Thomas G Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas G Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas G |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1954-1379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Remembering and Forgetting the Great Horse Flu of 1872–1873
Starting in late September 1872, horses started falling ill with a severe respiratory complaint in the countryside about a dozen miles north of Toronto, Ontario. Veterinary experts swiftly diagnosed the malady, which paralyzed street transportation, commerce, and everyday life in Toronto itself during the first weeks of October, as influenza. Over the next year, an equine plague that most contemporaries referred to as the epizootic—and which I ca…
The swiftness of lightning
This paper examines the significance of incised sinuous lines, known as “lightning lines,” recently identified on two archaeological birch arrows recovered from melting alpine ice patches in Canada’s Subarctic. Ethnographic observations demonstrate that the practice of inscribing similar lines on arrows was widespread across Plains and southern Dene cultures. Archaeological evidence suggests that the trait may be associated with the arrival of a …
We the Miners
Journal Article We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush. By Andrea G. McDowell Get access We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush. By Andrea G. McDowell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $39.95). Thomas G Andrews Thomas G Andrews University of Colorado, Boulder [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, …
Weaving Together Knowledge Through Collaborative Archaeological Research in the Shúhtagot'ine Cultural Landscape
We describe collaborative archaeological research on caribou hunting sites in the homeland of the Shúhtagot'ine in the central Mackenzie Mountains of Canada's Northwest Territories. Shúhtagot'ine Elders and cultural resource managers are working together to investigate important cultural places that are at risk of destruction from climate-driven landscape changes. We use 3 case studies to illustrate how knowledge production in the context of long…
Lakota America
Journal Article Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power Get access Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power. By Pekka Hämäläinen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xii, 530 pp. $35.00.) Thomas G Andrews Thomas G Andrews University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 108, Issue 4, March 2022, Pages 824–825, http…
The Great Cowboy Strike
Mark Lause’s The Great Cowboy Strike promises to reveal fascinating, hitherto unexamined connections between labor organizing among western US cowboys, oppositional politics, and the wrenching violence of the Reconstruction-era western range. Yet while the book proceeds to explore each of these themes to varying extents, it never manages to pull them together into a coherent narrative or compelling analysis. The result is a work that will undoubt…
The Animal Game
Daniel Bender’s The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo offers an absorbing, deeply researched, and often disturbing social history of U.S. zoos from their founding in the late 1800s through their reorientation as conservation institutions in the l960s and 1970s. The fullest and most insightful study of the origins and development of American zoos yet written, The Animal Game offers essential reading for historians of many str…
Boulietacks
Since early 2014 small carpet tacks have been persistently dropped on an undulating stretch of road in Melbourne, Australia—ostensibly targeting road cyclists. No one knows where they come from. And yet the recurring presence of these rough-hewn iron nails continue to cause serious injury, property damage and nuisance to those who use this space, all the while flummoxing law enforcement and road maintenance authorities. Our aim in this paper is t…
Power Lines
Phoenix’s sprawl may seem a world apart from the seeming serenity of the Navajo Nation. Andrew Needham’s Power Lines reveals how a common history of energy development came to forge ever more intense material and political connections between these two landscapes after World War II. Needham’s compelling and remarkably original book traces the little-known and often elaborate eclipse of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s hydroelectric dams by massiv…
Coyote Valley
Mercury and the Making of California
Book Review| December 01 2015 Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890. Johnston, Andrew Scott. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013x + 284 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $35.00 (e-book) Thomas G. Andrews Thomas G. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (4): 143–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/1547…
Ancient projectile weapons from ice patches in northwestern Canada
On Robert Adams's New West Landscapes
Fiducial Governance
Voices from Haskell
Contemplating Animal Histories
This essay describes two experiments in integrating contemplative practices such as sitting meditation and lectio divina into an undergraduate seminar titled "Animals in America." It begins by giving account of the first iteration of the class, then discussing student evaluations. It proceeds to explain how the author subsequently revised the course to deepen students' engagement with the subject matter, as well as to heighten their confrontation…
"Made by Toile"? Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858-1917
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic. —Raymond Williams, “Ideas of Nature,” 1980 It takes work to erase labor from a landscape. John Watt knew this cruel irony not only in the synapses of his mind but also in the sinews of his body. Bent and almost broken, struggling to avo…
Turning the Tables on Assimilation
This essay examines cultural contestation between Anglo assimilationists and Oglala Lakotas in the federal Indian day schools of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. It argues that Oglalas adeptly subverted the academic, manual, and moral goals of these institutions, transforming them from agents of cultural destruction into agents of Oglala persistence
On the Rim
Journal Article On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon Get access On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon. By Neumann Mark. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xi + 373 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) Thomas G. Andrews Thomas G. Andrews University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 496–497, h…
Statistical methods and research design
Psychology in space
Ancient projectile weapons from ice patches in northwestern Canada
"Made by Toile"? Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858-1917
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic. —Raymond Williams, “Ideas of Nature,” 1980 It takes work to erase labor from a landscape. John Watt knew this cruel irony not only in the synapses of his mind but also in the sinews of his body. Bent and almost broken, struggling to avo…
Turning the Tables on Assimilation
This essay examines cultural contestation between Anglo assimilationists and Oglala Lakotas in the federal Indian day schools of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. It argues that Oglalas adeptly subverted the academic, manual, and moral goals of these institutions, transforming them from agents of cultural destruction into agents of Oglala persistence
Lakota America
Journal Article Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power Get access Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power. By Pekka Hämäläinen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xii, 530 pp. $35.00.) Thomas G Andrews Thomas G Andrews University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 108, Issue 4, March 2022, Pages 824–825, http…
On Robert Adams's New West Landscapes
Psychology in space
Statistical methods and research design
On the Rim
Journal Article On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon Get access On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon. By Neumann Mark. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xi + 373 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) Thomas G. Andrews Thomas G. Andrews University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 496–497, h…
Turning the Tables on Assimilation
This essay examines cultural contestation between Anglo assimilationists and Oglala Lakotas in the federal Indian day schools of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. It argues that Oglalas adeptly subverted the academic, manual, and moral goals of these institutions, transforming them from agents of cultural destruction into agents of Oglala persistence
"Made by Toile"? Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858-1917
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic. —Raymond Williams, “Ideas of Nature,” 1980 It takes work to erase labor from a landscape. John Watt knew this cruel irony not only in the synapses of his mind but also in the sinews of his body. Bent and almost broken, struggling to avo…
Contemplating Animal Histories
This essay describes two experiments in integrating contemplative practices such as sitting meditation and lectio divina into an undergraduate seminar titled "Animals in America." It begins by giving account of the first iteration of the class, then discussing student evaluations. It proceeds to explain how the author subsequently revised the course to deepen students' engagement with the subject matter, as well as to heighten their confrontation…
On Robert Adams's New West Landscapes
Fiducial Governance
Voices from Haskell
Ancient projectile weapons from ice patches in northwestern Canada
Coyote Valley
Mercury and the Making of California
Book Review| December 01 2015 Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890. Johnston, Andrew Scott. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013x + 284 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $35.00 (e-book) Thomas G. Andrews Thomas G. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (4): 143–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/1547…
Power Lines
Phoenix’s sprawl may seem a world apart from the seeming serenity of the Navajo Nation. Andrew Needham’s Power Lines reveals how a common history of energy development came to forge ever more intense material and political connections between these two landscapes after World War II. Needham’s compelling and remarkably original book traces the little-known and often elaborate eclipse of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s hydroelectric dams by massiv…
Boulietacks
Since early 2014 small carpet tacks have been persistently dropped on an undulating stretch of road in Melbourne, Australia—ostensibly targeting road cyclists. No one knows where they come from. And yet the recurring presence of these rough-hewn iron nails continue to cause serious injury, property damage and nuisance to those who use this space, all the while flummoxing law enforcement and road maintenance authorities. Our aim in this paper is t…
The Great Cowboy Strike
Mark Lause’s The Great Cowboy Strike promises to reveal fascinating, hitherto unexamined connections between labor organizing among western US cowboys, oppositional politics, and the wrenching violence of the Reconstruction-era western range. Yet while the book proceeds to explore each of these themes to varying extents, it never manages to pull them together into a coherent narrative or compelling analysis. The result is a work that will undoubt…
The Animal Game
Daniel Bender’s The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo offers an absorbing, deeply researched, and often disturbing social history of U.S. zoos from their founding in the late 1800s through their reorientation as conservation institutions in the l960s and 1970s. The fullest and most insightful study of the origins and development of American zoos yet written, The Animal Game offers essential reading for historians of many str…
Weaving Together Knowledge Through Collaborative Archaeological Research in the Shúhtagot'ine Cultural Landscape
We describe collaborative archaeological research on caribou hunting sites in the homeland of the Shúhtagot'ine in the central Mackenzie Mountains of Canada's Northwest Territories. Shúhtagot'ine Elders and cultural resource managers are working together to investigate important cultural places that are at risk of destruction from climate-driven landscape changes. We use 3 case studies to illustrate how knowledge production in the context of long…
Lakota America
Journal Article Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power Get access Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power. By Pekka Hämäläinen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xii, 530 pp. $35.00.) Thomas G Andrews Thomas G Andrews University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 108, Issue 4, March 2022, Pages 824–825, http…
We the Miners
Journal Article We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush. By Andrea G. McDowell Get access We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush. By Andrea G. McDowell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $39.95). Thomas G Andrews Thomas G Andrews University of Colorado, Boulder [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, …
The swiftness of lightning
This paper examines the significance of incised sinuous lines, known as “lightning lines,” recently identified on two archaeological birch arrows recovered from melting alpine ice patches in Canada’s Subarctic. Ethnographic observations demonstrate that the practice of inscribing similar lines on arrows was widespread across Plains and southern Dene cultures. Archaeological evidence suggests that the trait may be associated with the arrival of a …
Remembering and Forgetting the Great Horse Flu of 1872–1873
Starting in late September 1872, horses started falling ill with a severe respiratory complaint in the countryside about a dozen miles north of Toronto, Ontario. Veterinary experts swiftly diagnosed the malady, which paralyzed street transportation, commerce, and everyday life in Toronto itself during the first weeks of October, as influenza. Over the next year, an equine plague that most contemporaries referred to as the epizootic—and which I ca…
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