David Blanke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1207235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Blanke |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanke |
| SIGNATURE | BLANKE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ready for their close-up
The essay offers an empirical study of 514 unique amateur scenarios submitted to the production office of Cecil B. DeMille in 1922 and 1923. It examines the stated goals and content of these works and couples them to the extensive editorial review process undertaken by DeMille’s staff. Summarized broadly, the study concludes that film fans of the 1920s were far more thoughtful and aware of the ‘successful’ film scenario. While their motivations w…
Pure Adulteration
Benjamin R. Cohen's well-researched and well-written cultural study of food and “adulteration” begins and ends with a discussion about the meaning of purity. Cohen understands that coming to terms with “manufactured food”—freighted with dense cultural concepts, such as authenticity, nature, trust, and fear—means addressing notions of power and authority, here largely expressed between 1870 and 1930. While admitting that adulterations are nothing …
R obert W uthnow . American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
Done well, broad surveys of U.S. cultural history not only balance theoretical assumptions against empirical evidence but also demonstrate how commonly expressed values justify behaviors that go beyond that which scholars might discover from the study of only social or material change. Robert Wuthnow certainly achieves this goal (and more) in his wide-ranging, well-written, and creatively conceived study on the origins of middle-class respectabil…
The Texas Subjective
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust
David B. Lucsko's well-written, well-argued, and well-researched study offers the automotive junkyard as a “creative space,” which both engenders “creative energy” in enthusiasts and exposes an overlooked aspect of Americans' troubled relationship with abundance (p. 13). The junkyard's century-long history presents longitudinal “patterns of waste” that suggest how gearheads “wasted well” through their mixture of “innovation, replacement, preserva…
Stealing Cars
One for the Road
Like the regulatory groups it examines, Barron H. Lerner's recent book excels when defining the legal, chemical, and punitive aspects of drunk driving. Well written and passionately argued, the text explores how Americans' historic “love of alcohol, love of driving, and more abstractly, love of freedom and individual liberties” spawned a complex, century-long, and at times self-defeating battle with drunk drivers (2). Lerner samples from a wide r…
Thrift and Thriving in America
Mobility without Mayhem
Paving the Way
Michael R. Fein's well-written and well-researched book makes an important contribution to the recent renaissance in transportation and mobility history. Like Sally H. Clarke, who stirred renewed appreciation for industrial management in Trust and Power (2007), and Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, who remind us in The Horse in the City (2007) that urban horsepower existed long before internal combustion engines, Fein warns scholars not to succumb t…
Consumer Choice, Agency, and New Directions in Rural History
According to critics, history resides at an intellectual crossroads. They charge that scholars rely too heavily on ill-defined concepts-like agency-and under-appreciate the determination force of the capitalist consumer economy. This essay appraises the key themes, methods, questions, and conclusions contained within recent US history. While consumer agency looms large in many works, consumer studies also explore the influence of structural econo…
Signs in America's Auto Age
Buckeye Legacies
Sowing the American Dream
David Blanke's Sowing the American Dream is a carefully researched analysis of the origins of the “consumer culture” in the rural Midwest. Blanke has contributed to our understanding of the emergence of capitalism by focusing on the rural consumers who drove the economy during the nineteenth century. The book actually has two major parts. The first focuses on the development of a “rural commercial ethos” during a period of extraordinary economic …
Contented among Strangers
Journal Article Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest and Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley: The Life and Letters of Ulbe Eringa, 1866–1950 Get access Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. By Pickle Linda Schelbitzki. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xii + 311 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendi…
Thrift and Thriving in America
Signs in America's Auto Age
Paving the Way
Michael R. Fein's well-written and well-researched book makes an important contribution to the recent renaissance in transportation and mobility history. Like Sally H. Clarke, who stirred renewed appreciation for industrial management in Trust and Power (2007), and Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, who remind us in The Horse in the City (2007) that urban horsepower existed long before internal combustion engines, Fein warns scholars not to succumb t…
Consumer Choice, Agency, and New Directions in Rural History
According to critics, history resides at an intellectual crossroads. They charge that scholars rely too heavily on ill-defined concepts-like agency-and under-appreciate the determination force of the capitalist consumer economy. This essay appraises the key themes, methods, questions, and conclusions contained within recent US history. While consumer agency looms large in many works, consumer studies also explore the influence of structural econo…
Contented among Strangers
Journal Article Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest and Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley: The Life and Letters of Ulbe Eringa, 1866–1950 Get access Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. By Pickle Linda Schelbitzki. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xii + 311 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendi…
Sowing the American Dream
David Blanke's Sowing the American Dream is a carefully researched analysis of the origins of the “consumer culture” in the rural Midwest. Blanke has contributed to our understanding of the emergence of capitalism by focusing on the rural consumers who drove the economy during the nineteenth century. The book actually has two major parts. The first focuses on the development of a “rural commercial ethos” during a period of extraordinary economic …
Buckeye Legacies
Signs in America's Auto Age
Consumer Choice, Agency, and New Directions in Rural History
According to critics, history resides at an intellectual crossroads. They charge that scholars rely too heavily on ill-defined concepts-like agency-and under-appreciate the determination force of the capitalist consumer economy. This essay appraises the key themes, methods, questions, and conclusions contained within recent US history. While consumer agency looms large in many works, consumer studies also explore the influence of structural econo…
Mobility without Mayhem
Paving the Way
Michael R. Fein's well-written and well-researched book makes an important contribution to the recent renaissance in transportation and mobility history. Like Sally H. Clarke, who stirred renewed appreciation for industrial management in Trust and Power (2007), and Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, who remind us in The Horse in the City (2007) that urban horsepower existed long before internal combustion engines, Fein warns scholars not to succumb t…
Thrift and Thriving in America
One for the Road
Like the regulatory groups it examines, Barron H. Lerner's recent book excels when defining the legal, chemical, and punitive aspects of drunk driving. Well written and passionately argued, the text explores how Americans' historic “love of alcohol, love of driving, and more abstractly, love of freedom and individual liberties” spawned a complex, century-long, and at times self-defeating battle with drunk drivers (2). Lerner samples from a wide r…
Stealing Cars
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust
David B. Lucsko's well-written, well-argued, and well-researched study offers the automotive junkyard as a “creative space,” which both engenders “creative energy” in enthusiasts and exposes an overlooked aspect of Americans' troubled relationship with abundance (p. 13). The junkyard's century-long history presents longitudinal “patterns of waste” that suggest how gearheads “wasted well” through their mixture of “innovation, replacement, preserva…
The Texas Subjective
R obert W uthnow . American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
Done well, broad surveys of U.S. cultural history not only balance theoretical assumptions against empirical evidence but also demonstrate how commonly expressed values justify behaviors that go beyond that which scholars might discover from the study of only social or material change. Robert Wuthnow certainly achieves this goal (and more) in his wide-ranging, well-written, and creatively conceived study on the origins of middle-class respectabil…
Pure Adulteration
Benjamin R. Cohen's well-researched and well-written cultural study of food and “adulteration” begins and ends with a discussion about the meaning of purity. Cohen understands that coming to terms with “manufactured food”—freighted with dense cultural concepts, such as authenticity, nature, trust, and fear—means addressing notions of power and authority, here largely expressed between 1870 and 1930. While admitting that adulterations are nothing …
Ready for their close-up
The essay offers an empirical study of 514 unique amateur scenarios submitted to the production office of Cecil B. DeMille in 1922 and 1923. It examines the stated goals and content of these works and couples them to the extensive editorial review process undertaken by DeMille’s staff. Summarized broadly, the study concludes that film fans of the 1920s were far more thoughtful and aware of the ‘successful’ film scenario. While their motivations w…
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