CURRICULUM VITAE                                     

               

                                               

                                                ANTHONY LEON BRUNDAGE

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                                                Claremont, California  91711

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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