Florence Cowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 124886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florence Cowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florence |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowan |
| SIGNATURE | COWAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5142-5418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia
Begging was everywhere in the late Russian Empire, and presents a distinctive case study for lower-class charitable giving. Unlike many Western European states at the turn of the twentieth century, Russia had no institutionalized social safety net. For most lower-class Russians, direct alms from other lower-class people were the only form of poor relief. This article shows that poverty in urban and rural spaces was entangled. As lower-class Russi…
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped engagement with texts, and especially collective reading, a widespread phenomenon that extended the reach of t…
Hidden Lives
This article analyzes gender non-conformity in late imperial Russia through a selection of newspaper articles on the lives of gender non-conforming individuals. It examines the potential motives for gender non-conformity and argues for including gender dysphoria as a reason why Russians chose to perform a gender that did not correspond to their assigned sex. The article explores these individuals’ lives as well as their interaction with authority…
Kopeck Journalism as a Social Profession
Through case studies of five prominent journalists, editors, and publishers, this article explores journalism at late imperial Russia’s kopeck newspapers. Exploring the lives and careers of journalists from wide-ranging backgrounds who shared a view of their work as both a business and a form of service to poor Russians, this article argues that kopeck journalists thought their profession combined entrepreneurship and upward mobility with activis…
The Democracy versus Democracy
This article explores how Russians in the Duma period (1905–17) understood issues of democratic politics and representation through a microhistory of the 1912 Duma election in Odessa. It focuses on conflict between two Odessa newspapers, Odesskaia pochta and Iuzhnaia mysl’, over whether to support the ‘progressive’ candidate or the ‘workers’’ candidate, and on a workers’ boycott organized against Odesskaia pochta after right-wing candidates swept…
Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped engagement with texts, and especially collective reading, a widespread phenomenon that extended the reach of t…
Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada
The Democracy versus Democracy
This article explores how Russians in the Duma period (1905–17) understood issues of democratic politics and representation through a microhistory of the 1912 Duma election in Odessa. It focuses on conflict between two Odessa newspapers, Odesskaia pochta and Iuzhnaia mysl’, over whether to support the ‘progressive’ candidate or the ‘workers’’ candidate, and on a workers’ boycott organized against Odesskaia pochta after right-wing candidates swept…
Hidden Lives
This article analyzes gender non-conformity in late imperial Russia through a selection of newspaper articles on the lives of gender non-conforming individuals. It examines the potential motives for gender non-conformity and argues for including gender dysphoria as a reason why Russians chose to perform a gender that did not correspond to their assigned sex. The article explores these individuals’ lives as well as their interaction with authority…
Kopeck Journalism as a Social Profession
Through case studies of five prominent journalists, editors, and publishers, this article explores journalism at late imperial Russia’s kopeck newspapers. Exploring the lives and careers of journalists from wide-ranging backgrounds who shared a view of their work as both a business and a form of service to poor Russians, this article argues that kopeck journalists thought their profession combined entrepreneurship and upward mobility with activis…
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped engagement with texts, and especially collective reading, a widespread phenomenon that extended the reach of t…
Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia
Begging was everywhere in the late Russian Empire, and presents a distinctive case study for lower-class charitable giving. Unlike many Western European states at the turn of the twentieth century, Russia had no institutionalized social safety net. For most lower-class Russians, direct alms from other lower-class people were the only form of poor relief. This article shows that poverty in urban and rural spaces was entangled. As lower-class Russi…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Newspaper (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works) · Everyday life (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)