Professor of History
Education:
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1988.
Research Interests:
Early modern England: social, economic, cultural, Class formation and industrialization, Eighteenth-century English wool textile industry, Restoration religion, society, and local politics.
Recent Publications:
- The Tolsons of Leeds, Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Family. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, forthcoming.
- "The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth Century Commerce: The English Textile Industry," Enterprise and Society 4 (2003): 299-325.
- Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire: John Brearley, Cloth Frizzer, 1758-1762. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, vol CLV, 2001.
Current Projects:
John Smail is currently working on an article on the relationship between credit, risk, and honor in eighteenth century commerce. This piece is part of a larger project on the economic, social, and cultural significance of commercial credit in eighteenth-century Britain.
Courses Taught:
Previous semesters:
- HIST 2100, Crime in 18th Century England
- HIST 2100, Riots in Britain
- HIST 2260, Britain to 1688
- HIST 3109, Renaissance & Reformation Europe
- HIST 6693, Historiography & Methodology
- LBST 2101, Western History & Culture