Dr Daniel Peart
Lecturer in Modern American History
Location: Arts Two 3.04email: d.peart@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8356
Website: http://drdanielpeart.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @drdanielpeart
Dr. Daniel Peart gained a BA from University College London and an MSc from the Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London), before returning to UCL to gain his PhD. His doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘Political organisation in the United States during the early 1820s’, explores the relationship between popular participation in politics and the emergence of mass political parties.
Dr. Peart joined Queen Mary as a full-time member of staff in 2011, having previously held part-time posts at both Queen Mary and UCL.
Research interests:
Dr. Peart’s research interests lie in the relationship between the American people and their government from the ratification of the Constitution to the Civil War. He is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally entitled Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic, which challenges the conventional ‘democratisation’ narrative of this period. He is also co-editing a volume which brings together ten leading historians to explore the diverse ways in which citizens endeavoured to put the principle of popular sovereignty into practice between the Revolution and the Civil War. In the future, Dr. Peart plans to write a history of the US tariff from 1815 to 1861 with a view to highlighting previously understudied aspects of nineteenth-century federal policy-making including the role of interest-groups and transnational influences.