James M. Brophy
Francis H. Squire Professor of History
University of Delaware
210 John Munroe Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-0795
Biography
James M. Brophy specializes in modern European history, particularly the
social and political history of nineteenth-century Germany. He received
his B.A. from Vassar College and did his graduate training at Eberhard
Karls Universität Tübingen and Indiana University. He has written Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870 (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1998) and Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007) as well as co-edited Perspectives from the Past: Sources in Western Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998; 4th ed., 2008). He is currently at work on the book-length project, Markets of Knowledge: Publishing and Politics in Central Europe, 1800-1870.
Publications
Books
- Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850. (New Studies in European History.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paperback, 2009.
- Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870 (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series). Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Edited Volumes
- Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations. Two volumes. Edited by James M. Brophy et al. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. 1,280 Pp.; 5th edition, 2011)
Articles and Book Chapters
- “‘The Modernity of Tradition’: Popular Protest in Nineteenth-Century Germany, “ in Protest, Popular Culture, and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe. Edited by Ilaria Favretto and Xabier Itcaina (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Pp. 21-43.
- “The Second Wave: Franco-German Translation and the Transfer of Political Knowledge, 1815-1850,” in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 71 (2016): 83-116.
- “Der Hessische Landbote and the Landscape of Radical Print, 1830-1834,” in ‘Friede den Hütten, Krieg den Palästen’. Der Hessische Landbote in interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Edited by Markus May, Udo Roth, and Gideon Stiening. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2016. Pp. 67-94.
- “Grautöne: Verleger und Zensurregime im Mitteleuropa 1800-1850,” Historische Zeitschrift 301/2 (2015): 297-346.
- “Dimensions transnationales de la culture politique rhénane, 1815-1848,” Revue d’histoire du XIXe siécle 46/1 (2013): 73-93.
- “The Rhine Crisis of 1840 and German Nationalism: Chauvinism, Skepticism, and Regional Reception,” Journal of Modern History 85 (2013): 1-35.
- “Preußische Zensur und deutsche Verleger im Vormärz: Der Fall Heinrich Hoff,” in Das literarische Leben des 19. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der Zensur, eds. Bernd Kortländer and Enno Stahl (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2012), 203-27.
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