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Timothy Alborn
 

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1991, History of Science
Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor and Chair, Lehman College
Office phone: 718-960-7802
E-Mail: timothy.alborn@lehman.cuny.edu

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Field of Scholarship

British History, History of Business, History of Science

Selected Publications

Regulated Lives: Life Assurance and British Society, 1840-1920. Book manuscript dealing with the social and professional interactions among actuaries, doctors and salesmen in the Victorian life insurance industry.

Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England. London: Routledge, 1998.

"Quill-driving: British Life-Insurance Clerks and Occupational Mobility, 1800 -1914," Business History Review 82 (2008): 31-58.

"The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain," Victorian Studies 45 (2002): 67-92.

"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 Civilisation in the British Recoinage Debate, 1867-1894," Journal of Victorian Culture 3 (1998): 252-281.

"The Business of Induction: Industry and Genius in the Language of British Scientific Reform, 1820-1840," History of Science 34 (1996): 191-221.

"The Moral of the Failed Bank: Professional Plots in the Victorian Money Market," Victorian Studies 38 (1995): 199-225.

"Economic Man, Economic Machine: Images of Circulation in the Victorian Money Market," in Philip Mirowski, ed., Natural Images in Economics: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 173-196.


 
 
 
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