Peter Carl Mentzel
b. 1963
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Peter Carl Mentzel studied Philosophy and History at the University of Connecticut, and went on to get his Ph.D. in History at the University of Washington in 1994. From 1995 to 2007, he was a professor in the History Department at Utah State University. He came to work at Liberty Fund in 2008 as a Senior Fellow. Besides his contributions to Liberty Fund’s websites, he has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as The East European Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Nations and Nationalism and Turcica, as well as numerous contributions to edited collections. He is the author of Transportation Technology and Imperialism in the Ottoman Empire, and The Travelers’s History of Venice. He is editor of For God and Country: Essays on Religion and Nationalism; Islam in the Balkans; and (with Henry T. Edmondson III), Imagining Europe: Essays on the History and Future of the European Union.
In The Reading Room:
- OLL's May Birthday: Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803-April 27, 1882) ()
- OLL's April Birthday: Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) ()
- OLL's March Birthday: Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864-September 30, 1843) ()
- OLL's February Birthday: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533-September 13, 1592) ()
- OLL's January Birthday: Lord Acton ()
- OLL's December Birthday: John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) ()
- OLL's November Birthday: Pierre Bayle (November 22, 1647-December 28, 1706) ()
- OLL's October (Belated) Birthday: William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) ()
- OLL's September Birthday: The Marquis de Condorcet ()
- OLL's August Birthday: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) ()
- OLL's July Birthday: Francesco Petrarch (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) ()
- OLL's June Birthday: Harriet Martineau ()
- OLL's May Birthday--Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) ()
- OLL's April Birthday: Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759- September 10, 1797) ()
- OLL's March Birthday: Gustave de Molinari (March 3, 1819 – January 28, 1912) ()
- OLL's February Birthday: Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) ()
- The Buddha and the Quest for Liberation ()
- OLL's January Birthday: Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561 – April 9, 1626) ()
- OLL's November Birthday: Baruch Spinoza (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) ()
- OLL's October Birthday: Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (October 25, 1767) ()
- OLL's September Birthday: Henry George (September 2, 1839 -- October 29, 1890) ()
- OLL's August (Belated) Birthday: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851) ()