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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robin W. Winks was an American academic, historian, diplomat, writer on the subject of fiction, especially detective novels, and advocate for the National Parks. After joining the faculty of Yale University in 1957, he rose in 1996-1999 to become the Randolph Townsend Professor of History and Master of Berkeley College. At Oxford University he served as George Eastman Professor in 1992-3, and as Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History in 1999-2000.
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- The Blacks in Canada: A History (1972) (218)
- Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (1999) (83)
- Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961 (1987) (77)
- Detective fiction : a collection of critical essays (1980) (73)
- The historian as detective : essays on evidence (1969) (56)
- Marxism and Imperialism (1976) (34)
- Canada and the United States : the Civil War years (1961) (30)
- Commonwealth : a history of the British Commonwealth of Nations (1975) (28)
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography (2001) (26)
- On Decolonization and Informal Empire (1976) (26)
- Malaysia; selected historical readings (1967) (17)
- Negro School Segregation in Ontario and Nova Scotia (1969) (17)
- The Western Malay States 1850-1873: The Effects of Commercial Development on Malay Politics (1972) (16)
- Western civilization: A brief history (1979) (14)
- Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst For Conservation (1997) (14)
- Portuguese Rule in Ceylon, 1594–1612 . By Tikiri Abeyasinghe. Colombo: Lake House Investments Ltd., 1966. xi, 247 pp. Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, n.p. (1968) (14)
- A History of Australia: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie (1962) (13)
- Cloak and gown: Scholars in America's secret war (1987) (12)
- Slavery: a comparative perspective (1972) (12)
- The Civil War Years: Canada and the United States (1998) (12)
- Asia in Western Fiction (1989) (11)
- Cloak & gown : scholars in the secret war, 1939 1961/ Robin W. Winks (1987) (11)
- The Future of Imperial History (1999) (10)
- Mystery and suspense writers : the literature of crime, detection, and espionage (1998) (9)
- Europe and the making of modernity, 1815-1914 (2005) (8)
- Other Voices, Other Views: An International Collection of Essays from the Bicentennial (1978) (8)
- The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth: Trends, Interpretations and Resources. (1966) (7)
- Lying to Ourselves. (1995) (7)
- Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (1969) (7)
- The defence of the undefended border (1977) (7)
- The Canadian Negro: A Historical Assessment: The Negro in the Canadian-American Relationship: Part I (1968) (7)
- The Creation of a Myth: “Canadian” Enlistments in the Northern Armies During the American Civil War (1958) (5)
- Guide to the study of United States history outside the U.S., 1945-1980 (1988) (5)
- Medieval Europe and the World: From Late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500 (2005) (5)
- Frederick Billings: A Life (1991) (5)
- Modus operandi: An excursion into detective fiction (1982) (5)
- Slavery : a comparative perspective : readings on slavery from ancient times to the present (1972) (4)
- The Sinister Oriental: Thriller Fiction and the Asian Scene (1985) (4)
- The historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth : trends, interpretations and resources (1967) (4)
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights (1963) (4)
- British Imperialism: Gold, God, Glory (1963) (4)
- Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution (2003) (4)
- A Public Historiography (1992) (4)
- Upon Reading Sellars and Runte (1983) (4)
- Martin Couney's Story Revisited: Writing history is like trying to nail jelly to the wall. (1997) (4)
- 13. "A Sacred Animosity": Abolitionism in Canada (1965) (3)
- The Ancient Mediterranean World: From the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (2004) (3)
- Tennessee's Historic Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide Carroll Van West (1997) (3)
- The cold war from Yalta to Cuba (1964) (3)
- Recent trends and new literature in Canadian history (1959) (3)
- Europe, 1890-1945: Crisis and Conflict (2003) (2)
- The relevance of Canadian history : U.S. and imperial perspectives (1980) (2)
- The Canadian Negro: A Historical Assessment, The Problem of Identity: Part II (1969) (2)
- Comparative Studies and History (1968) (2)
- “WHODUNIT?” CANADIAN SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN ITS DETECTIVE FICTION (1987) (2)
- Book Review: The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of Ambassador David K. E. Bruce, 1898-1977, by Nelson D. Lankford (1997) (2)
- Colloquium on crime : eleven renowned mystery writers discuss their work (1986) (2)
- Europe in a wider world, 1350-1650 (2003) (1)
- A History of Civilization: Prehistory to the Present (1988) (1)
- What's Past is Prologue: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, C. H. (1965) (1)
- Thirty Years After: Canadian History in the Universities of the United States (1959) (1)
- These New Zealanders (1954) (1)
- Perserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. By Richard West Sellars. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv, 380 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06931-6.) (1998) (1)
- The Germans by Erich Kahler (Princeton University Press; 305 pp; $13.50) - Hitler by Joachim C. Fest (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich; 844 pp.; $15.00) (1975) (1)
- The Wise Man of Intelligence: Uncovering the Life of Allen Dulles (1994) (1)
- Renewing Nature's Wealth: A Centennial History of the Public Management of Lands, Forests & Wildlife in Ontario, 1763–1967. By Richard S. Lambert with Paul Pross. (Toronto: Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, 1967. 630 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography.) (1967) (1)
- Negroes in the Maritimes: An Introductory Survey (1968) (1)
- The Future of the National Parks: Recreating the Alliance Between Commerce and Conservation (1986) (0)
- New Zealand Letters of Thomas Arnold the Younger, with Further Letters from Van Dieman's Land and Letters of Arthur Hugh Clough, 1847-1851 (1968) (0)
- Controlling Factors in Canadian‐American Relations* (2008) (0)
- On Batting . 667 : Three Courses for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute (2004) (0)
- The relevance of Canadian history (1979) (0)
- Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause?. Richard SymondsThe Fall of Imperial Britain in South-East Asia. Nicholas TarlingBritain's Persian Connection, 1798-1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia. Edward Ingram (1995) (0)
- Recollections of a Dead Art: The Traveling Chautauqua (1958) (0)
- Hitler's War by David Irving (Viking; 926 pp.; $17.50) (1977) (0)
- Henry Adams' Philosophy of History (1964) (0)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume 10, 1871 to 1880 (1973) (0)
- A Letter (1968) (0)
- A popular empire (1971) (0)
- Europe 1945 to the present (2005) (0)
- The Great (Wo)man Theory of History: Margaret Thatcher's Memoirs (1994) (0)
- Minnesota and the Manifest Destiny of the Canadian Northwest: A Study in Canadian-American Relations by Alvin C. Gluek, Jr (1966) (0)
- Canada and Imperialism, 1896-1899. Norman Penlington (1966) (0)
- A Future for American Studies Abroad. (1975) (0)
- The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945 by J. C. Masterman (Yale University Press; 224 pp.; $6.95) (1972) (0)
- The Civil War Years (1971) (0)
- Morley and India, 1906-1910. Stanley Wolpert (1969) (0)
- A Nineteenth-Century Cold War (1960) (0)
- Economics and the school teacher (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Public Opinion and Canadian Identity. Mildred A. Schwartz (1968) (0)
- Expanding Forestry Horizons: A History of the Canadian Institute of Forestry-Institut Forestier du Canada. 1908–1969. By K. G. Fensom. (Vancouver, B.C.: Evergreen Press, for the Institute, MacDonald College, P.Q., 1972. x + 547 pp. Photos. Appendix. Index. Price not listed.) (1974) (0)
- The Malay States 1877-1895: Political Change and Social Policy@@@The Younghusband Expedition: An Interpretation (1973) (0)
- The age of imperialism (1969) (0)
- Separate and Unequal: India and the Indians in the British Commonwealth, 1920-1950, by Hugh Tinker (1977) (0)
- Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World: In Quest of a New Parkman Gregory M. Pfitzer (1993) (0)
- Smuts. W. K. Hancock (1969) (0)
- In Search of Canadian Liberalism (1961) (0)
- The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 by W. J. Eccles (1970) (0)
- Neighbors Taken for Granted: Canada and the United States. Ed. by Livingston T. Merchant. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. xv + 166 pp. Notes. $4.95.) (1966) (0)
- Malaysia: Selected Historical Readings@@@Malaysia (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction Linda Flint McClelland (1999) (0)
- Bicentennial Sweepstakes (1978) (0)
- A History of civilization : study guide (1992) (0)
- Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History. Edited by Char Miller and Hal K. Rothman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. xvi + 368 pp. Notes, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $22.95 (1999) (0)
- The Coming-of-Age of American Studies Abroad. (1976) (0)
- The State of the World's Parks: An International Assessment for Resource Management, Policy, and Research. By Gary E. Machlis and David L. Tichnell. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985. xiv + 131 pp. Footnotes, charts, tables, index, bibliography. $28.85 (1987) (0)
- Wires Richard. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. (Perspectives of Intelligence History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1999. Pp. xiv, 265. $27.95. ISBN 0-275-96456-6. (2002) (0)
- Louis St. Laurent: Canadian. By Dale C. Thomson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968. x + 564 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendixes, and index. $10.95.) (1968) (0)
- International Relations and Politics (1984) (0)
- A System of Commands: the Infrastructure of Race Contact (1986) (0)
- The Story of Canada@@@The Founding of Canada: Beginnings to 1815 (1961) (0)
- Untapped Historical Source: Rest House Register Books (1964) (0)
- Edward Scobie. Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company. 1972. Pp. ix, 316. $7.95 (1975) (0)
- Illusions of Security: North Atlantic Diplomacy, 1918–22. By Michael G. Fry. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972. xii + 221 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1972) (0)
- The Marshall plan and the American economy (1960) (0)
- Australia's Defence . By T. B. Millar. Donald Moore Books, Singapore, 1965 Pp. x, 198. Bibliography, Index, Illustrations, Maps, Appendices. (1966) (0)
- United States (1986) (0)
- A history of civilization : renaissance to the present (1996) (0)
- Men and Meridians: The History of Surveying and Mapping in Canada. By Don W. Thomson. Volume I, Prior to 1867; Volume II, 1867–1917. (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1966, 1967. 345 pp. and 342 pp. Illustrations. $8.00 per volume.) (1969) (0)
- Cell John W.. Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872–1969. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. xv, 332. $47.95. (1993) (0)
- Book Review: Canada: The Kingdom of Canada (1964) (0)
- D. A. Low. Eclipse of Empire New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Pp. xvi, 375. $54.50. (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Imperial Control of Colonial Legislation, 1813-1865: A Study of British Policy towards Colonial Legislative Powers D. B. Swinfen (1971) (0)
- Hume and Gibbon: A View from a Vantage (1962) (0)
- From Enmity to Alliance: U.S.–Australian Relations, 1931–1941 by Raymond A. Esthus (review) (1966) (0)
- Canada's National Policy, 1883–1900: A Study in Canadian-American Relations. By Robert Craig Brown. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. xi + 436 pp. Map, cartoons, notes, bibliography, and index. $9.00.) (1965) (0)
- William “Colorado” Jewett of the Niagara Falls Conference (1960) (0)
- Picturesque Itinerary of the Hudson River and the Peripheral Parts of North America. By Jacques Milbert. Translated from the French and annotated by Constance D. Sherman. Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Gregg Press, 1968. 308 pp. Illustrations. $15.00) (1969) (0)
- Let's say the word (1958) (0)
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