Curriculum Vita
Jonathan Schneer,
365 Glenn Circle,
Decatur, GA 30030
404-373-7274 (h), 404-894-6848 (o)
Email: jonathan.schneer@hts.gatech.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Positions
Held:
Professor
Assoc. Prof.
Ass’t. Prof.
Columbia University, 1978:
McGill University, 1973
McGill University, 1971
Georgia Tech 1989Georgia State University 1984-89
Yale University 1979-84
Published Books:
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2010, 2011, Random
House (US), Bloomsbury (UK), Doubleday (Canada), Kirmizi Publishing (Turkey).
The Thames: England’s River, Little Brown (UK), 2005, 2006, Yale University Press,
(US) 2005.
London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis, Yale University Press (UK & US), 1999, 2001.
George Lansbury, University of Manchester Press, 1990.
Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left 1945-51, Unwin Hyman, 1988.
Ben Tillett: Portrait of a Labour Leader, University of Illinois Press, 1983, Croom
Helm, 1982.
Visions of History, (co-editor), Pantheon, 1983.
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain, (co-editor) Rutgers
University Press, 1982, Croom Helm 1982.
Parts of Books:
“Anti-Imperial London: The Pan-African Conference of 1900,” Black Victorians, Black
Victoriana, Gretchen Gerzina (ed.), pp. 175-186, Rutgers University Press, 2003.
“Anti-Imperial London: the Pan-African Conference of 1900,” Imperial Cities:
Landscape, Display and Identity, Felix Driver and David Gilbert (eds.), pp. 254-268,
Manchester University Press, 1999.
"The Labour Left and the General Election of 1945," The Political Culture of Modern
Britain, Studies in Memory of Stephen Koss, Malcolm Bean (ed.), 244-58, Hamish
Hamilton, 1987.
"The War, the State and the Workplace: British Dockers During 1914-18," Social
Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain, Cronin and Schneer (eds.) 96-112,
Rutgers University Press, 1982.
"Social History and Politics in Britain," (with J. Cronin 50%), Social Conflict and the
Political Order in Modern Britain, Cronin and Schneer (eds.) 7-20, Rutgers University
Press, 1982.
Journal Articles:
“How Anti-Semitism Helped Create Israel,” Foreign Policy Magazine, September 8,
2010.
“The Balfour Declaration: A New Dimension,” Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew
and Jewish Studies, 2006- 2007, pp. 7-24.
"London's Docks in 1900: Nexus of Imperialism," Labour History Review,
59, No. 3, Winter 1994, pp. 20-33.
Vol.
"Politics and Feminism in 'Outcast London': George Lansbury and Jane Cobden's
Campaign for the First London County Council," Journal of British Studies, Vol. 30,
January 199, 63-82.
"Hopes Deferred or Shattered: The British Labour Left and the Third Force
Movement, 1945-49," Journal of Modern History, Vol. 56, June 1984, 197-226.
"Ben Tillett's Conversion to Independent Labour Politics," Radical History Review,
No. 24, fall 1980, 42-65.
“The Anti-war Movement in East London, 1914-18,” Moirae, Journal of Ulster
College, Northern Ireland Polytechnic Fall, 1976, 56-73.
Review Essays:
"History and Imagination," Journal of British Studies, Vol. 27, October 1987, 480-88.
"British Labour and the Mandate of 1945," International Labor and Working-Class
History, No. 28, fall 1985, 56-68.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:
“Celestine Edwards,” New Dictionary of National Biography, Colin Matthews (ed.)
Oxford University Press.
“George Lansbury,” Twentieth Century Britain, an Encyclopedia, Fred Leventhal (ed.),
Garland Press, 1995, pp. 438-440.
"Ben Tillett," Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals, Vol. 3, Baylen and
Norbert (eds.), 810-14, Harvester Press, 1988.
Book Reviews:
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, by Michael Korda, Washington
Post,
January 9, 2011.
The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-1918, by James
Renton, English Historical Review, forthcoming.
City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London 1880-1914, by Stephen Inwood, London
Journal, fall 2006.
George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour, by John Sheperd, H-Net Book Review,
Hyperlink, June 2005.
The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914, by Marc Brodie,
Twentieth Century British History, Spring 2005.
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1941-1951, by Noreen Branson,
International Labor and Working Class History, Fall, 1999.
The City of London, Vol. 2, Golden Years, 1890-1914, by David Kynaston, Twentieth
Century British History, Winter 1996.
The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933-45, by Nina Fishman,
American Historical Review, Summer 1996.
A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, Vol. 3, 1934-1951, by Hugh Clegg,
American Historical Review, Winter, 1995.
Labour’s War: The Labour Party During the Second World War, by Stephen Brooke,
Albion, Summer, 1993.
Tom Mann, 1856-1941, by Chushichi Tsuziki, American Historical Review, Spring,
1993.
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914, by Eleanor Gordon, Labor
History, Spring 1993.
Political Change and the Labour Party, by Duncan Tanner, American Historical
Review, Spring, 1992.
British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914, by Chris Waters,
International Labor and Working-Class History, Spring 1992.
The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest, 1945-55, by Justin
Davis Smith, Economic History Review, Spring, 1992.
The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950, by Ross McKibbin,
Albion, Fall, 1991.
Labour and Business in Modern Britain, Charles Harvey and John Turner (eds.),
Journal of Economic History, Spring 1991.
The Politics of the N.U.M., by David Howell, American Historical Review, Summer
1991.
British Labour and the Cold War, by Peter Weiler, American Historical Review, Spring,
1990.
Leisure and Class in Victorian England, by Peter Bailey, Labor History, Summer 1989.
Harold Macmillan, vol. 1, 1894-1956, by Alistair Horne, Atlanta Journal and
Constitution, May 14, 1989.
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, by William Manchester;
and Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, 1945-65, by Martin Gilbert, Atlanta Journal
and Constitution, December 18, 1988.
1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement, by John Saville; John Fielden and
the Politics of Popular Radicalism, 1832-1847, by Stewart Weaver, Journal of
Economic History, Fall, 1988.
Clement Attlee: A Political Biography, by Trevor Burridge, Albion, Spring, 1988.
British Labour, European Socialism and the Struggle for Peace, 1889-1914, by Douglas
Newton, Victorian Studies, Summer, 1987.
Spycatcher: the Candid Stoiry of a Secret Intelligence Officer, by Peter Wright, Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, August 23, 1987.
The Dockers’ Union: A Study of the National Union of Dock Labourers, 1889- 1992, by
Eric Taplin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring, 1987.
Casual Labour: The Unemployment Question in the Port Transport Industry, 18801970, by Gordon Phillips and Noel Whiteside, American Historical Review, Winter,
1986.
Labour in Power, by Kenneth Morgan, Journal of Modern History, Winter, 1985.
Hugh Dalton, by Ben Pimlott, Sunday New York Times Book Review, September 15,
1985.
The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture, 1830-1860,
James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson, eds.; and History of the General Federation of
Trade Unions, 1899-1980, by Alice Prochaska, Journal of Modern History, Fall, 1984.
The Radical Left in Britain, 1931-41, by James Jupp, American Historical Review,
Spring, 1983.
Britain and Soviet Communism: the Impact of a Revolution, by F.S. Northedge and
Audrey Wells, Political Science Quarterly, Spring, 1983.
British Socialists, the Journey from Fantasy to Politics, by Stanley Pierson,
International Labor and Working Class History, fall, 1980.
Lloyd George: The People’s Champion, 1902-1911, by John Grigg, Political Science
Quarterly, Fall, 1979.
C.P. Trevelyan, 1870-1958, Portrait of a Radical, by A.J.A. Morris, Labor History,
Summer, 1979.
“Popular” Articles:
“A River Runs Through It,” British Airways In-Flight Magazine, High Life, February
2005, 59-63.
“On Thick Ice,” London Time Out, March 9-16, 2005, 20-22.
Newspaper ‘Op-Ed’ Pieces:
“The West Needs to Face its own Intrigue and Deceit,” Toronto Globe and Mail,
September 13, 2010.
“British Spy Saga Goes Far Beyond Pages in a Book,” Atlanta Journal and
Constitution, August 6, 1987.
“Thatcher Win Pushes Britain Toward Its 19th-Century Traditional Values,” Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, June 13, 1987.
“Britain’s Political Tigress May Find Voters Wanting Animal of New Stripe,” Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, May 13, 1987.
“Weinberger Histrionics Don’t Fit British History,” Atlanta Constitution, October 9,
1986.
Interviews:
Re The Balfour Declaration:
Radio:
US:
NPR: Dallas radio KERA “Think”
WNYC, Leonard Lopate Show
Baltimore AM 1370 WVIE
Ireland:
Dublin Radio FM “Bookbound” with Paul O’Doherty
Canada:
Calgary: AM 660 with Kevin Usselman
AM 1140 with Mike Mclean
Toronto: FM CUIT with Dave Peterson
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (i.e. Canadian national radio)
“The Current” with Anna Maria Tremonti
Winnipeg: FM CJOB with Geoff Currier
Ottawa: FM CFRA with Michael Harris
Podcasts:
Lewis Lapham, “A World in Time,” Bloomberg News
Television:
Turkey
Print:
(Calgary) Fast Forward News and Entertainment Weekly
(Thunder Bay) Chronicle Journal
Connecticut Jewish Ledger
(Turkish Broadcasting Corporation)
Re The Thames:
Gretchen Gerzina, “The Book Show,” WAMC (Public Radio) April 31,
May 2, 2005.
Robert Elms Show, BBC, Radio London, March 23, 2005.
Re: London 1900:
Holly Phillips, LBC, March 13, 2000.
Re: Current Events:
“Voice of America”: “Margaret Thatcher.” March 1990.
Papers Delivered re The Balfour Declaration
Academic, US and Canada:
University of Texas at Austin
University of Calgary
Center of European Studies, Harvard University
McGill University and Concordia University (joint sponsors)
University of Wisconsin
Boston University
Public, US and Canada:
Decatur Book Festival
Calgary Jewish Community Center
Carter Center
Bremen Museum (Atlanta)
Toronto Public Library
Houston Jewish Book Festival
Detroit Jewish Book Festival
Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival
Fairfield County (CT) Jewish Community Center
Pasadena CA Jewish Book Festival
Academic, Great Britain:
Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Stirling University, Scotland
Birmingham University
Public, Great Britain:
London Jewish Book Fair
Leeds Jewish Book Fair
Liverpool Jewish Book Fair
Brighton “Limmud”
Academic, Israel:
Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Public, France:
The Terence Galenter Salon, Paris
Articles about the Book:
Haaretz
BBC History Magazine
Earlier Papers Delivered:
The Balfour Declaration: A New Dimension, Department of History, Hebrew
University, March 2007.
The Oxford Cambridge Boat-Race Mutiny of 1987, (keynote address) “Literary
London: Representations of London in Literature, an Interdisciplinary Conference,”
the Royal Naval College, University of Greenwich, England, July 14, 2006.
Water, Air, Earth, Fire: J.M. Turner, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Thames at
Maidenhead,” delivered at McGill University and the Montreal British History
Seminar, November, 2005.
The Thames in History, Folio Society, Athens, GA, March 2005.
London 1900: Jews in the Imperial Metropolis, (keynote address) delivered July 27,
2003 at University of Southampton conference: “Between the East End and East
Africa: The ‘Jew’ in Edwardian culture.”
Imperial London, lecture delivered at University College, London, to the “Dartmouth
in London Program,” November 18, 2003.
London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis, delivered as C. Mildred Thompson Memorial
Lecture, Vassar College, September 2001; and as inaugural Ivan Allen College
Lecture Series, October 2000.
Anti-Imperial London: The Pan-African Conference of 1900, delivered at:
Nineteenth Century British History Seminar, Oxford University, March 1999.
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, March 1999.
North American Conference on British Studies, Fall, 1998.
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March, 1998.
Ransome Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, January, 1998.
“Imperial Cities: Space, Landscape & Performance,” Conference at
Royal Holloway College, University of London, Spring, 1997 (plenary session).
Georgia State University, December, 1997.
The ‘Face' Of Imperial London, delivered at:
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Winter, 1996.
University of Arizona, Winter, 1995.
North American Conference on British Studies, Fall, 1995.
London's Docks in 1900: Nexus of Empire, delivered at:
Oberlin College, Spring, 1993.
American Historical Association, 1992.
University of Warwick, Center for Study of Social History, Spring, 1992.
Cambridge University, Seminar in British Political History, Spring, 1992.
Politics and Feminism in 'Outcast London,' delivered at:
Manchester University, Winter 1990.
Berkshire Conference, Rutgers University, Spring 1990.
York University, Winter 1989.
Labour and the General Election of 1945 Reconsidered, delivered at:
Southern Historical Association, Fall, 1987.
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, June 1985.
King's College, Cambridge, June 1985.
North American Labor History Conference, October 1985.
Montana State University, May 1985.
Class Politics or Consensus in the British General Election of 1945, delivered at
Social Science History Association, November 1985.
Hopes Deferred or Shattered: The British Labour Left and the Third Force Movement,
1945-49, delivered at:
Warwick University, Center for the Study of Social History, May 1984.
York University, June 1982.
North American Conference on British Studies, 1982
The Labour Left since 1945, delivered at:
State University of New York, Oneonta, fall, 1982.
The Victorian Ethos, delivered at:
Yale British Art Center, Sunday Lecture Series, November 1982.
The Tribune Group and the Cold War, delivered at:
American Historical Association, 1981.
E.P. Thompson in Perspective: A Comment, delivered at:
Wesleyan University Faculty Seminar, April 1981.
Ben Tillett's Conversion to Independent Labour Politics, delivered at:
East Coast Conference on British Studies, 1980.
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 1980.
Driven Into Politics: Docker Militancy, the State and the Birth of the Independent
Labour Party, delivered at:
Social Science History Association, 1979.
The Origins of Patriotic Labour: British dockers During World War I, delivered at:
York University, June 1981.
Stanford University, May 1980.
American Historical Association, 1978.
Earlier Non-Academic Public Lectures
“The Thames in History,” Lecture to the Folio Society, Athens, GA, November 27,
2005
“London 1900: the Imperial Metropolis,” Lecture to the Folio Society, Athens, GA,
April 2000.
“The ‘Home Front’ in Britain during World War II,” Lecture to Decatur High School,
1999.
“The Battle of Britain,” Lecture to Decatur High School, 1998.
“The War and the Media,” Teach-In at Georgia Tech, 1991.
“The Thatcher Revolution: A Ten-year Retrospective,” Address to the English
Speaking Union, Atlanta Branch, 1990.
“A Different Perspective: Is Five More Years Of Mrs. Thatcher A Good Thing For
Britain?” Address to British American Business Group of Atlanta, 1990.
“Winston Churchill,” Address to the North Atlanta Senior Services, 1987.
Chairman of Panels at Scholarly Conferences:
“A Glimpse of Inter-war Britain,” Southern Conference on British Studies, October
2005.
“’The Tory Tradition is not best understood as a tradition of ideas’ – We beg to
Differ,” North American Conference on British Studies, October, 2000.
“The Built Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Southern Conference on
British Studies, November, 1997.
“Cityscapes: Law, Sexuality and the Spaces of Modern London, North American
Conference on British Studies, October, 1997.
"Class and Patriotism in the Great War: British Representations, 1914-1918,"
American Historical Association, January 1996.
Commentator on panel on "The New Institutional History" at Georgia State
University, January, 1995.
"The Cultural Politics of Diplomacy," North American Conference on British Studies,
October 1994.
"Gender and the Commercial Public Sphere in Victorian and Edwardian Britain,"
North American Conference on British Studies, October 1993.
"Approaches to European Labor History," at Southern Labor Studies Conference,
September 1986.
"Politics, Production and Collective Action: Britain, France and Italy," at Social
Science History Association, 1984.
"Changing Attitudes in British Party Politics," at East Coast Conference of British
Studies, 1982.
Referee:
Historical Review
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Social History
Journal of Modern History
The Historian
Pacific Historical Review
Albion
Historical Journal
Twentieth Century British History
Radical History Review
Yale University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Illinois Press
American Philosophical Society Press
Harper and Row Publishers
Cornell University Press
Garland Press
National Organizations:
North American Conference on British Studies, Executive Committee, 1995-97.
Editorial:
Member of Advisory Board, London Journal, 1999Member of Editorial Board, Twentieth Century British History, 1993-2010
Book Review Editor, Radical History Review, 1984-89
Member of Editorial Board, Radical History Review, 1977-90.
Organizational:
Primary organizer of the following conferences:
“Shaping Imperial Identities,” Georgia Tech, February 2005.
Speakers included Tony Judt, Ann Stoler
“Public Intellectuals in the New Millennium,” Atlanta History Center, March, 2001.
Speakers included: Johnetta Cole, Michael Bellesiles, David Cannadine, Alice Kessler
Harris, Michael Novick.
“Polarization in British Politics,” Yale University, October 1981.
Speakers included: William Waldegrave, MP, Philip Whitehead, MP, John Grigg,
Anthony Lewis, Conrad Russell.
Honors and Prizes:
2010 National Jewish Book Award for best work based upon archival research.
2010 Balfour Declaration, Book of the Year: New Statesman, Irish Times
2010 Reached #8 on Wall Street Journal bestseller list, history category, August.
Reached #6 on Maclean’s Magazine bestseller list, non-fiction category,
August.
2007 Erich Remarque Center, NYU, Visiting Fellow, April
2006 Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, SeptemberDecember
2003 St. John’s College, Oxford University, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, JulyDecember
2002 Magdalen College, Oxford University, Visiting Fellow, April- July
1996 Worcester College, Oxford University, Visiting Fellow, August-December
1992 St. Catherine's College, University, Visiting Fellow, September-December
1992 Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow, January-April.
1986-87 Dale Somers Memorial Fellow (Georgia State University).
1985-86 A.C.L.S. Fellow.
1975-76 Whiting Fellow.
Courses Recently Offered
Britain from the Industrial Revolution to World War I
Britain since 1914
Europe from the Industrial Revolution to World War I
Europe since 1914
British Imperial History: East of Suez:
British Imperial History: South of Suez.
The Making and Unmaking of an Imperial Metropolis
Modern British Social Movements
British Socialism
Turning Points in Modern British History
Other Campus Contributions
HTS representative on IAC P&T Committee (2008-09, 2011-)
German History Search Committee (Chair, 2007)
Magill Committee (Speaker Series) (Chair 2003- )
HTS Chair Search (Chair 2001)
Promotion and Tenure Committee (1990-2007, Chair 2000- 2003)
Executive Committee (1993-96, 2000- 2003, 2008-)
IAC Faculty Advisory Board (1999-2000)
Graduate Committee (1992-94, 1997-2002)
Undergraduate Committee (1994-7)
European Search Committee (Chair 1994)
European Search Committee (Chair 1991)
Graduate Program Proposal Committee (1989-90)
GA Tech representative and co-founder of SCHAS (Seminar in Comparative Histories
and Societies), jointly sponsored with Emory and Georgia State Universities.
GA Tech representative and co-founder of SCHLITS (Seminar in Comparative
History of Labor, Industry, Technology and Society) jointly sponsored with Emory
and Georgia State Universities.
I was also for many years the convener of the HTS faculty seminar in which
members of the school present their scholarly work.