Welcome

Welcome to Dave Garrow’s web page. This was the idea and initiative of my wife (www.darleenopfer.com), and I was rather slow to appreciate the possible value and utility of putting all of my past non-book publications up on the web at one comprehensive site.

Once I finally forced myself to undertake the fairly draining work of gathering full-text copies of all my various articles and reviews, converting them to PDFs (if they weren’t already), and attaching all the appropriate links, however, I came to realize—perhaps more tardily than most people—that web-posting was a better endeavor than simply collecting hard copies and ‘tear sheets’ in numerous file drawers.

In recent years hardly a month has gone by without some student or colleague from various places around the globe asking me for a copy of something I’d written years ago that they weren’t immediately able to put their hands on. Sometimes I’ve been able to send a PDF attachment, but on other occasions I’ve been reduced to using good old-fashioned snail mail.

So this is the solution. We’ve organized all of my past publications, from 1978 to the present, in two comprehensive menus: one chronological, by year of publication, and the other topical, with straightforward subject categories organized in reverse chronological order. There are a small number of articles that will require scanning and remain to be uploaded, and only once that’s taken care of will we tackle uploading chapters that have appeared in relatively well-available books.

Needless to say, this wouldn’t have happened at all without Darleen’s initiative and technical skills. I also owe great thanks to Dennis Hutchinson, Charles Kaiser, Mark Feeney, Ernie Suggs, and Carlin Romano for helping me track down the full-texts of some items that were otherwise not readily available, and to Stuart Marcelle and Barrie Smith for help with scanning.

So please browse and enjoy. Don’t hesitate to tell me—djg52@cam.ac.uk--if there’s something you believe can be improved, and do let me know if there’s anything that’s not “up” that you’d like to see sooner rather than later.