Peter C. Mancall

Peter C. Mancall
Born	June 18, 1959 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	university professor, historian

Peter Mancall (born June 18, 1959) is a professor of history at the University of Southern California whose work has focused on early America, American Indians, and the early modern Atlantic world.

Biography

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 from 2007 to 2009 he was Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the University of Southern California.

Mancall has written five books and edited eight others, 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. His newest book, Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic was published by Basic Books on June 9, 2009. Mancall has accepted an offer to write Volume 1 of the Oxford History of the United States series covering American colonial history to c. 1680.^[1]

Bibliography

• Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991)
• Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, paperback 1997)
• At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (with Eric Hinderaker) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
• Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
• Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (Basic Books, 2009)

References

1. USC College History

External links

• Peter Mancall faculty page at USC
• USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Peter C. Mancall, Director
• Interview with Mancall on "New Books in History"