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Stephen Saunders Webb

Stephen Saunders Webb

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sswebb@syr.edu

315.443.5873

542A Eggers Hall

Stephen Saunders Webb

Professor Emeritus, History Department


Maxwell Professor Emeritus, History and Social Science

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965

Areas of Expertise

Early America, Anglo-American social and political, Native American

Research Interests

Early American and Anglo-American history, The Governors-General: The Atlantic World in 17th and 18th Centuries, The Iroquois (Hodenosaunee)

Research Grant Awards and Projects

Royal Historical Society, 1994-
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1982-83
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1971-72, 1978
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard College, 1971-72 & 1974-75
Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1965-68  

Selected Publications

Lord Churchill's Coup The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered (New York, 1995).
The Governors-General The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 (Chapel Hill, 1979, 1987).
1676 The End of American Independence (New York, 1984; Cambridge, MA, 1985; Library of Congress Talking Books, 1986; Syracuse, 1995).
"Army and Empire English Garrison Government in Britain and America, 1569 to 1763," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXXIV (1977), pp. 1-31. Reprinted in James Kirby Martin, ed., Interpreting Colonial America, Harper & Row, (1978), pp. 222-40.
"'Brave Men and Servants to His Royal Highness': The Household of James Stuart in the Evolution of English Imperialism," Perspectives in American History, VII (1974),
pp. 55-80.
"William Blathwayt, Imperial Fixer: Muddling Through to Empire, 1689-1717," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXVI (1969), pp. 373-415.
"William Blathwayt, Imperial Fixer: From Popish Plot to Glorious Revolution," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXV (1968), pp. 3-21.
"The Strange Career of Francis Nicholson," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXIII (1966), pp. 513-648.  

Previous Teaching Appointments

Maxwell Professor of History and Social Science, 1999-
Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1979-
Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1968-79
Assistant Professor of History, College of William and Mary, 1965-68
Assistant Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, 1964-65