John Brewer Born: 22-Mar-1947
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Historian Nationality: England Executive summary: The Sinews of Power University: BA, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University (1968) University: PhD, Cambridge University (1973) Lecturer: Cambridge University (1973-76) Associate Professor: History, Yale University (1976-80) Professor: History and Literature, Harvard University (1980-87) Professor: History, University of California at Los Angeles (1987-94) Professor: Cultural History, European University Institute, Florence (1993-99) Professor: History, University of Chicago (1999-2002) Professor: California Institute of Technology (2002-)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1992 Wolfson Prize 1998 for The Pleasures of the Imagination
Author of books:
Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (1976, history) The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 (1989, history) The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1997, history) The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money (2009, art)
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