Quotes by J.M. Roberts

About J.M. Roberts:

John Morris Roberts was a British historian, with significant published works. From 1979 to 1985 he was vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and from 1985 to 1994, Warden of Merton College, Oxford. He was also well known as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West (1985).
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For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of employment. The second depended ultimately on the first, but when difficulty arose, the first had always...

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Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been the goal of hundreds of interes...

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If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emergi...

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Author Bio

  • NameJ.M. Roberts
  • DescriptionBritish historian, born 1928
  • AliasesJohn Roberts
  • BornApril 14, 1928
  • DiedMay 30, 2003
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionHistorian