Stewart A. Weaver
Professor
Department Chair
459 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
swvr@mail.rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.9348
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985
Courses Offered
(subject to change)
Spring 2009
HIS 238: History of British India
Fall 2009
HIS 371W/471: Environmental History
Spring 2010
HIS 205: Europe since 1945
Fields of Interest
Modern British history; British imperial history; labor history; Irish history.
I think of my work as occupying the broad intersection of political, intellectual, and industrial history. My first book was a biography of John Fielden (1784-1849), a famous cotton master who also (oddly enough) happened to be a popular radical and the leader of the factory reform movement in the 1830s and '40s. My second book was a study of the lives and times of J. L. and Barbara Hammond, the first historians of the Industrial Revolution and two prominent figures in the history of twentieth-century English Liberalism. In collaboration with Maurice Isserman (PhD Rochester 1979), I have just completed a history of Himalayan exploration and mountaineering, to be published next year by Yale University Press. I teach surveys of English, Irish, and Indian history and seminars on topics ranging from The Industrial Revolution to the First World War. In July 2006 I became Chair of the Department of History.
Representative Publications:
- Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes (with Maurice Isserman; forthcoming 2008)
- “The Bleak Age: J. H. Clapham, the Hammonds, and the Standard of Living in Victorian Britain,” in Miles Taylor and Michael Wolff, eds., The Victorians Since 1901 (2004)
- “Christopher Lasch and the Politics of the Plain Style,” Introduction to Christopher Lasch, Plain Style: A Guide to Written English, edited by Stewart Weaver (2002)
- The Hammonds: A Marriage in History (1997).
- John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism 1832-1847 (1987).
