Peter Baldwin (professor)

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956) is a professor of history at the New York University and a philanthropist. He was educated at Harvard and Yale. He has written several books about Europe.

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

Baldwin and his wife Lisbet Rausing co-founded the Arcadia Fund and form its donor board. By March 2013, the Fund had made grant commitments of over $234 million to preserve endangered culture and nature. As of December 2015, the Fund has made grant commitments of over $363 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 program at SOAS, the Endangered Archive Program at the British Library and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund. Baldwin and Rausing are listed as one of the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation.

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)

External links

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