William Marshall Kuhn, chair of the Carthage history department and specialist in British and European history, joined the faculty in 1993. He holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. The Hedberg Library congratulates Mr. Kuhn on his most recent work, which presents a new portrait of the nineteenth century English prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. |
BOOKS
The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli. London: Free Press, 2006. [On order for the Hedberg Library.]
REVIEWS
Fallowell, Duncan. "A Premier Very Close to a Queen." Express (UK), 2 June 2006, Books, p. 46. LexisNexis: Quick News Search > enter (without quotes) "disraeli kuhn fallowell"
Hattersley, Roy. "Victorian values Gladstone and Disraeli were fortunate never to suffer trial by a prurient media." Financial Times (London), 2 Sept. 2006, p. 28.
Hughes, Kathryn. "Camp, Foreign, and Too Clever by Half." Mail on Sunday (London), 23 July 2006, p. 61.
Ridley, Jane. "The Venetian Side of Dizzy." Spectator (UK), 5 Aug. 2006, Books, p. 33.
Rounding, Virginia. "All Fine and Dandy?" Sunday Times (London), 11 June 2006, Culture, p.45.
Silvester, Christopher. "Flirting with Chaps, and the Hangman." Daily Telegraph (London), 8 July 2006, Books, p. 5.
Sproat, Iain. "Dandy Disraeli whose velvet revolution shook the Victorian era." Scotland on Sunday, 25 June 2006, Book reviews.
Wilson, Frances. "Dizzy the Dandy." New Statesman,135, 4799 (3 July 2006), 63-64.
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Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria. London: Duckworth, 2001. [DA 565 P83 K8 2002]
Jolliffe, John. "A Liberal Joker in the Royal Presence." Spectator, 288, 9069 (1 June 2002), 36-38.
Morgan, Marjorie. "Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria." Albion, 35, 4 (Winter 2004), 677-79.
Paquette, Jean. "Kuhn, William M. Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria." History: Review of New Books, 31, 2 (Winter 2003), 66-67.
Vicinus, Martha. "Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria." Victorian Studies, 45, 2 (Winter 2003), 380-85.
Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861-1914. London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's, 1996. [JN 341 K85 1996]
Arnstein, Walter L. "Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861-1914." Victorian Studies, 41,1 (Autumn 1997), 152-55.
O'Gorman, Frank. "Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861-1914 (book review)." Journal of Modern History, 71, 3 (Sept. 1999), 687.
Prochaska, Frank. "Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British Monarchy." History Today, 47, 5 (May 1997), 55-56.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Disraeli, Dandyism, and Decadence." History Today, 56, 10 (Oct. 2006), 31-37.
"The Future of the British Monarchy." Journal of British Studies, 38, 2 (April 1999), 267-72.
"A Model Politician." Spectator, 294, 9156 (31 Jan. 2004), 62.
The works listed here are available in the Hedberg Library in paper or electronic format.
To access the above reviews from off campus computers, current Carthage students, staff, and faculty need to install a proxy. Others are welcome to read the articles in the library.
Compiled by Tina Eger
16 November 2006 |
