Prof Avner Offer's Biography
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Avner
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Male
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15/5/1944 Gvat, Israel
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Prof
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OFFER
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Prof Avner Offer
- Recreations
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literature, visual arts, classical music
Prof Avner Offer's Professional Career
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jr research fell Merton Coll Oxford 1976-78; Univ of York: lectr in economic and social history 1979-90, reader in economic and social history 1990-91; sr fell Center for Historical Analysis Rutgers Univ USA 1991, professorial fell and reader in recent social and economic history Nuffield Coll Oxford 1992-2000, fell All Souls Coll Oxford 2000-, Chichele prof of economic history Univ of Oxford 2000-11 (sr research fell 2011-); Hartley research fell Univ of Southampton 1981-82, visiting assoc Clare Hall Cambridge 1984, research fell Inst of Advanced Studies ANU 1985-88, sr visiting fell Remarque Inst NYU 1999; memb: Advsy Bd History of the London Co Cncl 1983-85, Editorial Bd Rural History 1989-94, Editorial Bd Jl of Mktg History; author of numerous articles in learned jls incl: The Public Historian, Modern Law Review, Economic History Review, Historical Jl, Past and Present, Jl of Contemporary History; numerous invited talks and lectures internationally; memb: ESRC Bd for Post-Grad Trg in Economics and Social History (also research training referee), ESRC Sociology History, Anthropology and Geography Research Coll, Economics and Economics History Section Ctee Br Acad, Comité Scientifique Centre de Recherch Historial de la Grande Guerre (France), Ctee Social History Soc 1992-99, Cncl and Exec Ctee Economic History Soc 2001-08; govr History of Advtg Tst 1996-98; FBA 2000, AcSS 2003
Prof Avner Offer's Publications
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incl: Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England (1981), The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (1989, Trevor Reese Meml Prize for Imperial and Cwlth History 1992), In Pursuit of the Quality of Life (ed, 1996), Why is the Public Sector so Large in Market Societies? The Political Economy of Prudence in the UK, c1879-2000 (2003), The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (2006), Insecurity, Inequality and Obesity in Affluent Societies (2012)
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