Nadja Durbach
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1094752 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nadja Durbach |
| NOMBRES | Nadja |
| APELLIDO | Durbach |
| FIRMA | DURBACH N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1940-7156 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The End of Print
This Roundtable marks the beginning of a new era for the Journal of British Studies ( JBS ). Volume 63, issue 4, October 2024, was the last traditional issue printed on paper. No longer will members of the North American Conference on British Studies receive a bound volume quarterly in the mail. We fully understand that for many of our readers the end of print is emotionally wrought, and it constitutes a loss that is tangible and personal. We kno…
Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People
Journal Article Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. Get access Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 306. Cloth $24.95. Nadja Durbach Nadja Durbach University of Utah, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-7156 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Feeding ‘Growing Boys’ and Nourishing ‘Handy English Lads’
Between 1895 and 1908, Britain's prison administration introduced reforms aimed at ‘reclaiming’ male adolescent offenders. These included a significant rethinking of the dietary. Drawing on the sciences of nutrition and of adolescent development, the prison experimented with the rations for juvenile–adults, a new category of inmate defined by age and by gender. For the first time, the state explicitly used prison rations in the service of soverei…
Why Cant 2 Brothers”? World War I and Britain’s Deceased Brother’s Widow Act of 1921
In 1921, Britain legalized marriage between a widow and her deceased husband’s brother. The Deceased Brother’s Widow Act was not, however, an addendum to the 1907 Deceased Wife’s Sister Act. It was passed in the aftermath of World War I to address administrative problems regarding war widows’ pensions. Its significance lies in its role as a microcosm of a range of postwar debates around sex discrimination, women’s access to state welfare, sexual …
Many Mouths
This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, Nadja Durbach examines the political, economic, social and cultural circumstances that led the state to feed some of its subjects, but not others.…
Anxious Times
Reviewed by: Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Bonea et al. Nadja Durbach Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Wallis. Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. viii + 312 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-8229-45512). Although it has four authors, Anxious Times is …
Dead or Alive? Stillbirth Registration, Premature Babies, and the Definition of Life in England and Wales, 1836–1960
When stillbirth registration became mandatory in England and Wales in 1926, it was not to amass statistics in the service of public health. Instead, it was part of broader anxieties that victims of infanticide were being disposed of under the guise of having been stillborn. But because it necessitated distinguishing between the living and the dead, the legislation that introduced stillbirth registration generated debate about the definition of li…
Keeping Kosher in the Camp
During the First World War, Jews interned in Germany struggled to keep kosher. The British government initially funded a kosher food programme for its own interned nationals, but it removed all government monies in late 1915. The British government’s refusal to take responsibility for the proper feeding of its Jewish subjects held as ‘enemy aliens’ was both shaped by and bolstered assumptions that Jews could never be truly British. However, it wa…
One British Thing
This essay inaugurates a new series in the Journal of British Studies titled “One British Thing.” This short essay uses a bottle of welfare orange juice distributed sometime between 1961 and 1971 to tell a larger story about the relationship between Britain's Welfare State and the colonization and decolonization of the British West Indies. The history of the Welfare State has largely been told as a metropolitan story severed from a wider global h…
The Politics of Provisioning
During the First World War, the German and British Governments supplied culturally appropriate rations and secured special facilities for food preparation and consumption for South Asian prisoners of war whose loyalty both governments sought. The food provided in POW camps to South Asians serves as an index of the political status of colonial subjects at a moment when the future of European empires was far from certain. The British Government’s a…
Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colon…
Seth Koven. The Match Girl and the Heiress
Skinless Wonders
Journal Article "Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show Get access Nadja Durbach Nadja Durbach Department of History, University of Utah, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, 215 South Central Campus Drive, Room 310, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 1…
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Peoples on Parade
(2013). Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Sadiah Qureshi. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 312-314
Private Lives, Public Records
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as the British government expanded its social programs, and private charities and co-operative associations began to offer more benefits, birth certificates became essential to the bureaucratic process of establishing both age and identity. But every time a birth certificate was produced, it made the private circumstances of an individual's birth public knowledge. For those born out of wedlock, handi…
Roast Beef, the New Poor Law, and the British Nation, 1834–63
In the early years of the New Poor Law, workhouses were explicitly prohibited from serving roast beef and plum pudding to inmates. Historians have recently begun to focus increased attention on the cultural meanings invested in specific food products and the politics of their production, distribution, and consumption. Unpacking the contentious disputes between local and central Poor Law authorities over the provision of roast beef to workhouse in…
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
Reviewed by: Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography Nadja Durbach (bio) Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13580-9, $29.95. Much ink has been spilled over Sara Baartman, who in the early years of the nineteenth century was exhibited in the United Kingdom and Paris as “the Hottentot Venus.” Since h…
The Politics of Vaccination
The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800–1874. By Deborah Brunton.." Cultural and Social History, 6(3), pp. 378–379
Monstrosity, Masculinity and Medicine
While scholars have often assumed that the Victorian freak show was merely exploitative, the life of Joseph Merrick suggests its importance to deformed members of the working poor. Reading the memoirs of Merrick's manager Tom Norman against those of the surgeon Frederick Treves suggests that it was in fact the hospital, rather than the freak show, that compromised Merrick's agency by forcing him to relinquish all control over his bodily display. …
Fractures States
Fractured States , part of an exciting series from Orient Longman entitled New Perspectives in South Asian History , provides a nuanced narrative of state vaccination policy and its implementation in different regions of India from the nineteenth century through to independence. The book succeeds in challenging the dominant historiography of state medicine in colonial India which has assumed on the one hand that the colonial state was monolithic …
Bodily Matters
Beyond the Reproductive Body
The Social History of British Medicine
1Carlson Hall, Rm. 320, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112. E-mail: [email protected]
Class, Gender, and the Conscientious Objector to Vaccination, 1898–1907
In 1898, after forty-five years of enforcing mandatory infant smallpox vaccination, the British parliament passed an act to allow parents to “opt out” of the compulsory system. The 1898 Vaccination Act introduced a conscience clause that entitled parents who objected to the practice of vaccination to claim certificates of conscientious objection by applying to a magistrate for an exemption. This provided working- and lower-middle-class anti-vacci…
They Might As Well Brand Us
From its origins in resistance to the 1853 Compulsory Vaccination Act, the Victorian anti-vaccination movement successfully challenged the public health policies of an increasingly interventionist state. Anti-vaccinationists were not only middle-class reformers, but were also drawn from a politically active working class. These campaigners saw compulsory vaccination as an extreme example of class legislation, for its policy and administration imp…
Roast Beef, the New Poor Law, and the British Nation, 1834–63
In the early years of the New Poor Law, workhouses were explicitly prohibited from serving roast beef and plum pudding to inmates. Historians have recently begun to focus increased attention on the cultural meanings invested in specific food products and the politics of their production, distribution, and consumption. Unpacking the contentious disputes between local and central Poor Law authorities over the provision of roast beef to workhouse in…
Class, Gender, and the Conscientious Objector to Vaccination, 1898–1907
In 1898, after forty-five years of enforcing mandatory infant smallpox vaccination, the British parliament passed an act to allow parents to “opt out” of the compulsory system. The 1898 Vaccination Act introduced a conscience clause that entitled parents who objected to the practice of vaccination to claim certificates of conscientious objection by applying to a magistrate for an exemption. This provided working- and lower-middle-class anti-vacci…
One British Thing
This essay inaugurates a new series in the Journal of British Studies titled “One British Thing.” This short essay uses a bottle of welfare orange juice distributed sometime between 1961 and 1971 to tell a larger story about the relationship between Britain's Welfare State and the colonization and decolonization of the British West Indies. The history of the Welfare State has largely been told as a metropolitan story severed from a wider global h…
The Politics of Provisioning
During the First World War, the German and British Governments supplied culturally appropriate rations and secured special facilities for food preparation and consumption for South Asian prisoners of war whose loyalty both governments sought. The food provided in POW camps to South Asians serves as an index of the political status of colonial subjects at a moment when the future of European empires was far from certain. The British Government’s a…
Skinless Wonders
Journal Article "Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show Get access Nadja Durbach Nadja Durbach Department of History, University of Utah, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, 215 South Central Campus Drive, Room 310, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 1…
Private Lives, Public Records
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as the British government expanded its social programs, and private charities and co-operative associations began to offer more benefits, birth certificates became essential to the bureaucratic process of establishing both age and identity. But every time a birth certificate was produced, it made the private circumstances of an individual's birth public knowledge. For those born out of wedlock, handi…
Monstrosity, Masculinity and Medicine
While scholars have often assumed that the Victorian freak show was merely exploitative, the life of Joseph Merrick suggests its importance to deformed members of the working poor. Reading the memoirs of Merrick's manager Tom Norman against those of the surgeon Frederick Treves suggests that it was in fact the hospital, rather than the freak show, that compromised Merrick's agency by forcing him to relinquish all control over his bodily display. …
The Social History of British Medicine
1Carlson Hall, Rm. 320, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112. E-mail: [email protected]
They Might As Well Brand Us
From its origins in resistance to the 1853 Compulsory Vaccination Act, the Victorian anti-vaccination movement successfully challenged the public health policies of an increasingly interventionist state. Anti-vaccinationists were not only middle-class reformers, but were also drawn from a politically active working class. These campaigners saw compulsory vaccination as an extreme example of class legislation, for its policy and administration imp…
The Social History of British Medicine
1Carlson Hall, Rm. 320, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112. E-mail: [email protected]
Class, Gender, and the Conscientious Objector to Vaccination, 1898–1907
In 1898, after forty-five years of enforcing mandatory infant smallpox vaccination, the British parliament passed an act to allow parents to “opt out” of the compulsory system. The 1898 Vaccination Act introduced a conscience clause that entitled parents who objected to the practice of vaccination to claim certificates of conscientious objection by applying to a magistrate for an exemption. This provided working- and lower-middle-class anti-vacci…
Bodily Matters
Beyond the Reproductive Body
Monstrosity, Masculinity and Medicine
While scholars have often assumed that the Victorian freak show was merely exploitative, the life of Joseph Merrick suggests its importance to deformed members of the working poor. Reading the memoirs of Merrick's manager Tom Norman against those of the surgeon Frederick Treves suggests that it was in fact the hospital, rather than the freak show, that compromised Merrick's agency by forcing him to relinquish all control over his bodily display. …
Fractures States
Fractured States , part of an exciting series from Orient Longman entitled New Perspectives in South Asian History , provides a nuanced narrative of state vaccination policy and its implementation in different regions of India from the nineteenth century through to independence. The book succeeds in challenging the dominant historiography of state medicine in colonial India which has assumed on the one hand that the colonial state was monolithic …
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
Reviewed by: Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography Nadja Durbach (bio) Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13580-9, $29.95. Much ink has been spilled over Sara Baartman, who in the early years of the nineteenth century was exhibited in the United Kingdom and Paris as “the Hottentot Venus.” Since h…
The Politics of Vaccination
The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800–1874. By Deborah Brunton.." Cultural and Social History, 6(3), pp. 378–379
Clicko
Peoples on Parade
(2013). Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Sadiah Qureshi. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 312-314
Private Lives, Public Records
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as the British government expanded its social programs, and private charities and co-operative associations began to offer more benefits, birth certificates became essential to the bureaucratic process of establishing both age and identity. But every time a birth certificate was produced, it made the private circumstances of an individual's birth public knowledge. For those born out of wedlock, handi…
Roast Beef, the New Poor Law, and the British Nation, 1834–63
In the early years of the New Poor Law, workhouses were explicitly prohibited from serving roast beef and plum pudding to inmates. Historians have recently begun to focus increased attention on the cultural meanings invested in specific food products and the politics of their production, distribution, and consumption. Unpacking the contentious disputes between local and central Poor Law authorities over the provision of roast beef to workhouse in…
Skinless Wonders
Journal Article "Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show Get access Nadja Durbach Nadja Durbach Department of History, University of Utah, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, 215 South Central Campus Drive, Room 310, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 1…
Seth Koven. The Match Girl and the Heiress
Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colon…
One British Thing
This essay inaugurates a new series in the Journal of British Studies titled “One British Thing.” This short essay uses a bottle of welfare orange juice distributed sometime between 1961 and 1971 to tell a larger story about the relationship between Britain's Welfare State and the colonization and decolonization of the British West Indies. The history of the Welfare State has largely been told as a metropolitan story severed from a wider global h…
The Politics of Provisioning
During the First World War, the German and British Governments supplied culturally appropriate rations and secured special facilities for food preparation and consumption for South Asian prisoners of war whose loyalty both governments sought. The food provided in POW camps to South Asians serves as an index of the political status of colonial subjects at a moment when the future of European empires was far from certain. The British Government’s a…
Many Mouths
This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, Nadja Durbach examines the political, economic, social and cultural circumstances that led the state to feed some of its subjects, but not others.…
Anxious Times
Reviewed by: Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Bonea et al. Nadja Durbach Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Wallis. Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. viii + 312 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-8229-45512). Although it has four authors, Anxious Times is …
Dead or Alive? Stillbirth Registration, Premature Babies, and the Definition of Life in England and Wales, 1836–1960
When stillbirth registration became mandatory in England and Wales in 1926, it was not to amass statistics in the service of public health. Instead, it was part of broader anxieties that victims of infanticide were being disposed of under the guise of having been stillborn. But because it necessitated distinguishing between the living and the dead, the legislation that introduced stillbirth registration generated debate about the definition of li…
Keeping Kosher in the Camp
During the First World War, Jews interned in Germany struggled to keep kosher. The British government initially funded a kosher food programme for its own interned nationals, but it removed all government monies in late 1915. The British government’s refusal to take responsibility for the proper feeding of its Jewish subjects held as ‘enemy aliens’ was both shaped by and bolstered assumptions that Jews could never be truly British. However, it wa…
Feeding ‘Growing Boys’ and Nourishing ‘Handy English Lads’
Between 1895 and 1908, Britain's prison administration introduced reforms aimed at ‘reclaiming’ male adolescent offenders. These included a significant rethinking of the dietary. Drawing on the sciences of nutrition and of adolescent development, the prison experimented with the rations for juvenile–adults, a new category of inmate defined by age and by gender. For the first time, the state explicitly used prison rations in the service of soverei…
Why Cant 2 Brothers”? World War I and Britain’s Deceased Brother’s Widow Act of 1921
In 1921, Britain legalized marriage between a widow and her deceased husband’s brother. The Deceased Brother’s Widow Act was not, however, an addendum to the 1907 Deceased Wife’s Sister Act. It was passed in the aftermath of World War I to address administrative problems regarding war widows’ pensions. Its significance lies in its role as a microcosm of a range of postwar debates around sex discrimination, women’s access to state welfare, sexual …
Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People
Journal Article Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. Get access Rebecca Earle. Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 306. Cloth $24.95. Nadja Durbach Nadja Durbach University of Utah, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-7156 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
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