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Stuart Blumin

Professor

Office: 450 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-8862
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: smb5@cornell.edu

Office Hours: On Leave

Education

Ph.D University of Pennsylvania, 1968
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1963
B.S. University of Pennsylvania, 1962

Courses

Fall 2008:   On Leave
Spring 2009:   Retired as of January 1, 2009

 

Recent Publications and Awards

Books

Rude Republic: Americnas and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (with Glenn C. Altschuler) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Articles

“Social Class," in Paul S. Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford, 2001) 723-5.

“The Social Implications of American Economic Development," in Stanley F. Engerman and Robert C. Gallman, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 2, (Cambridge, 2000).

“The City," in Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, vol. 2 (New York, 2001), 443-51.

"The Civil 'World We Have Lost': Reflections on the First Generations of Democratic Self-Rule in America," Communication Review 4 (2000), 21-37.

"Social Class," in Carol Kammen and Norma Prendergast, eds., Encyclopedia of Local History (Walnut Creek, 2000), 409-11.

"Middle Class in Cities," in Neil Larry Shumsky, ed., Encyclopedia of Urban American: The Cities and Suburbs (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998), 461-3.

"'Where is the Real America?': Politics and Popular Consciousness in the Antebellum Era," (with Glenn C. Altschuler) American Quarterly 49 (1997), 225-67.

"Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy (with Glenn Altschuler) Journal of American History 84 (1997), 225-58.

"Politics, Society, and the Narrative of American Democracy," (with Glenn C. Altshuler) Journal of American History 84 (1997), 904-9.

Awards

Binkley-Stephenson prize (for "Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America"), Organization of American Historians, 1997.