merger
11/12/11 10:26
Part of the reason for this is that the ways I’m messing about with, to put these things up on the web, are taking up a lot of space in the application, and crowding out the other elements. Also, it seems silly to spread the stuff I’m blogging about so thin. Might be more useful to people if it’s all in one or two places (my general blog and my reading blog), and they can search it by tags or categories.
Old and new maps!
11/11/11 13:17
New online story
11/07/11 07:28
Bookshelf
11/02/11 09:53
I'm moving my home office today, which means I'm transporting all my books from one room to another, and shelving them. This always involves decisions about whether I really want to continue owning a copy of this or that. So I thought it might be interesting to jot down what I choose to keep and what I toss -- it'll be interesting to me at least, deciding whether to keep a bunch of these books I read for my comprehensive exams. There are a pile of books in addition to these, that I haven't looked at yet, so I don't know if I'll be keeping them. But I should really get back to reading more regularly; so hopefully I can start by working my way through those. In the meantime, here's what I reshelved today:
Primary Sources:
Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 1837
Hart ed., American History Told by Contemporaries, 1902
Paine, Collected Writings
Paxson, History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893, 1924
Sinclair, The Jungle, 1936
Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys, 1839
Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Turner, Frontier and Section, (selected essays)
Agricultural & Rural History:
Bidwell & Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860, 1941
Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing, 2002
Carstenson ed., Farmer Discontent 1865-1900, 1974
Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism, 1990
Clark, Social Change in America, 2006
Danbom, The Resisted Revolution, 1979
Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890, 1937
Donahue, The Great Meadow, 2004
Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism, 1983
Hahn & Prude eds., The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation, 1985
Hedrick, A History of Agriculture in the State of New York, 1933
Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, 2000
Lynn-Sherow, Red Earth, 2004
Parkerson. The Agricultural Transition in New York State, 1995
Postel, The Populist Vision, 2007
Rohrbough, The Land Office Business, 1968
Rothenberg, From Market Places to a Market Economy, 1992
Sanders, Roots of Reform, 1999
Shover, First Majority, Last Minority, 1976
Stokes & Conway, eds., The Market Revolution in America, 1996
Taylor, The Farmers' Movement 1620-1920, 1954
Dolan, The Yankee Peddlers of Early America, 1964
Wright, Hawkers and Walkers in Early America, 1927
Environmental History:
Cronon, Changes in the Land, 1983, 2003
Cronon, Nature's Metropolis, 1991
Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, 1972
Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, 2001
Hornborg, The Power of the Machine, 2001
Melosi, The Sanitary City, 2000
Merchant, American Environmental History, 2007
Olivera, Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia, 2004
Pollan, In Defense of Food, 2008
Smil, Creating the Twentieth Century, 2005
Steinberg, Nature Incorporated, 1991
Steinberg, Down to Earth, 2009
Tudge, Neanderthals, Bandits & Farmers, 1998
Tudge, Feeding People is Easy, 2007
Culture, esp. Reading:
Gilmore, Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life, 1989
Mott, The Literature of Pioneer Life in Iowa, 1923
Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol. I, 1741-1850, 1930
Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol. II, 1850-1865, 1938
Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol. III, 1865-1885, 1938
Mott, American Journalism, 1941
Mott, Golden Multitudes, 1947
American History:
Bailyn, Voyagers to the West, 1986
Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, 1913
Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws, 1993
Bodenhorn, A History of Banking in Antebellum America, 2000
Bodenhorn, State Banking in Early America, 2003
Couvares et al., Interpretations of American History, 2000
Fahs, The Imagined Civil War, 2001
Fifer, William Wheelwright, 1998
Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, 1970, 1995
Grun, The Timetables of History, 1946-1999
Hammond, Banks and Politics in America, 1957
Hellemans & Bunch, The Timetables of Science, 1988
Holbrook, Lost Men of American History, 1946
Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium, 1978
Kane, Improper Bostonians, 1998
Laurie, Artisans into Workers, 1989
Lee, Conway 1767-1967, 1967
Lovett, Conceiving the Future
Post, Popular Freethought in America, 1825-1850, 1943
Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth, 1997
Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction, 2001
Richardson, West from Appomattox, 2007
Richardson, Wounded Knee, 2010
Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic, 1979
Slotkin, The Fatal Environment, 1985
Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America, 1982
Young, The Toadstool Millionaires, 1961
British History:
Arnstein, The Bradlaugh Case, 1965
Bradlaugh, Selection of Political Pamphlets, 1970
Bradlaugh-Bonner, Charles Bradlaugh, His Life and Work, 1895
Desmond, The Politics of Evolution, 1989
Fishman, East End 1888, 1988
Fried & Elman, Charles Booth's London, 1968
Harris, Socialist Origins in the United States, 1966
Headingly, Biography of Charles Bradlaugh, 1883
Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, 1972
Isba, Gladstone and Women, 2006
King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin, 1999
MacKay, Life of Charles Bradlaugh MP, 1888
Marx & Engels, Reader
Mill, On Liberty and Other Writings
Moore, From Hell, 1989-2006
Niblett, Dare to Stand Alone, 2010
Quennell ed., Mayhew's London, 1969
Royle, The Infidel Tradition from paine to Bradlaugh, 1976
Secord, Victorian Sensation, 2000
Taylor, Even and the New Jerusalem, 1983
Thomson, Victorian London Street Life, 1994
Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 1963
Tribe, President Charles Bradlaugh MP, 1971
General:
Braudel, The Mediterranean, 1972
Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre, 1983
Domhoff, Who Rules America?, 1998
Gilkerson, A Thousand Years of Pirates, 2009
Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms, 1980
Haskell, Objectivity is Not Neutrality, 1998
Himes, Medical History of Contraception, 1936
Rabiner & Fortunato, Thinking Like Your Editor, 2002
Scott, Gender and the Politics of History, 1999
Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
Trager, The People's Chronology, 1992
Wineburg, Historical Thinking, 2001
Zinn, A People's History of American Empire, 2008
Discarding:
Botkin, Discordant Harmonies
Bringhurst, Fawn MacKay Brodie
Christian, Maps of Time
Fussell, Frontier: American Literature and the American West
Harman, A People's History of the World
Hurley, Environmental Inequalities
Judd, Common Lands, Common People
Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Lewis, American Wilderness
Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest
Marks, Origins of the Modern World
Marx, The Machine in the Garden
Montmarquet, The Idea of Agrarianism
Novick, That Noble Dream
Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Radkau, Nature and Power
Richards, The Unending Frontier
Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Sears, Sacred Places
Sellers, The Market Revolution
Smith, Virgin Land
Spence, God's Chinese Son
Williams, The Country and the City
Worster, Rivers of Empire
Young, Masquerade
Primary Sources:
Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 1837
Hart ed., American History Told by Contemporaries, 1902
Paine, Collected Writings
Paxson, History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893, 1924
Sinclair, The Jungle, 1936
Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys, 1839
Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Turner, Frontier and Section, (selected essays)
Agricultural & Rural History:
Bidwell & Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860, 1941
Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing, 2002
Carstenson ed., Farmer Discontent 1865-1900, 1974
Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism, 1990
Clark, Social Change in America, 2006
Danbom, The Resisted Revolution, 1979
Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890, 1937
Donahue, The Great Meadow, 2004
Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism, 1983
Hahn & Prude eds., The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation, 1985
Hedrick, A History of Agriculture in the State of New York, 1933
Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, 2000
Lynn-Sherow, Red Earth, 2004
Parkerson. The Agricultural Transition in New York State, 1995
Postel, The Populist Vision, 2007
Rohrbough, The Land Office Business, 1968
Rothenberg, From Market Places to a Market Economy, 1992
Sanders, Roots of Reform, 1999
Shover, First Majority, Last Minority, 1976
Stokes & Conway, eds., The Market Revolution in America, 1996
Taylor, The Farmers' Movement 1620-1920, 1954
Dolan, The Yankee Peddlers of Early America, 1964
Wright, Hawkers and Walkers in Early America, 1927
Environmental History:
Cronon, Changes in the Land, 1983, 2003
Cronon, Nature's Metropolis, 1991
Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, 1972
Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, 2001
Hornborg, The Power of the Machine, 2001
Melosi, The Sanitary City, 2000
Merchant, American Environmental History, 2007
Olivera, Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia, 2004
Pollan, In Defense of Food, 2008
Smil, Creating the Twentieth Century, 2005
Steinberg, Nature Incorporated, 1991
Steinberg, Down to Earth, 2009
Tudge, Neanderthals, Bandits & Farmers, 1998
Tudge, Feeding People is Easy, 2007
Culture, esp. Reading:
Gilmore, Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life, 1989
Mott, The Literature of Pioneer Life in Iowa, 1923
Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol. I, 1741-1850, 1930
Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol. II, 1850-1865, 1938
Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol. III, 1865-1885, 1938
Mott, American Journalism, 1941
Mott, Golden Multitudes, 1947
American History:
Bailyn, Voyagers to the West, 1986
Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, 1913
Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws, 1993
Bodenhorn, A History of Banking in Antebellum America, 2000
Bodenhorn, State Banking in Early America, 2003
Couvares et al., Interpretations of American History, 2000
Fahs, The Imagined Civil War, 2001
Fifer, William Wheelwright, 1998
Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, 1970, 1995
Grun, The Timetables of History, 1946-1999
Hammond, Banks and Politics in America, 1957
Hellemans & Bunch, The Timetables of Science, 1988
Holbrook, Lost Men of American History, 1946
Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium, 1978
Kane, Improper Bostonians, 1998
Laurie, Artisans into Workers, 1989
Lee, Conway 1767-1967, 1967
Lovett, Conceiving the Future
Post, Popular Freethought in America, 1825-1850, 1943
Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth, 1997
Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction, 2001
Richardson, West from Appomattox, 2007
Richardson, Wounded Knee, 2010
Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic, 1979
Slotkin, The Fatal Environment, 1985
Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America, 1982
Young, The Toadstool Millionaires, 1961
British History:
Arnstein, The Bradlaugh Case, 1965
Bradlaugh, Selection of Political Pamphlets, 1970
Bradlaugh-Bonner, Charles Bradlaugh, His Life and Work, 1895
Desmond, The Politics of Evolution, 1989
Fishman, East End 1888, 1988
Fried & Elman, Charles Booth's London, 1968
Harris, Socialist Origins in the United States, 1966
Headingly, Biography of Charles Bradlaugh, 1883
Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, 1972
Isba, Gladstone and Women, 2006
King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin, 1999
MacKay, Life of Charles Bradlaugh MP, 1888
Marx & Engels, Reader
Mill, On Liberty and Other Writings
Moore, From Hell, 1989-2006
Niblett, Dare to Stand Alone, 2010
Quennell ed., Mayhew's London, 1969
Royle, The Infidel Tradition from paine to Bradlaugh, 1976
Secord, Victorian Sensation, 2000
Taylor, Even and the New Jerusalem, 1983
Thomson, Victorian London Street Life, 1994
Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 1963
Tribe, President Charles Bradlaugh MP, 1971
General:
Braudel, The Mediterranean, 1972
Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre, 1983
Domhoff, Who Rules America?, 1998
Gilkerson, A Thousand Years of Pirates, 2009
Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms, 1980
Haskell, Objectivity is Not Neutrality, 1998
Himes, Medical History of Contraception, 1936
Rabiner & Fortunato, Thinking Like Your Editor, 2002
Scott, Gender and the Politics of History, 1999
Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
Trager, The People's Chronology, 1992
Wineburg, Historical Thinking, 2001
Zinn, A People's History of American Empire, 2008
Discarding:
Botkin, Discordant Harmonies
Bringhurst, Fawn MacKay Brodie
Christian, Maps of Time
Fussell, Frontier: American Literature and the American West
Harman, A People's History of the World
Hurley, Environmental Inequalities
Judd, Common Lands, Common People
Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Lewis, American Wilderness
Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest
Marks, Origins of the Modern World
Marx, The Machine in the Garden
Montmarquet, The Idea of Agrarianism
Novick, That Noble Dream
Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Radkau, Nature and Power
Richards, The Unending Frontier
Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Sears, Sacred Places
Sellers, The Market Revolution
Smith, Virgin Land
Spence, God's Chinese Son
Williams, The Country and the City
Worster, Rivers of Empire
Young, Masquerade
Thomas Paine Memorialized
09/27/11 09:46
Also, check out my new Freethinkers blog!
This is the letterhead of the Boston Investigator, which was established in 1831. Abner Kneeland was its most famous, but not its only editor. I took this off a note dated 1899, from somebody (I couldn't read the signature) donating a copy of the very fist issue of the paper, to the Investigator's archive. The image seems to be taken from the lithograph by J.H. Bufford's sons, below.
The Investigator was apparently located in the Paine Memorial Building in Boston, which (according to King's Handbook of Boston, 1889) was "on Appleton Street, between Tremont and Berkeley Streets. It was built in commemoration of Thomas Paine. The famous San Francisco millionaire, James Lick, gave $18,000 towards the building-fund. The hall has seats for 800 persons." This entry is followed by: "Investigator Hall, in the Paine Memorial Building, has a seating capacity of 600."
The hall was dedicated in early 1875. In October 1877, the building's board of trustees approved the foreclosure sale of the building. Although they had appealed to their friends, they did not receive enough in contributions to meet their taxes and interest payments. "We have been able to hold the property up to the present time only because Mr. Mendum has generously seen fit to advance the money…" they noted. These events are mentioned gloatingly by Joseph Cook (1838-1901), as a preface to one of his Tremont Temple prayer meetings titled "The First Cause as Personal." Cook is known for his attempts to reconcile science with faith, and apparently Paine was an easy target for ridicule -- the transcript begins, "Thomas Paine has recently been sold at auction in Boston. [Laughter.] We are reminded anew that in many senses infidelity does not pay." Maybe not, but it apparently hadn't disappeared, either.
This is the letterhead of the Boston Investigator, which was established in 1831. Abner Kneeland was its most famous, but not its only editor. I took this off a note dated 1899, from somebody (I couldn't read the signature) donating a copy of the very fist issue of the paper, to the Investigator's archive. The image seems to be taken from the lithograph by J.H. Bufford's sons, below.
The hall was dedicated in early 1875. In October 1877, the building's board of trustees approved the foreclosure sale of the building. Although they had appealed to their friends, they did not receive enough in contributions to meet their taxes and interest payments. "We have been able to hold the property up to the present time only because Mr. Mendum has generously seen fit to advance the money…" they noted. These events are mentioned gloatingly by Joseph Cook (1838-1901), as a preface to one of his Tremont Temple prayer meetings titled "The First Cause as Personal." Cook is known for his attempts to reconcile science with faith, and apparently Paine was an easy target for ridicule -- the transcript begins, "Thomas Paine has recently been sold at auction in Boston. [Laughter.] We are reminded anew that in many senses infidelity does not pay." Maybe not, but it apparently hadn't disappeared, either.
