Michael A Mcdonnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1079151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Mcdonnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONNELL M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0823-4517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Taking History Beyond the Classroom
Shared authority has become a key tenet in the practice of public history, but how do we teach the idea of shared authority in the university classroom? In this co-authored essay by student and teacher, we unpackage how we have attempted to tackle this issue in a capstone undergraduate history unit called History Beyond the Classroom. The unit requires students to work with community organizations on an independent public history project that is …
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of how various people navigated military occupation, c…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The third and final volume examines the American Revolution and its consequences, continuities, and legacies. Across thirty essays, ranging from broad, topical chapters to innovative, shorter 'viewpoints', the volume sheds light on how the American Revolution reverberated worldwide from the Constitution's ratification to twenty-first century cultural battles over the Revolution's meanings. Americans of all stripes adapted old rituals and structur…
Powerful Stories
This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and early twenty first century Australia. By tracing the powerful stories told by the dispossessed and displa…
Small Nations, Savvy Diplomacy, Global Consequences
The Lower Mississippi River Valley holds a special place in the American imagination. Home of the Blues, New Orleans, and rich fertile soils that drain into the Gulf of Mexico—we might now add the enduring memory of devastating hurricanes and its role as a canary in the coal mine for climate change and human-induced environmental destruction. Historically, we know a fair bit about the presence of the Spanish, French, and then British and U.S. set…
Atlantic Wars
Reviewed by: Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank Michael A. McDonnell Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution. By Geoffrey Plank. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 338 pages. Cloth, ebook. Over the last three decades, a generation of scholars have turned to Atlantic history as a means to transcend the limitations of national and imperial borders. Recognizing the ex…
Facing Empire
"In Facing Empire, Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell have collected a series of essays that focus on indigenous experiences in the revolutionary age of the late eighteenth century, looking at indigenous interactions with the British Empire particularly. The collection aims to view indigenous peoples as vital and dynamic actors across an increasingly global stage and think about what this new world of European-driven imperialism might have lo…
Revolution in the Quarterly? A Historiographical Analysis
Interpretive patterns in the scholarship on the American Revolution have been less linear and dual than tripartite and cyclical, spiraling through whig, progressive, imperial, neo-whig, neo-progressive, and, most recently, neo-imperial alternatives. As the Quarterly relaunched in 1944, a transition in the cycle was already under way, from an imperial- and progressive-school détente to a neo-whig ascendancy, even as calls for synthesis abounded: e…
Rethinking the Age of Revolution
Revolution, it seems, is once again in the air. In the last decade or two, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across the Atlantic, through the Americas, and more recently
Indigenous Networks
For some time now, there has been an outpouring of works exploring the negotiations, exchanges and connections at the heart of imperial, national and global histories. The transnational turn in par
History, Myth, and the Making of America
History, Myth, and the Making of America Michael A. McDonnell (bio) Benjamin L. Carp . Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. xv + 311 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, further reading, and index. $30.00. Jill Lepore . The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. P…
Men Out of Time
Rebels Rising
Benjamin L. Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (2007), ix + 334 (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, £19.99/$35.00). In this lively and extensively researched book, B
In This Remote Country
Reviewed by: In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860 by Edward Watts Michael A. McDonnell In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860. By Edward Watts. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. The message is slowly getting through that the American “west” (stretching, at any given moment, from Virginia to California) was not a v…
Empire and Nation
Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas
(2005). Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 7, Raphael Lemkin: the “founder of the United Nation's Genocide Convention“ as a historian of mass violence, pp. 501-529
"A World Turned "Topsy Turvy
Michael A. McDonnell, A World Turned "Topsy Turvy": Robert Munford, "The Patriots", and the Crisis of the Revolution in Virginia, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr., 2004), pp. 235-270
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815
Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia
Journal Article Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below Get access Michael A. McDonnell Michael A. McDonnell lecturer in American history at the Department of American Studies University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 946–981, http…
Indigenous Networks
For some time now, there has been an outpouring of works exploring the negotiations, exchanges and connections at the heart of imperial, national and global histories. The transnational turn in par
Rethinking the Age of Revolution
Revolution, it seems, is once again in the air. In the last decade or two, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across the Atlantic, through the Americas, and more recently
Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas
(2005). Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 7, Raphael Lemkin: the “founder of the United Nation's Genocide Convention“ as a historian of mass violence, pp. 501-529
Powerful Stories
This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and early twenty first century Australia. By tracing the powerful stories told by the dispossessed and displa…
Men Out of Time
Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia
Journal Article Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below Get access Michael A. McDonnell Michael A. McDonnell lecturer in American history at the Department of American Studies University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 946–981, http…
Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia
Journal Article Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below Get access Michael A. McDonnell Michael A. McDonnell lecturer in American history at the Department of American Studies University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 946–981, http…
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815
"A World Turned "Topsy Turvy
Michael A. McDonnell, A World Turned "Topsy Turvy": Robert Munford, "The Patriots", and the Crisis of the Revolution in Virginia, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr., 2004), pp. 235-270
Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas
(2005). Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 7, Raphael Lemkin: the “founder of the United Nation's Genocide Convention“ as a historian of mass violence, pp. 501-529
In This Remote Country
Reviewed by: In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860 by Edward Watts Michael A. McDonnell In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860. By Edward Watts. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. The message is slowly getting through that the American “west” (stretching, at any given moment, from Virginia to California) was not a v…
Empire and Nation
Rebels Rising
Benjamin L. Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (2007), ix + 334 (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, £19.99/$35.00). In this lively and extensively researched book, B
Men Out of Time
History, Myth, and the Making of America
History, Myth, and the Making of America Michael A. McDonnell (bio) Benjamin L. Carp . Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. xv + 311 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, further reading, and index. $30.00. Jill Lepore . The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. P…
Indigenous Networks
For some time now, there has been an outpouring of works exploring the negotiations, exchanges and connections at the heart of imperial, national and global histories. The transnational turn in par
Rethinking the Age of Revolution
Revolution, it seems, is once again in the air. In the last decade or two, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across the Atlantic, through the Americas, and more recently
Revolution in the Quarterly? A Historiographical Analysis
Interpretive patterns in the scholarship on the American Revolution have been less linear and dual than tripartite and cyclical, spiraling through whig, progressive, imperial, neo-whig, neo-progressive, and, most recently, neo-imperial alternatives. As the Quarterly relaunched in 1944, a transition in the cycle was already under way, from an imperial- and progressive-school détente to a neo-whig ascendancy, even as calls for synthesis abounded: e…
Facing Empire
"In Facing Empire, Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell have collected a series of essays that focus on indigenous experiences in the revolutionary age of the late eighteenth century, looking at indigenous interactions with the British Empire particularly. The collection aims to view indigenous peoples as vital and dynamic actors across an increasingly global stage and think about what this new world of European-driven imperialism might have lo…
Atlantic Wars
Reviewed by: Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank Michael A. McDonnell Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution. By Geoffrey Plank. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 338 pages. Cloth, ebook. Over the last three decades, a generation of scholars have turned to Atlantic history as a means to transcend the limitations of national and imperial borders. Recognizing the ex…
Small Nations, Savvy Diplomacy, Global Consequences
The Lower Mississippi River Valley holds a special place in the American imagination. Home of the Blues, New Orleans, and rich fertile soils that drain into the Gulf of Mexico—we might now add the enduring memory of devastating hurricanes and its role as a canary in the coal mine for climate change and human-induced environmental destruction. Historically, we know a fair bit about the presence of the Spanish, French, and then British and U.S. set…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of how various people navigated military occupation, c…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The third and final volume examines the American Revolution and its consequences, continuities, and legacies. Across thirty essays, ranging from broad, topical chapters to innovative, shorter 'viewpoints', the volume sheds light on how the American Revolution reverberated worldwide from the Constitution's ratification to twenty-first century cultural battles over the Revolution's meanings. Americans of all stripes adapted old rituals and structur…
Powerful Stories
This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and early twenty first century Australia. By tracing the powerful stories told by the dispossessed and displa…
Taking History Beyond the Classroom
Shared authority has become a key tenet in the practice of public history, but how do we teach the idea of shared authority in the university classroom? In this co-authored essay by student and teacher, we unpackage how we have attempted to tackle this issue in a capstone undergraduate history unit called History Beyond the Classroom. The unit requires students to work with community organizations on an independent public history project that is …
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