Julie M Flavell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1195273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie M Flavell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Flavell |
| SIGNATURE | FLAVELL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer in American History, University of Dundee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Government Interception of Letters from America and the Quest for Colonial Opinion in 1775
J UST days after the news of Lexington and Concord reached London, early in June 1775, the British government ordered the opening and screening of all letters carried by the packets from the colonies to the metropolis. The resulting extracts, considered here in aggregate for the first time, form a set of post office intercepts that is probably unique of its kind. These letters represent what may be the only instance of the use of post office surv…
Using Capture-Recapture Methods to Reconstruct the American Population in London
The capture-recapture method, which ecologists, demographers, and social scientists utilize to estimate the size of contemporary populations that cannot be subjected to conventional enumeration or census-taking procedures, has never been applied to the study of a historical population. Using it to uncover the size and characteristics of the colonial American community in London finds regional variations in the demographic patterns of provincial A…
The ‘School for Modesty and Humility’
Despite the growing conflict between Britain and her colonies, a metropolitan education remained a popular choice for the sons of elite colonial Americans in the late colonial period. This article explores the attitudes of the youths themselves, and of their parents, towards their London education during a period when political conflict was engendering a growing sense of separateness. American youths typically underwent a status crisis upon reach…
American patriots in London and the quest for talks, 1774–1775
Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and the Patriots in London
Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and the Patriots in London Get access JULIE M. FLAVELL JULIE M. FLAVELL University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 302–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.302 Published: 01 April 1992
The ‘School for Modesty and Humility’
Despite the growing conflict between Britain and her colonies, a metropolitan education remained a popular choice for the sons of elite colonial Americans in the late colonial period. This article explores the attitudes of the youths themselves, and of their parents, towards their London education during a period when political conflict was engendering a growing sense of separateness. American youths typically underwent a status crisis upon reach…
American patriots in London and the quest for talks, 1774–1775
Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and the Patriots in London
Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and the Patriots in London Get access JULIE M. FLAVELL JULIE M. FLAVELL University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 302–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.302 Published: 01 April 1992
American patriots in London and the quest for talks, 1774–1775
Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and the Patriots in London
Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal and the Patriots in London Get access JULIE M. FLAVELL JULIE M. FLAVELL University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 302–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.302 Published: 01 April 1992
The ‘School for Modesty and Humility’
Despite the growing conflict between Britain and her colonies, a metropolitan education remained a popular choice for the sons of elite colonial Americans in the late colonial period. This article explores the attitudes of the youths themselves, and of their parents, towards their London education during a period when political conflict was engendering a growing sense of separateness. American youths typically underwent a status crisis upon reach…
Government Interception of Letters from America and the Quest for Colonial Opinion in 1775
J UST days after the news of Lexington and Concord reached London, early in June 1775, the British government ordered the opening and screening of all letters carried by the packets from the colonies to the metropolis. The resulting extracts, considered here in aggregate for the first time, form a set of post office intercepts that is probably unique of its kind. These letters represent what may be the only instance of the use of post office surv…
Using Capture-Recapture Methods to Reconstruct the American Population in London
The capture-recapture method, which ecologists, demographers, and social scientists utilize to estimate the size of contemporary populations that cannot be subjected to conventional enumeration or census-taking procedures, has never been applied to the study of a historical population. Using it to uncover the size and characteristics of the colonial American community in London finds regional variations in the demographic patterns of provincial A…
History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Classics (2 works)