Personal Info

E-mail: peter.ghosh(at)history.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background:

BA in History at Oxford; Student then Junior Research Fellow of Nuffield College; Fellow of St Anne’s (1982-present).

Teaching Interests:

Graduate: I run an MSt in Modern Social and Political Theory.

Research Interests:

I have two related research interests: first, the interface between political ideas and English politics, c. 1850-1895; secondly, the evolution of Western European and British ideas, including historiography, from the Enlightenment to the present. My current publishing commitments centre on Max Weber.

Selected Publications:

Peter Ghosh, ‘Gibbon’s Dark Ages. Remarks on the Genesis of the “Decline and Fall”’, Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 73 (1983), 1-23
Peter Ghosh, 'Disraelian Conservatism: a Financial Approach', English Historical Review, Vol. 99 (1984), 268-96
Peter Ghosh, 'Style and Substance in Disraelian Social Reform' in Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain: Essays Presented to AF Thompson, 1987, 59-90
Peter Ghosh, 'Gibbon Observed', JRS, Vol. 81 (1991), 132-56
Peter Ghosh, 'Towards the Verdict of History: Mr Cowling's Doctrine' in Public and Private Doctrine: Essays Presented to Mourice Cowling, 1992, 273-321
Peter Ghosh, 'Maurice Cowling: A Bibliography 1948-91' in Public and Private Doctrine: Essays Presented to Maurice Cowling, 1992, 345-53
Peter Ghosh, 'Reviewing Mr Nasty: E.A. Freeman 1823-1892', Oxford Magazine, Vol. 92 (1993), 8-9
Peter Ghosh, 'Some Problems with Talcott Parsons' Version of The Protestant Ethic', Archives Européenes de Sociologie, Vol. 35 (1994), 104-23
Peter Ghosh, 'Gibbon's First Thoughts', JRS, Vol. 85 (1995), 148-164
Peter Ghosh, 'The Conception of Gibbon's History' in Edward Gibbon and Empire, 1996, 271-316
Peter Ghosh, 'Gibbon's Timeless Verity' in Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays, 1997, 121-63
Peter Ghosh, 'Macaulay and the heritage of the Enlightenment', The English Historical Review, Vol. 112 (1997), 360-97
Peter Ghosh, 'Mediate and immediate mourning' in After Diana, 1998, 41-47
Peter Ghosh, 'Citizen or subject? Michel Foucault in the History of Ideas', History of European Ideas, Vol. 24 (1998), 113-59
Peter Ghosh, 'Colin Matthew', The Guardian, Vol. 3 (1999), 20
Peter Ghosh, 'Gramscian hegemony: an absolutely historicist approach', History of European Ideas, Vol. 27 (2001), 1-43
Peter Ghosh, 'Translation as a Conceptual Act', Max Weber Studies, Vol. 2 (2001), 59-63
Peter Ghosh, 'From Basel to Burckhardt', History of European Ideas, Vol. 28 (2002), 295-315
Peter Ghosh, 'Max Weber's Idea of "Puritanism": A Case Study in the Empirical Construction of the Protestant Ethic', History of European Ideas, Vol. 29 (2) (2003), 183-221
Peter Ghosh, 'Max Weber in the Netherlands, 1903-1907. A Neglected Episode in the Early History of The Protestant Ethic', Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Vol. 119 (2004), 358-37
Peter Ghosh & Lawrence Goldman (eds), Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006
Peter Ghosh, A Historian Reads Max Weber, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2008
Peter Ghosh, ‘The Guv’nor: the Place of Ross McKibbin in the writing of British history’, in ed. William Whyte et al., Classes, Cultures and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011
Peter Ghosh, ‘Hugh Trevor-Roper and the history of ideas’, History of European Ideas, Vol. 37 (2011)