Peter Rushton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1254203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Rushton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushton |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sunderland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7296-3557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mary Dunn, From mother to son
Mary Dunn, From mother to son: the selected letters of Marie de L’Incarnation to Claude Martin." The Seventeenth Century, 32(1), pp. 113–114
Kelly L.Watson, Insatiable appetites
Insatiable appetites: imperial encounters with cannibals in the North Atlantic world, by Kelly L. Watson, New York & London, New York University Press, 2015, xiv + 239 pp., $40.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8147-6347-6This book addresses the way that Europeans travelled to the Americas carrying the assumptions derived from classical authors that barbarians were likely to be cannibals or Amazons. They sought and found these categories among those they…
Arson, Treason and Plot
The problems of arson, treason and national security became entangled in the politics of Britain and its Atlantic empire between 1770 and 1777. Fears of French military terrorism were compounded by the increasingly violent resistance of the American colonies. Two dockyard fires in Portsmouth, in 1770 and 1777, and the attack on, and burning of, the royal navy ship Gaspee off Rhode Island in 1772, provoked both legal and political difficulties for…
Marks of an Absolute Witch
Fraud and Freedom
This paper takes three examples of women convicts reinventing themselves in the American colonies, to explore the processes of self-fashioning in the eighteenth century. The fabrication of new identities as a means of survival places female agency at the heart of the stories, yet their appearance in printed and other sources suggests that they were not entirely successful. Thus the deceptions were detected in the British Atlantic world by the cir…
A History of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (review)
Print culture, crime and transportation in the criminal Atlantic
Stories of transported criminals were exchanged in the print culture of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, creating images of the incorrigibility of transported criminals and of the failures of transportation, with many either re-offending in America or returning to do so in England. This discourse also framed images that each side of the Atlantic had of the other. The British learnt that the plantations were a place of slavery, the America…
Visible Bodies
Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton; Visible Bodies: Power, Subordination and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Journal of Social History, Volume
Gangs, Gentlemen and Gypsies
In August 1752 the Maryland Gazette carried a report from Bristol concerning the movement of convicts to Bideford for shipment: Last Monday morning a great number of People resorted before Newgate, to see the 11 transports carried away for Bideford. Ten of the Prisoners were mounted two upon a Horse chain’d. People were chiefly concerned to see [Daniel] Bishop who had murdered his sweetheart. They rode them through the crowd who yelled at him and…
Conclusion
The American Revolution did not end the story of transatlantic convict transportation. As the last ship to arrive before hostitilies fully developed, the Jenny from Newcastle, came in to the Chesapeake to land its cargo in April 1776, no one in Britain imagined that this was the demise of the convict trade to America. 1 In 1769, the Virginia Gazette noted that the Conversation Club in London had debated the question, ‘is transportation a proper m…
Cities, Regions and their Criminals
The early eighteenth century was not a period devoted to the collection and publication of statistics on matters of social concern such as crime. Most efforts were, and remained, private, and commentators were frequently more concerned with economic or trade data than crime. State information on criminal matters, by contrast was confined to records of individual cases and their progress. No one attempted to bring together the scattered decisions …
Flight, Escape and Return
When John Poulter and an accomplice held up a post-chaise belonging to Dr William Hancock on Claverton Down near Bath one Wednesday evening in March 1753, he set in motion a chain of events which led not only to his own execution and a nationwide hunt for his former accomplices, but also to the publication of The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter , one of the best-known and most remarkable of eighteenthcentury criminal biographies 1 The D…
Panics and Recriminations
It is clear that convict transportation after 1718 involved a massive effort by the authorities in both England and the colonies. The London government maintained expensive subsidies for shipping felons, and local counties and regions entered into similar, often long-term, arrangements. Equally important were the common interest in criminals which this trade generated, and the exchange of news and cultural representations associated with it. The …
Pedlars in the Outports
The varying willingness to adopt transportation as a regular part of the armoury of punishment is most apparent at the county level, where local magistrates responded to the 1718 Act with everything from apparent enthusiasm to complete indifference. While transportation had figured in the seventeenth century as both a political means of dealing with rebellion, and a judicial method of disposing of those reprieved from the gallows, it is unclear t…
Introduction
In August 1752, a performance of The Beggar’s Opera was advertised at the New Theatre, Upper Marlborough, by the Company of Comedians from Annapolis, capital of Maryland. Whether there were many convicts eager to be in the audience in what one visitor noted as a ‘tobaccohouse’, is not recorded, but there is a certain irony in the fact that England’s best-known dramatic representation of criminals was going to be performed in the colony with the h…
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in th
Running away and returning home
The myth of return – that many English criminals transported to the American colonies ran away and returned home – dominated eighteenth-century views of the punishment. In both criminal biographies and political discussion this was widely believed. Yet data from both sides of the Atlantic suggest that few in fact returned successfully. The systems of surveillance in the colonies, designed to detect and recapture escaping slaves, servants and conv…
The magistrate, the community and the maintenance of an orderly society in eighteenth-century England
The lone magistrate was the central figure of early modern English law enforcement, yet few records of his activities survive. This study of one of the rare notebooks kept by a local J.P. in north-east England in the eighteenth century suggests that his primary purpose was to negotiate peace between disputants rather than to secure prosecution and conviction of those accused of crimes. Prosecutions in court were few. Reconciliation was mixed with…
Eric Josef Carlson, Marriage and the English Reformation . (Oxford
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The Matter In Variance
Journal Article The Matter In Variance: Adolescents and Domestic Conflict in the Pre-Industrial Economy of Northeast England, 1600–1800 Get access Peter Rushton Peter Rushton School of Social Studies, Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland Polytechnic, Douro Terrace, Sunderland SR2 7DX, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 1, Fall 1991, Pages 89–107, https:…
Aspects of the Plot of Jin Ping Mei
This essay will consider three aspects of the plot of JIN PING MEI, its indebtedness to and development out of the SHUI HU ZHUAN (The Water Margin), various representative plotting techniques of the first twenty chapters, and its conclusion. In interpreting the plot of the JIN PING MEI, one must inevitably give some consideration to the fact that the novel has drawn on a vast variety of fictional and dramatic sources. While undoubtedly much more …
Property, Power and Family Networks
Matrimonial disputes (spousals litigation) in the English church courts reveal more than any other source the difficulties in the formation of secure marriages. One crucial factor was the extent of forcible opposition to, or coercion into, relationships when they were still formed through a non-official marriage ceremony. Many wereforced into relationships they subsequently broke, or separated by sanctions of different kinds. Both forms of power …
The Testament of Gifts
Weddings are still great occasions for giving gifts: a couple still accumulate vital necessities as well as luxuries through the generosity offriends and relations. A couple's gifts to each other usually attract less notice, because nowadays they have no significance except perhaps as an indication of wealth or strong feeling. In earlier periods, however, it was often these gifts which were the subject of debate. When, prior to 1753, valid marria…
Victims and villains
The Novel in Seventeenth Century China
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in th
Visible Bodies
Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton; Visible Bodies: Power, Subordination and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Journal of Social History, Volume
Running away and returning home
The myth of return – that many English criminals transported to the American colonies ran away and returned home – dominated eighteenth-century views of the punishment. In both criminal biographies and political discussion this was widely believed. Yet data from both sides of the Atlantic suggest that few in fact returned successfully. The systems of surveillance in the colonies, designed to detect and recapture escaping slaves, servants and conv…
Property, Power and Family Networks
Matrimonial disputes (spousals litigation) in the English church courts reveal more than any other source the difficulties in the formation of secure marriages. One crucial factor was the extent of forcible opposition to, or coercion into, relationships when they were still formed through a non-official marriage ceremony. Many wereforced into relationships they subsequently broke, or separated by sanctions of different kinds. Both forms of power …
The Matter In Variance
Journal Article The Matter In Variance: Adolescents and Domestic Conflict in the Pre-Industrial Economy of Northeast England, 1600–1800 Get access Peter Rushton Peter Rushton School of Social Studies, Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland Polytechnic, Douro Terrace, Sunderland SR2 7DX, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 1, Fall 1991, Pages 89–107, https:…
Victims and villains
The Testament of Gifts
Weddings are still great occasions for giving gifts: a couple still accumulate vital necessities as well as luxuries through the generosity offriends and relations. A couple's gifts to each other usually attract less notice, because nowadays they have no significance except perhaps as an indication of wealth or strong feeling. In earlier periods, however, it was often these gifts which were the subject of debate. When, prior to 1753, valid marria…
Marxism, Domestic Labour and the Capitalist Economy
An Interpretation of Hsi Kʿang's Eighteen Poems Presented to Hsi Hsi on His Entry into the Army
Peter Rushton, , An Interpretation of Hsi Kʿang's Eighteen Poems Presented to Hsi Hsi on His Entry into the Army, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 99, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1979), pp. 175-190
Marxism, Domestic Labour and the Capitalist Economy
A Note on the Survival of Popular Christian Magic
THE magical use of Christian symbols prayers, relics, parts of the 'true cross' or the gospels has been noted as an integral element in the origins of popular magical practices in Europe.' The medieval Church encouraged, or at least tolerated, the use of tokens of faith to provide magical protection for their owners. In this way the language and symbols of Christianity passed into the general pool of popular magic. Yet it is unclear from the evid…
The Novel in Seventeenth Century China
Victims and villains
The Testament of Gifts
Weddings are still great occasions for giving gifts: a couple still accumulate vital necessities as well as luxuries through the generosity offriends and relations. A couple's gifts to each other usually attract less notice, because nowadays they have no significance except perhaps as an indication of wealth or strong feeling. In earlier periods, however, it was often these gifts which were the subject of debate. When, prior to 1753, valid marria…
Aspects of the Plot of Jin Ping Mei
This essay will consider three aspects of the plot of JIN PING MEI, its indebtedness to and development out of the SHUI HU ZHUAN (The Water Margin), various representative plotting techniques of the first twenty chapters, and its conclusion. In interpreting the plot of the JIN PING MEI, one must inevitably give some consideration to the fact that the novel has drawn on a vast variety of fictional and dramatic sources. While undoubtedly much more …
Property, Power and Family Networks
Matrimonial disputes (spousals litigation) in the English church courts reveal more than any other source the difficulties in the formation of secure marriages. One crucial factor was the extent of forcible opposition to, or coercion into, relationships when they were still formed through a non-official marriage ceremony. Many wereforced into relationships they subsequently broke, or separated by sanctions of different kinds. Both forms of power …
The Matter In Variance
Journal Article The Matter In Variance: Adolescents and Domestic Conflict in the Pre-Industrial Economy of Northeast England, 1600–1800 Get access Peter Rushton Peter Rushton School of Social Studies, Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland Polytechnic, Douro Terrace, Sunderland SR2 7DX, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 1, Fall 1991, Pages 89–107, https:…
Eric Josef Carlson, Marriage and the English Reformation . (Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Running away and returning home
The myth of return – that many English criminals transported to the American colonies ran away and returned home – dominated eighteenth-century views of the punishment. In both criminal biographies and political discussion this was widely believed. Yet data from both sides of the Atlantic suggest that few in fact returned successfully. The systems of surveillance in the colonies, designed to detect and recapture escaping slaves, servants and conv…
The magistrate, the community and the maintenance of an orderly society in eighteenth-century England
The lone magistrate was the central figure of early modern English law enforcement, yet few records of his activities survive. This study of one of the rare notebooks kept by a local J.P. in north-east England in the eighteenth century suggests that his primary purpose was to negotiate peace between disputants rather than to secure prosecution and conviction of those accused of crimes. Prosecutions in court were few. Reconciliation was mixed with…
Gangs, Gentlemen and Gypsies
In August 1752 the Maryland Gazette carried a report from Bristol concerning the movement of convicts to Bideford for shipment: Last Monday morning a great number of People resorted before Newgate, to see the 11 transports carried away for Bideford. Ten of the Prisoners were mounted two upon a Horse chain’d. People were chiefly concerned to see [Daniel] Bishop who had murdered his sweetheart. They rode them through the crowd who yelled at him and…
Conclusion
The American Revolution did not end the story of transatlantic convict transportation. As the last ship to arrive before hostitilies fully developed, the Jenny from Newcastle, came in to the Chesapeake to land its cargo in April 1776, no one in Britain imagined that this was the demise of the convict trade to America. 1 In 1769, the Virginia Gazette noted that the Conversation Club in London had debated the question, ‘is transportation a proper m…
Cities, Regions and their Criminals
The early eighteenth century was not a period devoted to the collection and publication of statistics on matters of social concern such as crime. Most efforts were, and remained, private, and commentators were frequently more concerned with economic or trade data than crime. State information on criminal matters, by contrast was confined to records of individual cases and their progress. No one attempted to bring together the scattered decisions …
Flight, Escape and Return
When John Poulter and an accomplice held up a post-chaise belonging to Dr William Hancock on Claverton Down near Bath one Wednesday evening in March 1753, he set in motion a chain of events which led not only to his own execution and a nationwide hunt for his former accomplices, but also to the publication of The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter , one of the best-known and most remarkable of eighteenthcentury criminal biographies 1 The D…
Panics and Recriminations
It is clear that convict transportation after 1718 involved a massive effort by the authorities in both England and the colonies. The London government maintained expensive subsidies for shipping felons, and local counties and regions entered into similar, often long-term, arrangements. Equally important were the common interest in criminals which this trade generated, and the exchange of news and cultural representations associated with it. The …
Pedlars in the Outports
The varying willingness to adopt transportation as a regular part of the armoury of punishment is most apparent at the county level, where local magistrates responded to the 1718 Act with everything from apparent enthusiasm to complete indifference. While transportation had figured in the seventeenth century as both a political means of dealing with rebellion, and a judicial method of disposing of those reprieved from the gallows, it is unclear t…
Introduction
In August 1752, a performance of The Beggar’s Opera was advertised at the New Theatre, Upper Marlborough, by the Company of Comedians from Annapolis, capital of Maryland. Whether there were many convicts eager to be in the audience in what one visitor noted as a ‘tobaccohouse’, is not recorded, but there is a certain irony in the fact that England’s best-known dramatic representation of criminals was going to be performed in the colony with the h…
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in th
Visible Bodies
Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton; Visible Bodies: Power, Subordination and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Journal of Social History, Volume
Print culture, crime and transportation in the criminal Atlantic
Stories of transported criminals were exchanged in the print culture of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, creating images of the incorrigibility of transported criminals and of the failures of transportation, with many either re-offending in America or returning to do so in England. This discourse also framed images that each side of the Atlantic had of the other. The British learnt that the plantations were a place of slavery, the America…
A History of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (review)
Fraud and Freedom
This paper takes three examples of women convicts reinventing themselves in the American colonies, to explore the processes of self-fashioning in the eighteenth century. The fabrication of new identities as a means of survival places female agency at the heart of the stories, yet their appearance in printed and other sources suggests that they were not entirely successful. Thus the deceptions were detected in the British Atlantic world by the cir…
Marks of an Absolute Witch
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