Robert C Mcmath
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1051407 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert C Mcmath |
| PRENOMES | Robert C |
| SOBRENOME | Mcmath |
| ASSINATURA | MCMATH R C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Lawrence Goodwyn’s Democratic Promise (1976)
Lawrence Goodwyn’s Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (1976), a pathbreaking book on the history of Populism and agrarianism, turns fifty in 2026. In this retrospective roundtable, a distinguished panel of historians of Populism discusses the book and its legacy, as well as its author and the relevant historiographical debates. Democratic Promise , which focused largely (although not exclusively) on Texas, was one of several works…
Insurgent Democracy
Although grounded in traditions of producer cooperatives and third-party insurgency, the Nonpartisan League (NPL) was neither but rather a novel political organization that promoted state ownership of banks, wheat elevators and mills, and other institutions. At its peak around 1920 the League had over 250,000 dues-paying members, mainly in North Dakota and nearby states, plus Saskatchewan and Alberta. Although much of its leadership came from the…
Agricultural History Roundtable on Populism
Robert C. McMath Jr., Peter H. Argersinger, Connie L. Lester, Michael F. Magliari, Walter Nugent, David B. Danbom, "Agricultural History" Roundtable on Populism: Robert C. McMath Jr., Peter H. Argersinger, Connie L. Lester, Michael F. Magliari, and Walter Nugent, Agricultural History, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Winter, 2008), pp. 1-35
Up from the Mudsills of Hell
Book Review| July 01 2008 Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers’ Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870–1915 Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers’ Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915. Connie L. Lester. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 399–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/000…
Agricultural History Roundtable on Populism
Research Article| January 01 2008 Agricultural History Roundtable on Populism: Robert C. McMath Jr., Peter H. Argersinger, Connie L. Lester, Michael F. Magliari, and Walter Nugent Robert C. McMath, Jr.; Robert C. McMath, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Peter H. Argersinger; Peter H. Argersinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Connie L. Lester; Connie L. Lester Search for other works by thi…
Engineering in a Land-Grant Context
Reviewed by: Engineering in a Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future of an Idea Robert C. McMath Jr. (bio) Engineering in a Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future of an Idea. Edited by Alan I Marcus. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2005. Pp. 198. $34.95. The convergence of land-grant colleges and the professionalization of engineering helped define a distinctively American form of higher education. Both land-g…
C. Vann Woodward and the Burden of Southern Populism
IN THE SPRING OF 1939 C. VANN WOODWARD WAS BASKING IN THE GLOW of critical acclaim for his first book, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel and casting about for new subject. (1) He had already done some reconnaissance on biography of Eugene V. Debs but had decided to lay that project aside for least three years, perhaps longer. In letter to his friend and confidant, Glenn W. Rainey, Woodward explained that new opportunity had just presented itself: Then c…
Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929
Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929. By Carl H. Moneyhon. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 168. Foreword, introduction, illustrations, bibliographic essay, index. $26.00, cloth; $14.00, paper.) Forty-six years after Arkansan C. Vann Woodward produced his magisterial Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, Carl H. Moneyhon has published the first scholarly synthesis of Arkansas history from the end of Reconstruction to th…
Rural Democracy
The First New South, 1865-1920
Journal Article The First New South, 1865–1920. By Howard N. Rabinowitz. (Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1992. xiv, 232 pp. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-88295-883-6.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 258–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082030 …
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TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 209 Despite these reservations, those interested in the evolution of engineering education in America will find much of interest in Yates’s account of one of the important American engineering schools. Terry S. Reynolds Dr. Reynolds is head of the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University and author of several recent articles on the history ofengineering education. MIT: Shaping the Futu…
American Populism
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These 16 essays by faculty and staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology create a snapshot of MIT today and a guide to its possible future. The insights they offer will interest anyone concerned with the role of science and technology in American society and the future of scientific and technical education. Topics include the question of whether technology does in fact shape the future, the relationship between technical and liberal educ…
The Vital South
American Populism
Journal Article American Populism: A Social History, 1877–1898. By Robert C. McMath, Jr. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. vi, 245 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN0-8090-7796-5. Paper, $10.95, ISBN 0-37452264-2.) Get access Michael Magliari Michael Magliari California State University, Chico, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1107–1108, ht…
The Adaptable South
Journal Article The Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of George Brown Tindall. Ed. by Elizabeth Jacoway, Dan T. Carter, Lester C. Lamon, and Robert C. McMath, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xii, 306 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-1678-5.) Get access Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
American Populism
Journal Article American Populism: A Social History, 1877–1898 Get access American Populism: A Social History, 1877–1898. By McMath Robert C.Jr. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. vi + 245 pp. Bibliographical essay, index. $30.00.) Norman Pollack Norman Pollack Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, August 1993, Pages 412–413, https://doi.or…
Populism
Journal Article Populism: The Humane Preference in America, 1890–1900 Get access Populism: The Humane Preference in America, 1890–1900. By Clanton Gene. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xviii + 198 pp. Illustrations, table, bibliographical note, index. $24.95, cloth; $11.95, paper.) Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historic…
The Humane Economy
Journal Article The Humane Economy: Populism, Capitalism, and Democracy. By Norman Pollack. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. xvi + 215 pp. $40.00.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1112–1113, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078900 Published: 01 …
The Trusteeship Presidency
Journal Article The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. By Charles O.Jones. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xxvii + 225 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.230…
Planters & Plain Folk
Journal Article Planters & Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas Get access Planters & Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas. By Lowe Richard G. Campbell Randolph B.. (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1987. xvi + 216 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, $22.50.) Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Engineering the New South
Many Excellent People
Engineering the New South
Engineering the New South
The Georgia Institute of Technology as well as the University of Georgia celebrated landmark birthdays of their foundings in 1985 (UGA its bicentennial; GT its centennial). Both, fortunately, have issued honest and creditable histories to mark their anniversaries. The University's bicentennial history appeared early in 1985 and had one author, Professor Thomas G. Dyer. Tech's history (also published by the University of Georgia Press) was release…
Class, Conflict, and Consensus
Journal Article Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies. Ed. by Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. McMath, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xxvi + 308 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) Toward a New South? Studies in Post-Civil War Southern Communities. Ed. by Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. Get access Lawrence N. Powell Lawrence N. Powell Tulane University Search for other works by …
Agricultural History Roundtable on Populism
Robert C. McMath Jr., Peter H. Argersinger, Connie L. Lester, Michael F. Magliari, Walter Nugent, David B. Danbom, "Agricultural History" Roundtable on Populism: Robert C. McMath Jr., Peter H. Argersinger, Connie L. Lester, Michael F. Magliari, and Walter Nugent, Agricultural History, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Winter, 2008), pp. 1-35
C. Vann Woodward and the Burden of Southern Populism
IN THE SPRING OF 1939 C. VANN WOODWARD WAS BASKING IN THE GLOW of critical acclaim for his first book, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel and casting about for new subject. (1) He had already done some reconnaissance on biography of Eugene V. Debs but had decided to lay that project aside for least three years, perhaps longer. In letter to his friend and confidant, Glenn W. Rainey, Woodward explained that new opportunity had just presented itself: Then c…
Southern white farmers and the organization of Black farm workers
(1977). Southern white farmers and the organization of Black farm workers: A North Carolina document. Labor History: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 115-119
Engineers and the New South Creed
In the last quarter of the 19th century fundamental changes occurred in the training of American engineers. At the same time major shifts were occurring in the economy of the American South. These two trends, the development of professional engineering education and the beginning of an industrialized New South, converged in the 1880s in the establishment of the Georgia School of Technology. This paper will show how changing ideas about engineerin…
The Political Economy of Agrarian Change
Organizing the Farmers' Movement
Populist Vanguard
The Improbable Era
Southern white farmers and the organization of Black farm workers
(1977). Southern white farmers and the organization of Black farm workers: A North Carolina document. Labor History: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 115-119
Radical Protest and Social Structure
Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a metic…
Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period
Engineers and the New South Creed
In the last quarter of the 19th century fundamental changes occurred in the training of American engineers. At the same time major shifts were occurring in the economy of the American South. These two trends, the development of professional engineering education and the beginning of an industrialized New South, converged in the 1880s in the establishment of the Georgia School of Technology. This paper will show how changing ideas about engineerin…
The Knights of Labor in the South
Class, Conflict, and Consensus
Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton industry, and the growing sectional self-consciousness of the South. The authors' local, microcosmic approaches permit examination of subjects such as local justice, economic failure, slave marriages, and slave insurrection with an in-depth attention rarely possible in general works
Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South 1865-1900
Toward a New South? Studies in Post-Civil War Southern Communities
Class, Conflict, and Consensus
Journal Article Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies. Ed. by Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. McMath, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xxvi + 308 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) Toward a New South? Studies in Post-Civil War Southern Communities. Ed. by Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. Get access Lawrence N. Powell Lawrence N. Powell Tulane University Search for other works by …
White Land, Black Labor
Journal Article White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Charles L. Flynn, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xiii + 196 pp. Maps, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71,…
The Politics of Economic Development in the Antebellum South
Farmers in Rebellion
Engineering the New South
The Georgia Institute of Technology as well as the University of Georgia celebrated landmark birthdays of their foundings in 1985 (UGA its bicentennial; GT its centennial). Both, fortunately, have issued honest and creditable histories to mark their anniversaries. The University's bicentennial history appeared early in 1985 and had one author, Professor Thomas G. Dyer. Tech's history (also published by the University of Georgia Press) was release…
The University of Georgia
The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 1785–1985. By Thomas G. Dyer. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xi + 435 pp. $35.00.) and Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885–1985. By Robert C. McMath, Jr., Ronald H. Bayor, James E. Brittain, Lawrence Foster, August W., Giebelhaus, and Germaine M. Reed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xiii + 560 pp. $37.50.) Get access Michael Bezilla Michael Bezilla Pennsylvania…
The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance
Journal Article The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance: A Political History, 1887–1893. By Lala Carr Steelman. (Greenville: East Carolina Univer- sity Publications/Department of History, 1985. xiv + 295 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $9.95) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Engineering the New South
Engineering the New South
Many Excellent People
The Trusteeship Presidency
Journal Article The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. By Charles O.Jones. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xxvii + 225 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.230…
Planters & Plain Folk
Journal Article Planters & Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas Get access Planters & Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas. By Lowe Richard G. Campbell Randolph B.. (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1987. xvi + 216 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, $22.50.) Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
The Humane Economy
Journal Article The Humane Economy: Populism, Capitalism, and Democracy. By Norman Pollack. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. xvi + 215 pp. $40.00.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1112–1113, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078900 Published: 01 …
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