John P. McKay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John P. McKay

American academic

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1948

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

John P.
McKay, born in St.
Louis, Missouri, is a professor of history and an author.
He received his B.A.
from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968.
He became a professor of history at the University of Illinois in 1976, where he holds the position of Professor Emeritus of history.
McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history.In 1970 McKay won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 (1970).
He has translated Jules Michelet's The People (1973) and has written Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe (1976), as well as more than a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews.
He contributed to Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997), edited by Charles C.
Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, as well as Europe, 1789-1914 (2006), edited by John Merriman and Jay Winters.Among other publications, McKay has written the textbooks A History of World Societies and A History of Western Society, both published in several editions.
A History of Western Society is often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.