Peter Mancall Professor of History and Anthropology Contact Information E-mail: mancall@usc.edu Phone: (213)821-2151 Office: SOS 284

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, University of Southern California, 2007-  
• Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Southern California, 8/1/2005-  
• Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, 8/1/2003-  
• Professor of History, University of Southern California, 8/1/2001-  
• Professor, University of Kansas, 8/1/1989-7/31/2001  

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Research Specialties

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

• USC Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute,http://www.usc.edu/emsi

Publications

Book

• Mancall, P. C. American Origins (vol. one of the Oxford History of the United States). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2008). Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic. New York: Basic Books.
• Mancall, P. C. (2007). Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America. New Haven, COnn.: Yale University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2007). The Atlantic World and Virginia. The Atlantic World and Virginia/University of North Carolina Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2007). Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences.
• Mancall, P. C. (2006). Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery. Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery/Oxford University Press.
• Mancall, P. C., Hinderaker, E. (2003). At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America/Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2003). Three Worlds Meet. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 1. New York: Three Worlds Meet. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 1./Facts on File.
• Mancall, P. C., Hoxie, F., Merrell, J. H. (2001). American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to 2000. London, UK / New York, NY: American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to 2000/Routledge.
• Mancall, P. C., Merrell, J. H. (2000). American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers From European Contact through Removal, 1500-1850. London, UK / New York, NY: American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers From European Contact through Removal, 1500-1850/Routledge.
• Mancall, P. C. (1999). American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860. American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860/Gale Press (Scribner's).
• Mancall, P. C., Hoagland, E. (1996). Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image. Ithaca, NY: Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image/Cornell University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (1995). Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America/Cornell University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (1995). Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640/Bedford/St. Martin's.
• Mancall, P. C. (1991). Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800. Ithaca, NY: Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800/Cornell University Press.

Journal Article

• Mancall, P. C. (2008). American History. British Museum Occasional Pubs..
• Mancall, P. C., Rosenbloom, J., Weiss, T. (2006). "Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply,". Journal of Economic History. Vol. 66 (4), pp. 1066-1071.
• Mancall, P. C., Weiss, T., Rosenbloom, J. (2006). "Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800". Research in Economic History. Vol. NA
• Mancall, P. C., Weiss, T. (2005). “Indians and the Economy of Eighteenth-Century Carolina”. ., The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:/University of South Carolina Press. pp. p.297-322.
• Mancall, P. C., Hackel, H. B. (2004). Richard Hakluyt the Younger's Notes for the East India Company in 1601: A Transcription of Huntington Library Manuscript EL 2360. Huntington Library Quarterly/Huntington Library. pp. p. 423-436.
• Mancall, P. C. (2004). Tales Tobacco Told in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Environmental History/Environmental History Association. pp. p. 648-678.
• Mancall, P. C. (2004). Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-Shire. Environmental History/Environmental History Association. pp. p. 300-305.
• Mancall, P. C. (2004). The ones who hold up the world: Native American History since the Columbian Quincentennial. Historical Journal/Cambridge University Press. pp. p. 477-490.

Other

• Mancall, P. C. (2007). Travel Writing in the Early Modern World, special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly.
• Mancall, P. C. (2006). Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution. 48 30-minute lectures.

Honors and Awards

• Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2008-2009   
• USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2008-2009   
• British Scholar Book of the Month (September 2007) for Hakluyt's Promise, 2007-2008   
• USC Center for Excellence in Research, Faculty Fellow, 2007-2008   
• Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, 2004-2005   
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 2001-2002   
• Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand ALAC Research Fellowship, Fall 1998   
• Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Fellow, 1991-1992   

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, 2007-2008   

Committees

• Director, USC Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) , 2008-2009   

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• editorial board, Itinerario, 2006-  
• Section Editor, Early American History, History Compass, 2004-  
• editorial board, Huntington Library Quarterly, 2004-  
• editorial board, Reviews in American History, 1998-  
• Series editor for Perspectives in American Social History, ABC-Clio, 2004-2011  
• editorial board, Journal of American History, 2005-2008  
• editorial board, Pennsylvania History, 2004-2007