Sydney Nettleton Fisher

Sydney Nettleton Fisher was an American historian of the Middle East.

Life

Fisher was born in Warsaw, New York. He studied at Oberlin College, gaining an economics degree in 1928 and an M. A. degree in history in 1932. He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois in 1935. After teaching mathematics at Robert College in Istanbul, he joined the history faculty of Ohio State University in 1937. He gained full professorship in 1955, and retired in 1972.

Works

The Foreign Relations of Turkey, 1481-1512, 1948Social Forces in the Middle East, 1955The Middle East: A History, 1959The Military in the Middle East; Problems in Society and Government, 1963France and the European Community, 1963Explosive Forces in Latin America, 1964New Horizons for the United States in World Affairs, 1966