SEMMEL, BERNARD

SEMMEL, BERNARD (1928– ), U.S. historian. Born in New York City, Semmel taught at Columbia University and at Park College and was appointed professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He later became Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate School, City University of New York Semmel's historical studies were in modern British history and modern European intellectual history. His works include Imperialism and Social Reform (1960), Jamaican Blood and Victorian Conscience (1963), The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism (1970), The Methodist Revolution (1973), John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue (1984), The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire (1993), and George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance (1994). He edited the Occasional Papers of T.R. Malthus (1963). (Ruth Beloff (2nd ed.)