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Hirst.jpg Derek Hirst
Title:William Eliot Smith Professor of History
Degree:PHD, Cambridge University
MA, Cambridge University
BA, Cambridge University
Dept:History
Office:Busch Hall 118
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-5450
E-mail:dmhirst@wustl.edu

Courses
Early-Modern England; The Politics of the Body in the Writings of Andrew Marvell; Western Civilization; Sex, Violence, and Family

Research Interests
The republican years, 1649-1660; relations of history and literature in mid-17th-century Englan; Private and public in 17th-century England; Andrew Marvell

Selected Publications:

  • The Representative of the People? Voters and Voting in England Under the Early Stuarts, Cambridge, 1975; paperback edition, Cambridge, 2005
  • Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658, Harvard, 1986
  • England In Conflict, 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth, Arnold/Oxford, 1999
  • Co-editor, Writing and Political Engagement in 17th-Century England, Cambridge, 2000
  • "The Defection of Sir Edward Dering, 1640-1641," Historical Journal, June, 1972, reprinted in The English Civil War: The Essential Readings, ed. P. Gaunt (Oxford, 2000)