Stephen Auerbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 207387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Auerbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Auerbach |
| SIGNATURE | AUERBACH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7868-791X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Origins of Modern Public Health in Anglo-Caribbean Slavery, 1764–1790
This article seeks to reframe the historical origins of modern public health in the Atlantic World geographically, chronologically, and ideologically. Historians working in the British context have customarily located the origins of modern public health in the metropolitan sanitary reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s, associating it with the ideologies of liberalism and Utilitarianism. In contrast, I relocate these origins to the Anglo-Caribb…
To Go and Look for Law’: Late-Stage Slavery, Amelioration, and the Colonial State in the British Crown Colonies
Focusing on the Anglo-Caribbean and the Cape Colony, this article examines how ‘going to law’ became a common practice in the early nineteenth century as enslaved men and women sought to engage the new rights and resources made available by the process of ‘ameliorating’ slavery. These interactions shaped the character of colonial governance in a multitude of ways, from altering the approaches of officials to prompting public debates over rights, …
The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy Browne (review)
Recent work on indenture in the British World
This article provides an overview of the historiography of indentured labor in the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a brief narrative of the origin and definition of indenture. It traces the evolution of the history of indenture in the “British World” (defined here as the areas under both formal and informal British imperial control) from a neglected field to a major focus of historical study. The final section summarizes the current state of …
Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean
This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal and cultural processes that took place in the half-century following emancipation. Whereas indenture plays a tertiary role in these previous analyses, it is the central concern of this article. Throug…
You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18
This article presents the wartime state in the local context and looks at how the daily activity of local courts and police changed dramatically during the wartime period. It also assesses the complex role that police and local courtrooms played with regards to ethnicity and nationalism. The increasing authority of local courtrooms and the enhanced powers of policing, I argue, amplified the role of the state in certain aspects of London life, but…
The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism, by Antoinette Burton
It is rare to encounter a book that directly and effectively challenges the central paradigms of its field, and rarer still for one to do so successfully. In this book, Antoinette Burton, one of the founding scholars of the ‘New Imperial History’, takes up this task with her characteristic verve. The ‘trouble’, she writes, is that the grand ‘rise and fall’ narrative which dominates most histories, even those that focus on its failings and ultimat…
Beyond the Pale of Mercy”: Victorian Penal Culture, Police Court Missionaries, and the Origins of Probation in England
One of the most striking changes in the penal culture of fin-de-siècle Europe was England's reform of adjudication and punishment. In this “de-moralization of criminality,” the system began to shed its punitive sentencing, which often saw minor offenders imprisoned with hard labor for weeks or months, to adopt a more moderate system of penalties. These concrete changes were intertwined with a broader shift in British criminological thinking from …
Margaret Tart, Lao She, and the Opium-Master's Wife: Race and Class among Chinese Commercial Immigrants in London and Australia, 1866-1929
What little has been written about Chinese immigrants in the British Empire has focused mainly on laborers, commonly known as 'coolies,' and their roles in imperial society, culture, and industry. Chinese commercial immigrants, though they loomed large in public dialogues about race, migration, and empire, have been virtually ignored. This article examines how such immigrants were represented, and how two prominent individuals represented themsel…
The Law Has No Feeling for Poor Folks Like Us: Everyday Responses to Legal Compulsion in England's Working-Class Communities, 1871-1904
During the late Victorian period, the role of the state increased dramatically in England's working-class urban communities. New laws on labor, health, and education, enforced by a growing bureaucracy of elected and appointed officials, extended the reach of public authority into daily life on an unprecedented scale. Everyday negotiations between these officials and working-class men and women, I argue, were key moments for determining the practi…
A Right Sort of Man”: Gender, Class Identity, and Social Reform in Late-Victorian Britain
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Epilogue
Even as East End magistrates and police were shutting down cafés where interracial social contact reportedly took place, raiding Chinese gambling houses, and deporting the Chinese men accused of running them, international pressure was growing for Britain to bring its domestic narcotics laws into line with the stipulations of the 1912 international Hague Opium Convention. The incorporation of the latter into the Treaty of Versailles, combined wit…
Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain
In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fictiona
Some Punishment Should Be Devised”: Parents, Children, and the State in Victorian London
The uncultivated cannot be competent judges of cultivation.Those who most need to be made wiser and better, usually desire it the least, and if they desired it, would be incapable of finding the way to it by their own lights.-John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1848)What any of us does in our own lives is a private matter-a precious and inalienable right.But once we enter the job market or national and local authority domains, or t…
Negotiating Nationalism: Jewish Conscription and Russian Repatriation in London's East End, 1916–1918
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The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution , by Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Ethnology: Fellahs tunisiens: l'economie rurale et la vie des campagnes aux 18e et 19e siècles. Lucette Valensi
Negotiating Nationalism: Jewish Conscription and Russian Repatriation in London's East End, 1916–1918
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
Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean
This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal and cultural processes that took place in the half-century following emancipation. Whereas indenture plays a tertiary role in these previous analyses, it is the central concern of this article. Throug…
You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18
This article presents the wartime state in the local context and looks at how the daily activity of local courts and police changed dramatically during the wartime period. It also assesses the complex role that police and local courtrooms played with regards to ethnicity and nationalism. The increasing authority of local courtrooms and the enhanced powers of policing, I argue, amplified the role of the state in certain aspects of London life, but…
Margaret Tart, Lao She, and the Opium-Master's Wife: Race and Class among Chinese Commercial Immigrants in London and Australia, 1866-1929
What little has been written about Chinese immigrants in the British Empire has focused mainly on laborers, commonly known as 'coolies,' and their roles in imperial society, culture, and industry. Chinese commercial immigrants, though they loomed large in public dialogues about race, migration, and empire, have been virtually ignored. This article examines how such immigrants were represented, and how two prominent individuals represented themsel…
A Right Sort of Man”: Gender, Class Identity, and Social Reform in Late-Victorian Britain
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
Ethnology: Fellahs tunisiens: l'economie rurale et la vie des campagnes aux 18e et 19e siècles. Lucette Valensi
The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution , by Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Negotiating Nationalism: Jewish Conscription and Russian Repatriation in London's East End, 1916–1918
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
Epilogue
Even as East End magistrates and police were shutting down cafés where interracial social contact reportedly took place, raiding Chinese gambling houses, and deporting the Chinese men accused of running them, international pressure was growing for Britain to bring its domestic narcotics laws into line with the stipulations of the 1912 international Hague Opium Convention. The incorporation of the latter into the Treaty of Versailles, combined wit…
Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain
In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fictiona
Some Punishment Should Be Devised”: Parents, Children, and the State in Victorian London
The uncultivated cannot be competent judges of cultivation.Those who most need to be made wiser and better, usually desire it the least, and if they desired it, would be incapable of finding the way to it by their own lights.-John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1848)What any of us does in our own lives is a private matter-a precious and inalienable right.But once we enter the job market or national and local authority domains, or t…
A Right Sort of Man”: Gender, Class Identity, and Social Reform in Late-Victorian Britain
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
The Law Has No Feeling for Poor Folks Like Us: Everyday Responses to Legal Compulsion in England's Working-Class Communities, 1871-1904
During the late Victorian period, the role of the state increased dramatically in England's working-class urban communities. New laws on labor, health, and education, enforced by a growing bureaucracy of elected and appointed officials, extended the reach of public authority into daily life on an unprecedented scale. Everyday negotiations between these officials and working-class men and women, I argue, were key moments for determining the practi…
Margaret Tart, Lao She, and the Opium-Master's Wife: Race and Class among Chinese Commercial Immigrants in London and Australia, 1866-1929
What little has been written about Chinese immigrants in the British Empire has focused mainly on laborers, commonly known as 'coolies,' and their roles in imperial society, culture, and industry. Chinese commercial immigrants, though they loomed large in public dialogues about race, migration, and empire, have been virtually ignored. This article examines how such immigrants were represented, and how two prominent individuals represented themsel…
Beyond the Pale of Mercy”: Victorian Penal Culture, Police Court Missionaries, and the Origins of Probation in England
One of the most striking changes in the penal culture of fin-de-siècle Europe was England's reform of adjudication and punishment. In this “de-moralization of criminality,” the system began to shed its punitive sentencing, which often saw minor offenders imprisoned with hard labor for weeks or months, to adopt a more moderate system of penalties. These concrete changes were intertwined with a broader shift in British criminological thinking from …
You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18
This article presents the wartime state in the local context and looks at how the daily activity of local courts and police changed dramatically during the wartime period. It also assesses the complex role that police and local courtrooms played with regards to ethnicity and nationalism. The increasing authority of local courtrooms and the enhanced powers of policing, I argue, amplified the role of the state in certain aspects of London life, but…
The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism, by Antoinette Burton
It is rare to encounter a book that directly and effectively challenges the central paradigms of its field, and rarer still for one to do so successfully. In this book, Antoinette Burton, one of the founding scholars of the ‘New Imperial History’, takes up this task with her characteristic verve. The ‘trouble’, she writes, is that the grand ‘rise and fall’ narrative which dominates most histories, even those that focus on its failings and ultimat…
Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean
This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal and cultural processes that took place in the half-century following emancipation. Whereas indenture plays a tertiary role in these previous analyses, it is the central concern of this article. Throug…
Recent work on indenture in the British World
This article provides an overview of the historiography of indentured labor in the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a brief narrative of the origin and definition of indenture. It traces the evolution of the history of indenture in the “British World” (defined here as the areas under both formal and informal British imperial control) from a neglected field to a major focus of historical study. The final section summarizes the current state of …
The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy Browne (review)
The Origins of Modern Public Health in Anglo-Caribbean Slavery, 1764–1790
This article seeks to reframe the historical origins of modern public health in the Atlantic World geographically, chronologically, and ideologically. Historians working in the British context have customarily located the origins of modern public health in the metropolitan sanitary reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s, associating it with the ideologies of liberalism and Utilitarianism. In contrast, I relocate these origins to the Anglo-Caribb…
To Go and Look for Law’: Late-Stage Slavery, Amelioration, and the Colonial State in the British Crown Colonies
Focusing on the Anglo-Caribbean and the Cape Colony, this article examines how ‘going to law’ became a common practice in the early nineteenth century as enslaved men and women sought to engage the new rights and resources made available by the process of ‘ameliorating’ slavery. These interactions shaped the character of colonial governance in a multitude of ways, from altering the approaches of officials to prompting public debates over rights, …
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