Billy G Smith

Datos Biográficos

ID3923976
NOMBREBilly G Smith
NOMBRESBilly G
APELLIDOSmith
FIRMASMITH B G
AFILIACIONESHistoric St. Mary’s City Commission
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS25
TOTAL DE CITAS34
TOTAL COMO AUTOR25
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1977
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
ÍNDICE H4

  • Ship of Death

    Billy G SmithBOOKShip of Death2017

    It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey , a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey , from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship’s fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith chased the story of the Hankey from archive t…

  • Identifying and Mapping Ethnicity in Philadelphia in the Early Republic

    Open AccessBilly G Smith, Billy G Smith Billy G Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Pennsylvania Magazine of…2016

    This essay focuses on issues of ethnicity and race in Philadelphia during the final decade of the eighteenth century. It draws on an older methodology of name identification to determine the ethnic background of thousands of the inhabitants and then maps those people to explain how and why Europeans and African Americans arranged themselves in the city. In residential and commercial terms, integrated rather than segregated neighborhoods character…

  • Marcus Rediker. Outlaws of the Atlantic

    Billy G SmithARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Marcus Rediker. Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Get access Marcus Rediker. Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 223. $26.95. Billy G. Smith Billy G. Smith Montana State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volum…

  • A Melancholy Scene of Devastation

    Bruce Dorsey, J Worth Estes et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • A Melancholy Scene of Devastation

    Helena M Wall, J Worth Estes et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999Citada por: 6

    Journal Article A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic. Ed. by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith. (Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications/USA, 1997. xii, 211 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-88135- 192-X.) Get access Helena M. Wall Helena M. Wall Pomona College, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85…

  • Life in Early Philadelphia

    Mark Pitcavage, Billy G SmithARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996Citada por: 1

  • The Infortunate

    Sharon V Salinger, Susan E Klepp et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant. Ed. by Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. xiv, 178 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-271-00828-8. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-27100844-X.) Get access Sharon V. Salinger Sharon V. Salinger University of California, Riverside, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …

  • 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, …

  • United States

    Open AccessChristopher Dandeker, Mary E Stuckey et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1992

  • "The "Lower Sort

    David Hamers, Davidson H Hamer et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1991

  • As Pennsylvania Goes, so Goes the American Working Class

    David A Zonderman, Ken Fones-Wolf et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1991

  • "The "Lower Sort

    Stuart M Blumin, Stuart Μ Blumin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991Citada por: 4

    Journal Article The 'lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800. By Billy G. Smith. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xvi + 249 pp. $34.50.) Get access Stuart M. Blumin Stuart M. Blumin Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078127 Published: 01 June 1991

  • "The "Lower Sort

    Howard B Rock, Billy G SmithARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1991

  • Blacks Who Stole Themselves

    Judith Kelleher Schafer, Billy G Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • Blacks Who Stole Themselves

    Billy G Smith, Richard WojtowiczBOOKBlacks Who Stole Themselves1989

    This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas

  • Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830

    Billy G Smith, Robert E CrayARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1989

  • Toward a History of the Standard of Living in British North America

    John J Mccusker, Billy G SmithARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1988

  • The Craft Apprentice from Franklin to the Machine Age in America

    Billy G Smith, W J RorabaughARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1986Citada por: 3

    The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, Willian Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes i…

  • International Relations and Politics

    Open AccessBilly G SmithARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1984

  • Inequality in Late Colonial Philadelphia

    Billy G SmithARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1984

    H T ISTORIANS have been interested in the study of economic inequality in British America because of the subject's political implications, particularly for the Revolutionary period, and also because the idea of equality is central to the democratic mythology of American society. During the past two decades, social and economic historians have measured the structure of wealth in selected areas of the colonies, reaching sometimes contradictory conc…

  • Labor in the era of the American revolution

    Gary B Nash, Billy G Smith et al.ARTICLELabor History1983Citada por: 1Referencias: 30

    (1983). Labor in the era of the American revolution: An exchange. Labor History: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 414-439

  • Village and Seaport

    Billy G Smith, Douglas L JonesARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1983

  • The Material Lives of Laboring Philadelphians, 1750 to 1800

    Billy G SmithARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1981Citada por: 13

    TOHN Shenton, a Philadelphia mariner, sailed four times to Antigua Con the snow Mary between October I750 and November I752. He yearned between Li3 and LI 5 per voyage, plus 3s. 6d. for each day he may have worked unloading or stowing cargo, for an annual income of approximately ?32 during those years. Shenton's personal expenses must have been minimal, for room and board were provided on ship, and the only financial difficulties he may have enco…

  • Occupational Hierarchy in the United States

    Andrea Tyree, Billy G SmithARTICLESocial Forces1978

    Journal Article Occupational Hierarchy in the United States: 1789–1969 Get access Billy G. Smith Billy G. Smith St. Mary's City Commission Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue 3, March 1978, Pages 881–899, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/56.3.881 Published: 01 March 1978

  • Death and Life in a Colonial Immigrant City

    Open AccessBilly G SmithARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1977Citada por: 6Referencias: 6

    This study analyzes the demographic characteristics of a previously neglected area in colonial America—the urban center. Growth, birth, and death rates in Philadelphia between 1720 and 1775 are estimated using a variety of sources. Immigration, smallpox, economic vacillations, and a skewed age structure are attributed primary responsibility in determining the level of and changes in Philadelphia's vital rates. The elevated level of these rates is…