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Malcolm Yapp

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Malcolm Edward Yapp (29 May 1931 – 14 June 2025) was a British historian who was a professor of the modern history of Western Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.[1] He died on 14 June 2025, at the age of 94.[2]

Works

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  • 'Two British historians of Persia', in Bernard Lewis & Peter Malcolm Holt, eds., Historians of the Middle East, 1962.
  • (ed. with V. J. Parry) War, technology and society in the Middle East, 1975.
  • (ed. with David Taylor) Political identity in South Asia, 1979.
  • Chingis Khan and the Mongol Empire, 1980.
  • Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran, and Afghanistan, 1798–1850, 1980.
  • The making of the modern Near East, 1792–1923, 1987.
  • 'Europe in the Turkish mirror', Past and Present, 137 (1992), pp. 134–55.
  • The Near East since the First World War: a History to 1995, 1991.[3]
  • (ed.) Politics and diplomacy in Egypt: the diaries of Sir Miles Lampson 1935–1937, 1997.[4]
  • 'The Legend of the Great Game'. Proceedings of the British Academy, no. 111, 2001, pp. 179–198.

References

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  1. ^ "Yapp, Sir Frederick Charles, (1880–5 Sept. 1958)", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, retrieved 26 June 2025
  2. ^ Yapp The Times
  3. ^ Reviewed by Michael W. Charney, H-Net.
  4. ^ Reviewed by Derek Hopwood, Times Higher Education Supplement, 26 June 1998.