Peter Mansfield (historian)
Peter Mansfield (born Ranchi, India, 2 September 1928; died Warwick, England, 9 March 1996)[1] was a British political journalist. He was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was elected President of the Cambridge Union.[1]
He resigned from the British Foreign Service over the Suez affair in 1956.[2] He worked in Beirut, editing the Middle East Forum and wrote regularly for the Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, the Indian Express and other newspapers. From 1961 to 1967 he was the Middle East correspondent of the Sunday Times.
His books as author or editor include Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East[3]The Middle East: A Political and Economic Survey, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia[4] Who's Who of the Arab World, Nasser's Egypt, Nasser: A Biography, The British in Egypt, Kuwait: Vanguard of the Gulf and The Arabs, and A History of the Middle East.
His History of the Middle East was updated after his death by Nicolas Pelham in 2013 into a fourth edition [5] A subsequent fifth addition was published in 2019.
Mansfield's obituary in The Times praised him as "eloquent, scholarly, free from convention...[He] earned himself a distinguished place by forty years of thoughtful work and the passion of his convictions."[6]
Works
- Mansfield, Peter (1969), Nasser's Egypt (Revised [i.e. 2nd] ed.), Penguin, retrieved 26 June 2016
- Mansfield, Peter (1971), The British in Egypt, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ISBN 978-0-297-00453-0
- Mansfield, Peter (1973), The Ottoman Empire and its successors, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-07382-7
- Mansfield, Peter (1976), The Arab world : a comprehensive history, Crowell, ISBN 978-0-690-01170-8
- Mansfield, Peter (1981), The new Arabians (1st ed.), J.G. Ferguson Pub. Co. ; New York : Distributed by Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-17911-9
- Mansfield, Peter (1992), The Arabs (3rd ed.), Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-014768-1
- Mansfield, Peter (1992), A history of the Middle East (New ed.), Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-012538-2
References
- ^ a b Michael Adams writing in The Independent (13 March 1996). "Obituary: Peter Mansfield". Archived from the original on 24 April 2013.
- ^ The British Empire magazine, no 75, Time-Life Books, 1973
- ^ Mansfield, Peter (30 April 1993), "Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's 'Urabi Movement", The Times Literary Supplement (n4700), Times Supplements Ltd: 24 (1), ISSN 0307-661X
- ^ Mansfield, Peter (23 October 1992), "Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia: The Tragedy of Longevity", The Times Literary Supplement (n4673), Times Supplements Ltd: 26 (1), ISSN 0307-661X
- ^ Mansfield, Peter; Pelham, Nicolas (2013), A history of the Middle East (Fourth / revised and updated by Nicolas Pelham ed.), New York Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-312190-9
- ^ Times, March 1996.
