J E Crowley

Biographic Data

ID18549
NAMEJ E Crowley
GIVEN NAMESJ E
FAMILY NAMECrowley
SIGNATURECROWLEY J E
AFFILIATIONSDalhousie University
ORCID0000-0002-5605-5479
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Exact and Easy: Decimalization in Early Modern England

    J E CrowleyARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2025

    Thanks to the metrological hegemony of the metric system, decimalization is now synonymous with quantitative precision, efficient calculation, and objective understandability. But a historicization of decimalization with respect to measurements reminds us that such objectivity cannot be taken for granted. Using decimal fractions explicitly required that people set aside traditional measurements for money, land, commodities, and time. Two centurie…

  • How Averages Became Normal

    Open AccessJ E CrowleyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Averages became a distinctive form of information in early modern European culture, first in commercial arithmetic, then in natural philosophy, demography, political economy, and eventually in eclectic social analysis. Averaging, in the modern sense of calculating an arithmetic mean by adding up the individual values of cases in a set and then dividing that total by the number of cases, provided an empirical and heuristic resource for understandi…

  • No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic , by Keith Pluymers

    Open AccessJ E CrowleyARTICLENew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…2022

    Despite the stark alternatives of its title, No Wood, No Kingdom presents an extraordinarily varied political ecology of the nascent English/British Atlantic, composed of Great Britain, Ireland, Virginia, Bermuda, and Barbados.To an extent that defies synthesis, conflicts over wood arose in every context, so "political ecology-ideas and practices governing the definition and use of natural resources" (p.4)-was more political than ecological.What …

  • Keith Thomas, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

    Open AccessJ E CrowleyARTICLEJournal of History2019

    "Keith Thomas, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England." Canadian Journal of History, 54(1-2), pp. 183–184

  • The American Revolution: A World War

    Open AccessJ E CrowleyARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    This collection of essays shows how the American colonies' independence depended on an international crisis brought about by their rebellion. Seventeen historians from eight countries (museum curators, public historians, historians of science, historians of the Anglo-American colonial and revolutionary periods, and naval and military historians of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, India, and the United States) provide a multifaceted …

  • Herman Moll’s The World Described (1720): Mapping Britain’s Global and Imperial Interests

    J E Crowley, John CrowleyARTICLEImago Mundi2015

    Herman Moll’s The World Described (1720), the pre-eminent folio atlas of Hanoverian Britain, departs from the usual Ortelian model in the selection and ordering of its contents. It placed Britain at the centre of the atlas so that the first half provided a cartographic description of Britain’s overseas commercial interests, while the second half showed the kingdom’s political interests on the Continent. The argument presented here is that Moll ga…

  • Open Data for Resilience Initiative: Field Guide

    J E Crowley, John CrowleyBOOK2014

    Credible information about risk is an \n essential element of Disaster Risk Management (DRM). \n Thousands of times each year, disasters reveal decisions \n about how to apply this information to the management of \n risk. When a school collapses during a moderate earthquake, \n citizens may point to the failure of the construction firm \n to adhere to building standards, or to the failure of a \n government to enforce building codes, or to the e…

  • Le peuple d'Orwell

    J E Crowley, John Crowley et al.ARTICLEAgone2011

  • Baptists in America

    J E Crowley, John Crowley et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2006

  • Picturing the Caribbean in the Global British Landscape

    J E Crowley, John CrowleyARTICLEStudies in eighteenth century…2003References: 5

    Picturing the Caribbean in the Global British Landscape JOHN E. CROWLEY Topographic representations of British realms increased markedly in the period from the Seven Years' War to the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The topographic impulse in eighteenth-century British landscape art Â-to produce recognizable illustrations of scenes that had been viewed firsthand Â-sought to make a rapidly enlarging British world understandable to the political …

  • The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

    Marie Vazquez Morgan, Marie Morgan et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2002

  • Quality of life in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: Results of a Southwest Oncology Group randomized trial

    Open AccessCarol M Moinpour, Ben Lyons et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2002

  • Le Royaume-Uni, le Commonwealth et l'Europe

    J E CrowleyARTICLEPolitique européenne2002

    La méfiance britannique à l’égard de l’Europe a suivi depuis la 1945 une trajectoire complexe. Loin de refléter une insularité constante, elle exprime des conceptions changeantes de la place du Royaume-Uni dans le monde. Elle se comprend donc mieux à la lumière des autres paramètres de ces conceptions. Parmi ces paramètres, l’article se penche sur le cas spécifique du Commonwealth, qui a représenté pendant la première phase de la construction eur…

  • The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

    Carroll Van West, J E Crowley et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002Cited by: 7

    Commodious Comfort: Hall and Hearth, Chamber and Chimney Chapter 2. Civil Comfort: Mansion Houses Chapter 3. Colonial Comfort: Vernacular and Elegant Options PART II: FROM LUXURY TO COMFORT Chapter 4. Decent Comfort: Candles and Mirrors Chapter 5. Convenient Comfort: Political Economy Chapter 6. Enlightened Comfort: Stoves and Lamps PART III: THE LANDSCAPE OF COMFORT Chapter 7. Picturesque Comfort: The Cottage Chapter 8. Healthy Comfort: The Piaz…

  • The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities & Design in Early Modern Britain & Early America

    Robert Blair St George, J E CrowleyARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    In this fascinating book, John E. Crowley leads the reader on a tour through several centuries of change in Anglo-American material culture. It begins with a description of hall houses and open hearths during the Middle Ages in England and accelerates through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with a discussion of courtesy books and the gradual installation of chimneys and glazed windows. Crowley then grounds us in the “Great Rebuilding” of …

  • Les enjeux politiques du changement climatique. Quels instruments pour quelle justice

    J E Crowley, John CrowleyARTICLECritique internationale2000

  • "In Happier Mansions, Warm, and Dry": The Invention of the Cottage as the Comfortable Anglo-American House

    J E CrowleyARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1997

  • The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution

    Cathy Matson, J E CrowleyARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution. By John E. Crowley. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xviii, 215 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8018-4667-6.) Get access Cathy Matson Cathy Matson University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1679, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution

    David Hancock, David W Hancock et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

    In this volume, John Crowley argues that the US colonies' successful revolt did not mean they wished to end their privileged commercial dependence on Great Britain. From the 1760s through the mid-1790s, in fact, Anglo-American political economists grappled with the transistion from a de jure to a de facto economic dependence of the new states on their former mother country. Crowley shows that the Revolutionaries were not principled free-traders a…

  • The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution

    Saul Cornell, J E Crowley et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1995

  • The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution

    James L Conrad, J E Crowley et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994Cited by: 2

  • In the "Age of Mercantilism," the Revolutionaries were not Economic Liberals after all

    Joseph Albert Ernst, J E Crowley et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • Books

    Harry Goulboume, Karl Atkin et al.ARTICLENew Community1993References: 1

    John Western, A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home London: University College London Press, 1992, 336 pp., £30.00 h.b. W.I.U; Ahmad (ed.), The Politics of ‘Race’ and Health Bradford: Race Relations Research Unit, University of Bradford/Bradford and Ilkley Community College, 1992,157 pp., n.p. p.b. James F. Hollifield, Immigrants, Markets and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard Unive…

  • Le vote secret contre la démocratie américaine (1880-1910)

    J E Crowley, John CrowleyARTICLEPolitix1993

    Le vote secret contre la démocratie américaine. John Crowley. [69-83] Le vote secret est généralement considéré comme un mécanisme éminemment démocratique auquel ne s'opposent que ceux qui rejettent la démocratie elle-même. Pourtant, l'introduction du vote secret (sous la forme du suffrage dit "australien") aux Etats-Unis à la fin du XIXème siècle avait des objectifs explicitement antidémocratiques, et les réalisa très largement. Ce paradoxe ne s…

  • Books

    Eleanor Nesbitt, Parminder Kaur Bakshi et al.ARTICLENew Community1992

    Hasan Askari, Spiritual Quest: An Inter‐Religious Dimension, Pudsey: Seven Mirrors, 1991, 139 pp., £10.00 p.b. Dermot Killingley, Werner Menski and Shirley Finch, Hindu Ritual and Society, Newcastle upon Tyne: S.Y. Killingley, 1991, 92 pp., £8.95 p.b. Martin Palmer, What Should We Teach: Christians and Education in a Pluralist World, Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991, 63 pp., £3.60 p.b. Anne Pattel‐Gray, Through Aboriginal Eyes: The Cry from the Wil…