Peter Mandler: An Historical Account of Humanistic Education in Britain


Speaker: Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge, U.K.)

Date: March 24, 2015 - Tuesday

Time: 10:00 - 11:30

Venue: R128, Bld5, Songjiang Campus

Language: English

Speaker Biography: Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. He was born in the USA in 1958, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and has taught in Britain since 1991 and in Cambridge since 2001. He writes on the political, cultural, social and intellectual history of Britain since c. 1800 and on the history of the social sciences in the English-speaking world. From 2012 to 2016 he serves a four-year term as President of the Royal Historical Society.

Among his books are The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (Yale UP, 1997), History and National Life (Profile, 2002), The English National Character (Yale UP, 2006), and, most recently, Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War (Yale UP, 2013). Peter is currently working on Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War and the language of social science in everyday life in mid-20th century Britain and America.

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