Mellon Professor of History
Master of Clare College
The Master
Clare College
Cambridge CB2 1TL
Clare College
Cambridge CB2 1TL
Email:
ajb1001@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone:
01223 3 33241
Subject groups/Research projects
- American History:
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American history since 1930
Departments and Institutes
Research Interests
White Southern Politicians since 1945
Teaching
- Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill 1980)
- North Carolina and the New Deal (Raleigh, 1981)
- The New Deal: The Depression Years 1933-1940 (London and New York, 1990)
Key Publications
- Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill 1980)
- North Carolina and the New Deal (Raleigh, 1981)
- The New Deal: The Depression Years 1933-1940 (London and New York, 1990)
Other Publications
- with Brian Ward, The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (London and New York, 1996)
- with Walter Edgar and Jan Gretlund, Southern Landscapes (Tubingen, 1997)
- with Byron Shafer, Contesting Democracy: The Substance and Structure of American Political History (University of Kansas Press, 2002)