Ronald Edsforth

Biographic Data

ID2129360
NAMERonald Edsforth
GIVEN NAMESRonald
FAMILY NAMEEdsforth
SIGNATUREEDSFORTH R
AFFILIATIONSDartmouth College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age

    Ronald Edsforth, Sheila L Ager et al.BOOKA Cultural History of Peace in…2020

    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meani…

  • A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity

    Sheila L Ager, Walter Simons et al.BOOKA Cultural History of Peace in…2020

    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of pe…

  • A Great Leap Forward

    Ronald EdsforthARTICLEJournal of American History2012Cited by: 9

    Alexander J. Field presents a convincing case for a “novel claim: potential output grew dramatically across the Depression years” (p. 1). As a result, his book is a compelling argument that the record-high total productivity gains (or total factor productivity [tfp]) of 1929–1941 were the real bases for the successes of the war economy and for the “golden age” (1948–1973) of mass consumer prosperity (p. 106). The first and longest part of this im…

  • History by Hollywood

    Ronald Edsforth, Robert Brent Toplin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. By Robert Brent Toplin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xvi, 267 pp. and Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. By Robert Burgoyne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. x, 137 pp. Get access Ronald Edsforth Ronald Edsforth Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…

  • Autowork

    Robert H Zieger, Robert Asher et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1997

  • The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit

    Ronald Edsforth, Nelson LichtensteinARTICLEJournal of American History1996Cited by: 4

    Journal Article The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor. By Nelson Lichtenstein. (New York: BasicBooks, 1995. xiv, 575 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-465-09080-X.) Get access Ronald Edsforth Ronald Edsforth Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 685–686, https://doi.org/10.…

  • Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America

    Clayton R Koppes, Ronald Edsforth et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America. Ed. by Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. x + 222 pp. Cloth, $44.50, ISBN 0-7914-0765-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-7914-0766-7.) Get access Clayton R. Koppes Clayton R. Koppes Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages…

  • The Past is Political

    Ronald Edsforth, Dorothy Sue Cobble et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • Building the Union

    Ronald Edsforth, Steve BabsonARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW. By Steve Babson. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xiv + 298 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-1657-9.) Get access Ronald Edsforth Ronald Edsforth Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 712–713, http…

  • The fragmentation of working class America

    Ronald EdsforthARTICLELabor History1991

  • On the Line

    Ronald Edsforth, Nelson Lichtenstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. Ed. by Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. x + 256 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Ronald Edsforth Ronald Edsforth Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1114–1115, https://doi.org/…

  • The Perils of Status Anxiety

    Ronald Edsforth, Donald Finlay DavisARTICLEReviews in American History1989

  • The Automobile Age

    Ronald Edsforth, James J FlinkARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article The Automobile Age. By James J. Flink. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. xiv + 456 pp. $25.00.) Get access Ronald Edsforth Ronald Edsforth Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Page 632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908071 Published: 01 September 1989

  • Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus

    Douglas Reynolds, Douglas R Reynolds et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1989

  • Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus

    Richard Oestreicher, Ronald EdsforthARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. By Ronald Edsforth. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xvii + 294 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $20.00.) Get access Richard Oestreicher Richard Oestreicher University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1089…