Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956) is a professor of history at the

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and a philanthropist. He was educated at Harvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), and

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(BA Philosophy and History, 1978). He has written several books about

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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''. In 2014 he published ''The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle''.

Philanthropy

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Baldwin co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001 with his wife

Lisbet Rausing Anna Lisbet Kristina Rausing (born 9 June 1960) is a science historian and philanthropist. She is a co-founder of Arcadia, one of the UK's largest philanthropic foundations. Early life Lisbet Rausing is the eldest daughter of Hans Rausing and his ...

. As of March 2020, the Fund has made grant commitments of over $678 million to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access. Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS, the Endangered Archives Programme at the

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and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund. Baldwin and Rausing are listed as one of the biggest benefactors to the

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and donated $5 million to the Wikimedia endowment in 2017 after joining its advisory board. Rausing and Baldwin founded Lund Trust. Since 2002 Lund Trust has given more than $66.6 million to charities in the UK and internationally.

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 Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle'' (Princeton University Press, 2014) * ''Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History'' (MIT Press 2021) * ''First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe'' (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

References

External links

Page at UCLA
detailing various publications.
Academic publications
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