Peter Baldwin (professor)

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956)^[1] is a professor of history at the New York University. He was educated at Yale and Harvard and has written several books on Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries:

Career

A study of the state of trans-Atlantic relations between the United States and Europe from Oxford University Press was published in late 2009, entitled The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike.^[2]

In 2014 he published The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle.^[3]

Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing form the donor board of the Arcadia Fund, founded in 2001.^[4] By March 2013, the Fund had made grant commitments of over $234 million to preserve endangered culture and nature.

Publications

• The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)
• Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005)
• The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• The Copyright Wars: Three Decades of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014)

References

External links

• Page at UCLA, detailing various publications.
• Academic publications