Mansel, Philip

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Mansel, Philip (1951-)[edit]

A British historian of France, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Phillip Mansel has published eleven books of history and biography and has also contributed to several journals and newspapers, including History Today, The English Historical Review, the International Herald Tribune, and the Daily Telegraph. Some of his publications include Sultans in Splendour (1988), Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire 1453-1924 (1995), Paris Between Empire 1814-1852 (2001), and his latest book, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010). Mansel was appointed Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2010 and received the annual London Library Life in Literature Award in 2012.

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