Federal Government (1969).
• The Future of British Foreign Policy (1969).
• The Intellectual in Politics (1970).
• The Tide of Collectivism- Can it be Turned? (1978).
• The State and its servants (1979).
• The Government of the United Kingdom (with Gillian Peele) (1980).
• Wars and Welfare: Britain, 1941-1945 (1984).
• Imperial Sunset-Volume 2: Dream of Commonwealth 1921-42 (1989).
  
• An Historian in the Twentieth Century (1992).
• Britain and European Union: Dialogue of the Deaf (1996).

Works edited by Beloff include:

• History: Mankind and his story (1948).
• The Federalist (1948).
• The Debate on the American Revolution, 1761-1783 (1949).
• Europe and the Europeans: an International Discussion (1957).
• On the track of tyranny: essays presented by the Wiener Library to Leonard G. Montefiore (1960).
• American Political Institutions in the 1970s (with Vivian Vale) (1975).
• Beyond the Soviet Union: the fragmentation of power (1997).

References

• Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia of Britain
• Who was Who
• The Times, 24 March 1999, p23
• Cameron-Watt, D. (2004) ‘Max Beloff’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Crick, B. (1999) ‘Loose and loud cannon’, The Guardian, March 25th.
• Johnson, N. (1999) ‘Obituary: Max Beloff’, The Independent, March 26th.
• Johnson, N. (2003) ‘Max Beloff, 1913-1999’, Proceedings of the British Academy: Vol. 120, pp21-40.

External links

• Max Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty
• details about his 'Intellectual Autobiography'
• photograph of Beloff by Godfrey Argent
• Obituary by Nevil Johnson
• Obituary by Bernard Crick
• Works by or about Max Beloff, Baron Beloff in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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