Name Bernard Semmel | ||
Died August 18, 2008, Stony Brook, New York, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Rise of free trade imperialism, John Stuart Mill and the pursuit of, The Liberal Ideal and the Demo, George Eliot and the Politic, The Methodist revolution |
Bernard Semmel (23 July 1928 – 18 August 2008) was an American historian specialising in British imperial history.
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Bernard Semmel was born in the Bronx, and attended New York City public schools. He received his B.A. from the College of the City of New York in 1947, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955. His first academic position was at Park College in 1956; he visited the London School of Economics in 1959-60, working with Lionel Robbins. He taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1960 until 1990, when he was appointed Distinguished Professor in the History department at the CUNY Graduate Center. He retired in 1996.
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