Professor
Department of History
Office - B/L112 L
Phone: 610-660-1744
Email: psmith@sju.edu
Education
B.A., University of Texas, El Paso
A.M., Indiana University
M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University
Courses Taught
HIS 1011-1021 Historical Introduction to Western Civilization
HIS 2231 The Age of Empire
A study of European imperialism and anti-imperialism in Africa and Asia from the late eighteenth century to the present, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century and on the British Empire.
HIS 2281 Tudor-Stuart England, 1485-1714
Age of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. Topics include Henry VIII and the Reformation, Elizabethan England, Puritanism, the English Civil War, Cromwell, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, and the growth of the early modem state, the scientific revolution, social change, and cultural life.
HIS 2291 Age of Aristocracy: Britain 1689-1832
The evolution of Britain from a preindustrial toward an industrial society between the Glorious Revolution and the first reform of Parliament; the political world of the Stuart and Hanoverian oligarchy; the industrial revolution; the Empire, particularly the British Atlantic world, and slavery; the Evangelical revival; radical social and political movements; warfare and the consolidation of British national identity; reform and the unraveling of the confessional state in the years after Waterloo; the arts, from Classical to Romantic.
HIS 2301 Victorian Britain, 1815-1901
The course is a study of Britain from 1815 to 1901 transformed by the urban and industrial revolutions; the growth of the modern state; social and political reforms; the evolution of the Liberal and Conservative parties; religious, cultural, and intellectual developments; labor movements; British foreign policy and growth of the British Empire.
HIS 2311 Twentieth-Century Britain
Topics will include Edwardian England; Armageddon, 1914-1918; the trials of the inter-war years and appeasement; the Finest Hour, 1939-1945; from Empire to Commonwealth to European Union; the welfare state and the politics of prosperity.
HIS 2391 Crime and Punishment in History
A study of crime, police, and punishment from the Middle Ages to the present. The primary emphasis will be on Britain and Continental Europe, but there will be some treatment of developments in America from colonial times to the present. Topics will include early crime and punishment; the Enlightenment reformers; organized police forces; and development of prisons in England and America; public order and disorder; the Victorian underworld; and trends in modern criminal justice.
Fields:
Britain
British Empire and Commonwealth
Criminal Justice History