John E Wills
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 446361 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John E Wills |
| NOMBRES | John E |
| APELLIDO | Wills |
| FIRMA | WILLS J E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8517-3207 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1960 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Culture;Playing the Hollywood Western on Repeat
This article explores video game adaptations of American popular history and culture by looking at the 1990 arcade title Mad Dog McCree produced by American Laser Games. Heavily inspired by the Hollywood Western (along with the broader mythology of the nineteenth-century American West) and using light guns and Full-Motion-Video (FMV) technology, the live action title offered players the chance to play an active role in a celluloid-based frontier …
Welcome to issue 43.1 of the journal, the first of 2024
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Doom Town, Nevada Test Site, and the Popular Imagination of Atomic Disaster
This article explores the effect of Doom Town, a civil defense experiment conducted at Nevada Test Site in March 1953 and May 1955, on American attitudes toward the atom. Initially conceived by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) as a means to progress knowledge and understanding of how to survive nuclear attack, the creation and destruction of two “Survival Towns” in the Nevadan desert instead accelerated national anxieties. My artic…
Mechanisms of time in video game Westerns from Gun Fight to Red Dead Redemption 2
This article explores the video game Western and its relationship with ideas of temporality surrounding the American West. The fledgling video game industry first put ‘Cowboys and Indians’ on arcade screens in the 1970s, creating a playable digital West for gamers. Content and aesthetics proved decidedly simple, with game worlds reliant on prior filmic presentations. By the 2000s, thanks largely to technological advances, video game Westerns bega…
Jeffrey C. Sanders. Razing Kids
An impressive piece of twentieth-century regional history, Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West explores how youth experience and environmental challenges worked together in the urban and rural West from the 1940s through to the 1980s. Across a series of five case studies, author Jeffrey C. Sanders relates a diverse set of stories that includes child runaways, farm laborers, and leukemia victims. He paints a picture of g…
Reckoning with Western Nostalgia
Nostalgia for the Old West in Knott's Berry Farm, Orange County, California
Over the last century, western nostalgia has taken on a variety of entertainment forms. From Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows through to Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption video games, the entertainment industry has maintained an emotional attachment to America’s frontier past across a diversity of platforms. Nostalgia has translated into the setting aside of physical spaces across the trans-Mississippi (and beyond) that celebrate a mythic frontier rea…
In Practice
I have been thinking a lot about environmental pedagogy in American studies, especially since I started teaching a third-year interdisciplinary course, Climate Change & Culture Wars, which focusses on the post-1970s US. I wanted to know more about how others are approaching the topic as we face up to looming climate and ecological collapse. University teachers and learners across disciplines are reckoning with it, but what's going on in American …
Ain’t the American Dream Grand
Rockstar Games is a video game publisher famous for its immersive and highly detailed action-adventure titles set in America, thanks to its two main franchises, Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto. This article explores how Rockstar employs the location and game play elements of Grand Theft Auto V (2013), a title that has now generated over $6 billion in worldwide sales, to critique elements of American culture, politics, and lifestyle. Pres…
The Seventeenth-Century Transformation
The history of Taiwan seems to present some remarkable discontinuities. The long development of a maritime frontier for settlers from South China was altered around the edges by the opening of ports to trade and the whole island to foreign residence after the Arrow War. The dramatic expansion and commercialization of the Japanese economy also gave Taiwan its first important market for exports, as Chinese traders bought deer hides from the aborigi…
Gamer Nation
Exploding the 1950s Consumer Dream
While the nuclear mushroom cloud rising above the Nevada desert is an iconic and familiar image, what went on beneath the cloud is hazier and less well understood. At the surface level nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s entailed extensive scientific, military, and social experiments. This article focuses on two projects overseen by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), Doom Town I and II, and their ties with 1950s cultu…
Aluminum Upcycled
The deceptively simple statement “Waste is a product of design” begins Carl A. Zimring's history of aluminum, setting the scene for an impressive study of America's fascination with the metal in the postwar period and how the metal's history connects with broader themes of waste and recycling (p. 1). Challenging the popular understanding, he emphasizes that “how recycling actually works only begins at the bin” (p. 2). Zimring, a sustainability sc…
Contingent Connections
Kyle Harvey, American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975–1990
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural prod…
Benjamin Schmidt. Inventing Exoticism
The first global dialogues
The Cambridge World History
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of The Cambridge World History considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of e…
What's New
What's New?Studies of Revolutions and Divergences, 1770-1840 John E. Wills Jr. Principal Works Discussed Measuring Time, Making History. By lynn hunt. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008. 138 pp. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context. Edited by david armitage and sanjay subrahmanyam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 301 pp. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. By Jürgen Osterhammel. Tran…
Plutopia
Armenians and Diasporas
The variety of historical situations discussed as “diasporas” is very great. If we find some common features of, say, the Jewish and Armenian diasporas, we may find fewer between them and the Chinese, the Indians, the Lebanese, and even fewer with the case many would say is the most important in world history, the completely involuntary diaspora of millions of Africans sent to the Americas. Complications multiply if we ask diaspora-studies questi…
US Environmental History
Environmental issues in the USA are more important now than ever before. The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina, growing evidence of global warming, and a struggling national energy supply highlight the unfolding crisis. Environmental fears translate into US automobile giants plying consumers with 'fuel efficient' cars in the 'MPG Lounge' of sales. Politicians talk of energy independence and getting tough on polluters. Fears gravitate aro…
US Environmental History
A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000–1850
This article summarizes background changes that shaped interactions in the Pacific and Indian oceans before and during the age of steam; early modern China as an importer of exotic goods and exporter of skillful entrepreneurs; and early European naval competition, exploration, and settlement
Plutopia
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800
Mend
While the argument about the meaning of nuclear weapons has been fluid and dynamic for the past forty years, it is fair to say that, at the present time, the prevailing definition of the nuclear situation is “deterrence policy.” Some of the fundamental premises of this doctrine are (1) that the Soviets are an unambiguous and non-negotiable threat to U.S. interests, (2) that Soviet expansionism must be contained, and (3) that nuclear weapons are d…
Welcome to the Atomic Park
Atomic landscapes in the American West are typically understood as despoiled and irradiated territories. Nevada Test Site, with its grim medley of twisted military structures, bombed-out craters and radioactive desert, is an emblem of the nuclear age. By contrast, Yosemite National Park is a very different icon to hail from Western climes. Yosemite is legendary for its wild nature and monumental scenery. The two landscapes, Nevada Test Site and Y…
Pixel Cowboys and Silicon Gold Mines
This article explores representations of the American West in computer and videogames from the late 1970s through 2006. The article reveals how several titles, including the early Boot Hill (1977), invoked classic nineteenth-century western motifs, employing the six-shooter, wagon train, and iron horse to sell late twentieth-century entertainment technology to a global audience. Such games allowed players, typically adolescent males, to recreate …
Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810
Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640
Abalone, rattlesnakes and kilowatt monsters
This article argues that a broad cultural fascination with what is deemed to be natural (and, conversely, artificial) has influenced how we relate to nuclear landscapes. In the case of Diablo Canyon, a headland on the California coast set aside for nuclear development in the 1960s, we find that prolonged debates over land use were at first complicated by conflicting ideas over the 'naturalness' of an area once used for cattle ranching, then obscu…
Mirror of the Indies
Pepper, Guns, and Parleys
Ain’t the American Dream Grand
Rockstar Games is a video game publisher famous for its immersive and highly detailed action-adventure titles set in America, thanks to its two main franchises, Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto. This article explores how Rockstar employs the location and game play elements of Grand Theft Auto V (2013), a title that has now generated over $6 billion in worldwide sales, to critique elements of American culture, politics, and lifestyle. Pres…
Author, Publisher, Patron, World
This essay focuses on the big books on distant parts of the world compiled by Olfert Dapper of Amsterdam between 1668 and 1688. It shows that in addition to his own efforts his publisher, Jacob van Meurs, and his patron, Nicolaes Witsen, made vital contributions to these works. It makes a case for the vital contribution to European knowledge of a wider world, and to the impact of that knowledge on broader cultural trends, of one who was not an ey…
The World from 1450 to 1700
In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi emperor. The book’s multi-centered approach explores historical events…
Interactive Early Modern Asia
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Nostalgia for the Old West in Knott's Berry Farm, Orange County, California
Over the last century, western nostalgia has taken on a variety of entertainment forms. From Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows through to Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption video games, the entertainment industry has maintained an emotional attachment to America’s frontier past across a diversity of platforms. Nostalgia has translated into the setting aside of physical spaces across the trans-Mississippi (and beyond) that celebrate a mythic frontier rea…
What's New
What's New?Studies of Revolutions and Divergences, 1770-1840 John E. Wills Jr. Principal Works Discussed Measuring Time, Making History. By lynn hunt. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008. 138 pp. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context. Edited by david armitage and sanjay subrahmanyam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 301 pp. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. By Jürgen Osterhammel. Tran…
Introduction to “From ‘Tribute System’ to ‘Peaceful Rise’
The papers in this special issue are the products of a conference, “History and China's Foreign Relations: The Achievements and Contradictions of American Scholarship, ” held at the University of Southern California in February 2008. All of us, professors, policy advisors and policy-makers, think it would be helpful if there was more informed discussion among the general public of the challenges of China's rise in the world and our responses to i…
Trading Companies in Asia, 1600-1830
Taking Historical Novels Seriously
Research Article| January 01 1984 Taking Historical Novels Seriously John E. Wills,, Jr. John E. Wills,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1984) 6 (1): 39–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377683 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Jan Compagnie in War and Peace, 1602-1799. A Short History of the Dutch East-India Company
"Seventeenth-Century Peasant "Furies
Michael O. Gately, A. Lloyd Moote, John E. Wills, Jr.; SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PEASANT “FURIES”: SOME PROBLEMS OF COMPARATIVE HISTORY*, Past & Present, Volume
Generation of Giants
El Archivo del Japon
"Seventeenth-Century Peasant "Furies
Michael O. Gately, A. Lloyd Moote, John E. Wills, Jr.; SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PEASANT “FURIES”: SOME PROBLEMS OF COMPARATIVE HISTORY*, Past & Present, Volume
Pepper, Guns, and Parleys
Pepper, Guns, and Parleys
Pepper, Guns, and Parleys
Recycling the past
From Ming to Ch'ing. Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
From Ming to Ch'ing
The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s was of crucial importance in the late history of China. But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644, it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transition. The nine essays in this book will contribute significantly toward understanding the complexity of change and continuity over the span o…
From Ming to Ch'ing
Jan Compagnie in War and Peace, 1602-1799. A Short History of the Dutch East-India Company
Foreigners in Formosa, 1841-1874
Ein Kapitel Chinesischer Grenzgeschichte
Mirror of the Indies
A Report from Jack Wills
I have three brief and varied reports to our readers
The Chia-Ting Loyalists
THE CHIA-TING LOYALISTS: CONFUCIAN LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHINA." Ming Studies, 1983(1), pp. 22–23
Public Pricing of Nursing Home Care
Embassies and Illusions
Embassies and Illusions
Embassies and Illusions
Taking Historical Novels Seriously
Research Article| January 01 1984 Taking Historical Novels Seriously John E. Wills,, Jr. John E. Wills,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1984) 6 (1): 39–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377683 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
John Company
Embassies and Illusions
Trade and Society
The maritime trade of the South Fukienese people was characterized by wide geographic dimensions, popular participation, and their extraordinary seafaring spirit. The expansion of trade between 1683 and 1735 brought the development of an interwoven coastal network centred at Amoy to maturity. This network developed by the Fukienese was able to cope with the commercial needs of coastal China and was the best that the Chinese had organized up to th…
Embassies and Illusions
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