Keith Pluymers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1160320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Pluymers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Pluymers |
| SIGNATURE | PLUYMERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9729-3169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Franklin Stove
Regulating the City
At the end of the eighteenth century, amidst devastating outbreaks of yellow fever, there were multiple plans to deliberately inundate the streets of Philadelphia to clean dirt and rubbish from the ground and to purify potentially miasmatic air. This essay examines the infrastructure lying beneath this project—an urban drainage system capable of rapidly and completely moving large quantities of water across and underneath the city’s streets witho…
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons
Journal Article Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Get access Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. Pp. 192. Paper $27.95. Keith Pluymers Keith Pluymers Illinois State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historica…
An Empire Transformed
Journal Article An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic. Kate Luce Mulry Get access Kate Luce MulryAn Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration AtlanticNew York: New York University Press, 2021. 376 pp. Keith Pluymers Keith Pluymers Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jour…
England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles
Cow Trials, Climate Change, and the Causes of Violence
In 1641, according to the vicar Thomas Johnson, Irish rebels in Mayo, in “meere hatred and derision of the English,” tried a group of English cattle for unspecified charges. They were convicted and executed. Many historians have pointed to this striking event as an example of the deep hatred underlying popular violence in the rebellion. The trials, however, were merely the most spectacular iteration of long-standing conflicts over transformations…
Shipwreck Modernity
Atlantic Iron
Fears of wood scarcity were common in early modern England, and proponents of colonial expansion into Ireland and Virginia drew on these anxieties to justify their enterprises and to solicit support for projects exploiting colonial woods. They argued that Ireland and, later, Virginia were the edges of a wooden frontier. Closely examining the connections between ironworks in Virginia, southwest Ireland, and the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire in…
Taming the Wilderness in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Virginia
In the past thirty years, historians have examined many aspects of England's western expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; however, the environmental history of the English Atlantic has not been extensively studied. This essay examines how English travel writers and colonial propagandists described nature in their Old World colony in Ireland and their New World project in Virginia. These documents provided little accurate informat…
Taming the Wilderness in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Virginia
In the past thirty years, historians have examined many aspects of England's western expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; however, the environmental history of the English Atlantic has not been extensively studied. This essay examines how English travel writers and colonial propagandists described nature in their Old World colony in Ireland and their New World project in Virginia. These documents provided little accurate informat…
Shipwreck Modernity
Taming the Wilderness in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Virginia
In the past thirty years, historians have examined many aspects of England's western expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; however, the environmental history of the English Atlantic has not been extensively studied. This essay examines how English travel writers and colonial propagandists described nature in their Old World colony in Ireland and their New World project in Virginia. These documents provided little accurate informat…
Atlantic Iron
Fears of wood scarcity were common in early modern England, and proponents of colonial expansion into Ireland and Virginia drew on these anxieties to justify their enterprises and to solicit support for projects exploiting colonial woods. They argued that Ireland and, later, Virginia were the edges of a wooden frontier. Closely examining the connections between ironworks in Virginia, southwest Ireland, and the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire in…
Shipwreck Modernity
Cow Trials, Climate Change, and the Causes of Violence
In 1641, according to the vicar Thomas Johnson, Irish rebels in Mayo, in “meere hatred and derision of the English,” tried a group of English cattle for unspecified charges. They were convicted and executed. Many historians have pointed to this striking event as an example of the deep hatred underlying popular violence in the rebellion. The trials, however, were merely the most spectacular iteration of long-standing conflicts over transformations…
An Empire Transformed
Journal Article An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic. Kate Luce Mulry Get access Kate Luce MulryAn Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration AtlanticNew York: New York University Press, 2021. 376 pp. Keith Pluymers Keith Pluymers Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jour…
England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons
Journal Article Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Get access Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. Pp. 192. Paper $27.95. Keith Pluymers Keith Pluymers Illinois State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historica…
Regulating the City
At the end of the eighteenth century, amidst devastating outbreaks of yellow fever, there were multiple plans to deliberately inundate the streets of Philadelphia to clean dirt and rubbish from the ground and to purify potentially miasmatic air. This essay examines the infrastructure lying beneath this project—an urban drainage system capable of rapidly and completely moving large quantities of water across and underneath the city’s streets witho…
The Franklin Stove
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