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North American Conference on British Studies

November 13-15 The Doubletree By Hilton

Little Rock, Arkansas Friday, November 13 Salon D 7:45-8:45 Continental Breakfast Friday, November 13 8:45-10:30 Edgehill Room 1. The House of Lords and British Society: Personal Politics in a Public Arena, 1660-1714 Chair and Comment: Paul Seaward, History of Parliament Trust Aristocracy and Avarice: The story of the Albemarle inheritance

Ruth Paley, History of Parliament Trust Open House at Hell? Honour and corruption within the House of Lords, c. 1688-1700

Robin Eagles, History of Parliament Trust Irish Appellate Cases at the Dublin and Westminster Parliaments

Coleman Dennehy, University College, London Riverside East Room 2. Architecture and the Sciences in Victorian Britain Chair and Comment: Photography and the Scientification of Architecture in the Late Victorian Era

David Frazer Lewis, Yale Center for British Art Geological Ethics: John Ruskins Truth of Essences

Marrikka Trotter, Harvard University Building Parliament and Knowledge: The Science of the Palace of Westminster

Edward John Gillin, Oxford University Riverside West Room 3. Ireland within British Imperial Culture Chair: Michael de Nie, University of West Georgia

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Ireland, the Imperial Turn and Four-Nations History: How the Empire Makes the United Kingdom Make Sense Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson University Irish Wives for German Soldiers: State-Sponsored Migration to the Cape Colony during the 1850s

Jill Bender, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Coloured and white policemen drilling side by side: Imperial Encounters in Late Victorian and Edwardian Dublin

Michael Silvestri, Clemson University

Comment: Paul Townend, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Salon A Room 4. Emotional Currencies of Empire Chair: Will Jackson, University of Leeds Going Native: Colonial Informants and Contentious Intimacies

Kim Wagner, Queen Mary University of London (Marie Curie Fellow, George Washington University, 2015-17)

The Terrorist and his Jailor: Prison Intimacies in the Colonial Prison

Durba Ghosh, Cornell University The Colour Bar is all Bunk: South African Hospitality during the Second World War

Jean Smith, University of Leeds A Problem of Care: Child Welfare and the Racialization of Compassion in 1920s Cape Town

Will Jackson, University of Leeds Comment: Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University

Salon C Room 5. Political Economy and Imperial Competition in the Long Eighteenth Century Chair: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College Guarda Costas in the Early English Empire, 1670-1700

Leslie Theibert, University of Oxford The War of Jenkins Ear and the Political Economy of Empire Steven Pincus, Yale University Bad Money: The Royal Mint at the Crossroads of Empire, 1782-1837

Heather Welland, SUNY Binghamton

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Comment: Sarah Kinkel, Ohio University Palisades Room 6. Masculinity on the Backfoot Chair: Allison Abra, University of Southern Mississippi Where Are Your Wives?: Laughing at African Explorers

Angela Thompsell, The College at Brockport, SUNY Liberalizing Paternalism? Men and the 1893 Slander of Women Act

Caroline Shaw, Bates College (Un)Lawful Confinement and Victorian Masculinity

Amy Milne-Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University Comment: Isaac Land, Indiana State University 10:30-10:45 Foyer Coffee Break Friday, November 13 10:45-12:30 Edgehill Room 7. (Re)Evaluating the Social Space of Early Modern Households Chair and Comment: Richard Connors, University of Ottawa Believing na evill nor Injury: Urban Households and Petty Crimes in Early Modern Scotland

Rob Falconer, Grant MacEwan University A Good Servant is a Precious Jewell: Mistresses and Servants in the Early Modern English Elite Household

Courtney Thomas, Independent Scholar Helping to Slipe their Calfes: Man-Midwifery at the Court of Charles II

Sarah Kelly, Independent Scholar Riverside East Room 8. Fighting for Britain? Negotiating Identities in Britain during the Second World War Chair: Juliette Pattinson, University of Kent Recovering English-Welsh Hybridity in the Second World War

Wendy Ugolini, University of Brighton

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Britain, the Countryside and Englishness in the Second World War

Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton Excellent Irishmen: Irish Volunteers, Identity and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War

Bernard Kelly, University of Edinburgh Comment: Susan R. Grayzel, University of Mississippi Riverside West Room 9. Rethinking the Role of Religion in Seventeenth-Century English Politics Chair: Catherine Chou, Stanford University Contemptuous Words Spoken in the Fleet: Religion and Sedition in the Early Modern Prison

Richard Thomas Bell, Stanford University Subversive Orthodoxy: Dying for the Lords Deposed Anointed in Protectorate England

Mark T. Duggan, Rutgers University The Devil is in the Details: Metaphysical Epistemologies in Anti-Popish Critiques of Charles I

Christopher P. Gillett, Brown University Comment: Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre Dame Salon A Room 10. Reimagining the Primitive: History, Anthropology, and the Past in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chair and Comment: Chris Manias, University of Manchester Modernity and the Moon Goddess: Feminism, Psychology, and the Primitive in the Early Twentieth Century

Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia Doomed to Die: Anthropology and the Future of Endangered Races in Modern Settler Colonies

Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham Primitive Art, Primitivism, and the Modern Savage: Approaches to the History and Science of Culture

Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University Salon C Room 11. Reactions to the Imperial Civil War Chair and Comment: Hannah Weiss Muller, Brandeis University

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The Race of the Insipids?: Neutrals and Neutrality in the American Revolution Travis Glasson, Temple University

Striking the King: Legal Rituals of Royalism and Rebellion during the American Revolution

Brendan Gillis, Indiana University Labor and Property in the American Revolution

John Collins, Eastern Washington University Palisades Room 12. Redeeming Tommy Atkins: Poetry, Patriotism, and Performance at the Fin-de-Sicle Chair and Comment: Douglas Peers, University of Waterloo Kipling and the Poetics of the Anglo-Afghan Wars

Zarena Aslami, Michigan State University The Last of the Light Brigade, the Invention of the Veteran, and the Long Shadow of the Crimean War

Lara Kriegel, Indiana University

Kipling's Bully Pulpit: Music Hall Patriotism Revisited Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba and Indiana University

Salon D 12:45-2:30 Lunch 1:15: Luncheon Plenary Chair: Keith Wrightson (Yale University), President, NACBS

Plucked Hens and Principals: Tackling Dutch Politics in Seventeenth-Century England Jason Peacey, University College London The NACBS thanks the British Council and Paul Smith, Director of the British Council USA, for co-sponsoring Professor Peaceys appearance. Friday, November 13 2:45-4:30 Edgehill Room 13. Modern History Workshop: The Individual and Society (Session will run to 5:15) Note: Pre-circulated papers for this workshop are available from Deborah Cohen (Deborah-Cohen@northwestern.edu). A portion of this session will be reserved for questions from the floor; advance reading of the papers by audience members is not expected or required.

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Chairs: Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham

The impressionistic brush of a Turner, not the microscopic detail of a Canaletto: Reflections on the Use of Qualitative Evidence in Reconstructing Social History

Alan Allport, Syracuse University Celebrity and Empire: The Performance of Ruling in British India, 1760-1925

Christina Casey, Cornell University Enterprise on the Margins: New Protagonists in British Business History

Jessica P. Clark, Brock University "In Me Two Worlds: Dona Torr and the Construction of the Marxist Individual, 1900-1956

Cath Feely, University of Derby The Tailor and Thomas Carlyle: Exceptionality and the Hidden Injuries of the Representative in Modern Britain Christopher Ferguson, Auburn University Sharing With Strangers: Alcoholics Anonymous UK in the Late Twentieth Century Katie Harper, University of California, Berkeley Individual Investors and Financialization in Post-War Britain Kieran Heinemann, University of Cambridge Exemplars of Political and Ideological Change in Northampton, 1867-1918 Matthew Kidd, University of Nottingham On the Biographies of Nobodies: Telling the History of Marginalized Individuals

Julia Laite, Birkbeck, University of London Sidgwick's Greek Prose Composition: Gender, Affect, and Sociability in the Late-Victorian University Emily Rutherford, Columbia University Sympathetic Ink: Individual Identity in the 1820s Effort to Reform the British Sodomy Laws

Charles Upchurch, Florida State University Riverside East Room 14. Early-Modern History Workshop: Political History (Session will run to 5:15) Note: Papers will be made available in cases where author consent has been given. Please contact Brendan Kane for details (brendan.kane@uconn.edu). A portion of this session will be reserved for questions from the floor; advance reading of the papers by audience members is not expected or required.

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Chairs: Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut William Bulman, Lehigh University Ritual, Order and Disorder during the Interregnum: The Evidence from the Prayer Book(s)

Hilary Bogert-Winkler, University of Connecticut The Rise of the Majority

William Bulman, Lehigh University Parliament in the Elizabethan Political Imagination: New Perspectives and Paradigms

Catherine Chou, Stanford University The Printing Press and the Pulpit: Imperial Propaganda for England's National Project, 1607-1623

Kelsey Flynn, The George Washington University Credibly Informed: Information Management and the Protestant Construction of Jesuit Influence in the Constitutional Crisis of 1647

Christopher Gillett, Brown University Politics and Popular Appeals Law, Legal Pamphlets and Mobilisation in the first English Civil War

Alex Hitchman, University of Sheffield Beyond the Spenser-Davies Group: Reading for Legitimacy in English Treatises on Governing Ireland

Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut The Down Survey: Science and Political History in Stuart Ireland

Ted McCormick, Concordia University The Loyalty of Traitors: Mary Fenwick and Jacobite Ideology in Late Stuart England

Kaitlin Pontzer, Cornell University The World in the Archive: The Production of Political Knowledge in Early Modern Britain

Nicholas Popper, College of William & Mary Riverside West Room 15. Roundtable: The English Reformation: Past, Present, and Future Chair and Comment: Robert Ingram, Ohio University

Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University

Eric Josef Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College

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Karl Gunther, University of Miami

Joel Dodson, Southern Connecticut State University Salon A Room 16. Sustenance and Starvation: Food and the Cultural Politics of Welfare in Twentieth-Century Britain Chair: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont Strikes, Starvation, and Welfare Politics in 1926

Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado, Denver Hot Drinks Mean Much in Jungle: Tea in the Service of War

Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara Nations Out of Nurseries, Empires Into Bottles: The Global Politics of Welfare Orange Juice

Nadja Durbach, University of Utah

Comment: Deborah Valenze, Barnard College

Salon C Room 17. New Histories of the Welfare State Chair: Guy Ortolano, New York University Necessary Medicine in the Early NHS

Amy Whipple, Xavier University Ive gone down, slipped; Im from that Strata who lives off the State: Womens Selfhood and the Welfare State since 1945

Eve Worth, Queens College, University of Oxford Bad Neighbors, Bad Bosses, Bad Feelings: The Making of the Race Relations Conciliation Officer, 1958-1976

Camilla Schofield, University of East Anglia

Comment: Selina Todd, St. Hildas College, University of Oxford Palisades Room 18. Women and Power Relationships: Cultural Assumptions, Negotiations and Resistance Chair and Comment: Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma Female Factory Inspectors, Gertrude Tuckwell, the Womens Trade Union League and the Struggle against Workplace Fines and Deductions, 1893-1913

Christopher Frank, University of Manitoba

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Dealing with the Army: Regimental Life of the Wives of Enlisted Men and NCOs in the Nineteenth Century

Lynn MacKay, Brandon University We found as free ingress into their cells as if we had been a regiment of confessors: Wellingtons Officers and the Seduction of Portuguese Nuns

Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Trent University Friday, November 13 4:30-4:45 Foyer Coffee Break Friday, November 13 4:45-5:15 Salon B Southern Conference on British Studies, Business Meeting Friday, November 13 5:15-5:45 Salon B North American Conference on British Studies, Business Meeting Friday, November 13 6:00-7:30 Salon D Reception and NACBS Awards Presentation. The awards presentation will begin at 6:30. Conference attendees are asked to remain quiet during this interval, so that all who are present can hear the presentations and duly acknowledge their peers. If you must talk during this portion of the reception, please retreat to the hallway outside Salon D.

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Saturday, November 14 Salon D 7:45-8:45 Continental Breakfast Saturday, November 14 8:45-10:30 Edgehill Room 19. Naval Healthcare at Home and at the Edge of Empire, 1570-1825 Chair: Greg Smith, University of Manitoba In Misery and Distress: The Experience of Disease and Injury in the Elizabethan Navy and Merchant Marine

Cheryl Fury, University of New Brunswick, St. John The Most Affectionate and Unremitted Care and Attention: Black Nurses, Racial Immunity, and British West Indian Naval Hospitals, 1790-1825

Erin Spinney, University of Saskatchewan Londons Hospitals and the Fiscal-Naval State, 1650-1715

Matthew Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan Comment: Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University Riverside East Room 20. Ceremony and Authority in Modern Britain and the British Empire Chair and Comment: Timothy Alborn, Lehman College, City University of New York Royal Ritual and Performance in Colonial Africa

Charles Reed, Elizabeth City State University The Call of the Medieval: Inventing Rituals for Honours in the Twentieth Century

Tobias Harper, Providence College Ritual Murder: Popular Reactions to Anglican Liturgical Reform, 1965-1980

Daniel Loss, Harvard University Riverside West Room 21. Gender and the Professionalization of Culture, c. 1880-1969 Chair: Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

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The Womens Guild of Arts: Women Artists and Tactics of Professionalization in the Arts and Crafts Movement, c. 1880-1930

Zoe Thomas, Royal Holloway, University of London The Amateur Trader: Women in the Market for Antiques, c. 1880-1940

Heidi Egginton, Newnham College, University of Cambridge Untangling Thirsks Law: Women and History in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Laura Carter, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Comment: Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor Salon A Room 22. Environments of Rebellion: Climate, Resources, and Politics in Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic Chair and Comment: Derek Hirst, Washington University, St. Louis Mapping Rebellion: Evaluating Plantation Land in Late Tudor Ireland, 1584-1603

Keith Pluymers, Caltech Winter and Discontent in Early Modern England

William Cavert, St. Thomas University First Fruits of Cynicism: Creating Environmental Law for Economic Reward in the Early Modern British World

Jennifer Wells, Brown University Salon C Room 23. Queer in the Classroom Moderator: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont Chris Waters, Williams College Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Colorado State University Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham Charles Upchurch, Florida State University Palisades Room 24. Roundtable: Religious Freedom in Early Modern England Moderator: Robert Ingram, Ohio University Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University William Bulman, Lehigh University Susan D. Amussen, University of California, Merced

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Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University Comment: Brad S. Gregory, Notre Dame University Saturday, November 14 10:30-10:45 Foyer Coffee Break Saturday, November 14 10:45-12:30 Edgehill Room 25. Political Parties and the New Political History: Is the Party Over? Chair and Commenter: Sam Wetherell, University of California, Berkeley What was the Point of the New Political History?

Steven Fielding, University of Nottingham The Political History Blues

Lawrence Black, University of York British Liberalism and the New Political History

Peter Sloman, University of Cambridge New Political History and the Conservative Party Beyond Thatcherism?

Kit Kowol, Teesside University Riverside East Room 26. Jews, Jewishness, and the Formation of National Identity in the British Empire Chair: Dane Kennedy, George Washington University Political Lives between Nation and Empire: Jewish Elites in Mandatory Palestine and the British Question

Elizabeth Imber, The Johns Hopkins University Agitate, Friend Moses: Jews in the Irish Nationalist Imagination

Aidan Beatty, University of Chicago Tales of Love and Darkness: Zionism, the British Empire and Colonial Nostalgia in the Work of Amos Oz

Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Comment: David Feldman, Birkbeck, University of London

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Riverside West Room 27. Chartist Leaders and Ideas Chair: James J. Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago The Most Consistent of Them All: William Sharman Crawford as a Chartist

Anthony Daly, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Anti-Semitism in the Chartist Movement: The Localities

Denis Paz, University of North Texas Bronterre OBrien, Chartism, and Money

Michael J. Turner, Appalachian State University Comment: James Epstein, Vanderbilt University

Salon A Room 28. Urban Racial Politics in Post-War Britain Chair and Comment: ______

Marc Matera, University of California, Santa Cruz ______

Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University Rastafari at the Odeon, Birmingham. 22 June 1976

Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London Salon C Room 29. Political Communities and New Forms of Solidarity in Seventeenth-Century England Chair and Comment: Rachel Weil, Cornell University John Lilburnes Allies: English Political Culture and its Transformations in the Revolutionary Decades (1640-1660)

Michael Braddick, University of Sheffield Dissident Networks and Anglo-Dutch Print Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Jason Peacey, University College London Spoken by ye one and confirmed by ye other: Memory, Sedition, and Solidarity in Post-Revolutionary England, 1660-1685

Edward Legon, University College London Palisades Room

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30. Leonore Davidoff: Pioneer Historian of Class and Gender Chair and Comment: Ellen Ross, Ramapo College of New Jersey The New Perspectives on Siblings and Sibling Death in Davidoffs Thicker Than Water (2012)

Lydia Murdoch, Vassar College Evangelical Christianity, Class, and Gender: Family Fortunes Invaluable Contribution to the Study of Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Pamela Walker, Carleton University Leonore Davidoff as a Mentor in Social History and Gender History

Anna Clark, University of Minnesota

Salon D 12:45-2:30 Lunch

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Susan Pedersen, Columbia University Saturday, November 14 2:45-4:30 Edgehill Room 31. The Evolution of Imperial Defense in the British World, 1850-1974 Chair and Comment: Benjamin John Grob-Fitzgibbon, University of Arkansas The Professionalization of British Naval Administration and the Evolution of Imperial Defense Strategy, 1850-1875: A Case Study

John F. Beeler, University of Alabama Forging a Britannic Alliance: The Dominions and Imperial Security, 1907-1918

John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University Off the Diplomatic Net: Imperial Ends and American Means in the Indian Ocean, 1973-1974

Peter John Brobst, Ohio University Riverside East Room 32. Gender, Co-Operation, Resilience and Defence: The British Home Front in the Second World War Chair and Comment:

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The Royal Mail will always get through: Maintaining Communications on the Home and Military Front during the Second World War

Mark Crowley, Wuhan University Motherhood under Fire: Midwifery in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945

Sandra Dawson, Northern Illinois University Calculated Risks: Armaments Production and Public Safety in Wartime Britain

Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Riverside West Room 33. Print, Polemic and Publicity in Early Modern England Chair and Comment: Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University Beyond Luther and Against Rome: Richard Bernard, Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Calvinism

Amy Tan, Vanderbilt University Zachary Croftons Presbyterian Lash: Confessional Conflict in a London Parish

Isaac Stephens, Saginaw Valley State University At the Office to Noon, and then to the Change: Publics, Publicity and Public Men in Early Restoration London

David Magliocco, Vanderbilt University Salon A Room 34. Knowledge, Empire, and the East India Company Chair: Holger Hoock, University of Pittsburgh From the Winds of the Bay of Bengal: Science, Empire, and Self

Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge The East India Company, the Companys Museum, and the Political Economy of Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century

Jessica Ratcliff, Yale- NUS College Mobilizing Paperwork in an Age of Imperial War: John Bruce, the East India Company, and the Imperial Archive in the Era of the French Wars

Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Columbia University Comment: Durba Ghosh, Cornell University Salon C Room 35. Pathways to Development: Private Actors and Development in the 20th Century British Empire Chair and Comment: Erik Gilbert, Arkansas State University

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Doing the Work of Empire: Oil Companies as Agents of Development

Karl Ittmann, University of Houston Of Little Immediate Benefit: Colonial Development Planning and Impoverishment in Central Tanzania

Gregory Maddox, Texas Southern University Notice Tenders for Contract: Colonial Development in the Imperial Periphery

Katie Valliere Streit, University of Houston

Palisades Room 36. Roundtable: Womens History in the Academy Chair and Comment: Selina Todd, St. Hildas College, University of Oxford Susan Grayzel, University of Mississippi Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin Alexandra Shepard, University of Glasgow Garthine Walker, University of Cardiff Saturday, November 14 4:30-4:45 Foyer Coffee Break Saturday, November 14 5:00-6:00 Salon D Chair: Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Presidential Address: Keith Wrightson, Yale University Saturday, November 14 6:15-7:45: RECEPTION Butler Center for Arkansas Studies (401 President Clinton Avenue, 501-320-5700) Walk: 0.4 mile, 9 minutes. Head east on W. Market Street. Continue straight on W. Market Street for ~6 blocks. Butler Center will be on right, just past S. Rock Street.

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Sunday, November 15 Salon D 7:45-8:30 Continental Breakfast Sunday, November 15 8:30-10:15 Edgehill Room 37. Rumour, Politics, and Public Opinion in England, c. 1381-1945 Chair and Comment: Andy Wood, Durham University Rumour Right or Wrong: The Dangerous Power of Common Talk in Late Medieval England

Christopher Fletcher, CNRS University of Paris I Common Fame: Rumour and the Vox Populi during the Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, 1626

David Coast, Bath Spa University Lions on the Loose and Sharks in the Channel: Rumour and War in Britain, 1939-1945

Jo Fox, Durham University Riverside East Room 38. Imperial Environments during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Chair and Comment: Mark Hampton, Lingnan University No Equivalent Paradise in Christendom: Pitcairn Island, Land Use, and the Limits of Island Ecologies

Tillman Nechtman, Skidmore College Daniells Calcutta: Visions of Life, Death, and Nabobery in Late-Eighteenth-Century British India

Patrick Rasico, Vanderbilt University The Texture of Empire: Botanic Gardens and Improvement in India in the Nineteenth Century

JNese Williams, Vanderbilt University Riverside West Room 39. Guilt and the Problem of Evil in the British World Chair and Comment: Martin J. Wiener, Rice University The Worst sort of Christians make the Devil their Play-Fellow: Making Merry in Seventeenth-Century New England

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Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Roger Williams University

Sin, Satan, and Guilt in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Crime Literature Michelle Brock, Washington and Lee University

Evil and Evolution in Victorian Criminal Jurisprudence: The Case of Frederick Bailey Deeming

Catherine Evans, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University

Salon A Room 40. Historical Pageants in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland Chair and Comment: Paul Andrew Readman, Kings College London

When Ireland was British: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Historical Pageants, 1907-1914

Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City

A Nation of Town Criers: Civic Publicity and Historical Pageants in 1930s Britain Tom Hulme, Kings College London

The Scots Pageant!: The Arbroath Abbey Pageant and the State of Unionism in Postwar Scotland

Linda Fleming, University of Glasgow Salon C Room 41. Gender, Class, and Citizenship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain Chair and Comment: Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg College Disenfranchised for doing his Duty toward his Family and his Neighbors: Medicine, Pauperism, and the Workingmans Vote, 1867-1885

Matthew Newsom Kerr, Santa Clara University Votes for Women or Votes for Hodge? Gender, Class, and the Vote in the Reform Debates of the 1860s, 70s, and 80s

Jill Abney, University of Kentucky Family Matters: Women, Domesticity, and the Anti-Immigrationist Movement, 1955-1981

Nicole Longpr, Columbia University Palisades Room 42. The Meanings and Consequences of Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Ireland, Britain, and the Empire Chair and Comment: Richard Price, University of Maryland, College Park Brandishing Ireland as a Weapon of Warfare: The Problem of Irish Outrage and its Many Political Uses, 1837-1839

Jay R. Roszman, Carnegie Mellon University

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Belfasts Polemical Parson: The Reverend Thomas Drew and the Politics of Religious Violence in Mid-Victorian Belfast

Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University The Invention of Terrorism in Victorian Britain

William Meier, Texas Christian University The Webb Case and the Regulation of Sexual Violence in Colonial India, c. 1883

Ashley Wright, Washington State University Sunday, November 15 10:30-12:15 Edgehill Room 43. Tory Feminism? Women, Leadership and Sexual Politics in the Conservative Party Chair and Comment: Nicoletta Gullace, University of New Hampshire Formulating a Policy of Special Interest to Women (M. Maxse): The British Conservative Party and the Mobilization of Women, 1918-1945

Clarisse Berthezene, Paris Diderot University The Statutory Woman whose main task was to explore what Women were likely to think: Margaret Thatcher and Womens Politics in the 1950s

Krista Cowman, University of Lincoln Tory Feminists in the Aftermath of Suffrage

Julie Gottlieb, University of Sheffield From Crucial Female Auxiliaries to Superfluous Women?: The Primrose League and its Struggle for Survival, 1914-1932

Matthew Hendley, SUNY Oneonta Riverside East Room 44. Pressing the Empire into Service: The Colonial Press Comes to London Chair and Comment: Kim Wagner, Queen Mary University of London (Marie Curie Fellow, George Washington University, 2015-17) Exporting Fleet Street: Editorship, Journalistic Practice, and the Attempt to Make Good Journalists in the Fold of Britains Empire

Leslie James, University of Birmingham Nnamdi Azikiwes Debut and his British Stage: The West African Press Delegation, 1943

Mark Reeves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Civil Rights in the Colonial Empire: The National Council for Civil Liberties and the Translation of Empire

Christopher Moores, University of Birmingham Riverside West Room 45. Minding the Margins: Politics and the Construction of Religious Identity in Early Stuart England Chair: Paul Lim, Vanderbilt University Catholics and the Cromwellian Church: The Politics of de jure versus de facto Toleration

Katherine G. Lazo, Vanderbilt University Plundering the Presbyterians: The Covenant with Moses and Godly Government in Interregnum Theology and Political Thought

Andrew J. Martin, Vanderbilt University Ecclesiastical Licensing, Religious Censorship, and the Regulation of Consensus in Early Stuart England

Greg Salazar, University of Cambridge Comment: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University Salon A Room 46. Managing Health and Avoiding Death in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World Chair and Comment: Amanda Herbert, Christopher Newport University When Skulls Were Drugs: Cranium Humanum and Exotic Medicines in the Early Modern World

Benjamin Breen, Columbia University To be well done must be well paid: Transatlantic Health Infrastructure in a Time of Sugar, Slaves, and Scarcity

Zachary Dorner, Brown University A Difference of housing, clothing and turning out: The Evolution of Body Management Strategies in British Plantation America, 1750-1807

Claire Gherini, Johns Hopkins University Salon C 47. Education and Social Engineering in the British Empire, 1830-1930 Chair and Comment: David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County A Well-Ordered Home: Imperial Domestic Education in British Malaya and British India, 1920-1930

Matthew Schauer, Oklahoma State University

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Educating Free Jamaicans: Religion, Elementary Education, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1838-1870

Christopher Bischof, University of Richmond To Educate or Civilize? That is the Question: British Women and Educational Rhetoric in Colonial Africa, 1900-1930

Elizabeth Schmidt, Texas A&M The Bulk of Our Problem: Indian Law Students at the Inns of Court, c. 1880-1930

Lauren Pepitone, Johns Hopkins University

Palisades Room 48. Britishness Beyond Britain Chair and Comment: Patricia van der Spuy, Castleton College We are a Great Class of British Subjects: British Cultural Identity amongst South African Indians, 1890-1914

Irina Spector-Marks, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Between Purity and Degeneration in a Pacific Utopia: Locating Britishness among the Pitcairn Islanders

Adrian Young, Princeton University From Colonized to Colonizer: Irish Immigrants, Violence, and Public Identities in Upper Canada and New South Wales, 1845-1868

Matthew Schownir, Purdue University

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Index for 2015 NACBS

Abney, Jill Session 41 Abra, Allison Session 6 Alborn, Timothy Session 20 Allport, Alan Session 13 Amussen, Susan D. Session 24 Aslami, Zarena Session 12 Bailey, Peter Session 12 Bar-Yosef, Eitan Session 26 Barczewski, Stephanie Session 3 Beatty, Aidan Session 26 Beeler, John F. Session 31 Bell, Richard Thomas Session 9 Bender, Jill Session 3 Berthezene, Clarisse Session 43 Bischof, Christopher Session 47 Black, Lawrence Session 25 Bogert-Winkler, Hilary Session 14 Braddick, Michael Session 29 Breen, Benjamin Session 46 Brobst, Peter John Session 31 Brock, Michelle Session 39 Bulman, William Session 14, Session 24 Carlson, Eric Josef Session 15 Carrington-Farmer, Charlotte Session 39 Carter, Laura Session 21 Casey, Christina Session 13 Cavert, William Session 22 Chou, Catherine Session 9, Session 14 Clark, Anna Session 30 Clark, Jessica P. Session 13 Coast, David Session 37 Cohen, Deborah Session 13 Collins, John Session 11 Connors, Richard Session 7 Cowman, Krista Session 43 Crowley, Mark Session 32 Daly, Anthony Session 27 Dawson, Sandra Session 32 de Nie, Michael Session 3 Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick Session 40 Dennehy, Coleman Session 1 Deslandes, Paul Session 16, Session 23 deVries, Jacqueline Session 41

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Dixon, Joy Session 10 Dodson, Joel Session 15 Dorner, Zachary Session 46 Duggan, Mark T. Session 9 Durbach, Nadja Session 16 Eagles, Robin Session 1 Egginton, Heidi Session 21 Epstein, James Session 27 Evans, Catherine Session 39 Falconer, Rob Session 7 Farrell, Sean Session 42 Feely, Cath Session 13 Feldman, David Session 26 Ferguson, Christopher Session 13 Ferrell, Lori Anne Session 45 Fielding, Steven Session 25 Fleming, Linda Session 40 Fletcher, Christopher Session 37 Flynn, Kelsey Session 14 Fox, Jo Session 37 Frank, Christopher Session 18 Fury, Cheryl Session 19 Gherini, Claire Session 46 Ghosh, Durba Session 4, Session 34 Gilbert, Erik Session 35 Gillett, Christopher P. Session 9, Session 14 Gillin, Edward John Session 2 Gillis, Brendan Session 11 Glasson, Travis Session 11 Gottlieb, Julie Session 43 Grayzel, Susan R. Session 8, Session 36 Gregory, Brad S. Session 9, Session 24 Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin John Session 31 Gullace, Nicoletta Session 43 Gunther, Karl Session 15 Hampton, Mark Session 38 Harper, Katie Session 13 Harper, Tobias Session 20 Heinemann, Kieran Session 13 Hendley, Matthew Session 43 Herbert, Amanda Session 46 Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Session 23 Hirst, Derek Session 22 Hitchman, Alex Session 14 Hoock, Holger Session 34 Houlbrook, Matt Session 13, Session 23

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Ortolano, Guy Session 17 Paley, Ruth Session 1 Pattinson, Juliette Session 8 Paz, Denis Session 27 Peacey, Jason Friday Lunch, Session 29 Pedersen, Susan Saturday Lunch Peers, Douglas Session 12 Pepitone, Lauren Session 47 Perry, Kennetta Hammond Session 28 Pincus, Steven Session 5 Pluymers, Keith Session 22 Pontzer, Kaitlin Session 14 Popper, Nicholas Session 14 Price, Richard Session 42 Qureshi, Sadiah Session 10 Rappaport, Erika Session 16 Rasico, Patrick Session 38 Ratcliff, Jessica Session 34 Readman, Paul Andrew Session 40 Reed, Charles Session 20 Reeves, Mark Session 44 Ross, Ellen Session 30 Roszman, Jay R. Session 42 Rutherford, Emily Session 13 Sack, James J. Session 27 Salazar, Greg Session 45 Schauer, Matthew Session 47 Schmidt, Elizabeth Session 47 Schofield, Camilla Session 17 Schownir, Matthew Session 48 Schwarz, Bill Session 28 Seaward, Paul Session 1 Shaw, Caroline Session 6 Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica Session 18 Shepard, Alexandra Session 36 Siddique, Asheesh Kapur Session 34 Silvestri, Michael Session 3 Sirota, Brent Session 24 Sivasundaram, Sujit Session 34 Sloman, Peter Session 25 Smith, Greg Session 19 Smith, Jean Session 4 Spector-Marks, Irina Session 48 Spinney, Erin Session 19 Stephens, Isaac Session 33 Tan, Amy Session 33

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Theibert, Leslie Session 5 Thomas, Courtney Session 7 Thomas, Zoe Session 21 Thompsell, Angela Session 6 Thorsheim, Peter Session 32 Todd, Selina Session 17, Session 36 Townend, Paul Session 3 Trotter, Marrikka Session 2 Turner, Michael J. Session 27 Ugolini, Wendy Session 8 Upchurch, Charles Session 13, Session 23 Valenze, Deborah Session 16 Valliere Streit, Katie Session 35 van der Spuy, Patricia Session 48 Wagner, Kim Session 4, Session 44 Walker, Garthine Session 36 Walker, Pamela Session 30 Waters, Chris Session 23 Weil, Rachel Session 29 Weiss Muller, Hannah Session 11 Welland, Heather Session 5 Wells, Jennifer Session 22 Wennerlind, Carl Session 5 Wetherell, Sam Session 25 Whipple, Amy Session 17 Wiener, Martin J. Session 39 Williams, JNese Session 38 Wood, Andy Session 37 Woodson-Boulton, Amy Session 10 Worth, Eve Session 17 Wright, Ashley Session 42 Wrightson, Keith Saturday Presidential Address Young, Adrian Session 48