Roger Crowley

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Roger Crowley
Born1951 (age 74–75)
OccupationHistorian
Alma materEmmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Period2005–present
GenreMaritime and Mediterranean history

Roger Crowley (born 1951[1]) is a British historian and author known for his books on maritime and Mediterranean history.[2]

Life and career

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Roger Crowley was educated at Sherborne School and read English at Emmanuel College Cambridge. As the child of a naval family, early experiences of life in Malta gave him a deep interest in the history and culture of the Mediterranean world, which has remained the major subject of his work. He has travelled widely in the Greek-speaking world, taught English in Istanbul and walked across Western Turkey. He worked for many years as a publisher before pursuing a full-time writing career. He is married and lives in England in the Gloucestershire countryside.[3]

He has a reputation for writing compelling narrative history based on original sources and eyewitness accounts combined with careful scholarship. He is the author of a loose trilogy of books on the history of the Mediterranean: Constantinople: The Last Great Siege/1453 (2005), drawing on his interest in Istanbul, Empires of the Sea (2008) about the contest for the Mediterranean between the Ottomans and Christian Europe, which was a Sunday Times (UK) History Book of the Year in 2009 and a New York Times Bestseller – and City of Fortune on Venice’s maritime empire (2011).[4] These were followed by Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (2015), an account of early Portuguese activities in the Indian Ocean, and Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land (Yale, 2019), which chronicles the end of the crusades and the fall of Akko in 1291. His latest book, Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World (Yale, 2024), explores the various expeditions led by European powers to reach and extend control over the Spice Islands. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.[5]

Roger has talked to audiences as diverse as Melvyn Bragg’s BBC programme In Our Time, the Center Analyses in Washington, NATO, the Hay Festival, and the National Maritime Museum, appeared on TV programmes, written articles and reviews, and lectured to tour groups.[6]

Bibliography

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  • "The First Global Empire" History Today (2015) 656#10 pp 10–17 online

Books

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  • 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hachette Books, 2005.(US edition) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [7]
  • Great Constantinople: The Last Siege. London: Faber, 2005.(UK edition) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[8]
  • Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. New York: Random House, 2008. (US edition) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [9] (UK edition) London: Faber, 2008. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[10]
  • City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas. New York: Random House, 2012. (US edition) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[11] (UK edition) London: Faber, 2012. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[12]
  • Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire. New York: Random House, 2015. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[13][14][15] (UK edition) London: Faber, 2015. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [16]
  • Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land. London: Yale University Press, 2019 (UK edition) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [17] (US edition) Basic Books, 2019. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[18]
  • Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World. London: Yale University Press, 2024. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[19]

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