Charles Loch Mowat (4 October 1911 – 23 June 1970) was a British-born American historian.

Biography

Mowat was educated at

Marlborough College Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English private boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. It was founded as Marlborough School in 1843 by the Dean of Manchester, George ...

and

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. John Ramsden (ed.), ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics'' (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 446. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States, where he became an American citizen. From 1934 until 1936 he taught at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

. In 1936 he took up a position at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

. His opposition to

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led to him leaving UCLA and taking a post at the

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in 1950. In 1958 he returned to Britain to be professor of history at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, a post he held until 1970. His best known book is ''Britain Between the Wars'', which became the standard text on the nation's

interwar period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, also known as the interbellum (), lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II ( ...

. A. J. P. Taylor wrote the volume in the ''

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'' covering 1914–1945. After he was asked how he found out what basically happened in the period, Taylor answered: "I looked it up in Mowat".Boyd Hilton, ''A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 671.

Works

*''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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mowat, C. L. 1911 births 1970 deaths University of Minnesota alumni People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of St John's College, Oxford British emigrants to the United States 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers