Marc Egnal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Egnal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Egnal |
| SIGNATURE | EGNAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
David K. Thomson. Bonds of War
Journal Article David K. Thomson. Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. Get access David K. Thomson. Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 288. Cloth $95.00. Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York University, Canada Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hi…
Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox
Although much of this book is traditional political history, focusing on a few leaders, Richard J. Ellis also suggests the need to rethink long-held assumptions about the election of 1840. For many historians, this was the “hard cider and log cabin” campaign in which the Whigs stole a page out of the Democrats' playbook. Froth prevailed over substance, lifting William Henry Harrison into the White House. Log cabins on wheels, mile-long procession…
Re-Visioning American Literary Naturalism
Today, two characteristics define literary naturalism, and both are problematic. One is the emphasis on four male writers: Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London. This focus emerged in the 1930s and stemmed from biases against white women and African Americans. The other defining trait is the temporal reach of naturalism. Extrapolating from traits in the works of Dreiser et al., this school now includes the “proletarian wr…
The Sweetness of Life
Eugene D. Genovese opens this work with a telling anecdote, reporting an exchange with the historian Charles Crowe: “‘Gene, listening to you, I finally figured out why you are so soft on the slaveholders. You actually like those people.’ I could not tell a lie: ‘Yes, Charles, I do’” (p. 2). Genovese died in 2012, with The Sweetness of Life virtually finished. Douglas Ambrose has added a valuable preface and an epilogue but otherwise made only “mi…
Historicizing Domesticity
Several generations of literary scholars have explored the idea of “separate spheres” in nineteenth-century America and, in recent years, have made clear that this concept applies most fully to white, middle-class, Northeastern women. Less thoroughly studied is how the paradigm changed over time. The article argues that, beginning around mid-century, the growth of the woman’s movement transformed the way that many authors depicted domesticity. Re…
Capitalism Takes Command
Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith (eds.) (2012), viii +358, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $90.00, paperback $30.00 These essays about nineteenth-century US capitalism reflect research con
Evolution of the Novel in the United States
This article examines the evolution of the novel in the United States using a remarkable new source, the Ngram database. This database, which spans several centuries, draws on the 15 million books that Google has scanned. It allows researchers to look at year-to-year fluctuations in the use of particular words. Using one of the available filters, the article is based on English-language books published in the United States between 1800 and 2008. …
North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction EDITED BY PAUL D. ESCOTT Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008 Pp. 320, $49.95 (hbk), $22.50 (pbk), ISBNs 978 0 8078
The Economic Origins of the Civil War
The Economic Origins of the Civil War Marc Egnal Marc Egnal Marc Egnal is a professor of history at York University, Toronto. He is the author of Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, 2009) and A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution (1988; reprinted with a new preface, Cornell University Press, 2010). For reviews and discussion of Egnal's most recent book, visit Search for other works by this au…
The Fault Lines of Empire
Journal Article The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760–1830 Get access The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760–1830. By Mancke Elizabeth. (New York: Routledge, 2005. xii, 214 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn0-415-95000-7. Paper, $27.95, isbn0-415-95001-5.) Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York UniversityToronto, Canada Search for other works by this autho…
Republic of Debtors
"Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence by Bruce H. Mann." Canadian Journal of History, 39(1), pp. 181–182
The Early Modern Atlantic Economy
Journal Article The Early Modern Atlantic Economy. Ed. by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 369 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-78249-X.) Get access Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York UniversityNorth York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 607–608, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092187 Published: 01 Se…
The Beards Were Right
Civil War History - Volume 47, Number 1, March 2001
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II
New World Economies
New World Economies
Journal Article New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada. By Marc Egnal. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx, 236 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511482-5.) Get access Jack Crowley Jack Crowley Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 637–638, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568786 P…
Divergent Paths
Journal Article Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6.) Get access Peter C. Mancall Peter C. Mancall University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, Septemb…
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Journal Article The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. By David S. Landes. (New York: Norton, 1998. xxii, 650 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-393-04017-8.) Get access Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York University, North York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1558–1559, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568281 Published: 01 March …
Divergent Paths
New World Economies
New World Economies closely examines the economic development of the Thirteen Colonies and early French Canada, looking at the impact of changing prices, capital flows, and shifts in demand. It is a companion to Egnal's earlier book, Divergent Paths, which emphasizes the influence of culture and institutions on growth. It contains seventeen tables and more than one hundred graphs, many of which are based on original data, presenting these new sta…
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume I
Divergent Paths
Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Locke in America
Journal Article Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era. By Jerome Huyler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. xii, 394 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7006-0642-4.) Get access Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York University, North York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1184–1185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945143 Published: 01 …
In Debt to Shays
The Economic Development of the Thirteen Continental Colonies, 1720 to 1775
HE last decade has been marked by a quiet renaissance in early T American economic history. Numerous articles and several books have reexamined the colonial period with an approach that emphasizes the use of quantitative data and modern theory. One important topic, however, remains little explored: economic development. Much of the writing on this question has been avowedly impressionistic and,serves to underscore Ralph Andreano's pronouncement a…
An Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Journal Article The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. By David S. Landes. (New York: Norton, 1998. xxii, 650 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-393-04017-8.) Get access Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York University, North York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1558–1559, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568281 Published: 01 March …
Re-Visioning American Literary Naturalism
Today, two characteristics define literary naturalism, and both are problematic. One is the emphasis on four male writers: Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London. This focus emerged in the 1930s and stemmed from biases against white women and African Americans. The other defining trait is the temporal reach of naturalism. Extrapolating from traits in the works of Dreiser et al., this school now includes the “proletarian wr…
Capitalism Takes Command
Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith (eds.) (2012), viii +358, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $90.00, paperback $30.00 These essays about nineteenth-century US capitalism reflect research con
A Mighty Empire
Journal Article A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. By Marc Egnal. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xvii + 381 pp. $36.95.) Get access Gary B. Nash Gary B. Nash University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 582–583, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908011 Published: 01 September 1989
An Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution
The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815
The Politics of Ambition
Most writing on the personality and career of Benjamin Franklin has rested on the assumption that his Autobiography and other public tracts present a reasonably accurate portrayal of the man. Critics have found in the memoirs the hallmarks of a complex personality, and have enumerated a now familiar set of traits. One set of qualities Franklin underscored in the Autobiography, the almanacs, and else- where is hard work and frugality. "I mention t…
American Slavery
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974. Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods - A Supplement. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974. 286 and 267 pp. Eugene D. Genovese. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon, 1974.823 pp. Within a single year, two major works on American Negro slavery have appeared, each suggesting a b…
The Economic Development of the Thirteen Continental Colonies, 1720 to 1775
HE last decade has been marked by a quiet renaissance in early T American economic history. Numerous articles and several books have reexamined the colonial period with an approach that emphasizes the use of quantitative data and modern theory. One important topic, however, remains little explored: economic development. Much of the writing on this question has been avowedly impressionistic and,serves to underscore Ralph Andreano's pronouncement a…
In Pursuit of Profit
The American Revolution
The Urban Crucible
The Origins of the Revolution in Virginia
LL America look up to Virginia to take the lead on the present A occasion, the Philadelphia committee of correspondence informed the House of Burgesses in June 1774. You are ancient, you are respected, you are animated in the cause.' The Old Dominion stood in the forefront of the opposition to Britain; other provinces copied its resolutions, and its statesmen numbered among the leaders of the colonial congresses. Any broad interpretation of the A…
Virginia and the English Commercial System, 1689-1733
A Planting and Trading Society
Allan Kulikoff. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986. xviii + 449 pp. David W. Galenson. Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 230 pp. An emphasis on quantitative data and an interest in New World sl…
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, and their role in diversifying the local economy. The analysis of entrepreneurship dominates the study and challenges long-standing assumptions about …
A Mighty Empire
Preface 2010 Preface to the First EditionIntroductionPART ONE THE FACTIONS EMERGE, 1690-1762 1. Massachusetts to 1741: Three Parties Were Formed 2. Massachusetts, 1741-1762: Coalition Politics 3. New York: Traders and Warriors 4. Pennsylvania: Quaker Party Ascendancy 5. Virginia: Rise of the Northern Neckers 6. South Carolina: Factions Times TwoPART TWO REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS, 1763-1770 7. The Depression of the 1760s 8. Massachusetts: Patriot All…
The Invention of Manifest Destiny
A Mighty Empire
Journal Article A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. By Marc Egnal. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xvii + 381 pp. $36.95.) Get access Gary B. Nash Gary B. Nash University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 582–583, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908011 Published: 01 September 1989
A Mighty Empire
A Mighty Empire
A Mighty Empire
A Union of Interests
Locke in America
Journal Article Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era. By Jerome Huyler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. xii, 394 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7006-0642-4.) Get access Marc Egnal Marc Egnal York University, North York, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1184–1185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945143 Published: 01 …
In Debt to Shays
Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume I
Divergent Paths
Divergent Paths
Journal Article Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6.) Get access Peter C. Mancall Peter C. Mancall University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, Septemb…
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