| Ph.D. Harvard University, 1991, History
of Science
Academic Affiliation: Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College
Office phone: 718-960-8675
E-Mail: timothy.alborn@lehman.cuny.edu
http://www.lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/alborn.php
Curriculum Vitae |
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| British
History, History of Business, History of Science
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Monographs:
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.
Articles:
"An Irish El Dorado: Recovering Gold in County Wicklow," Journal of British Studies 50 (2011): 359-380
"Normal Bodies, Normal Prices: Interdisciplinarity in Victorian Life Insurance," Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net no. 49 (February 2008). Accessible at http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
"Dirty Laundry: Exposing Bad Behavior in Life Insurance Trials, 1830-1890." In Margot Finn, Michael Lobban, and Jenny Bourne Taylor, eds., Spurious Issues: Legitimacy in Law, Literature, and History, 1680-1900 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 148-172.
"Economics and Business." In Francis O'Gorman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 61-79.
"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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Works in Progress:
Before the Gold Rush: Britain's Most Precious Metal, 1750-1850. Book manuscript on the cultural and monetary history of gold in Great Britain during the century before the gold rushes of 1849-52. |
