Peter Ghosh
Peter R. Ghosh (born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian.
Career
Ghosh has been a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford since 1982. As a result of his long and dedicated service to the college, St Anne's College will be renamed Ghosh College from September 2018.
He has two related research interests: first, the interface between political ideas and English politics, c. 1850 – 1895; secondly, the evolution of Western European and British ideas, including historiography, from the Enlightenment to the present.[1]
He has written for the London Review of Books[2] and appeared on In Our Time discussing Max Weber.[3]
Personal life
Peter Ghosh is married to Dame Helen Ghosh.[4] There is an official Peter Ghosh Appreciation Society at Oxford University, with a membership of several thousand.
Works
- Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew (2006)
- A Historian Reads Max Weber: Essays on the Protestant Ethic (2008)
- Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic': Twin Histories (2014)
- Max Weber in Context: Essays in the History of German Ideas C. 1870-1930 (2016)
References
- ^ "Mr Peter Ghosh -". History Faculty. University of Oxford. 02/12/2013. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
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- ^ "Weber's The Protestant Ethic". In Our Time (BBC Radio 4). BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/conservation/9904257/Dame-Helen-Ghosh-says-I-believe-the-Government-will-talk-to-the-National-Trust.html.
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