Phil Harling

Emeritus Professor

Contact Information

harling@uky.edu

Affiliations

History

Research

Phil Harling is a specialist in the modern history of Britain and the British Empire. His current research project, Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1830-1870, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. He is also author of The Waning of 'Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846 (Oxford, 1996), and The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (Polity, 2002), and numerous book chapters and articles in outlets such as Past & Present, the Journal of Modern History, and the Journal of British Studies.

Current Students

Jared Granato

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Books:

Managing Mobilities: Migration and the British Imperial State, 1830-1870 (under contract, Cambridge University Press)
The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (Polity, 2001)
The Waning of 'Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846 (Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1996)

Articles:

"The State: Central and Local Government," in Chris Williams (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century British History (Blackwell, 2004)
"Parliament, The State, and 'Old Corruption': Conceptualizing Reform, c. 1790-1832," in Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes (eds.), Rethinking the Age of Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
"Enlightenment and Revolution in Tory Journalism, 1800-32," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming)
"Equipoise Regained? Recent Trends in British Political History, 1790-1867," Journal of Modern History, 75, no. 4 (December 2003), pp. 890-918.
"The Law of Libel and the Limits of Repression, 1790-1832," Historical Journal, 44,1 (2001), pp. 107-34.
"Robert Southey and the Language of Social Discipline," Albion, 30, 4 (Winter 1998), pp. 630-55.
"The Georgian Political Firmament," Journal of British Studies, 37, 1 (January 1998), pp. 91-8.
"William Hazlitt and Radical Journalism," Romanticism, 3 (1997), pp. 53-65.
"Leigh Hunt's Examiner and the Politics of Language," English Historical Review, 111, no. 444 (November 1996), pp. 1159-81.
"The Duke of York Affair (1809) and the Complexities of War-Time Radicalism," Historical Journal, 39, 4 (1996), pp. 963-84.
"The Politics of Administrative Change in Britain, 1780-1850," Jahrbuch fur Europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996), pp. 191-212.
"Bolstering Elite Authority in the Age of Revolution: Retrenchment and Economical Reform during the Pittite 'Hegemony', 1793-1830," Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (1995), pp. 86-93.
"Rethinking 'Old Corruption,'" Past and Present, 147 (May 1995), pp. 127-58.
"From Fiscal-Military State to Laissez-Faire State, 1760-1850" (with Peter Mandler), Journal of British Studies, 32 (January 1993), pp. 44-70.
"The Power of Persuasion: Central Authority, Local Bureaucracy, and the New Poor Law," English Historical Review, 107, no. 422 (January 1992), pp. 30-53.