Peter C. Mancall
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Peter Mancall (born June 18, 1959 in Philadelphia, PA) is a professor of history at the University of Southern California whose work has focused on early America, Native Americans, and the early modern Atlantic world.
A 1981 graduate of Oberlin college, Mancall attended graduate school at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1986. Mancall was a visiting Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College from 1986 to 1987. After teaching as a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard for two years, he took a position at the University of Kansas in 1989. In 2001, Mancall took a position at the University of Southern California, where he helped to create the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute in 2003, becoming its first director. He has served on the editorial board of several journals, and in 2007-8 he was Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the University of Southern California.
Mancall has edited eight books and written around forty book reviews in such journals as American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of the Early Republic, and many others. Currently, Mancall is working on two books titled “Interpreters of Nature in the sixteenth-Century Atlantic World” and “Hudson’s Fatal Journey”. He has also accepted an offer to write the volume in the Oxford History of the United States series covering American colonial history to 1674.[1]
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- Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
- At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (with Eric Hinderaker) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
- Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, paperback 1997)
- Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991)
