C. L. Mowat
Charles Loch Mowat(4 October 1911 – 23 June 1970) was a British-born American historian.[1]
Biography
[edit]Mowat was educated atMarlborough CollegeandSt John's College, Oxford.[2]In 1934 he emigrated to the United States, where he became an American citizen.[2]From 1934 until 1936 he taught at theUniversity of Minnesota.In 1936 he took up a position at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles.[3]His opposition toMcCarthyismled to him leaving UCLA and taking a post at theUniversity of Chicagoin 1950.[2]In 1958 he returned to Britain to be professor of history at theUniversity College of North Wales, Bangor,a post he held until 1958.[2]
His best known book isBritain Between the Wars,which became the standard text on the nation'sinterwar period.[2]A. J. P. Taylorwrote the volume in theOxford History of Englandcovering 1914–1945. After he was asked how he found out what basically happened in the period, Taylor answered: "I looked it up in Mowat".[4]
Works
[edit]- East Florida as a British Province, 1763-84(1943).
- Britain Between the Wars, 1918–1940(1955).
- The Charity Organisation Society, 1869–1913(1961).
- The Golden Valley Railway(1964).
Notes
[edit]- ^The Times(29 June 1970), p. 10.
- ^abcdeJohn Ramsden(ed.),The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics(Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 446.
- ^'Obituary: Charles Loch Mowat',The Florida Historical QuarterlyVol. 49, No. 3 (Jan., 1971), p. 330.
- ^Boyd Hilton,A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 671.
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