Rudi Batzell is an assistant professor of History at Lake Forest College. He is completing a book on the global history of capitalism, the transition from proprietary to corporate firms, and the reconstruction of class and gender politics with the rise of the welfare state from the 1870s to the 1920s.
Rudi Batzell
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
Guns Made the State, and the State Made Guns
Industrialist and philanthropist, lobbyist and cultural leader: Samuel Galton Jr. was in 1795 a prominent member of Birmingham’s bourgeoisie. He was also …
