CURRICULUM
VITAE
ANTHONY LEON BRUNDAGE
750 West 12th Street
Claremont, California 91711
Phone: 909-626-4588 (Home)
909-869-3860 (Office)
Fax: 909-869-4724
E-mail: albrundage@csupomona.edu
Web: http://www.class.csupomona.edu/his/tonyb.htm
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, UCLA, 1970
M.A., History, UCLA, 1966
B.A., History, UCLA, 1964
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of History, California
State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1976-present
Chair, Department of History, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona, 1979-81
Visiting Professor of History, Pomona College, 1983, 1988,
1989
Associate Professor of History, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona, 1971-76
Assistant Professor of History, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona, 1968-71
HONORS
Named a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society, London, 1996
Named Outstanding Professor, College of Arts, Letters, and
Social Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1990
BOOKS
The English PoorLaws,
1700-1930. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and
Writing. 3rd edition. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2002. (1st edition 1989, 2nd
edition 1997)
The People’s Historian: John
Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian
England. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
England's “Prussian Minister”: Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832-54. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.
The Making of the New Poor Law: The Politics of Inquiry, Enactment, and Implementation, 1832-1839. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1978 and
London: Hutchinson, 1978.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book tentatively titled The Great Tradition: Anglo-Saxonism,
Constitutional History,
and Legal History in England and America, 1870-1930.
ESSAYS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Private Charity and the 1834 Poor Law.” In With Us Always: Private Charity and
Public Assistance in Historical Perspective, 95-114, ed. Donald T.
Critchlow and Charles H. Parker.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
“Teaching Research and Writing to Upper-Divison History
Majors: Contexts, Sources, Rhetorical Strategies,” The History Teacher 30 (August 1997): 451-59.
“55 B.C. and All That: Teaching the British History Survey,”
British Studies Intelligencer
9 (Spring 1994): 11-12.
“Radicalism and the
Emerging Historical Profession in Victorian England: The Case of
John Richard Green.” Nineteenth Century Prose,
special edition on “Politicians and Prose” 19 (1992): 46-59.
“The Making of the New Poor Law: Debate.” Past and
Present no. 127 (May 1990):
183-86.
“Radicalism, repression, and reform in the ‘Age of
Improvement’: some recent studies.” Journal
of British Studies 29 (January
1990): 85-91.
“Ministers, Magistrates, and Reformers: the Genesis of the
Rural Constabulary Act of 1839.” Parliamentary History 5 (1986): 55-64.
“Reform of the Poor Law Electoral System, 1834-94.” Albion 7 (Fall 1975): 201-15.
“The Landed Interest and the New Poor Law: a reply.” English
Historical Review 90 (April 1975):
347-51.
“The English Poor Law of 1834 and the cohesion of
agricultural society.” Agricultural History 48 (July 1974): 405-17.
“John Richard Green and the Church: the Making of a Social
Historian.” The Historian 35
(November 1972): 32-42.
“The Landed Interest and the New Poor Law: a Reappraisal of
the Revolution in Government.” English Historical Review 87 (January 1972): 27-48.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
“The Regulatory State,” “Edwin Chadwick,” and “The New Poor
Law.” Grolier Encyclopedia of the
Victorian Era (Grolier, forthcoming).
“Green, John Richard” and “Nicholls, George.” New
Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Froude, James Anthony.” Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences, ed.
John Powell and Derek Blakeley.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.
“Green, John Richard.” A Global
Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. J.D.R. Woolf. New York: Garland
Press, 1997.
“Edwin Chadwick.” Great Lives from History: British and
Commonwealth Series.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987.
BOOK REVIEWS
Benedikt Stuchtey and Peter Wende, eds., British and
German Historiography 1750-1950
(New York, 2000). Albion 32 (Winter 2002): 672-3.
Alan Kidd, State, Society, and the Poor in
Nineteenth-Century England (New York, 1999). Albion 31 (Winter 2001): 671-3.
William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for
Students (New York, 1999), and Molly McClain and Jacqueline D. Roth, Schaum’s
Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays (New York, 1999). The History Teacher 32 (May 1999):
452-3.
Christopher Hamlin, Public Health and Social Justice in
The Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854 (Cambridge, 1997). Albion 30 (Winter 1999): 709-11.
Philip Harling, The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’: The
Politics of economical reform in Britain, 1779-1846 (Oxford, 1996). American
Historical Review 103 (Feb. 1998): 180-81.
Reba Soffer, Discipline and
Power: The University, History, and the Making of an English
Elite, 1870-1930 (Stanford, 1994). American
Historical Review 101 (April 1996): 489-90.
Felix Driver, Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System,
1834-1884 (Cambridge,
1993). Victorian Studies 37 (Summer 1994): 617-19.
Ian Dyck, William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture
(Cambridge, 1992). Victorian Periodicals Review 27 (Winter 1994):
373-75.
George Boyer, An Economic History of the English Poor
Law, 1750-1850 (Cambridge, 1990). Journal
of Economic History 51 (September
1991): 719-20.
Christine Bellamy, Administering central-local relations
1871-1919: The Local Government Board in its fiscal and cultural context (Manchester, 1988). American Historical
Review 96 (June 1991): 875.
Roy MacLeod, ed., Government and Expertise: Specialists,
administrators, and professionals, 1860-1919
(Cambridge, 1988). American Historical Review 95 (December 1990): 1539-40.
Albert Cook, History/Writing:
The theory and practice of history in antiquity and in modern times (Cambridge, 1988). Journal of Interdisciplinary History 21 ( Autumn 1990): 303-04.
F. M. L. Thompson, The
Rise of Respectable Society: A Social
History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 (Cambridge, Mass., 1988). Albion 22 (Spring 1990): 148-49.
Donald Read, Peel
and the Victorians (Oxford,
1987). Albion 21 (Fall 1989): 507-09.
Alex Tyrrell, Joseph
Sturge and the Moral Radical Party in Early Victorian England (London,
1987). American Historical Review 94 (February 1989): 137-38.
John Knott, Popular
Opposition to the 1834 Poor Law
(New York, 1986). American
Historical Review 93 (December
1988): 1328-29.
Michael E. Rose, ed., The Poor and the City: the English Poor Law in its urban
context,1834-1914 (New York,
1987). American Historical Review 92 (December 1987): 1210-11.
Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Transformation of
English Fiction, 1832-67 (Chicago,
1985). American Historical Review 91 (June 1986): 667.
Mark Neuman, The Speenhamland County: Poverty and the Poor Laws in Berkshire,
1782-1834 (New York, 1982). American Historical Review 88 (December 1983): 1265-66.
Karel Williams, From Pauperism to Poverty (Boston, 1981). American Historical Review 87 (April 1982): 451-52.
Richard A. Cosgrove, The Rule of Law: Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian Jurist (Chapel Hill, 1980). Arizona Quarterly 37 (Summer 1981): 190-92.
William Petersen, Malthus (Cambridge, Mass., 1978) and Howard L. Malchow, Population
Pressures: Emigration and Government in
Late Nineteenth Century Britain (Palo Alto, 1979). Victorian Studies 24 (Spring 1981): 364-66.
Frank Whitson Fetter, The Economist in Parliament: 1780-1868 (Durham, N.C., 1980). American
Historical Review 86 (February
1981): 132-33.
Anne Digby, Pauper Palaces (London, 1978). English
Historical Review 95 (April 1980):
436.
Robert Moore, Pit-Men and Politics: The Effects of Methodism in a Durham Mining
Community (New York, 1979). Albion 12 (Spring 1980): 79.
Raymond G. Cowherd, Political Economists and the English
Poor Laws: A Historical Study of the
Influence of Classical Economics on the Formation of Social Welfare Policy (Athens,
Ohio, 1978). American Historical
Review 85 (February 1980): 128-29.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, COMMENTARIES, CHAIRMANSHIPS
“The Impact of English Constitutional History’s Changing
Paradigms on America’s ‘Usable Past,’ 1870-1930,” presented at the annual
meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2002.
“The
Friendliest of Empires: The Historical
Profession’s Role in Anglo-American Rapprochement, 1895-1918,” presented at a
conference on “Pairing Empires,” Johns Hopkins University, November 2000.
“The Norman Conquest and the American Revolution: the
linkage between the two key paradigm shifts in Anglo-American historiography,
1890-1910,” presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on
British Studies, Tucson, October 1999.
“The Historical Profession and the Forging of the
Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1897-1917,” presented at the annual
meeting of the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Maui,
Hawaii, August 1999.
Chair/Commentator for panel on "Collaboration and
Convention in Victorian and Edwardian Society," at the annual meeting of
the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, UC Santa Cruz, March 1999.
Commentator for panel on “Women, Children, and the Law in
England, 1780-1880,” at the annual meeting of the North American Conference on
British Studies, Colorado Springs, October 1998.
Chair/Commentator for Panel on “Interwar Policy and
Planning: Devolving State Functions,” at the annual meeting of the Western
Conference on British Studies, Fort Worth, October 1997.
Plenary session panelist on “British Studies in the American
Academy: Crisis and Challenge,” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Conference
on British Studies, at Mills College, April 1997.
“Teaching Writing to Upper-Division History Majors:
Contexts, Sources, Rhetorical Strategies,” presented at the annual meeting of
the American Historical Association, New York City, January 1997.
Commentator for panel on “Clerics and Courts in Eighteenth and
early Nineteenth Century England,” at the annual meeting of the Western
Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, October 1996.
“Private Charity and
the 1834 Poor Law,” plenary presentation to a conference on From Poor Laws to
the Modern Welfare State: Private Charity and Public Assistance in Historical
Perspective, at St. Louis University, August 1996.
Chair/Commentator for Panel on “Liberalism and Militarism in
Nineteenth Century Greater Britain” at the annual meeting of the Pacific
Conference on British Studies, UCLA, March 1996.
Chair for panel on
“British Liberalism in a European Context, 1870-1920” at the joint annual
meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies and the
Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Washington DC, October 1995
“Anglo-Saxonism and the forging of a common identity among
English and American historians, 1870-1920,” presented at the annual meeting of
the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Maui, Hawaii, August
1995.
Chair for panel on “Victorian Lives: Public and Private” at
the annual meeting of the West-ern Conference on British Studies, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, October 1994.
Commentator for panel on “Nineteenth Century Politics and
Reform” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Conference on British Studies,
Claremont Colleges, April 1994.
Commentator for panel on “Intellectual and Artistic Topics”
at the annual meeting of the
Western Conference on British Studies, Albuquerque, October
1993.
“John Richard Green, Popular Radicalism, and the Development
of the Historical Profession in Victorian England,” presented at a joint
meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies and the Western
Conference on British Studies, Boulder, Colorado, October 1992.
“Popular History or Amateur History: John Richard Green and
the Professionalization of History in Victorian England,” presented at a joint
meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and
the North American Conference on British Studies, Kona, Hawaii, August 1991.
Chair for panel on “John Stuart Mill and the Problems of
Empire” at the joint annual meeting of
the North American Conference on British Studies and the Pacific Conference on
British Studies, University of Santa Clara, March 1991.
Commentator for panel on “Victorian Institutions: Imperial
and Indigenous,” at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on British
Studies, Snowbird, Utah, October 1990.
Chair for panel on “Celtic Stereotypes,” at the annual
meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Huntington Library,
March 1990.
Chair for panel on “John Stuart Mill: Politician and Administrator,” at the joint annual meeting of the North American Conference on
British Studies and the Midwest Conference on British Studies, University of
Illinois at Chicago, October 1989.
Chair/Commentator for panel on “The Uses of Law in the
Nineteenth Century,” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on
British Studies, University of California Alumni Center, Lake Arrowhead, March
1988.
Commentator for panel on “The Victorian Intellect,” at the joint annual meeting of the Southern
Conference on British Studies and the Southern Historical Association, New
Orleans, November 1987.
Commentator for panel on “Police on Land and at Sea,” at the
annual meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio,
October 1985.
Chair/Commentator for panel on “Nineteenth Century Religion,
Politics, and Science,”
at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on
British Studies, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,
March 1985.
“Ministers, Magistrates, and Reformers: the Genesis of the Rural Constabulary Act of
1839,” delivered at the joint annual meeting of the North American Conference
on British Studies and the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies,
Asilomar, March 1984.
Commentator for panel on “Victorian Economic and Moral
Leadership” at the annual meeting of Western Conference on British Studies,
University of Colorado, October 1983.
“Bentham's Visions, Chadwick's Deeds: how utilitarian was the Victorian revolution
in government?” presented to a plenary session commemorating the
sesquicentennial of Jeremy Bentham’s death, at the annual meeting of the
American Society for Legal History, St. Louis, October 1982.
“The Evolution of the English Poor Laws,” presented at the
University of Sussex, March 1982.
“Edwin Chadwick and the Victorian revolution in
government: some new lines of inquiry,”
presented at the Institute of Historical Research, London, January 1982.
Chair/Commentator for panel on “Paternalists and Reformers
in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast
Conference on British Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, March
1981.
“Sir Francis Bond Head's Appointment to Canada: the Poor Law Connection,” delivered at the
annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical
Association, Northern Arizona University, August 1977.
“Edwin Chadwick, Nassau Senior, and Poor Law Reform,”
delivered at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British
Studies, Stanford University, April 1976.
“The origins of the New Poor Law: some new lines of inquiry,” delivered at the annual meeting of
the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo, April 1974.
“The establishment of the New Poor Law in Northamptonshire,”
presented at Philip Collins’s M.A. Seminar, Leicester University, March 1968.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING
Books: Harlan
Davidson, Inc.; The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship
Articles: American Historical Review; Albion;
Victorian Studies; The History
Teacher; Histoire Sociale/Social History;
Technology & Culture.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY OFFICES
Executive Secretary, North
American Conference on British Studies, 1988-90.
Nominating Committee Chair, Pacific Coast Conference on
British Studies, 1989-90.
President, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies,
1984-86.
Program Committee Chair, joint annual meeting of the Pacific
Coast Conference on British Studies and the West Coast History of Science
Society, at the Huntington Library, March 1983.
Membership Secretary, Pacific Coast Conference on British
Studies, 1978-80.
Local Arrangements Chair, Phi Alpha Theta Regional
Conference, at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, April 1980.
Local Arrangements Chair, annual meeting of Pacific Coast
Conference on British Studies, at California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, April 1979.
COURSES TAUGHT
British History (two-quarter
survey course) History
of the British Empire
History of Civilization (three-quarter survey course)
History Methods
Great Britain in the Industrial Revolution History and Historians
History and Literature of Modern Ireland Senior Thesis and Seminar Nineteenth
Century Europe United States History
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Royal Historical Society
North American Conference on British Studies
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Phi Alpha Theta