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Our Faculty:

John F. Beeler

jbeeler@tenhoor.as.ua.edu

Research Interests:

Victorian Britain
Public Opinion and Defense Policy
Imperial Defense Administration
Libertarian Fallacies
Courses Regularly Taught:
Western Civilization since 1648 (HY 102)
Great Britain and the Empire/Commonwealth since 1688 (HY 248)
History of the U.S. Navy (HY 295)
The British Empire and Commonwealth (HY 393)
Britain and the World Wars (HY 400)
Georgian Britain (HY 493/593)
Victorian Britain (HY 494/594)
Twentieth Century Britain (HY 495/595)
Naval History Proseminar (Graduate Colloquium) (HY 639)

Recent Publications:
British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880 (Stanford, 1997). The first in-depth examination of the subject. Revises conventional wisdom about the effectiveness of naval administration during the mid-Victorian era.
Editor, Imperial Defence, 1868-1887, by Donald Mackenzie Schurman (Frank Cass Co., 2000). Dr. Schurman's long-unpublished Cambridge University thesis remains the definitive study of the evolution of a comprehensive scheme for defense of the empire on which "the sun never set."
Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design 1870-1881 (Chatham Publishing, 2001). Challenges many long-held beliefs about the British navy's receptivity to technological change during the ironclad era.
Editor, The Milne Papers, vol. 1, by Alexander Milne et al. (Navy Records Society/Ashgate Publishing, 2004). Covers the sea-service and early Admiralty service of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne (1806-96), the most important naval administrator of the Victorian Royal Navy.
In progress: volumes 2 and 3 of the Milne Papers.

Research Honors:
Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2005).
Winner of the American Historical Association's 1998 Paul W. Birdsall Prize for best work on European strategic and military history for British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University (1991-92).
MacArthur Scholar (1988-89).
Teaching Honors:
University of Alabama Alumni Association's Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award (1999).
University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Fellow (2001-2)

Online Syllabus:

History 102 (Fall 2006)
History 102 Lecture Outlines (part 1)

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