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Biography
Steve Murdoch is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He is author on the history of Scotland and the Wider World in general and of Scotland and Scandinavia in particular. His monographs include Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000/2003); Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006) and the award winning book The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010). In 2014 he published the co-authored book (with Alexia Grosjean) Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. He has edited several volumes including Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2000) and with Alexia Grosjean Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005). This same pairing created the Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE).
Publications
- Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2014) with Alexia Grosjean
- The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010)
- The Navigator. The Log of John Anderson, VOC Pilot-Major, 1640-1643 (2010) with Victor Enthoven and Eila Williamson
- Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006)
- Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005) with Alexia Grosjean
- Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2001)
- Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000)