David Igler

{{Short description|American historian (born 1964)}}

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| occupation = Historian

| employer = University of California, Irvine

| education = Palo Alto High School
Wesleyan University
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University of California, Berkeley
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David Bruce Igler (born August 31, 1964) is an American West historian, president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association,{{Cite web|title=Pacific Coast Branch – About Us|url=http://pcb.cgu.edu/about.htm|access-date=November 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120124410/http://pcb.cgu.edu/about.htm|archive-date=January 20, 2013|url-status=dead}} and professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.{{Cite web |title=UCI History Faculty Profile - David Igler |url=http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty_profile_igler.php/ |access-date=November 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120004124/http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty_profile_igler.php |archive-date=November 20, 2012 |url-status=dead }} His 2013 book, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush, published by Oxford University Press in April 2013{{Cite web|title=Oxford University Press US Catalogue|url=http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780199914951/}} is a study of the emergence and transformation of “Pacific worlds” during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It explores how the environment, commerce, and culture linked what would become American Far West to the eastern Pacific Basin and also to other parts of the Americas. The book shows that the American far west was an integral part of the developing Pacific world long before it became a nexus of national expansion. And it examines the different fates of Asian and indigenous people in contrast to Europeans and Americans. It was featured on the cover of the Times Literary Supplement, in a review titled "From Guano to Guantanamo."{{cite news

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|title=From Gitmo to Guantanamo

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Igler's previous books include Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 {{Cite web|title=University of California Press history catalogue|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520245341/}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and A Companion to California History, co-edited with William Deverell.{{Cite web|title=Blackwell Reference Online|url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book?id=g9781405161831_9781405161831/}}

In 2009 Igler was awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies.{{Cite web|title=ACLS Fellows and Research|url= http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=fad23bad-4b50-de11-97ce-000c293a51f7/}}

At UC Irvine he teaches courses on the American West, environmental history, Pacific history, and US colonial history.{{Cite web|title=UCI History Faculty Profile - David Igler|url=http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty_profile_igler.php/|access-date=November 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120004124/http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty_profile_igler.php|archive-date=November 20, 2012|url-status=dead}}