Peter Mandler

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Peter Mandler is a historian at the University of Cambridge. He focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, particularly cultural history and the history of the social sciences. He is also a member of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group.^[1]

After attending Magdalen College, Oxford as an undergraduate, Mandler did his PhD at Harvard where he wrote his dissertation on Liberalism and Paternalism: The Whig Aristocracy and the Condition of England, 1830-1852. Before joining the history faculty at Cambridge, he worked at Princeton and London Guildhall University.

Mandler supports popular, public history as expressed by Simon Schama, Linda Colley and Niall Ferguson over the narrow, specialist study of the discipline.^[2] He occasionally makes television and radio appearances himself.^[3]

He is currently working on a book about the anthropologist Margaret Mead and anthropology's move from the study of "simple, primitive" to "complex, modern" culture.

[edit] Works

• The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (2006)
• Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain (ed., 2006)
• History and National Life (2002)
• The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (1997)
• After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (ed., with Susan Pedersen, 1994)
• The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the 19th-Century Metropolis (ed., 1990)
• Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform (1990)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• University of Cambridge faculty page
• Review of Mandler's book The English National Character, from the Guardian
• Review of History and National Life at the Institute of Historical Research
• Article on The English National Character in the New York Sun