Serena Zabin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1200404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serena Zabin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serena |
| FAMILY NAME | Zabin |
| SIGNATURE | ZABIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction to Special Issue
AS New England towns, commissions, and societies prepare reenactments, exhibitions, and productions for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, organizers and audiences alike find themselves reflecting explicitly on the relationship between the founding of the United States and the present moment. These relationships are not new. When Boston reenacted the Boston Tea Party in 1973, tens of thousands of protestors flooded the streets, cal…
The Revolutionary
Stacey Schiff's new biography is engaging, immensely readable, and sometimes frustrating. It also left me wondering exactly how to review it for this journal. Reading this book—and contemplating the review—raised a host of questions about reading, audience, and reliability. As a reader, I found much to appreciate. As an academic historian, I found many moments that gave me pause.The Revolutionary is, by many standards, an excellent biography. Not…
An Hundred Yeares in Full Strength”
Women, Trade, and the Roots of Consumer Societies
This chapter explains the significant, if often overlooked, ways in which both free and enslaved women as well as men participated actively and eagerly in trade around the Atlantic rim from 1500 to 1800. Commerce in the early modern period was not performed by heroic individuals or anonymous empires but by individuals embedded in familial and social relationships. The meanings that contemporaries accorded to female traders changed over time. With…
Who Should Rule at Home? Confronting the Elite in British New York City
Over one century ago, Carl L. Becker quipped that the years between 1765 and 1776 were characterized by the dual questions of home rule and “who should rule at home” (Carl Lotus Becker, The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760–1776, 1909, p. 22). In this elegantly written and exhaustively researched homage to Becker's second question, Joyce D. Goodfriend reveals class conflict in New York City during much of the eighteen…
Conclusion
In this conclusion to the William and Mary Quarterly and Journal of the Early Republic joint issue "Writing To and From the Revolution," the tensions between the American Revolution and twenty-first-century America take center stage. The issue's authors offer competing interpretations of questions ranging from the impact of letter writing to the relationship between the federal government and the trans-Appalachian West. Yet nearly all of them als…
Iudeae benemerenti
epitaphs.2 Many of these epitaphs are formulaic in the extreme, while others offer us brief glimpses of emotion. Some are in Latin, many more in Greek. Only by collating and comparing as many of these epitaphs as possible will we squeeze any information about Jewish women's lives from these stones. Recently, the lives ofJewish women in classical antiquity have begun to attract scholarly notice. Bernadette Brooten was the first modern scholar to s…
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Iudeae benemerenti
epitaphs.2 Many of these epitaphs are formulaic in the extreme, while others offer us brief glimpses of emotion. Some are in Latin, many more in Greek. Only by collating and comparing as many of these epitaphs as possible will we squeeze any information about Jewish women's lives from these stones. Recently, the lives ofJewish women in classical antiquity have begun to attract scholarly notice. Bernadette Brooten was the first modern scholar to s…
Conclusion
In this conclusion to the William and Mary Quarterly and Journal of the Early Republic joint issue "Writing To and From the Revolution," the tensions between the American Revolution and twenty-first-century America take center stage. The issue's authors offer competing interpretations of questions ranging from the impact of letter writing to the relationship between the federal government and the trans-Appalachian West. Yet nearly all of them als…
Women, Trade, and the Roots of Consumer Societies
This chapter explains the significant, if often overlooked, ways in which both free and enslaved women as well as men participated actively and eagerly in trade around the Atlantic rim from 1500 to 1800. Commerce in the early modern period was not performed by heroic individuals or anonymous empires but by individuals embedded in familial and social relationships. The meanings that contemporaries accorded to female traders changed over time. With…
Who Should Rule at Home? Confronting the Elite in British New York City
Over one century ago, Carl L. Becker quipped that the years between 1765 and 1776 were characterized by the dual questions of home rule and “who should rule at home” (Carl Lotus Becker, The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760–1776, 1909, p. 22). In this elegantly written and exhaustively researched homage to Becker's second question, Joyce D. Goodfriend reveals class conflict in New York City during much of the eighteen…
An Hundred Yeares in Full Strength”
The Revolutionary
Stacey Schiff's new biography is engaging, immensely readable, and sometimes frustrating. It also left me wondering exactly how to review it for this journal. Reading this book—and contemplating the review—raised a host of questions about reading, audience, and reliability. As a reader, I found much to appreciate. As an academic historian, I found many moments that gave me pause.The Revolutionary is, by many standards, an excellent biography. Not…
Introduction to Special Issue
AS New England towns, commissions, and societies prepare reenactments, exhibitions, and productions for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, organizers and audiences alike find themselves reflecting explicitly on the relationship between the founding of the United States and the present moment. These relationships are not new. When Boston reenacted the Boston Tea Party in 1973, tens of thousands of protestors flooded the streets, cal…
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