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{{Infobox academic
| honorific_prefix = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
| name = Christopher Clark
| honorific_suffix = [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]]
| image = Christopher Clark Frankfurter Buchmesse 2013 1.JPG
| imagesize = 
| caption = Christopher Clark in 2013
| birth_name = Christopher Munro Clark
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1960|03|14}}
| birth_place = Sydney, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| fields = 
| workplaces = [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge]]
| alma_mater = {{plainlist|
*[[University of Sydney]] (B.A.)
*[[Free University of Berlin]]
*[[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] (PhD)}}
| thesis_title = Jewish mission in the Christian state: Protestant missions to the Jews in 18th- and 19th-century Prussia{{sfn|Clark|1991}}
| thesis_year = 1991
| doctoral_advisor = [[Jonathan Steinberg (historian)|Jonathan Steinberg]]
| academic_advisors = 
| doctoral_students = 
| notable_students = 
| awards = [[Wolfson History Prize]]
| website = [https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-chris-clark Cambridge Faculty of History page]
| spouse={{ill|Nina Lübbren|de}}
| children = Two sons
}}
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'''Sir Christopher Munro Clark''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|FBA|size=100%}} (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second [[Regius Professor of History (Cambridge)|Regius Professor of History]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]. In the [[2015 Birthday Honours]], he was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] for his services to [[Germany–United Kingdom relations|Anglo-German relations]].<ref name="gov.uk">{{cite web | url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434645/Birthday_Honours_2015_diplomatic_and_overseas_list.pdf | title=Birthday Honours 2015 Diplomatic Service and Overseas List | publisher=gov.uk | access-date=5 September 2020 }}</ref>
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==Education and academic positions==
Clark was educated at [[Sydney Grammar School]] from 1972 to 1978, the [[University of Sydney]] (where he studied history) and the [[Freie Universität Berlin]] from 1985 to 1987.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk/Public_Magazines/1992r.pdf|title=The Governing Body's Invitation Dinner|page=18|magazine=St Catharine's College Society Magazine|date=September 1992|access-date=5 July 2023|archive-date=5 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705074805/https://www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk/Public_Magazines/1992r.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Clark received his PhD at the [[University of Cambridge]], having been a member of [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]] from 1987 to 1991. He is Professor in Modern [[European History]] at the University of Cambridge and, since 1991, has been a fellow of [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge|St Catharine's College]],<ref>{{citation
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  |archive-date=19 July 2011 |title=Faculty of History: Academic Staff: Further Details: Dr Christopher Clark}}</ref> where he is currently Director of Studies in History.

In 2003, Clark was appointed lecturer in Modern European History and, in 2006, [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in Modern European History. His Cambridge University professorship in history followed in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-chris-clark|access-date=5 July 2023|title=Professor Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History|publisher=[[Cambridge University]]}}</ref>

In September 2014 he succeeded [[Richard J. Evans]] as [[Regius Professor of History (Cambridge)|Regius Professor of History]] at Cambridge. In the birthday honours of June 2015, Clark was knighted on the recommendation of the foreign secretary for his services to Anglo-German relations.<ref name="gov.uk"/>

==Professional career==
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As he acknowledges in the foreword to ''Iron Kingdom'',{{sfn|Clark|2006|pages=iii, iv, xi}} living in [[West Berlin]] from 1985 to 1987, during what turned out to be the last years of the divided Germany, gave him an insight into [[History of Germany|German history]] and society.

===Earlier work===
Clark's academic focus started with the [[history of Prussia]], with his earlier researches concentrating on [[Pietism]] and on Judaism in [[Prussia]] as well as the power struggle, known as the ''[[Kulturkampf]]'', between [[Otto von Bismarck|Bismarck]]'s Prussian state and the [[Catholic Church]]. His scope has since broadened to embrace more generally the competitive relationships between religious institutions and the state in modern Europe. He is the author of a study of Christian–Jewish relations in [[Prussia]], ''The Politics of Conversion. Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728–1941''.{{sfn|Clark|1995}}

===''Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947''===
Clark's best-selling history of Prussia, ''Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947''{{sfn|Clark|2006}} won several prizes. Its critical reception gave him a public profile that reached beyond the academic world. The German-language version of the book, ''Preußen. Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600–1947'', won Clark the 2010 {{ill|German Historians' Prize|de|Preis des Historischen Kollegs}}, an award normally given to historians nearing the end of their careers. Clark remains (in 2014) the youngest-ever recipient of the triennial prize and the only winner not to have approached his work as a mother-tongue German-speaker.

In 17 chapters covering 800 pages, Clark contends that Germany was "not the fulfillment of Prussia's destiny but its downfall".<ref>"Nicht die Erfüllung Preußens, sondern sein Verderben". Christopher Clark: ''Preußen. Aufstieg und Niedergang. 1600–1947.'' 2007, p. 13.</ref> Although the 19th-century ''[[Kulturkampf]]'' was characterised by a peculiar intensity and radicalism, Clark's careful study of sources in several different European languages enabled him to spell out just how closely the Prussian experience of church-state rivalry resembled events elsewhere in Europe. In that way, the book powerfully rebuts the traditional ''[[Sonderweg]]'' bandwagon by which throughout the 20th century, mainstream historians placed great emphasis on the "differentness" of Germany's historical path before and during the 19th century. Clark downplays the perceived uniqueness of the much-vaunted reform agenda, which was pursued by Prussia between 1815 and 1848, and believes that the political and economic significance of the [[Zollverein|German customs union]], established in 1834, came to be discovered and then overstated by historians only retrospectively and in the light of much-later political developments.

===''Kaiser Wilhelm II''===
With his critical biography of the [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|last German Kaiser]], ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'',{{sfn|Clark|2000}} Clark aims to offer correctives to many of the traditional positions presented in [[John C. G. Röhl|J. C. G. Röhl]]'s three-volume biography of Wilhelm.

===''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914''===
{{Main|The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914}}
Clark's study of the outbreak of the [[First World War]], ''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'', appeared in English in 2012;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-mit-christopher-clark-dieser-krieg-hat-das-ganze.724.de.html?dram:article_id=275077|access-date=26 June 2014|title=''Interview mit Christopher Clark. "Dieser Krieg hat das ganze Jahrhundert entstellt"''|date=20 January 2014 |type=[[Deutschlandfunk]] interview in German, originally published in 2013, by Thilo Kößler with Clark about Clark's book ''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914''}}</ref> the German version (''Die Schlafwandler: Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog'') followed in 2013. The book challenges the imputation, which had been widely accepted by mainstream scholars since [[Treaty of Versailles|1919]], of a peculiar "war guilt" attaching to the [[German Empire]]. He instead maps carefully the complex mechanism of events and misjudgements that led to war.<ref name=DieWeltCC25Oct2013>{{cite news |author= Berthold Seewald|url=https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article121231599/Besessen-von-der-deutschen-Kriegsschuld.html|title=''Besessen von der deutschen Kriegsschuld''|quote=Mit seinen neuen Thesen zum Kriegsausbruch 1914 provoziert der britische Historiker Christopher Clark heftige Debatten. In Potsdam stellte er sich seinen Kritikern – mit erstaunlichem Ergebnis.|work=[[Die Welt]]|date=25 October 2013|access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=FAZCC09Sep2013>{{cite news|author=Andreas Kilb|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/ausbruch-des-ersten-weltkriegs-die-selbstzerstoerung-europas-12563968.html|title=''Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs: Die Selbstzerstörung Europas''|work=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]|date=9 September 2013|access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> There was in 1914 nothing inevitable about the war. Risks inherent in the strategies pursued by the various governments involved had been taken before without catastrophic consequences, which now enabled leaders to follow similar approaches without adequately evaluating or recognising those risks. Among international experts, many saw the presentation by Clark of his research and insights as groundbreaking.<ref>Richard J. Evans. Review of Christopher Clark, ''The Sleepwalkers. How Europe Went to War in 1914'' (London 2013). ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', 6 February 2014, pp. 14–17.</ref>

In Germany itself, where the book received much critical attention, not all reactions were positive. [[Volker Ullrich]] contended that Clark's analysis largely disregards the pressure for war coming from Germany's [[German General Staff|powerful military establishment]].<ref>[[Volker Ullrich]]. [https://www.zeit.de/2013/38/sachbuch-christopher-clark-die-schlafwandler-europa-erster-weltkrieg "Zündschnur am Pulverfass"] ''[[Die Zeit]]'', 17 September 2013 {{subscription required}}; Volker Ullrich. [https://www.zeit.de/2014/04/erster-weltkrieg-clark-fischer "1914: Nun schlittern sie wieder"] ''Die Zeit'', 16 January 2014 {{subscription required}}. See also Annika Mombauer. [http://www.bpb.de/apuz/182558/julikrise-und-kriegsschuld-thesen-und-stand-der-forschung?p=all "Julikrise und Kriegsschuld – Thesen und Stand der Forschung"] ''{{ill|Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte|de}}'' 64 (2014), no. 16/17, pp. 10–17.</ref> According to [[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]], Clark had diligently researched the sources covering the war's causes from the German side only to "eliminate [many of them] with bewildering one-sidedness". Wehler attributed the sales success of the book in Germany to a "deep-seated need [on the part of German readers], no longer so constrained by the taboos characteristic of the later twentieth century, to free themselves from the burdensome allegations of national war guilt".<ref>[[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]]. "Beginn einer neuen Epoche der Weltkriegsgeschichte", ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'', 6 May 2014, no. 104, p. 10 {{in lang|de}}</ref> However, Clark observes that the current German debate about the start of the war is obfuscated by its link to their moral repugnance at the Nazi era.{{sfn|Clark|2012|pp=560–561}}

===Other work===
[[File:2014-göttingen-historikertag 159.jpg|thumb|Clark at the 50th [[Deutscher Historikertag|German Historians' Convention]] in [[Göttingen]] (2014)]]
Clark is also the co-editor with [[Wolfram Kaiser]] of a transnational study of secular-clerical conflict in 19th-century Europe (''Culture Wars. Catholic-Secular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe'', Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 2003), and the author of numerous articles and essays. Professor Clark presented the [[BBC Four]] documentary programme "Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wbmss |access-date=30 November 2013 |title=BBC Four – Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia}}</ref> He also presented and narrated the 2017 [[ZDF]] documentary ''The Story of Europe''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 December 2018|title=''The Story of Europe''|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1374132803910/story-of-europe-origins-and-identity|access-date=10 August 2020|website=[[SBS On Demand]]}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Since 1998, Clark has been a series-editor of the scholarly book series ''New Studies in European History'' from [[Cambridge University Press]].<ref name=ChrisClarkCV>{{cite web|url=http://www.badw.de/aktuell/pressemitteilungen/archiv/2010/PM_30_2010/Lebenslauf_Clark.pdf|access-date=24 June 2014|title=Christopher Clark's online résumé/cv which includes the dates of various awards and appointments.}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He is a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]]<ref name=Contemporary>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000196693/BIC1?xid=acf25cc5|chapter-url-access=subscription|chapter=Christopher M. Clark |title=Contemporary Authors Online – Biography in Context|location=Detroit|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|year=2010|access-date=30 November 2013|id=Gale Document Number: GALE H1000196693}}</ref> and a prominent member of the {{ill|Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Preußischen Geschichte|de}} (en: Prussian History Working Group).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/832415/|access-date=24 June 2014|title=Short biographical newspaper article on Clark evidencing his membership of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Preußischen Geschichte|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819130038/http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/832415/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since 2009 he has been a member of the Preußische Historische Kommission [Prussian Historical Commission], and since 2010 a senior advisory (non-voting) member of the [[German Historical Institute London]] and of the {{ill|Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung|de}} [Bismarck Foundation] in [[Friedrichsruh]].<ref name=ChrisClarkCV/> In 2010, Clark was elected a member of the [[British Academy]].<ref name=ChrisClarkCV/>

===Controversy and criticism===
[[File:Christopher Clark.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Clark in 2019]]
In 2019, Clark was embroiled in controversy surrounding his 2011 report, commissioned by the head of the [[Hohenzollern]] family, [[Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia]], on the Hohenzollern family's relations with the Nazis. The report was in support of the family's claims for compensation under a 1994 German law allowing restitution for the loss of property confiscated by the [[German Democratic Republic]] if the claimants or their ancestors had not "given substantial support" to the National Socialist or the East German Communist regimes. Clark acknowledged that expressions of support for the Nazis had been made by the last Kaiser's eldest son, [[Wilhelm, German Crown Prince|Wilhelm]], the most senior member of the former dynasty in Germany in the 1920s and the 1930s and the owner of the Hohenzollern properties. However, his report concluded that Wilhelm was "one of the politically most reserved and least compromised persons" of the aristocratic Nazi collaborators and that he was simply too marginal a figure to have been able to give "significant support" to Hitler, a position that supported the Hohenzollerns' claims.<ref name=Motadel>[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/what-do-the-hohenzollerns-deserve/ "What Do the Hohenzollerns Deserve?"] by David Motadel, ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', 26 March 2020 {{subscription required}}</ref>

Clark's report was criticised by two historians commissioned by the German state to consider the Hohenzollern claims: {{ill|Peter Brandt (historian)|de|Peter Brandt (Historiker)|lt=Peter Brandt}}, a specialist in Prussia and imperial Germany at the [[University of Hagen]], and {{ill|Stephan Malinowski|de}}, a German historian at the [[University of Edinburgh]] who is the author of the standard work on the relationship between the German aristocracy and the Nazi movement, ''Vom König zum Führer'' (2003). Brandt and Malinowski provided substantial further evidence of Wilhelm's support for the Nazis that Clark had overlooked. Their two reports leave no doubt about the prince's deep-seated anti-Semitism.<ref name=Motadel /> During the historical controversy that unfolded in the German press, [[Richard J. Evans]], Clark's predecessor as [[Regius Professor of History (Cambridge)]], criticised his colleague for not reflecting more carefully before accepting offers to produce expert reports.<ref name=Motadel /> In 2020, however, Clark claimed to have changed his view and more or less agreed with Malinowski.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://taz.de/Preussen-Historiker-Clark-rudert-zurueck/!5734272/ | title=Preußen-Historiker Clark rudert zurück: Kampf um das Tafelsilber | newspaper=[[Die Tageszeitung|Die Tageszeitung: Taz]]| date=12 December 2020 | last1=Fanizadeh | first1=Andreas }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Clark and his wife, {{ill|Nina Lübbren|de}}, have two sons.<ref>[https://www.zdf.de/gesellschaft/precht/precht-clark-1-weltkrieg-lernen-wir-aus-der-geschichte-100.html "1914/2014 – Lernen wir aus der Geschichte?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105225555/https://www.zdf.de/gesellschaft/precht/precht-clark-1-weltkrieg-lernen-wir-aus-der-geschichte-100.html |date=5 November 2017 }} by [[Richard David Precht]], [[ZDF]], 16 February 2014. Accessed 1 October 2017 {{in lang|de}}</ref>

==Awards and decorations==
*2007 [[Wolfson History Prize]] awarded for ''Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947''<ref name=Contemporary/>
*2007 H-Soz-u-Kult prize "Das historische Buch"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-soz-u-kult&month=0707&week=c&msg=Iy8Q5RAoqCUD%2BMk7T65cUg&user=&pw= |title=h-net.msu.edu |access-date=1 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121229104304/http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx |archive-date=29 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*2007 [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards]], History Book Award for ''Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947''<ref name=Contemporary/>
*2007 General History Prize, [[New South Wales Premier's History Awards]], for ''Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947''<ref name=Contemporary/>
*2010
**In October 2010, Germany awarded Clark the Officer's Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] as his "research had contributed greatly to German-British relations". The honour was conferred by the German ambassador {{ill|Georg Boomgaarden|de}} during a reception at his official London residence.<ref>http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/alumni/society/london_branch/downloads/Professor_Chris_Clark.pdf Accessed 27 January 2014 {{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
**Another German award was bestowed on Clark for his book ''Preußen: Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600–1947'' by German President [[Christian Wulff]] in November 2010. Chris Clark was the first foreigner to be awarded the German Historians' Prize [Deutscher Historikerpreis].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/Wulff-verleiht-Historikerpreis-an-Australier-Clark-id7731826.html |title=Wulff verleiht Historikerpreis an Australier Clark |trans-title=Wulff awards Historians' Prize to Australian Clark |language=de |work=[[Augsburger Allgemeine]] |agency=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur|dpa]] |date=11 November 2010 |access-date=7 January 2015 |archive-date=7 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107231616/http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/Wulff-verleiht-Historikerpreis-an-Australier-Clark-id7731826.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*2013 [[Cundill Prize]], finalist, for ''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/anne-applebaum-wins-2013-cundill-prize-231726|title=Ann Applebaum wins 2013 Cundill Prize|author=Press Release|publisher=McGill University|date=21 November 2013|access-date=24 December 2013}}</ref>
*2013 [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize]] (History), winner for ''The Sleepwalkers''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-winners-los-angeles-times-book-prizes-20140411,0,4418200.story#axzz2ysVJlZcQ|title=Jacket Copy: The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are ...|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Carolyn Kellogg|date=11 April 2014|access-date=14 April 2014}}</ref>
*2013 [[Hessell-Tiltman Prize]], shortlist for ''The Sleepwalkers''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9978862/Keith-Lowe-awarded-the-PEN-Hessell-Tiltman-Prize-for-history.html |title=Keith Lowe awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |author=Felicity Capon |date=8 April 2013 |access-date=7 June 2014}}</ref>
*2015 [[Laura Shannon Prize]], for ''The Sleepwalkers''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.nd.edu/news/56153-nanovic-institute-awards-10-000-laura-shannon-prize-to-the-sleepwalkers/|title=Nanovic Institute awards $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize to 'The Sleepwalkers' |work=Notre Dame News |author=Monica Caro |date=26 February 2015 |access-date=12 June 2014}}</ref>
*2015 [[Knight Bachelor]]<ref name="LG 13 June 2015">{{London Gazette |issue=61256 |date=13 June 2015 |page=B2 |supp=y }}</ref>
*2018 [[European Prize for Political Culture]]<ref name="Deutscher Bundestag">{{cite web | title=Laudatio von Bundestagspräsident Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble auf Christopher... | website=Deutscher Bundestag | url=https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/praesidium/reden/014-571396 | language=de | access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref>
*2019 [[Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/orden-pour-le-mérite-waehlt-neue-mitglieder-1648038 |title=Orden Pour le mérite wählt neue Mitglieder |date=2019 |website=bundesregierung.de |publisher=Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung |language=de |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>
*2024 Doctorate of Letters (honoris causa), [[University of Sydney]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-27 |title=Sir Christopher Clark awarded honorary doctorate |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/05/27/sir-christopher-clark-awarded-honorary-doctorate.html |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=The University of Sydney |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Publications==
* {{cite thesis|last=Clark|first=Christopher Munro|title=Jewish mission in the Christian state: Protestant missions to the Jews in 18th- and 19th-century Prussia|year=1991|type=PhD thesis|publisher=[[University of Cambridge]]|url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386487|id={{ISNI|0000000135530317}}|access-date=5 July 2023|archive-date=5 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705074803/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386487|url-status=dead}}

'''Books written'''
*{{cite book |lccn=95154541 |last=Clark |first=Christopher M.|title=The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728–1941|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3PLYAAAAMAAJ |location=Oxford Clarendon Press & New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-19-820456-6}}
*{{cite book |lccn=00030939 |last=Clark |first=Christopher M. |isbn=0-582-24559-1 |title=Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power|location=Harlow, England, & New York|publisher=[[Longman]] |year=2000|author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |lccn=2006043076 |last=Clark |first=Christopher M. |isbn=0-674-02385-4 |title=Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|publisher=[[Belknap Press of Harvard University Press]] |year=2006 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ironkingdomrised00chri|author-mask=1}} Published in Germany as ''Preußen: Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600–1947'' by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2007
*{{cite book|lccn=2012515665|last=Clark|first=Christopher M.|isbn=978-0-7139-9942-6|title=The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914|location=London|publisher=[[Allen Lane]]|year=2012|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Christopher |title=Time and Power – Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich |date=2019 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-18165-3|ref=none|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Christopher |title=Prisoners of Time – Prussians, Germans and Other Humans |date=2021 |publisher=Penguin|isbn=9780141997315|ref=none|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Christopher |title-link=Revolutionary Spring |title=Revolutionary Spring – Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 |date=2023 |publisher=Penguin|isbn=9780241347669|ref=none|author-mask=1}}

'''Books edited'''
*{{cite book |lccn=2003273877 |editor1-last=Clark |editor1-first=Christopher M.|editor2-first=Wolfram |editor2-last=Kaiser |editor2-link=Wolfram Kaiser|title=Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97rKyDNlSA0C |location=Cambridge, UK & New York |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=0-521-80997-5 |year=2003|ref=none|editor1-mask=with}}

'''Articles'''
* {{cite journal |last=Clark |first=Christopher |title=This Is a Reality, Not a Threat |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/22/future-war-reality-not-threat/?srsltid=AfmBOooI9ENbr441scm4j3TjtSn9ctUvIAX5I-0hN5DMMiri6lNXosiX |type=reviews of [[Lawrence Freedman]], ''The Future of War: A History'', and Robert H. Latiff, ''Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield'' |journal=[[The New York Review of Books]] |volume=LXV |number=18 |date=22 November 2018 |pages=53–54 |ref=none |author-mask=1}}

'''Films'''
*{{cite serial |url=https://www.zdf-studios.com/en/program-catalog/international/unscripted/history-biographies/planet-treasures|title=Planet of Treasures|last=Clark|first=Christopher|type=as presenter|network=[[ZDF]]|date=2020 |access-date=5 October 2022|ref=none|author-mask=1}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/hohenzollern-prince-georg-prussia/index.html "Germany's ex-royals want their riches back, but past ties to Hitler stand in the way"] by Scott McLean and Nadine Schmidt, [[CNN]], 26 September 2020

==External links==
{{Commons category|Christopher Clark}}
* [https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-chris-clark Profile], [[University of Cambridge]]
* {{IMDb name|nm6304152|Christopher Clark}}

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[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)]]
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[[Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Australian expatriates in England]]
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[[Category:Australian Knights Bachelor]]
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[[Category:Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of history]]
[[Category:21st-century Australian historians]]
[[Category:Historians of Germany]]
[[Category:Australian historians of religion]]
[[Category:Historians of World War I]]
[[Category:Australian male biographers]]
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[[Category:Fellows of the British Academy]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian male writers]]
[[Category:Regius Professors of History (Cambridge)]]
[[Category:People educated at Sydney Grammar School]]
[[Category:Wolfson History Prize winners]]