Modern Britain

Related Faculty

Jordanna Bailkin
Professor
Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History

Related Research

Jesse Meredith, "Decolonizing the New Town: Roy Gazzard and the Making of Killingworth Township," Journal of British Studies 57, 2 (April 2018): 333-362.
"Where Did the Empire Go? Archives and Decolonization in Britain," American Historical Review 120.3 (June 2015): 884-899.
"Fostering Independence," History Today 63.8 (August 2013): 21-26.
Bailkin, Jordanna. The Afterlife of Empire. Berkeley: Global, Area, and International Archive, University of California Press, 2012. Print. [Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association, the Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Biennial Book Prize from the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.]
"The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State," Journal of Modern History 81.1 (2009): 87-121. [Winner of the Walter D. Love Article Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies.]
"Leaving Home: The Politics of Deportation in Postwar Britain," Journal of British Studies 48.4 (2008): 852-882.
"Color Problems: Work, Pathology, and Perception in Modern Britain" International Labor and Working-Class History 68 (2005): 93 -111.
Bailkin, Jordanna. The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Print.
Behlmer, George Singular Continuities:Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Print.
Behlmer, George. Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Print.