Maldwyn Allen Jones (18 December 1922 – 12 April 2007) was a historian who specialised in American history.
Jones studied at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1946 to 1949, obtaining a first-class degree in history.[1][2] He was a lecturer at Manchester University before becoming chairman of the British Association for American Studies in 1968 and Commonwealth Professor of American History at University College London in 1971.[2]
His most famous work was the synthesis The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980, a volume in the "Short Oxford History of the Modern World" series, published in 1983. This remains the most comprehensive single-authored book on American history.[2]