Kees Boterbloem
Professor of History at USF, Tampa (since 2005)
Associate and Assistant Professor of History, Nipissing University, Canada (1994-2015)
Editor of The Historian, 2008-2018.
Born in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1962. BA and MA, University of Amsterdam; PhD, McGill University, 1994.
Books published:
1. A Forgotten Friendship: The Dutch Republic and Russia, 1560-1725, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.
2. Russia as Empire: Past and Present. London: Reaktion Books, 2020.
3. The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism: The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century. London and New York: Routledge Publishers, 2019.
4. Life in Stalin's Russia. Editor and contributor. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019.
5. A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. Second Revised Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
6. Revoljoetsija: De betekenis van de Russische Revolutie in historisch perspectief. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. (In Dutch).
7. De Russische Revolutie. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. (In Dutch; Audiobook, 2019).
8. Jan Struys, Rampspoedige reizen door Rusland en Perzië in de zeventiende eeuw. Amsterdam: Panchaud, 2014 (edited and annotated retranslation of seventeenth-century original). (In Dutch).
9. A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
10. Moderniser of Russia: Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, 2013.
11. The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, 2008.
12. The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. Honourable mention for the 2004-5 Raymond Klibansky Prize of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
13. Life and Death under Stalin: The Kalinin Province, 1945-1953. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999.