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Tufts University
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Howard L. Malchow, Chair
Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History
Modern Britain, Europe, Anglo-American Relations

Biography

Born in Indiana and raised in Texas, I came to Tufts University more than thirty years ago (in 1974) from Stanford, where I studied modern British social and imperial history under the distinguished historian of modern British culture, Peter Stansky. My dissertation treated the politics of 19th century British empire-emigration (published as Population Pressures: Emigration and Government in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain) and subsequent research interests included the social background of 19th century reform movements (Agitators and Promoters in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli), the cultural milieu of Victorian entrepreneurs (Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman), and the construction of "race" in Britain in the 19th century (Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth Century Britain).

Since 1997 my teaching and then my research interests (the one somehow informing the other as often happens) have drifted away from the Victorians toward post-war, indeed contemporary Britain. In the past few years I have given courses on youth culture in the 70s, Thatcherism, Britain in the Second World War, the Suez Crisis, the "new ethnicities" of post-imperial Britain, and the Anglo-American "Special Relationship" considered as a matter of cultural rather than political relations. This latter area has provided much of the focus for my current research and writing. The book I am now working on is an exploration of the "Americanization" (a somewhat outdated concept) of Britain, and especially how the anti-war movement, student rebellions, and black, feminist and gay liberationism resonated and circulated transatlanticly.

I continue to teach a range of survey and upper level courses on modern Britain and its Empire, with an emphasis on domestic social and cultural history, as well as courses from time to time on the special relationship (as befits, perhaps, the holder of the Walter S. Dickson Chair of English and American History) and am developing a new general survey course on "the historical perspective in International Relations."

Education

  • B.A. Southern Methodist University, 1967
  • M.A. Stanford University, 1968
  • Ph.D. Stanford University, 1972

Major Publications

  • Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1996)
  • Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman (1991)
  • Agitators and Promoters in the Age of the Gladstone and Disraeli(1983)
  • Population Pressures: Emigration and Government in Late 19thCentury Britain (1979)

Research in Progress

  • Anglo-American Popular Culture in the 1960s and 70s

Courses

  • History 14: Race, Nationalism, and Modern Europe
  • History 33: Modern Britain
  • History 117: British Society since the Second World War
  • History 118: A Special Relationship: Britain and America Since WWI