Sudhir Hazareesingh

Sudhir Hazareesingh FBA (18 October 1961) is a British-Mauritian historian. He has been a fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford since 1990. Most of his work relates to modern political history from 1850; including the history of contemporary France as well as Napoleon, the Republic and Charles de Gaulle.[1]

Sudhir Hazareesingh
Sudhir Hazareesingh, Forum France Culture Histoire, 2017.
Born (1961-10-18) 18 October 1961
OccupationAcademic
Notable work
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Biography

Hazareesingh is the son of Kissoonsing Hazareesingh, a Cambridge- and Sorbonne-educated historian in his own right, who was a notable figure in Mauritian public life as a Mauritius Times writer and Principal Private Secretary to Seewoosagur Ramgoolam.[2]

Hazareesingh's book Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2020.[3] It was shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize.[4] Described in The Guardian as "a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time",[5] Black Spartacus was BBC Radio 4's "Book of the Week" from 16 November 2020, read by Adrian Lester.[6]

Publications[7]
  • In the Shadow of the General. Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle. New York, Oxford University Press, 2012 (this is an English version of Le Mythe Gaullien, first published in French by Gallimard in 2010)
  • Les prfets de Gambetta (with Vincent Wright and Eric Anceau), Paris, Presses de lUniversit Paris-Sorbonne, 2007
  • The Saint-Napoleon. Celebrations of sovereignty in 19th century France, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press 2004 (French translation published by Editions Tallandier, 2007)
  • The Legend of Napoleon, London, Granta, 2004 (French translation, Editions Tallandier, 2005; published in collection Points-Seuil, 2008)
  • The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France. Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright (editor and contributor), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002
  • Francs-Maons sous le Second Empire (with Vincent Wright), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001
  • Intellectual Founders of the Republic. Five studies in 19th century French Political Thought, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001 (revised paperback edition, 2005)

References/Notes and references
  1. "Sudhir Hazareesingh". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  2. Sudhir Hazareesingh (25 June 2015). How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-14-197480-4.
  3. "Book Marks reviews of Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh". Book Marks. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  4. "The Baillie Gifford Prize 2020 shortlist announced". The Baillie Gifford Prize.
  5. Bell, David A. (28 August 2020). "Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh review – the epic life of Toussaint Louverture". The Guardian.
  6. "Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  7. "Sudhir Hazareesingh". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2020.



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