Matthew Smith Anderson (1922–2006) was professor emeritus of international history at the London School of Economics.^[1][2]

Selected publications

• Britain's Discovery of Russia 1553–1815 (1958)
• War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618–1789. (Fontana History of European War and Society)
• The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, 1450–1919
• Historians and eighteenth-century Europe, 1715–1789 (1979)
• Peter the Great (1995)
• Europe in the Eighteenth Century, 1713–1783 (1997)
• The Origins of the Modern European State System (1998)