A Roger Ekirch
Biographic Data
| ID | 198736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Roger Ekirch |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekirch |
| SIGNATURE | EKIRCH A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2430-8590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Modernization of Western Sleep
With the arrival of the twenty-first century, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and sociologists awakened to the importance of sleep. The past fifteen years have occasioned a remarkable outpouring of monographs, articles and dissertations devoted to human slumber and its discontents. Topics have ranged from medieval somnambulism, sleep deprivation in Byzantium and Thoreau's bed to the Japanese custom of public napping ( inemuri ). 1 …
At Day's Close
Sleep We Have Lost
Sometimes an Art, Never a Science, Always a Craft
S INCE the aftermath of World War II, when Bernard Bailyn, fresh from the army, embarked on graduate studies at Harvard, few historians have so profoundly shaped our understanding of the American past. To grasp the magnitude of his influence, we might contemplate the scholarly horizon bereft of such landmarks as The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century,1 Education in the Forming ofAmerican Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study,2 …
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson was, by any reckoning, one of the most remarkable men ever to have crossed America's political stage. In 1776 he drafted the Declaration of Independence, and throughout the Revolution and in the posts he held thereafter - governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, vice president, and president - Jefferson's responsibilities were enormous and his accomplishments profound. Yet during those years he also was able …
Bound for America
Bound for America
During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. A comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, this book combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new insights into the ori…
The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775
Journal Article The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775 Get access Ekirch A. Roger, The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvi, 277 pp. $45.00. A. W. Brian Simpson A. W. Brian Simpson University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 19…
Convict Transportation to Colonial America
Bound for America
Journal Article Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1773. By A. Roger Ekirch. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 277 pp. $45.00.) Get access Ian K. Steele Ian K. Steele University of Western Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908665 Pu…
Bound for America
During the eighteenth century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. The first comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, Bound for America combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new…
Bound for America
The Transportation of Scottish Criminals to America during the Eighteenth Century
In the last few years there has been a growth of interest in the history of crime and law enforcement in early modern Scotland. Recent studies by Stephen Davies, Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker have described the intricate operation of the country's criminal justice system. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the role played by transportation. During the eighteenth century, banishing criminals to the American colonies became …
Bound for America
D-8. URING the eighteenth century, transportation became Great Britain's foremost criminal punishment. At a time when men felt their lives and property to be threatened daily by crime, the idea of exiling felons to the American colonies carried enormous appeal. Criminals had been banished from time to time during the seventeenth century, but after Parliament passed the Transportation Act in I 7I8, assize and quarter sessions courts made banishmen…
Great Britain's Secret Convict Trade to America, 1783-1784
DURING THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the British government decided to reopen the convict trade to its former colonies. Transportation, for many years Britain's favorite punishment for serious crime, had ended when vessels containing felons were refused entry into American ports shortly after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord. In mid-1783, however, the coalition ministry of Lord Frederick North and Charles Fox, alar…
Poverty, Class, and Dependence in Early America
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Poor Carolina
The Origins of Instability in North Carolina
Poor Carolina
Poor Carolina
Journal Article “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xix + 305 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay and index. $23.50.) Get access Jeffrey J. Crow Jeffrey J. Crow North Carolina Division of Archives and History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Poor Carolina
A New Government of Liberty
D L URING the mid-eighteenth century, backcountry North Carolina experienced an extraordinarily high rate of demographic growth. The northwestern counties of Orange and Rowan registered particularly significant increases, rising from fewer than two hundred inhabitants in I747 to almost thirty thousand by I769, chiefly owing to immigration from the north.' Thus, especially in the initial years of settlement, the Piedmont was very much in a state o…
Sleep We Have Lost
Bound for America
During the eighteenth century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. The first comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, Bound for America combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new…
Bound for America
Bound for America
During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. A comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, this book combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new insights into the ori…
Bound for America
D-8. URING the eighteenth century, transportation became Great Britain's foremost criminal punishment. At a time when men felt their lives and property to be threatened daily by crime, the idea of exiling felons to the American colonies carried enormous appeal. Criminals had been banished from time to time during the seventeenth century, but after Parliament passed the Transportation Act in I 7I8, assize and quarter sessions courts made banishmen…
The Modernization of Western Sleep
With the arrival of the twenty-first century, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and sociologists awakened to the importance of sleep. The past fifteen years have occasioned a remarkable outpouring of monographs, articles and dissertations devoted to human slumber and its discontents. Topics have ranged from medieval somnambulism, sleep deprivation in Byzantium and Thoreau's bed to the Japanese custom of public napping ( inemuri ). 1 …
Bound for America
Journal Article Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1773. By A. Roger Ekirch. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 277 pp. $45.00.) Get access Ian K. Steele Ian K. Steele University of Western Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908665 Pu…
Great Britain's Secret Convict Trade to America, 1783-1784
DURING THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the British government decided to reopen the convict trade to its former colonies. Transportation, for many years Britain's favorite punishment for serious crime, had ended when vessels containing felons were refused entry into American ports shortly after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord. In mid-1783, however, the coalition ministry of Lord Frederick North and Charles Fox, alar…
Bound for America
The Transportation of Scottish Criminals to America during the Eighteenth Century
In the last few years there has been a growth of interest in the history of crime and law enforcement in early modern Scotland. Recent studies by Stephen Davies, Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker have described the intricate operation of the country's criminal justice system. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the role played by transportation. During the eighteenth century, banishing criminals to the American colonies became …
Poor Carolina
Journal Article “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xix + 305 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay and index. $23.50.) Get access Jeffrey J. Crow Jeffrey J. Crow North Carolina Division of Archives and History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
A New Government of Liberty
D L URING the mid-eighteenth century, backcountry North Carolina experienced an extraordinarily high rate of demographic growth. The northwestern counties of Orange and Rowan registered particularly significant increases, rising from fewer than two hundred inhabitants in I747 to almost thirty thousand by I769, chiefly owing to immigration from the north.' Thus, especially in the initial years of settlement, the Piedmont was very much in a state o…
Poor Carolina
Poor Carolina
Journal Article “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xix + 305 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay and index. $23.50.) Get access Jeffrey J. Crow Jeffrey J. Crow North Carolina Division of Archives and History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Poor Carolina
The Origins of Instability in North Carolina
Great Britain's Secret Convict Trade to America, 1783-1784
DURING THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the British government decided to reopen the convict trade to its former colonies. Transportation, for many years Britain's favorite punishment for serious crime, had ended when vessels containing felons were refused entry into American ports shortly after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord. In mid-1783, however, the coalition ministry of Lord Frederick North and Charles Fox, alar…
Poverty, Class, and Dependence in Early America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Poor Carolina
The Transportation of Scottish Criminals to America during the Eighteenth Century
In the last few years there has been a growth of interest in the history of crime and law enforcement in early modern Scotland. Recent studies by Stephen Davies, Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker have described the intricate operation of the country's criminal justice system. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the role played by transportation. During the eighteenth century, banishing criminals to the American colonies became …
Bound for America
D-8. URING the eighteenth century, transportation became Great Britain's foremost criminal punishment. At a time when men felt their lives and property to be threatened daily by crime, the idea of exiling felons to the American colonies carried enormous appeal. Criminals had been banished from time to time during the seventeenth century, but after Parliament passed the Transportation Act in I 7I8, assize and quarter sessions courts made banishmen…
Convict Transportation to Colonial America
Bound for America
Journal Article Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1773. By A. Roger Ekirch. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 277 pp. $45.00.) Get access Ian K. Steele Ian K. Steele University of Western Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1302–1303, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908665 Pu…
Bound for America
During the eighteenth century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. The first comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, Bound for America combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new…
Bound for America
Bound for America
Bound for America
During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. A comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, this book combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new insights into the ori…
The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775
Journal Article The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775 Get access Ekirch A. Roger, The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvi, 277 pp. $45.00. A. W. Brian Simpson A. W. Brian Simpson University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 19…
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson was, by any reckoning, one of the most remarkable men ever to have crossed America's political stage. In 1776 he drafted the Declaration of Independence, and throughout the Revolution and in the posts he held thereafter - governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, vice president, and president - Jefferson's responsibilities were enormous and his accomplishments profound. Yet during those years he also was able …
Sometimes an Art, Never a Science, Always a Craft
S INCE the aftermath of World War II, when Bernard Bailyn, fresh from the army, embarked on graduate studies at Harvard, few historians have so profoundly shaped our understanding of the American past. To grasp the magnitude of his influence, we might contemplate the scholarly horizon bereft of such landmarks as The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century,1 Education in the Forming ofAmerican Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study,2 …
Sleep We Have Lost
At Day's Close
The Modernization of Western Sleep
With the arrival of the twenty-first century, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and sociologists awakened to the importance of sleep. The past fifteen years have occasioned a remarkable outpouring of monographs, articles and dissertations devoted to human slumber and its discontents. Topics have ranged from medieval somnambulism, sleep deprivation in Byzantium and Thoreau's bed to the Japanese custom of public napping ( inemuri ). 1 …
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