Faculty

Academic Interests: British history, history of imperialism, history of science, business history

Research: Nineteenth-century British business and economic history

Publications: Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (Routledge, 1998).

"The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain," Victorian Studies 45 (2002): 65-92.

"Senses of Belonging: The Politics of Working-Class Insurance in Britain, 1880-1914," Journal of Modern History 73 (2001): 561-602.

"Insurance against Germ Theory: Commerce and Conservatism in Late-Victorian Medicine," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75 (2001): 406-445.

"Age and Empire in the Indian Census," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30 (1999): 61-89.

"Coin and Country: Visions of Civilization in the British Recoinage Debate, 1867-1894," Journal of Victorian Culture 3 (1998): 252-281.

"Persuading by the Numbers: The Balance Sheet in Late Victorian Financial Journalism," forthcoming in John Davis (ed.), New Economics and its History. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998, 212-230.