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John Leonard Duncan Mackenzie (22 May 1928 – 8 June 2011) was a Scottish film director who worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent director himself.
John Mackenzie was a British missionary who was a constant champion of the rights of Africans in Southern Africa and a proponent of British intervention to curtail the spread of Boer influence, especially over the lands of the Tswana (“Bechuana” in older variant orthography) peoples.
John MacDonald MacKenzie FRHistS FRSE (born 2 October 1943) is a British historian of imperialism who pioneered the study of popular and cultural imperialism, as well as aspects of environmental history. He has also written about Scottish migration and the development of museums around the world.
John Mackenzie will forever be remembered as the director of the pitch-perfect British gangland thriller The Long Good Friday (1980), but it was at the time merely his latest in an electrifying...
John Mackenzie. Director: The Long Good Friday. A solid and reliable filmmaker with frequent flairs of brilliance, Mackenzie gave up a career in acting because of a desire to control what he was doing.
Professor John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University. He is one of the foremost historians of imperialism, of any period, and a scholar who also has an outstanding reputation in the field of environmental history.
Nov 12, 2019 · John MacKenzie changed how British imperial history is conceived, researched, and written about. The evolution from the understanding of the British Empire as something that the dominant metropolis imposed upon the colonial periphery to something that had, via culture rather than political or military power, a massive impact upon that selfsame ...
