Jeffrey T Manuel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey T Manuel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey T |
| FAMILY NAME | Manuel |
| SIGNATURE | MANUEL J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5273-9198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol
Growing crops for automobile fuel is a major activity of industrial agriculture in the twenty-first century. Yet the history of biofuels, especially outside the United States, remains surprisingly little known. Jennifer Eaglin's Sweet Fuel does a significant service for agricultural historians by documenting a key era in biofuels history: Brazil's national alcohol fuel program. In 1975, Brazil launched a National Ethanol Program, or Proálcool, to…
Lessons from a forgotten fuel: Assessing the long history of alcohol fuel advocacy and use in the United States
Debates over biofuels in the twenty-first century rarely consider the long history of producing and consuming biofuels. This article assesses that long history of biofuels in the United States. First, the article periodizes a century and a half of biofuels into six distinct eras: (1) the camphene era (1830s-1860s) when alcohol was used for illumination, (2) the early automobile era (1900–1920) when alcohol was pitted against gasoline in internal …
The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice by Stephanie A. Malin
Reviewed by: The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice by Stephanie A. Malin Jeffrey T. Manuel (bio) The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice. By Stephanie A. Malin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Pp. 238. Paperback $29.95. Whether nuclear power is sustainable energy is one of the most contentious debates among environmentalists. Sociologist Stephanie A. Malin we…
Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 by Andrew Scott Johnston (review)
Reviewed by: Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 by Andrew Scott Johnston Jeffrey T. Manuel (bio) Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890. By Andrew Scott Johnston. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013. Pp. 336. $45. Mining history, once a somewhat staid subject, has been revitalized in recent years by insights from interdisciplinary fields such as envirotechnica…
Mr. Taconite: Edward W. Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore, 1913-1955
This article describes mining engineer Edward Wilson Davis's decades-long quest to develop an industrial system for mining and milling low-grade magnetic iron ore, also known as taconite, in the mid-twentieth century. Working at the University of Minnesota Mines Experiment Station and with industrialist Daniel Jackling, Davis developed successful taconite milling techniques and launched a commercial venture that revealed significant continuities …
Conservatism and the culture wars: The view from the college classroom
Using Radical Public History Tours to Reframe Urban Crime
This collaborative essay invites historians to consider radical walking tours' potential as a dynamic strategy for critiquing liberal understandings of crime in urban settings. The authors examine two very different cities-New York City and East St. Louis, Illinois-in which existing tours have missed opportunities to redefine the legal and the criminal. Rebecca Amato notes how sensationalist crime tours in New York have obscured more challenging …
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 , by Paul E. Ceruzzi
"Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005, by Paul E. Ceruzzi.." Canadian Journal of History, 45(2), pp. 415–416
The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music's “Social Origins”
Although historians of country music have identified the genre's “social origins” in the plain white folk of the early 20th‐century US South, this article examines how intellectuals, including folklorists, anthropologists, and historians, worked actively to create the category of the plain white folk and how country music was ultimately mapped onto this social category. This intellectual work erased possible interracial connections and establishe…
Engaging with Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy
Does an increased enthusiasm for publicly engaged scholarship and service learning at many universities translate into a tangible commitment for such projects? How can historians reconcile their participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American …
The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music's “Social Origins”
Although historians of country music have identified the genre's “social origins” in the plain white folk of the early 20th‐century US South, this article examines how intellectuals, including folklorists, anthropologists, and historians, worked actively to create the category of the plain white folk and how country music was ultimately mapped onto this social category. This intellectual work erased possible interracial connections and establishe…
Using Radical Public History Tours to Reframe Urban Crime
This collaborative essay invites historians to consider radical walking tours' potential as a dynamic strategy for critiquing liberal understandings of crime in urban settings. The authors examine two very different cities-New York City and East St. Louis, Illinois-in which existing tours have missed opportunities to redefine the legal and the criminal. Rebecca Amato notes how sensationalist crime tours in New York have obscured more challenging …
The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music's “Social Origins”
Although historians of country music have identified the genre's “social origins” in the plain white folk of the early 20th‐century US South, this article examines how intellectuals, including folklorists, anthropologists, and historians, worked actively to create the category of the plain white folk and how country music was ultimately mapped onto this social category. This intellectual work erased possible interracial connections and establishe…
Engaging with Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy
Does an increased enthusiasm for publicly engaged scholarship and service learning at many universities translate into a tangible commitment for such projects? How can historians reconcile their participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American …
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 , by Paul E. Ceruzzi
"Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005, by Paul E. Ceruzzi.." Canadian Journal of History, 45(2), pp. 415–416
Conservatism and the culture wars: The view from the college classroom
Using Radical Public History Tours to Reframe Urban Crime
This collaborative essay invites historians to consider radical walking tours' potential as a dynamic strategy for critiquing liberal understandings of crime in urban settings. The authors examine two very different cities-New York City and East St. Louis, Illinois-in which existing tours have missed opportunities to redefine the legal and the criminal. Rebecca Amato notes how sensationalist crime tours in New York have obscured more challenging …
Mr. Taconite: Edward W. Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore, 1913-1955
This article describes mining engineer Edward Wilson Davis's decades-long quest to develop an industrial system for mining and milling low-grade magnetic iron ore, also known as taconite, in the mid-twentieth century. Working at the University of Minnesota Mines Experiment Station and with industrialist Daniel Jackling, Davis developed successful taconite milling techniques and launched a commercial venture that revealed significant continuities …
Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 by Andrew Scott Johnston (review)
Reviewed by: Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 by Andrew Scott Johnston Jeffrey T. Manuel (bio) Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890. By Andrew Scott Johnston. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013. Pp. 336. $45. Mining history, once a somewhat staid subject, has been revitalized in recent years by insights from interdisciplinary fields such as envirotechnica…
The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice by Stephanie A. Malin
Reviewed by: The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice by Stephanie A. Malin Jeffrey T. Manuel (bio) The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice. By Stephanie A. Malin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Pp. 238. Paperback $29.95. Whether nuclear power is sustainable energy is one of the most contentious debates among environmentalists. Sociologist Stephanie A. Malin we…
Lessons from a forgotten fuel: Assessing the long history of alcohol fuel advocacy and use in the United States
Debates over biofuels in the twenty-first century rarely consider the long history of producing and consuming biofuels. This article assesses that long history of biofuels in the United States. First, the article periodizes a century and a half of biofuels into six distinct eras: (1) the camphene era (1830s-1860s) when alcohol was used for illumination, (2) the early automobile era (1900–1920) when alcohol was pitted against gasoline in internal …
Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol
Growing crops for automobile fuel is a major activity of industrial agriculture in the twenty-first century. Yet the history of biofuels, especially outside the United States, remains surprisingly little known. Jennifer Eaglin's Sweet Fuel does a significant service for agricultural historians by documenting a key era in biofuels history: Brazil's national alcohol fuel program. In 1975, Brazil launched a National Ethanol Program, or Proálcool, to…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Biofuel (2 works)