James E Mcwilliams
Biographic Data
| ID | 1460595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James E Mcwilliams |
| GIVEN NAMES | James E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcwilliams |
| SIGNATURE | MCWILLIAMS J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Worshipping Weeds
A careful consideration of how colonial and early Americans discussed weeds lends insight into the ways that common settlers aligned agricultural expectations with ecological realities. Current examinations of transatlantic exchanges of floral biomass have done an admirable job of showing how desirable plants that explorers obtained (and sometimes purloined) on the periphery of the empire enhanced the commercial, medical, and biological interests…
Butter, Milk, and a “Spare Ribb”
Exploring the generally unappreciated connection between local economic behavior and the emergence of larger commercial endeavors in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, the article demonstrates, through a close analysis of contemporary account books, that “women's work” was a vital element in the colony's pivotal transition to a transatlantic economy
American Pests
James E. McWilliams's book seeks to frame within a paradox a comprehensive interpretation of agricultural insect pests from colonial times to the present. He argues that Americans sought to control nature for economic development but that insecticides undermined the ultimate goal. McWilliams recounts the contributions of early scientists such as Timothy Dwight (president of Yale University), Thaddeus William Harris (librarian at Harvard Universit…
The Horizon Opened up Very Greatly
The transition to synthetic chemicals as a popular method of insect control in the United States was one of the most critical developments in the history of American agriculture. Historians of agriculture have effectively identified the rise and charted the dominance of early chemical insecticides as they came to define commercial agriculture between the emergence of Paris green in the 1870s and the popularity of DDT in the 1940s and beyond. Less…
Food in World History
Journal Article Food in World History Get access James E. McWilliams James E. McWilliams Texas State University , San [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 360–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl025 Published: 01 August 2006
A Revolution in Eating
Introduction: Getting to the Guts of American Food1. Adaptability: The Bittersweet Culinary History of the English West Indies2. Traditionalism: The Greatest Accomplishment of Colonial New England3. Negotiation: Living High and Low on the Hog in the Chesapeake Bay Region4. Wilderness: The Fruitless Search for Culinary Order in Carolina5. Diversity: Refined Crudeness in the Middle Colonies6. Consumption: The British Invasion7. Intoxication: Findin…
How Unripe We Are”
This article demonstrates the political and cultural consequences of food production as they played out during the Revolutionary era. The Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary War itself demonstrated that access to food was inseparable from access to freedom. After delineating this political education, the article goes on to show how Americans drew heavily on a specific intellectual construction of food in order to distinguish themselves from wh…
New England's First Depression
Historians of New England's economy traditionally explain the region's recovery from its first depression, which lasted from the early to the mid-1640s, by Massachusetts' export of surplus goods to transatlantic markets (primarily in the West Indies). This conventional interpretation, however, overlooks the timing of the sugar transition in the West Indies as well as the inability of the Bay Colony's local infrastructure at that point to sustain …
Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Late-Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
James E. McWilliams, Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Late-Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay: The Case of Joshua Buffum, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 355-384
Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690
W HEN Puritan emigrants traveled across the Atlantic to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they carried with them ample quantities of their favorite beverage. Just how essential they considered the drink to be is glimpsed in a comment by New World promoter William Wood. Touting the colony's water as the best on earth, he nonetheless conceded that yet I dare not prefer it before a good Beere.' When the Talbot arrived in 1628 carrying water, bread, beef…
The Horizon Opened up Very Greatly
The transition to synthetic chemicals as a popular method of insect control in the United States was one of the most critical developments in the history of American agriculture. Historians of agriculture have effectively identified the rise and charted the dominance of early chemical insecticides as they came to define commercial agriculture between the emergence of Paris green in the 1870s and the popularity of DDT in the 1940s and beyond. Less…
Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690
W HEN Puritan emigrants traveled across the Atlantic to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they carried with them ample quantities of their favorite beverage. Just how essential they considered the drink to be is glimpsed in a comment by New World promoter William Wood. Touting the colony's water as the best on earth, he nonetheless conceded that yet I dare not prefer it before a good Beere.' When the Talbot arrived in 1628 carrying water, bread, beef…
Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Late-Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
James E. McWilliams, Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Late-Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay: The Case of Joshua Buffum, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 355-384
New England's First Depression
Historians of New England's economy traditionally explain the region's recovery from its first depression, which lasted from the early to the mid-1640s, by Massachusetts' export of surplus goods to transatlantic markets (primarily in the West Indies). This conventional interpretation, however, overlooks the timing of the sugar transition in the West Indies as well as the inability of the Bay Colony's local infrastructure at that point to sustain …
How Unripe We Are”
This article demonstrates the political and cultural consequences of food production as they played out during the Revolutionary era. The Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary War itself demonstrated that access to food was inseparable from access to freedom. After delineating this political education, the article goes on to show how Americans drew heavily on a specific intellectual construction of food in order to distinguish themselves from wh…
Food in World History
Journal Article Food in World History Get access James E. McWilliams James E. McWilliams Texas State University , San [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 360–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl025 Published: 01 August 2006
A Revolution in Eating
Introduction: Getting to the Guts of American Food1. Adaptability: The Bittersweet Culinary History of the English West Indies2. Traditionalism: The Greatest Accomplishment of Colonial New England3. Negotiation: Living High and Low on the Hog in the Chesapeake Bay Region4. Wilderness: The Fruitless Search for Culinary Order in Carolina5. Diversity: Refined Crudeness in the Middle Colonies6. Consumption: The British Invasion7. Intoxication: Findin…
The Horizon Opened up Very Greatly
The transition to synthetic chemicals as a popular method of insect control in the United States was one of the most critical developments in the history of American agriculture. Historians of agriculture have effectively identified the rise and charted the dominance of early chemical insecticides as they came to define commercial agriculture between the emergence of Paris green in the 1870s and the popularity of DDT in the 1940s and beyond. Less…
Butter, Milk, and a “Spare Ribb”
Exploring the generally unappreciated connection between local economic behavior and the emergence of larger commercial endeavors in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, the article demonstrates, through a close analysis of contemporary account books, that “women's work” was a vital element in the colony's pivotal transition to a transatlantic economy
American Pests
James E. McWilliams's book seeks to frame within a paradox a comprehensive interpretation of agricultural insect pests from colonial times to the present. He argues that Americans sought to control nature for economic development but that insecticides undermined the ultimate goal. McWilliams recounts the contributions of early scientists such as Timothy Dwight (president of Yale University), Thaddeus William Harris (librarian at Harvard Universit…
Worshipping Weeds
A careful consideration of how colonial and early Americans discussed weeds lends insight into the ways that common settlers aligned agricultural expectations with ecological realities. Current examinations of transatlantic exchanges of floral biomass have done an admirable job of showing how desirable plants that explorers obtained (and sometimes purloined) on the periphery of the empire enhanced the commercial, medical, and biological interests…
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