Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 - November 2, 2005) was a Scottish-born U.S historian of German, Swiss and of diplomatic history. Jump to: navigation, search November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sometimes referred to as Rankian History, diplomatic history focuses on politics, politicians and other high rulers and views them as being the driving force of continuity and change in history. ...

His family moved in 1925 from Scotland to the U.S. During World War II, Craig served in the US Marine Corps and in the Office of Strategic Services. He graduated in History from Princeton University and was a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a professor at Princeton University from 1950-61 and at Stanford University from 1961-79. Dr. Craig was formally President of the American Historical Association. In 1953, Craig, together with Felix Gilbert, edited a prosopography of inter-war diplomats entitled The Diplomats, an important source for diplomatic history in the interwar period. Jump to: navigation, search 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ... The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime (but not direct) precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other Princetons, see Princeton. ... Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil John Rhodes. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This page refers to the year 1979. ... The American Historical Association (AHA) is a society of historians and teachers of history founded in 1884 and incorporated by the United States Congress in 1889. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Prosopography is an important methodological tool within historical research, its goal being the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period, often in the form of a register or database (frequently also known as a Prosopography, e. ... The Interwar period was the time between World War I and World War II, ergo the 1920s and 1930s. ...

Work

• The second chance : America and the peace, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1944.
• The Diplomats 1919—1939 co-edited with Felix Gilbert, New York : Atheneum, 1953.
• The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640—1945, New York : Oxford University Press, 1964, 1955.
• From Bismarck to Adenauer: Aspects of German Statecraft, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1958.
• The Battle of Königgrätz : Prussia's victory over Austria, 1866 Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1975, 1964.
• War, politics, and diplomacy, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson ,1966.
• World War I, a turning point in modern history : essays on the significance of the war, New York : A.A. Knopf, 1967.
• Europe since 1914, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
• Europe Since 1815, Hinsdale, Illinois : Dryden Press, 1974.
• Germany, 1866-1945, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1978.
• The Germans, New York : Putnam, 1981.
• The end of Prussia, Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
• Makers of modern strategy : from Machiavelli to the nuclear age, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986 edited by Peter Paret, Gordon Craig and Felix Gilbert.
• The triumph of liberalism : Zürich in the golden age, 1830-1869, New York : Collier Books ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1990, 1988.
• Force and statecraft : diplomatic problems of our time, New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Geneva, Zurich, Basel : history, culture & national identity, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.
• The politics of the unpolitical : German writers and the problem of power, 1770-1871, New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
• Politics and Culture in Modern Germany, Palo Alto, California : Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1999.