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James Belich (historian)
New Zealand historian (born 1956)
James Christopher BelichONZM (born 1956) is a New Zealand historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars and on New Zealand history more generally.
One of his major works on the 19th-century clash between Māori and Pākehā, the revisionist study The New Zealand Wars (1986), was also published in an American edition and adapted into a television series and DVD.[2][3]
In 2011, Belich was appointed the Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and he is a co-founder and former director of the Oxford Centre for Global History at the University of Oxford.
Background
Of Croatian descent, Belich was born in Wellington in 1956, the son of Jim Belich, who later became the mayor of Wellington.[4][5] Educated at Onslow College,[6] he went on to study at Victoria University of Wellington, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in history.
He was awarded a