Joyce E Chaplin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 959283 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joyce E Chaplin |
| NOMBRES | Joyce E |
| APELLIDO | Chaplin |
| FIRMA | CHAPLIN J E |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6370-4310 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Franklin Stove
From 1738 to 1784, Benjamin Franklin invented five stoves that were designed to consume fuel more efficiently, preserving resources during a climate crisis, specifically the Little Ice Age. Franklin's response to bad winter weather generated not only cast-iron technology but also a science of climate change. His long-term project shows that the material contours of early America, often treated as background, can (and should) be pulled into the fo…
Bathsheba Demuth. Floating Coast
Journal Article Bathsheba Demuth. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Get access Bathsheba Demuth. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019. Pp. xiv, 416. Paper $17.95. Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Harvard University, US Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6370-4310 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Historians of Ideas Rush in Where Stratigraphers Fear to Tread
Humanist and scientific analyses of the Anthropocene concept may be distinctive as a coinvestigation across disciplinary borders. While scientists only in 2023 hypothesized the Anthropocene's inception in the 1950s (as measured by atomic residue), humanists have for several decades been investigating the concept as a probable reality and argue for its longer chronology. The six books reviewed here identify the early modern period, especially the …
Why Drink Water
In 2017, New Zealand’s Whanganui River was designated as having the same rights as a human person. The decision drew upon Maori belief in the animate status of nonhuman beings and depended on the legal power of a Western state. This article examines those two factors in relation to the history of drinking water as an essential part of human diet, focusing on early modern England/Britain. In the early modern period, water was stripped of a life-gi…
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population , the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in …
Can the Nonhuman Speak
The fact that nonhuman animals share the power of communication, plus the likelihood that some share our capacity for ideation, demands reevaluation of why human ideas matter, and especially whether they adequately convey a sense of our place within the rest of nature. Nonhuman beings and phenomena may be intrinsically unhuman, but are not necessarily less important than us. Analysis of this difference-as-significance is an ongoing problem of the…
New Perspectives on Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, New Perspectives on Malthus offers an up-to-date collection of interdisciplinary essays from leading Malthus experts who reassess his work. Part one looks at Malthus's achievements i…
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
New Perspectives on Malthus
New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Ogres and Omnivores
Climate is the crucial issue of our era because significant changes to it will change everything else in nature, with terrible implications for the quality of human life and for the observance of justice among peoples and nations. Climate thus alters what it means to be a historian. "The true historian is like the ogre in the story," the great French historian Marc Bloch once wrote: "wherever he smells human flesh he recognizes his prey." "Nicely…
Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America
Journal Article Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America Get access Allison P. Coudert. (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011. xxx, 287 pp. $48.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Page 1181, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau018 Published: 01 March 2014
Seasons of Misery
August 01 2014 Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America. By KathleenDonegan (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) 288 pp. $49.95 Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joyce E. Chaplin Online Issn: 1530-9169 Print Issn: 0022-1953 © 2014 …
AHR Conversation How Size Matters
In the last few years, the AHR has published six “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011), and “The Historical Study of Emotions” (2012). For each the p…
Earthsickness
From their distinctive experience of going around the world, maritime circumnavigators concluded that their characteristic disease, sea scurvy, must result from their being away from land too long, much longer than any other sailors. They offered their scorbutic bodies as proof that humans were terrestrial creatures, physically suited to the earthly parts of a terraqueous globe. That arresting claim is at odds with the current literature on the c…
Benjamin Franklin’s natural philosophy
Seven years before he died, Franklin confided a regret to his friend and fellow naturalist Joseph Banks. “I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon,” the elderly American wrote, “since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known 100 years hence” (Smyth 9: 74-75). Would knowledge of the future have made Franklin happy? The hundred years that followed Franklin's 1783 letter to Banks would to a large extent render obsolete Franklin…
Race
The Atlantic Ocean And Its Contemporary Meanings, 1492–1808
Those who study Atlantic history are familiar with the criticism that their topic is an ex post facto concept, convenient for scholars today yet meaning- less for people in the past. Critics of Atlantic history have also claimed that the field is little more than a new form of imperial history, a way to revive analysis of the top-down creation of modern empires in the Americas, a creation in which European-derived elites held pride of place. Thes…
Knowing the Ocean
At the heart of early modern empires and early modern science lay an ocean, the Atlantic. That ocean circulated many things—natural specimens, people, commodities, diseases, books—but, perhaps most interestingly, it circulated ideas about its own physical circulation. To be sure, the Atlantic Ocean was a center of empire, but if that ocean physically contained and expressed imperial power, European officials had a remarkably haphazard intellectua…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge
Sue Ann Prince, Frank H. T. Rhodes, Robert McCracken Peck, Michael Gaudio, Joyce E. Chaplin, Jane Elizabeth Boyd, Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2003), pp. i-xviii, 1-113
Subject Matter
Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History
Journal Article Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin professor of history at Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1431–1455, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092549 Published: 01 March 2003
Pox Americana
Journal Article Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82 Get access Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. By Fenn Elizabeth A.. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. xiv, 370 pp. $25.00, isbn0-8090-7820-1.) Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, Pages 1…
Subject Matter
Many American historians have assumed that racial definitions based on biological difference. emerged only in the late eighteenth century, and primarily to explain distinctions between blacks and whites. Joyce E. Chaplin' s new book requires us to think again. In it, she argues that such notions of racial difference emerged more than a century earlier to distinguish white colonists from Indians. As if that were not a sufficiently impressive contr…
AHR Conversation How Size Matters
In the last few years, the AHR has published six “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011), and “The Historical Study of Emotions” (2012). For each the p…
A New Face on the Countryside
Prologue: images and boundaries 2. Perspectives on the land 3. Perspectives on the people, 1500 4. Europeans going thither 5. An accessible desert 6. The price of civility 7. Conclusion: perspectives on the land and people, 1800 Index
Can the Nonhuman Speak
The fact that nonhuman animals share the power of communication, plus the likelihood that some share our capacity for ideation, demands reevaluation of why human ideas matter, and especially whether they adequately convey a sense of our place within the rest of nature. Nonhuman beings and phenomena may be intrinsically unhuman, but are not necessarily less important than us. Analysis of this difference-as-significance is an ongoing problem of the…
Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History
Journal Article Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin professor of history at Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1431–1455, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092549 Published: 01 March 2003
Ogres and Omnivores
Climate is the crucial issue of our era because significant changes to it will change everything else in nature, with terrible implications for the quality of human life and for the observance of justice among peoples and nations. Climate thus alters what it means to be a historian. "The true historian is like the ogre in the story," the great French historian Marc Bloch once wrote: "wherever he smells human flesh he recognizes his prey." "Nicely…
Masters of Small Worlds
An Anxious Pursuit
Tidal Rice Cultivation and the Problem of Slavery in South Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1815
Pox Americana
Journal Article Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82 Get access Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. By Fenn Elizabeth A.. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. xiv, 370 pp. $25.00, isbn0-8090-7820-1.) Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, Pages 1…
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge
Sue Ann Prince, Frank H. T. Rhodes, Robert McCracken Peck, Michael Gaudio, Joyce E. Chaplin, Jane Elizabeth Boyd, Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2003), pp. i-xviii, 1-113
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Journal Article The Southern Frontiers, 1607–1860: The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 177 pp. $37.95.) Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079213 Published: 01 …
An Anxious Pursuit
Journal Article An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1813. By Joyce E. Chaplin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press and Williamsburg: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1993. xviii, 411 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2084-9.) Get access Edna Greene Medford Edna Greene Medford Howard University, Washington, DC, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760-1815
THE STORY OF HOW COTTON CULTIVATION BEGAN IN THE SOUTH took shape early in the crop's history and has received surprisingly little revision. Since the early 1800s historians, with a few exceptions,' have used 1793, the year that Eli Whitney made his improved cotton gin, as the pivotal date in the crop's history because it demarcated a turn in the crop's commercial fortunes. Scholars have assumed that before 1793 cotton's history was relatively un…
Africa Christian Press
The Africa Christian Press was established in January 1964 as a new publisher in Africa. The aim was to provide Christian books relevant to the African situation. The means of attaining this has been to find Africans with a genuine Christian faith, and to encourage them to put something of that faith into writing. English is the medium, enabling a book written in West Africa to be enjoyed in East Africa, and vice versa. Writers in 12 English-spea…
Partners in Communication
The author at our request develops further some of the themes in her book, Adventure with a Pen (Kumasi, Ghana: Africa Christian Press, 1966) highlighting cultural aspects of producing Christian literature in developing countries. All books and booklets mentioned by way of illustration are also publications of Africa Christian Press (P.O. Box 30, Achimota, Ghana). Other articles by Joyce Chaplin on this topic include “Finding and Developing Natio…
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Journal Article The Southern Frontiers, 1607–1860: The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 177 pp. $37.95.) Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079213 Published: 01 …
Slavery and the Principle of Humanity
Journal Article Slavery and the Principle of Humanity: A Modern Idea in the Early Lower South Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37212 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 2, Winter 1990, Pages 299–315, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.2.299 Published: 01 December 1990
Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760-1815
THE STORY OF HOW COTTON CULTIVATION BEGAN IN THE SOUTH took shape early in the crop's history and has received surprisingly little revision. Since the early 1800s historians, with a few exceptions,' have used 1793, the year that Eli Whitney made his improved cotton gin, as the pivotal date in the crop's history because it demarcated a turn in the crop's commercial fortunes. Scholars have assumed that before 1793 cotton's history was relatively un…
A New Face on the Countryside
Prologue: images and boundaries 2. Perspectives on the land 3. Perspectives on the people, 1500 4. Europeans going thither 5. An accessible desert 6. The price of civility 7. Conclusion: perspectives on the land and people, 1800 Index
Footloose in Jacksonian America
Tidal Rice Cultivation and the Problem of Slavery in South Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1815
End of the Land
An Anxious Pursuit
An Anxious Pursuit
An Anxious Pursuit
Journal Article An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1813. By Joyce E. Chaplin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press and Williamsburg: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1993. xviii, 411 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2084-9.) Get access Edna Greene Medford Edna Greene Medford Howard University, Washington, DC, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
United States
An Anxious Pursuit
Tobacco in History
An Anxious Pursuit
Agriculture, Geology, and Society in Antebellum South Carolina
Masters of Small Worlds
United States
Women's Work, Men's Work
In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system of informal slave economies had reached the point that it would…
Natural Philosophy and an Early Racial Idiom in North America
I N his history of East and West Florida, eighteenth-century naturalist and cartographer Bernard Romans carefully considered the different peoples who lived in that part of the British empire and questioned how reasonable it was to designate the Indians Americans. We might call them Americans, Romans conceded, as the inhabitants of the old world are each distinguished by a name expressive of, or relative to the quarters, from which they respectiv…
Pox Americana
Journal Article Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82 Get access Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. By Fenn Elizabeth A.. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. xiv, 370 pp. $25.00, isbn0-8090-7820-1.) Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 3, December 2002, Pages 1…
Subject Matter
Many American historians have assumed that racial definitions based on biological difference. emerged only in the late eighteenth century, and primarily to explain distinctions between blacks and whites. Joyce E. Chaplin' s new book requires us to think again. In it, she argues that such notions of racial difference emerged more than a century earlier to distinguish white colonists from Indians. As if that were not a sufficiently impressive contr…
Conquering Bodies
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge
Sue Ann Prince, Frank H. T. Rhodes, Robert McCracken Peck, Michael Gaudio, Joyce E. Chaplin, Jane Elizabeth Boyd, Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2003), pp. i-xviii, 1-113
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