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Peter Mandler, FRHistS FBA (born 29 January 1958) [1] is a British historian and academic specialising in 19th and 20th century British history, particularly cultural history and the history of the social sciences. He is Professor in Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. [2]

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Biography

Mandler was born in 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] [3] The elder brother of Michael Mandler, he is son of psychologists George Mandler and Jean Mandler who moved their family to La Jolla in 1965 when they joined the UCSD faculty.

After attending Magdalen College, Oxford, as an undergraduate, Mandler completed his PhD at Harvard [2] where he wrote a 1984 dissertation entitled Liberalism and Paternalism: The Whig Aristocracy and the Condition of England, 1830–1852. [4]

Mandler was an assistant professor of history at Princeton University from 1984-1991.[ citation needed ] While there, in 1984 he co-hosted a three-day symposium at Princeton entitled “Socialism in America,” marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of six-time presidential candidate Norman Thomas. [5]

Mandler started teaching in Britain in 1991 at London Guildhall University, and joined the University of Cambridge faculty in 2001. [6] He was President of the Royal Historical Society from 2012 to 2016, and is currently (since 2018) Chair of the Modern History section of the British Academy. [7]

Research and scholarship

Mandler's main research interests are: [3]

In his review [8] of Mandler's 2002 book History and National Life, [9] historian Blair Worden states that Mandler praises the work of professional historians like Simon Schama, Linda Colley and Niall Ferguson, who address a wide audience, in contrast to most specialists of the discipline, who put their very subject at risk by speaking only between themselves. In Mandler' own words, "there is intrinsic value in keeping the springs of knowledge 'clear and untainted' but there is greater value in ensuring that the supply reaches the consumer in something resembling its original state". [10]

Mandler occasionally makes television and radio appearances. [11]

Works

Mandler's is author or editor of the following books:

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  2. 1 2 "Professor Peter Mandler FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Peter Mandler". The Faculty. Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  4. ↑ Mandler, Peter (1984). Liberalism and Paternalism: The Whig Aristocracy and the Condition of England (PhD). Harvard University.
  5. ↑ Horner, Shirley (4 November 1984). "Panels to Explore Socialist Legacy". New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "Caius historian elected to American Academy of Arts and Science". Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "Professor Peter Mandler FBA". Fellows. British Academy. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  8. ↑ Worden, Blair (14 July 2002). "What is the future of history?". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  9. 1 2 Mandler, Peter (2002). History and National Life. Profile Books. ISBN   978-1-86197-469-3.
  10. ↑ Mandler, Peter (7 July 2002). "What is History for?". History Today. Vol. 52, no. 7.
  11. ↑ See, for instance, Arts & Ideas. 21 November 2018. BBC. Radio 3.
  12. ↑ Mandler, Peter; Cesarani, David, eds. (2017). Great Philanthropists: Wealth and Charity in the Modern World, 1815-1945. Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN   978-1-910383-19-3.
  13. ↑ Mandler, Peter (2013). Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-18785-4.
  14. ↑ Swenson, Astrid; Mandler, Peter, eds. (2013). From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940. British Academy. ISBN   978-0-19-726541-3.
  15. ↑ Mandler, Peter (2006). The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair . Yale University Press. ISBN   0-300-12052-4.
  16. ↑ Sansom, Ian (3 February 2007). "National obsession". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  17. ↑ Kirsch, Adam (19 March 2007). "As English as the English". The New York Sun. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  18. ↑ Mandler, Peter, ed. (2006). Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-927133-7..
  19. ↑ Spalding, Roger (30 September 2002). "History and National Life". Reviews in History (300).
  20. ↑ Mandler, Peter (1999). The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home. Yale University Press. ISBN   0-300-07869-2.
  21. ↑ Pedersen, Susan; Mandler, Peter, eds. (1994). After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain: Essays in Memory of John Clive. Routledge. ISBN   0-415-07056-2.
  22. ↑ Mandler, Peter, ed. (1990). The Uses of charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0-8122-8214-6.
  23. ↑ Mandler, Peter (1990). Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals, 1830-1852. Clarendon Press. ISBN   978-0-19-821781-7.
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