Address:Address:
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
Office: Hebert 207
Telephone: (504) 862-8623
Fax: (504) 862-8739
E-mail: gbernst@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Brief Bio
I was born in 1947 and raised in the Washington DC area, graduating from Sidwell Friends School in 1964. I was in the notorious class of 1968 at Columbia University. I began my graduate study in history at the University of Chicago in 1971 and got my PhD in 1978. Between 1977 and 1980 I worked in development, first in the Annual Giving program at Chicago and then in the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern. I have been at Tulane since 1980.
Links:
Research Interests: a summary of my research interests and a list of my most important publications
Courses Taught: a list of the courses I have taught since 1980
British and Irish Links: links to selected British and Irish sites relating to government, the media, and travel and tourism
Course Materials:
Britain's Economic Problems After the Second World War: a question and answer catechism explaining the impact of the Second World War on the British economy and stop-go economic policies up to the devaluation of 1967
Dangerfield Article: an article from The Guardian (internet edition) on George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England and Labour's efforts to reform the House of Lords
Glossary of British Terms: an extensive glossary of economic, political, geographical, social, and miscellaneous British terms for the American student; includes money, honors and titles, the regions of Britain and Ireland, media, housing , transportation, education, and English words for which the American word is different
Glossary of Parliamentary Terms: a glossary of parliamentary terminology, taken from The Guardian (internet edition)
Government Spending 1755-1980: a table, with analysis, showing civilian spending, defense spending, and spending on debt service, along with total spending and the size of the national debt, from before the Seven Years' War through the inflation of the 1970s