Howard B Rock

Biographic Data

ID533384
NAMEHoward B Rock
GIVEN NAMESHoward B
FAMILY NAMERock
SIGNATUREROCK H B
AFFILIATIONSFlorida International University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Jewish New York

    Howard B Rock, Daniel Soyer et al.BOOKJewish New York2020

    The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the a…

  • S teven C arl S mith . An Empire of Print

    Open AccessHoward B RockARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    In his engaging book An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic, Steven Carl Smith takes on the question of whether or not there was a national print culture before the invention of the steam press in the 1830s. Based on his study of New York City booksellers, Smith argues that there was a bustling book business from the middle of the eighteenth century on, accelerating in the early national era—all before in…

  • American Jewry

    Howard B RockARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    In 2004 Jonathan Sarna published his prize-winning book, American Judaism, “the standard book in the field,” according to one of the volume's blurbs. Undaunted, Eli Lederhendler, a professor at Hebrew University, offers a new history. What are his claims for revision? First, his book adds an international dimension to American Jewish history. Second, he challenges American historians and multiculturalists who have marginalized Jews' role because …

  • Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil War

    Howard B Rock, Anthony GronowiczARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil War. By Anthony Gronowicz. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xx, 277 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-5553-327-2. Paper, $16.96, ISBN 1-5553-326-4.) Get access Howard B. Rock Howard B. Rock Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1…

  • American Artisans

    Nina E Lerman, Howard B Rock et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

  • American Artisans

    Charles G Steffen, Howard B Rock et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1997

    Given the fundamental changes that transformed American society in the years between Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship in a printer's shop and mid-19th-century efforts to organize labouring men and women, no social group offers a more interesting spectacle than skilled tradesmen or artisans. They came from various ethnic backgrounds (some worked in slavery), took their religion and politics seriously, lived mostly in cities but also in the count…

  • American Artisans

    Walter Licht, Howard B Rock et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1997

  • Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry

    Howard B Rock, Johanna Miller Lewis et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1996

  • History of My Own Times

    Howard B Rock, William Otter et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996Cited by: 2

    Introduction History of My Own Times Preface England New York Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hanover Cincinnati, the Eastern Shore, and Baltimore EmmitsburgPostscript Commentary: William Otter and the Society of Jolly Fellows in the Early RepublicAppendix: Articles of an Agreement between Rev. John DuBois & William Otter, 11 October 1823 Index

  • American Artisans

    John K Alexander, John Alexander et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996Cited by: 1

  • American Artisans

    Graham Russell Hodges, Graham Hodges et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1996

  • Respectable Artisans

    Richard Stott, Paul A Gilje et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • Sweep O! Sweep O

    Paul A Gilje, Howard B RockARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1994

    Paul A. Gilje, Howard B. Rock, "Sweep O! Sweep O!": African-American Chimney Sweeps and Citizenship in the New Nation, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3, Mid-Atlantic Perspectives (Jul., 1994), pp. 507-538

  • Keepers of the Revolution

    Billy G Smith, Paul A Gilje et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Keepers of the Revolution: New Yorkers at Work in the Early Republic. Ed. by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xxii, 288 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2665-0. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8014-9959-3.) Get access Billy G. Smith Billy G. Smith Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, …

  • Spanish Observers and the American Revolution, 1775-1783

    Howard B Rock, Light Townsend CumminsARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1993

  • The New York City Artisan, 1789-1825

    Thomas S Wermuth, Howard B Rock et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1992

  • "The "Lower Sort

    Howard B Rock, Billy G SmithARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1991

  • Workers in the Metropolis

    Howard B Rock, Richard Stott et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1990

  • Work and Labor in Early America

    Howard B Rock, Stephen InnesARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1989Cited by: 2

  • The Road to Mobocracy

    Howard B Rock, Paul A GiljeARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1988

  • An Enduring Revolution

    Open AccessHoward B RockARTICLEJournal of Urban History1985

  • Artisans of the New Republic

    Paul A Gilje, Howard B RockARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1982

  • Frontiers of Change

    Howard B Rock, Thomas C CochranARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1982Cited by: 2

  • Artisans of the New Republic

    M Edward Holland, Max Holland et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1982

  • Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 . Bruce Laurie

    Howard B RockARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1981