Name C. Mowat | Role Historian | |
Died June 23, 1970, Bangor, United Kingdom Books Britain Between the Wars: Nineteen Eighteen to Nineteen-Forty Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Charles Loch Mowat (1911 – 1970) was a British-born American historian.
Biography
Mowat was educated at Marlborough College and St John's, Oxford. In 1934 he went to live in the United States, where he became an American citizen. He did his PhD at the University of Minnesota and taught at the University College of Los Angeles. His opposition to McCarthyism led to leaving UCLA and taking a post at the University Chicago. He eventually returned to Britain to be professor of history at the University College of North Wales, Bangor from 1958 to 1970.
His best known known book is Britain Between the Wars, which became the standard text on the nation's interwar period.
References
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