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Historical portraits of the underdog

Historical portraits of the underdog

People of The High Country: Jackson Hole Before the Settlers. By Gary A. Wright Only The River Runs Easy: A Historical Portrait of the Upper Green River Valley. By H. L. Skinner

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsPeople of The High Country: Jackson Hole Before the Settlers. By Gary A. Wright Only The River Runs Easy: A Historical Portrait of the Upper Green River Valley. By H. L. SkinnerRobert Kuhn McGregorRobert Kuhn McGregor Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 30, Number 4October 1986 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/4004738 Journal History This article was published in the Journal of Forest History (1974-1989), which was continued by Forest & Conservation History (1990-1995). © 1986 Forest History Society, Inc. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Historians' Indian: Native Americans in Canadian Historical Writing from Charlevoix to the Present

siscw 1971 several important studies have chronicled the treatment of native peoples in Canadian historical writing. • During the same period there has been a growing interest in the history of native peoples as their descendants begin once more to play a greater role in national life. The range of topics being investigated and the understanding of the general outlines of native history have increased as historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, and economists have combined their professional skills in the pursuit of ethnohistorical research. There is also evidence of a new concern to integrate the findings of ethnohistorians into the broader framework of national history. Now is an opportune time to survey current trends in the study of native history. In chapter 1 of Natives and Newcomers I sought to broaden the discussion of these trends by relating successive fashions in the historical portrayal of native peoples to changing anthropological understanding and the actual position of Indians in Canadian society at the time when these accounts were written. • In this paper I

Das Phenomen des Polarlichts

Wilfried Schroder has written an interesting book on the history of auroral research and its relationship to the development in science in general. The book is primarily based on original sources in the German language; the historical portrayal therefore appears to be somewhat distorted. Some readers may dislike this. What Schroder's book lacks in objectivity, however, it gains from its broad presentation of, to a large extent, forgotten important German sources in the field of auroral physics.

Hungarian Historical Portraits

I propose to discuss three letters of Liszt not usually mentioned in connection with the history of the Bungarian Historical Portraits known up to now. In a letter from Budapest written on February 26, 1885, the composer told Olga Meyendorff he had composed some 40 pages of Hunganan music that, month: a rhapsody for the exhibition album (Hungarian Rhapsody No. 18) another rhapsody for his old friend Abranyi (Bunyarian Rhapsody No. 19), a Csardas obstine', and a very funeral march.l While still in Budapest in the first half of April, Liszt also wrote a brief Preludio funebre. One year after the composer's death, the Hungarian funeral march and the piece of funeral music were published by Gollerich through the firm of Breitkopf und Hartel, under the title Tra?bervorspiel und Trcluermarsch; he omitted from the title of the funeral march the word Hungarian, upon which Liszt had laid special emphasis in his letter. This Hungarian funeral march is of course the one upon which Liszt based one of the pieces in the Hunyarian Historicat Portraits. In the first half of June in the same ytsar, Liszt attended two concerts of his own music in Antwerp. From there he wrote on June 8 to the publisher Taborszky in Budapest saying he would send him some short Hungarian piano pieces of his in early July, and orchestrate them at a later date. Their title was Dem Andenken Szechenyi, Deak, Eotvos, Teleki, Vorosmarty, Petofi. Petofi had already been published by Taborszky; Liszt mentioned in the letter that he intended to add a number of closing chords in the new edition. As a seventh piece he proposed adding Mosonyis Trauerklange (Mosonyis Grabgeleit), which Taborszky had likewise published earlier. He wrote that all the new works were ready in a manuscript, and that he only needed z copyist. He would give Taborszky further details about publication when he

V. V. Sogrin. <italic>Osnovateli SSHA: Istoricheskie portrety</italic> [Founders of the U.S.A.: Historical Portraits]. Nauka: Moscow. 1983. Pp. 176. 65 k

V. V. Sogrin. Osnovateli SSHA: Istoricheskie portrety [Founders of the U.S.A.: Historical Portraits]. Nauka: Moscow. 1983. Pp. 176. 65 k Get access Sogrin V. V.. Osnovateli SSHA: Istoricheskie portrety [Founders of the U.S.A.: Historical Portraits]. Nauka: Moscow. 1983. Pp. 176. 65 k. Richard Beeman, Richard Beeman University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alfred J. Rieber Alfred J. Rieber University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 90, Issue 1, February 1985, Page 214, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/90.1.214 Published: 01 February 1985

Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940

Our Gang provides a fascinating historical portrait of the Jewish criminal world from the era of mass immigration through Prohibition and beyond. Jenna Weissman Joselit traces the origins, nature, patterns, location, and impact of Jewish crime from the early years, when it was inextricably bound up with the East Side community as a whole, with criminals living among the more or less law-abiding citizens they preyed upon, to the post-World War I period and the gradual assimilation and absorption of Jewish crime into the mainstream of the American underworld.Parallel with this theme is a broader one: the New York Jewish community's reaction to Jewish crime, evolving from disbelief to denial to concern and the establishment of a network of correctional and preventive agencies, and finally as the nature of Jewish crime changed, and as the community itself felt a growing sense of security a sort of acceptance.

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Abraham Woodhead (1608–78): Some Research Notes, Chiefly about his Writings

Of the Catholic polemicists in England in the seventeenth century, few wrote more voluminously or earned more respect from their adversaries than Abraham Woodhead. His works are grave, erudite, and irenic in tone, reflecting their author's retired life of study after his conversion. His efforts to avoid the limelight have been successful, both in his own time and in ours; perhaps that is why no one, so far as I know, has yet subjected his books to the careful scrutiny and analysis which they deserve. There are several worthwhile theses in the history of theology to be written on Woodhead and the controversies in which he was engaged; perhaps the materials offered in this article will help a few scholars through the preliminaries to Woodhead study and encourage them to give us a theological pprtrait of this man whose historical portrait is so hard to draw.

Roman Historical Portraits, by J. M. C. Toynbee

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British Food Journal Volume 81 Issue 4 1979

It tends to be called the corner shop, mainly because it occupied a corner building for extra window space, but also due to the impetus given to the name by television series seeking to portray life as it used to be. The village grew from the land, a permanent stopping place for the wandering tribes of early Britain, the Saxons, Welsh, Angles; it furnished the needs of those forming it and eventually a village store or shop was one of those needs. Where the needs have remained unchanged, the village is much as it has always been, a historical portrait. The town grew out of the village, sometimes a conglomerate of several adjacent villages. In the days before cheap transport, the corner shop, in euphoric business terms, would be described as “a little gold mine”, able to hold its own against the first introduction of multiple chain stores, but after 1914 everything changed. Edwardian England was blasted out of existence by the holocaust of 1914–18, destroyed beyond all hope of recovery. The patterns of retail trading changed and have been continuously changing ever since. A highly developed system of cheap bus transport took village housewives and also those in the outlying parts of town into busy central shopping streets. The jaunt of the week for the village wife who saw little during the working days; the corner shop remained mainly for things they had “run out of”. Every village had its “uppety” madames however who affected disdain of the corner shop and its proprietors, preferring to swish their skirts in more fashionable emporia, basking in the obsequious reception by the proprietor and his equally servile staff.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articleDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. By Michel Foucault. Translated by Alan Sheridan.Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. By Martin van Creveld.The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece, 800–500 B.C. By Chester G. Starr.The Saga of Themistocles. By Robert J. Lenardon.Roman Historical Portraits. By J. M. C. Toynbee.The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third. By Edward N. Luttwak.An Economic History of the Low Countries, 800–1800. By Jan A. Van Houtte.The Economy of Late Renaissance Europe, 1400–1600. By Harry A. Miskimin.Society and Homicide in Thirteenth‐Century England. By James Buchanan Given.The Dissolution of the Religious Orders in Ireland under Henry VIII. By Brendan Bradshaw.Thorns on the Tudor Rose: Monks, Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars. By J. Thomas Kelly.Revolt of the Peasantry, 1519. By Julian Cornwall.The Political Works of James Harrington. Edited, with an introduction, by J. G. A. Pocock.Monmouth's Rebels: The Road to Sedgemoor, 1685. By Peter Earle.The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782–1846. By Charles Ronald Middleton.Threats of Revolution in Britain, 1789–1848. By Malcolm I. Thomis and Peter Holt.Beau Brummell. By Hubert Cole.Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments, 1815–1830. By Boyd Hilton.English Farmers and the Politics of Protection, 1815‐52. By Travis L. Crosby.Politics and the Churches in Great Britain, 1832‐1868. By G. I. T. Machin.Charles Stewart Parnell. By F.S.L. Lyons.Women and Trade Unions: An Outline History of Women in the British Trade Union Movement. By Sheila Lewenhak.Irish Neutrality and the USA, 1939‐47. By T. Ryle Dwyer.Fulfilment of a Mission: The Spears Mission to Syria and Lebanon, 1941‐1944. By Major‐General Sir Edward Spears.Clash over Romania: British and American Policies towards Romania: 1938‐1947. By Paul D. Quinlan.Early Modern France, 1560–1715. By Robin Briggs.The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism. By Eugene Davidson.Kraal and Castle: Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa. By Richard Elphick.A New History of India. By Stanley Wolpert.Military History of British India. Edited by H.S. Bhatia.The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Spanish Conquest of 1565–1568. By Eugene Lyon.The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child‐Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America. By Philip Greven.William Penn's Legacy: Politics and Social Structure in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1726‐1755. By Alan Tully.The Loyalist Mind: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution. By John E. Ferling.Germany and the American Revolution, 1770‐1800: A Sociohistorical Investigation of Late Eighteenth‐Century Political Thinking. By Horst Dippel. Translated by Bernard A. Uhlendorf, with a foreword by R.R. Palmer.The Federalists and the Origins of the U.S. Civil Service. By Carl E. Prince.Frontier America, 1800‐1840: A Comparative Demographic Analysis of the Settlnncnt Process. By James E. Davis.Jefferson Davis. By Clement Eaton.Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell. By Jeffrey J. Crow and Robert F. Durden.One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation. By Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch.The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884‐1970. By Raymond Gavins.Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898. By John H. Keiser.Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. By Elizabeth Stevenson.Wilsonion Maritime Drplomacy 1913‐1921. By Jeffrey J. Safford.Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.‐Mexican Relations under Wilson and Carranza. By Mark T. Gilderhus.Franklin D. Roosevelt and the City Bosses. By Lyle W. Dorsett.President Eisenhower and Strategy Management: A Study in Defence Politics. By Douglas Kinnard.Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power. By Maeva Marcus.Work without Salvation: America's Intellectuals and Industrial Alienation, 1880‐1910. By James B. Gilbert.America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. By David F. Noble.Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture. By James Hoopes.In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology and American Culture. By R. Laurence Moore.In Pursuit of Happiness: American Conceptions of Property from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. By William B. Scott.Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy. By James C. Mohr.

The Mormon Genealogical Society and Research Opportunities in Early American History

T t HE study of American history has experienced conceptual and methodological revolutions in recent years. Scholars in increasing numbers are combining statistical computation with traditional literary sources to effect more comprehensive historical portraits; important work is going forward in such areas as demography, prosopography, and family reconstitution. Since the method often determines the message, there has been a trend toward microcosmic analysis; close examinations of towns, counties, and kinship groups have appreciably altered our perspectives on cultural life, social structure, wealth distribution, and political activity. As readers of this journal are well aware, some of the earliest and finest community and family studies have been done in the field of early American history. Practitioners of the new social history face special difficulties in research. The vital statistics, court records, deeds, local government registers, and like sources are voluminous. But these records often repose in distant courthouses, town halls, and churches, and their volume presents problems in systematically collecting and recording information. Fortunately, twentieth-century technology offers invaluable assistance to students of seventeenthand eighteenth-century America. Even more important than the computer, which facilitates the tedious task of collating and counting data, are the photoduplication processes that bring the resources to the researcher. Richard W. Hale's Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada indicates that the largest collection of microfilmed material for the study of early American history is that of the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (Mormon) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The purpose of this communication is to acquaint readers of the Quarterly with the holdings of the Genealogical Society Library and to suggest means of utilizing the collection in historical research.

Samuel J. Hurwitz and Edith F. Hurwitz. Jamaica: A Historical Portrait. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1971. Pp. xii, 273. $9.50

Journal Article Samuel J. Hurwitz and Edith F. Hurwitz. Jamaica: A Historical Portrait. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1971. Pp. xii, 273. $9.50 Get access Hurwitz Samuel J. and Hurwitz Edith F.. Jamaica: A Historical Portrait. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1971. Pp. xii, 273. $9.50. Graham Knox Graham Knox University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, February 1974, Pages 252–253, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/79.1.252 Published: 01 February 1974

Jamaica: A Historical Portrait

Jamaica: A Historical Portrait

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Jamaica: A Historical Portrait Jamaica: A Historical Portrait. By Samuel J. Hurwitz and Edith F. Hurwitz. London: Pall Mall. 1971. 273 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £300. International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 1972, Page 713, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/48.4.713 Published: 01 October 1972

Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman &amp; Co., 1818-1968

Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman &amp; Co., 1818-1968

Historical Surveys and Portraits. G.P. Gooch

<i>Historical Surveys and Portraits</i>. G.P. Gooch

"An Odd Fish". Samuel Keimer and a Footnote to American Educational History

Samuel Keimer suffered the misfortune of having had his sole surviving historical portrait drawn by a caricaturist. The medium of caricature utilizes a technique of selective accentuation; one or another of the subject's features or attributes are presented so much larger than life that they totally dominate the whole and effectively submerge, or at best adumbrate, all the others. The portrait of Keimer, the preservation of which is due solely to the fame of its creator rather than its subject, was penned by a hand that had completely mastered this technique as an instrument for its own purposes. The artist in question was Benjamin Franklin, and the portrait of Samuel Keimer achieved a modicum of immortality due to its inclusion in Franklin's Autobiography.

Reviews of Books

Abstract Napoleon's Memoirs. Edited by Somerset de Chair. (Faber & Faber.) 42s. Gallipoli Mission. By C. E. W. Bean. (Canberra, Australian War Memorial.) 25s. The Influence of Sea Power on the History of the British People—The Lees Knowles Lectures for 1947. By Admiral Sir William M. James, G.C.B. (Cambridge University Press.) 4s. 6d. Portsmouth Point—The Navy in Fiction, 1793–1815. By C. Northcote Parkinson. (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., London.) 12s. 6d. The Navy of Britain—A Historical Portrait. By Michael Lewis, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. (George Allen and Unwin). 30s. The Indian Sappers and Miners. By Lieut.-Colonel E. W. C. Sandes, D.S.O., M.C., R.E. (Ret.) (The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham.) The Canadian Army, 1939–1945. An Official Historical Summary. By Colonel C. P. Stacey, O.B.E., A.M., Ph.D. (H.M. Stationery Office.) 12s. 6d. The Suffolk Regiment, 1928–1946. By Colonel W. N. Nicholson, C.M.G., D.S.O. (East Anglian Magazine, Ltd., Ipswich.) 21s. The History of The 2nd Canadian Battalion (East Ontario Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. By Colonel W. W. Murray, O.B.E., M.C. (Published by the Historical Committee, 2nd Battalion, C.E.F., Ottawa, November, 1947.) A Distant Drum. By Captain J. Pereira. (Gale and Polden, Ltd.) 21s. Laboratory of the Air. By John Pudney. (H.M. Stationery Office.) 3s. 6d.