Peter Mansfield (historian)

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Name Peter Mansfield Role Journalist		Died 1996

Books A History of the Middle East, The Arabs

Peter Mansfield (born Ranchi, India 2 September 1928: died Warwick, England 9 March 1996) was a British political journalist. He was educated at Winchester and Cambridge.

Peter Mansfield (historian) A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield

He resigned from the British Foreign Service over the Suez affair in 1956. 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 EastThe Middle East: A Political and Economic Survey,Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia 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

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."

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

Peter Mansfield (historian) Wikipedia

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