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Mike Dash

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Mike Dash
OccupationWriter, historian and researcher
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
King's College London(PhD)

Mike Dashis aWelshwriter, historian, and researcher. He has written books and articles about dramatic episodes in history.

Biography

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Dash was born inLondon.He attendedPeterhouse, Cambridge,particularly noted for teachinghistory,[1][2]and completed postgraduate work atKing's College London,where he obtained a Ph.D.

Dash authored a series of books covering incidents in the history of theDutch East India Company,theNetherlands,India under British rule,andNew Yorkduring theProgressive Era.Each focuses on a single event or series of events, among them the wreck of the East IndiamanBatavia,the Dutchtulip maniaof 1634–1637, and the early years of theAmerican Mafia.He has written for a historyblog,"Past Imperfect", published bySmithsonian Magazine.[3]In 2014, his blog post on theLykov family,"Lost in the Taiga," was named one of "Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism" byThe Atlantic.[4]

Dash's 2009 book,The First Family,is a new history ofGiuseppe Morelloand the establishment ofthe Mafiain theUnited States.He began writing for the Smithsonian in July 2011 when the Institution acquired his history site, "A Blast from the Past", shortly after theHistory News Networkawarded it the 2010 Cliopatria prize for history blogging.[5][6]In addition to blogging, Dash regularly contributes tor/AskHistorians,and since January 2019 he has republished material written for AskHistorians on his personal blog's "Ask Mike" page.[7]

Bibliography

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  • The Limit: Engineering at the Boundaries of Science.BBC, 1995.ISBN0-563-37117-X.
  • Borderlands: The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown.Dell, 1997.ISBN0-440-23656-8.
  • Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused.Crown, 2000.ISBN0-609-60439-2.
  • Batavia's Graveyard:The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny.Weidenfeld & Nicolson,2002.ISBN0-575-07024-2.
  • Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult.Granta Books, 2005.ISBN1-86207-604-9.
  • Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century.Crown Publishing, 2007.ISBN978-0-307-39522-1.
  • The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia.Simon & Schuster,2009.ISBN978-1-84737-173-7.

Notes

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  1. ^Brooke, Christopher, ed. (1991).David Knowles Remembered.Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-37233-X.
  2. ^"Peterhouse School - Themes - Making History".
  3. ^"Welcome to Past Imperfect".Smithsonian Magazine.Retrieved8 December2022.To learn more about our writers, Karen Abbott, Mike Dash and Gilbert King, check out our About Us page.
  4. ^"Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism".The Atlantic.19 May 2014.
  5. ^"The Cliopatria Awards, 2010".History News Network.7 January 2011.Retrieved2 May2012.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^"About a Blast from the Past".8 September 2010.
  7. ^Dash, Mike (18 January 2019)."Ask Mike".A Blast From The Past.Retrieved30 December2019.
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