James Brophy

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• E-mail: jbrophy@udel.edu
• Phone: (302) 831-0795
• Office: 210 John Munroe Hall
  
  
• Courses Search
• History 102 web page
• History 354 web page

James 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 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; 3rd ed., 2005). He is currently at work on a book-length project examining popular literacy in western Europe during the long nineteenth century.