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Department of History
Tufts University
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Medford, MA 02155
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Malchow
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Howard Le Roy Malchow
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 (in 1974) from Stanford
University, 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).
With
the new millennium, my teaching and research interests (the one somehow
informing the other as often happens) 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 1970s, 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. My most recent book (Special Relations)
is an exploration of the "Americanization" (a somewhat contested concept)
of Britain, and especially how the anti-war movement, student rebellions,
and black, feminist and gay liberationisms resonated and circulated
transatlanticly.
I continue to teach a range of survey and upper level courses on modern Britain and its
Empire (from the 18th century), the Anglo-American special
relationship (since the Second World War), and aspects of European and American
diplomatic history. I have recently
developed a wide-ranging general survey course on "the historical perspective in
International Relations."
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University, 1972
- M.A. Stanford University, 1968
- B.A. Southern Methodist University, 1967
Major Publications
- Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain? (2011)
- 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
- Theory, International Relations and the problem of interdisciplinarity
Courses
- History 10: International Relations: The Historical Perspective
- History 65: Great Britain and the British Empire
- History 163: Special Relations: Britain and America Since WWII

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