James B. Wood The Willmott Family Third Century Professor of History B.A. (1968) Eckerd College Ph.D. (1973) Emory University

Contact
NAB Room 354
Phone: 413.597.2551
James.B.Wood@williams.edu
Office Hours:
Monday, Thursday 2:00-4:00



Courses Taught
HIST 127: The Expansion of Europe
HIST 135: The Great War, 1914-1918
HIST 326: War in European History
HIST 327: Knighthood and Chivalry
HIST 475: Modern Warfare and Military Leadership
HIST 487T: The Second World War: Origins, Course, Outcomes, and Meaning

Selected Publications
The King's Army, Warfare, Soldiers and Society During the Early Wars of Religion in France, 1526-76 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Winner of the 1998 Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Military History, 1998.  Precis
The Nobility of the Election of Bayeaux, 1463-1666, Social Continuity and Change Among the Provincial Nobility in Early Modern France (Princeton University Press, 1980).

Research Interests
Early modern Europe, the expansion of Europe, the origins of modern warfare, World Wars I and II, American military history

Theses Advised
Brad Naranch '96, Building an Empire Builder: Carl Peters, German East Africa, and the Will to Create Through Conquest. A Study in Self- Representation and Imperial Theory and Practice.
Laura Hunt '97, The Limits of Power: Redefining the Terms of Military Success and Failure in a Comparative Historical Perspective, Tenotchitlán, 1519, Tet, 1968.
Sarah Wood '97, Repression and Obsession: Mythmaking the French War: A Historiographical Study of World War II France.
Martin West '98, Survival Under Extreme Conditions: Japanese Civilian Internment Camps in the Philippines, 1941-1945.
Josh Burson '01, The Court of Mary I
Peter Krause '02, Stopping Them Cold: How Siege Warfare Prevented Germany Victory on the Eastern Front
Ian Tate '02, Rising from the Ashes: Myth, Memory and the Blitz



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