Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 19092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robertson |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3591-2494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Properties of Digital History
This article offers a definition of digital history that focuses on the core affordances of the personal computer and the process by which those properties come to be exploited. I begin by outlining the two properties of computers that I argue define digital history: they process data and (as Janet H. Murray noted) provide an immersive and interactive medium. I then examine how digital historians in the United States have employed those affordanc…
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
Stranger Danger combines a skillfully constructed, richly detailed narrative of the moral panic about missing and exploited children in the 1970s and 1980s with an analysis of its political and policy consequences that persuasively ties it to the expansion of the carceral state. Paul M. Renfro's consideration of those put in the shadows by the glare of attention given a handful of white, middle-class children ensures that this powerful book offer…
Putting Harlem on the Map
Searching for Anglo-American Digital Legal History
As the fields of digital humanities and digital history have grown in scale and visibility since the 1990s, legal history has largely remained on the margins of those fields. The move to make material available online in the first decade of the web featured only a small number of legal history projects: Famous Trials; Anglo-American Legal Tradition; The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674–1913 . Early efforts to construct hypertext narrati…
Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930
In his review, Joshua Sternfeld points to some of the strengths and weaknesses of Digital Harlem , but ultimately his assessment is skewed because he does not recognize the category of digital scholarship into which the site falls, and he does not evaluate the project in terms of what it is trying to accomplish. Digital Harlem was designed as a research tool to combine and map a heterogeneous set of sources so as to reveal spatial patterns and re…
Alex Goodall. Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era
Fears of subversion burst episodically into the standard narrative of twentieth-century American history, most notably as “red scares,” which are generally presented and studied in isolation from one another. Alex Goodall takes a different approach in this book, exploring an era of countersubversion spanning World War I and the interwar decades. Doing so allows him to bring together three strands of politics: antiradicalism, antifascism, and anti…
Whose Music, Whose Country? Music, Mobilization, and Social Change in North Africa
Social change began to rapidly emerge in many North African states in 2011 and 2012, and this process continues today. Music has been embedded within this process from the beginning and has been a key feature in street protests and expressing group identity that opposed the status quo at the time. The situation has since become extremely complex as group identities have split and merged, but in the early days of social change in Egypt, Tunisia, a…
The Company's Voice in the Workplace: Labor Spies, Propaganda, and Personnel Management, 1918 – 1920
During World War I, a new form of labor spying developed in addition to spying on unions and strikers and doing “efficiency work,” namely, doing “propaganda work.” As a result of the emergence of propaganda combined with increased interest in personnel management, labor spies became the employer's voice in the workplace, repeating arguments drawn from management literature and seeking to change how workers thought about their relationship with th…
Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s
In the 1920s, as Harlem emerged as the largest black city in the world, a significant white presence remained in the neighborhood. Whites not only frequented nightlife, they owned and operated the vast majority of Harlem’s businesses, policed its streets, staffed its schools and hospital, drove its public transport and most of the vehicles traveling its streets, delivered goods, collected rent and insurance payments, and patronized sporting event…
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito
Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist organization perhaps best known as the voting base behind Japan's Clean Government Party (Komeito), constitutes the ethnographic “field” for this recent monograph from t
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or less, would be placed on a daily number derived from U.S. bank statistics. The rewards of “hitting the number,” a 600-to-1 payoff, tempted the ordinary me…
This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s
This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualiz…
Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910—1930
In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This art…
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Journal Article Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. By Regina Kunzel. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-46226-4.) Get access Stephen Robertson Stephen Robertson University of SydneySydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 281–282, https://doi.o…
Longitudinal studies to detect gene×environment interactions in common disease – Bang for your buck? A commentary on Chaufan's “How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their inte…
Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped’: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880–1955
Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886–1955
On February 15, 1886, in a New York City courtroom, Bridget Grady placed her mark on an affidavit charging Bernard Reilly with rape. The twenty-six-year-old servant told the magistrate that in July of the previous year, while her employer was in the country, Reilly had called on her at the east 38th Street home where she worked. he had been Bridget's “steady company” for about three years and had “several times told her that if he married at all,…
Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
Journal Article Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960 Get access Robertson Stephen. Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 337 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Jennifer Trost Jennifer Trost Muskingum College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American…
Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921
This article offers a reconsideration of the campaigns to increase the age of consent as constituting an ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend the concept of childhood, and the protection granted to children, so as to include teenage girls, rather than simply an attempt to regulate female sexuality. Purity reformers' concern to redefine childhood in this way reflected a growing attention to physiological and psychological development in the af…
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psychosexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s-1960s
Journal Article Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psychosexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s–1960s Get access STEPHEN ROBERTSON STEPHEN ROBERTSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 3–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/56.1.3 Published: 01 January 2001
More on the Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Recent decipherments of Classic Maya hieroglyphs (ca. a.d. 250 to 850) reveal phonological and morphological patterns that, through epigraphic and historical analyses, isolate a single, coherent prestige language with unique and widespread features in script. We term this language "Classic Ch'olti'an" and present the evidence for its explicable historical configuration and ancestral affiliation with Eastern Ch'olan languages (Ch'olti' and its sti…
Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Recent decipherments of Classic Maya hieroglyphs (ca. a.d. 250 to 850) reveal phonological and morphological patterns that, through epigraphic and historical analyses, isolate a single, coherent prestige language with unique and widespread features in script. We term this language "Classic Ch'olti'an" and present the evidence for its explicable historical configuration and ancestral affiliation with Eastern Ch'olan languages (Ch'olti' and its sti…
Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped’: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880–1955
Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886–1955
On February 15, 1886, in a New York City courtroom, Bridget Grady placed her mark on an affidavit charging Bernard Reilly with rape. The twenty-six-year-old servant told the magistrate that in July of the previous year, while her employer was in the country, Reilly had called on her at the east 38th Street home where she worked. he had been Bridget's “steady company” for about three years and had “several times told her that if he married at all,…
More on the Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Whose Music, Whose Country? Music, Mobilization, and Social Change in North Africa
Social change began to rapidly emerge in many North African states in 2011 and 2012, and this process continues today. Music has been embedded within this process from the beginning and has been a key feature in street protests and expressing group identity that opposed the status quo at the time. The situation has since become extremely complex as group identities have split and merged, but in the early days of social change in Egypt, Tunisia, a…
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921
This article offers a reconsideration of the campaigns to increase the age of consent as constituting an ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend the concept of childhood, and the protection granted to children, so as to include teenage girls, rather than simply an attempt to regulate female sexuality. Purity reformers' concern to redefine childhood in this way reflected a growing attention to physiological and psychological development in the af…
Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psychosexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s-1960s
Journal Article Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psychosexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s–1960s Get access STEPHEN ROBERTSON STEPHEN ROBERTSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 3–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/56.1.3 Published: 01 January 2001
Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930
In his review, Joshua Sternfeld points to some of the strengths and weaknesses of Digital Harlem , but ultimately his assessment is skewed because he does not recognize the category of digital scholarship into which the site falls, and he does not evaluate the project in terms of what it is trying to accomplish. Digital Harlem was designed as a research tool to combine and map a heterogeneous set of sources so as to reveal spatial patterns and re…
This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s
This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualiz…
Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910—1930
In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This art…
Sociological Interpretation of Religion
Women Workers and the New Zealand Arbitration Court, 1894-1920
Feminist historians have shown how the Australian arbitration system sustained and systematised the advantages of men over women in the workplace; the arbitration system acted as an agent in the construction of gender in the paid workforce and set the rate for 'women's work' at just over half the rate for 'men's work'.2 The impact on women of the only other arbitration system in the world, that of New Zealand, has not received any attention. The …
Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Recent decipherments of Classic Maya hieroglyphs (ca. a.d. 250 to 850) reveal phonological and morphological patterns that, through epigraphic and historical analyses, isolate a single, coherent prestige language with unique and widespread features in script. We term this language "Classic Ch'olti'an" and present the evidence for its explicable historical configuration and ancestral affiliation with Eastern Ch'olan languages (Ch'olti' and its sti…
Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psychosexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s-1960s
Journal Article Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psychosexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s–1960s Get access STEPHEN ROBERTSON STEPHEN ROBERTSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 3–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/56.1.3 Published: 01 January 2001
More on the Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921
This article offers a reconsideration of the campaigns to increase the age of consent as constituting an ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend the concept of childhood, and the protection granted to children, so as to include teenage girls, rather than simply an attempt to regulate female sexuality. Purity reformers' concern to redefine childhood in this way reflected a growing attention to physiological and psychological development in the af…
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped’: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880–1955
Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886–1955
On February 15, 1886, in a New York City courtroom, Bridget Grady placed her mark on an affidavit charging Bernard Reilly with rape. The twenty-six-year-old servant told the magistrate that in July of the previous year, while her employer was in the country, Reilly had called on her at the east 38th Street home where she worked. he had been Bridget's “steady company” for about three years and had “several times told her that if he married at all,…
Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
Journal Article Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960 Get access Robertson Stephen. Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 337 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Jennifer Trost Jennifer Trost Muskingum College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American…
Longitudinal studies to detect gene×environment interactions in common disease – Bang for your buck? A commentary on Chaufan's “How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their inte…
Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910—1930
In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This art…
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Journal Article Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. By Regina Kunzel. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-46226-4.) Get access Stephen Robertson Stephen Robertson University of SydneySydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 281–282, https://doi.o…
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or less, would be placed on a daily number derived from U.S. bank statistics. The rewards of “hitting the number,” a 600-to-1 payoff, tempted the ordinary me…
This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s
This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualiz…
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
The Company's Voice in the Workplace: Labor Spies, Propaganda, and Personnel Management, 1918 – 1920
During World War I, a new form of labor spying developed in addition to spying on unions and strikers and doing “efficiency work,” namely, doing “propaganda work.” As a result of the emergence of propaganda combined with increased interest in personnel management, labor spies became the employer's voice in the workplace, repeating arguments drawn from management literature and seeking to change how workers thought about their relationship with th…
Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s
In the 1920s, as Harlem emerged as the largest black city in the world, a significant white presence remained in the neighborhood. Whites not only frequented nightlife, they owned and operated the vast majority of Harlem’s businesses, policed its streets, staffed its schools and hospital, drove its public transport and most of the vehicles traveling its streets, delivered goods, collected rent and insurance payments, and patronized sporting event…
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito
Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist organization perhaps best known as the voting base behind Japan's Clean Government Party (Komeito), constitutes the ethnographic “field” for this recent monograph from t
Alex Goodall. Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era
Fears of subversion burst episodically into the standard narrative of twentieth-century American history, most notably as “red scares,” which are generally presented and studied in isolation from one another. Alex Goodall takes a different approach in this book, exploring an era of countersubversion spanning World War I and the interwar decades. Doing so allows him to bring together three strands of politics: antiradicalism, antifascism, and anti…
Whose Music, Whose Country? Music, Mobilization, and Social Change in North Africa
Social change began to rapidly emerge in many North African states in 2011 and 2012, and this process continues today. Music has been embedded within this process from the beginning and has been a key feature in street protests and expressing group identity that opposed the status quo at the time. The situation has since become extremely complex as group identities have split and merged, but in the early days of social change in Egypt, Tunisia, a…
Searching for Anglo-American Digital Legal History
As the fields of digital humanities and digital history have grown in scale and visibility since the 1990s, legal history has largely remained on the margins of those fields. The move to make material available online in the first decade of the web featured only a small number of legal history projects: Famous Trials; Anglo-American Legal Tradition; The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674–1913 . Early efforts to construct hypertext narrati…
Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930
In his review, Joshua Sternfeld points to some of the strengths and weaknesses of Digital Harlem , but ultimately his assessment is skewed because he does not recognize the category of digital scholarship into which the site falls, and he does not evaluate the project in terms of what it is trying to accomplish. Digital Harlem was designed as a research tool to combine and map a heterogeneous set of sources so as to reveal spatial patterns and re…
Putting Harlem on the Map
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