Michael J Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 228975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0552-7402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers
Aronowitz, Stanley (1933–2021)
As one of the most important activist intellectuals in America, Stanley Aronowitz made several important interventions in US sociology, including the introduction of critical theory to US sociology; the critique of orthodox Marxism and the reconstruction of historical materialism; a novel interpretation of the US labor movement past and present; a radical critique of conventional education; and an engagement with British cultural studies, psychoa…
Television at Work: Industrial Media and American Labor
Philip Hardie: Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry
As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin
Waves of simulation: Arguing authenticity in an era of surfing the hyperreal
This article is an examination of the impact of new, technologically sophisticated wave pools upon the culture of surfers. Appropriating the concepts of simulation from the work of postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard, and mechanical reproduction from the critical theorist Walter Benjamin, we consider how the spectre of perfectly simulated waves in controlled environments has signaled a new era in the history of the social construction and contes…
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Critical Sociology
In Search of the Wanderer and Free Spirits: The Ascetic Absence of Nietzsche in American Sociology
This article examines the unfortunate absence of Nietzsche from sociological theory as it is practiced and reproduced in American sociology. The first part discusses how Talcott Parsons erased the presence of Nietzsche from Weber's work as part of a larger ideological maneuver to provide a theoretical grounding for the belief in American exceptionalism. The second part of the article compares and contrasts Nietzsche to the conventional sociology …
Twilight of Work: The Labor Question in Nietzsche and Marx
This essay is an intervention into the debate regarding the possibility and/or desirability of articulating Nietzsche with Marx as a means to expand upon the foundations of critical social theory. Critics who oppose such an articulation do so because they see Nietzsche's political views as elitist, if not reactionary, and therefore incompatible with any Marxist-influenced theoretical project. On the other hand, theorists who do attempt such an ar…
Class: The Anthology
Lactantius’s Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics
This chapter discusses the poem De aue phoenice of L. Cae(ci)lius Firmianus Lactantius and demonstrates how it foreshadows many of the features of subsequent late Latin poetry: generic indeterminacy, an increased emphasis on description at the expense of narrative, and the prominence of ceremony. In particular, despite the absence of overt Christian references, its treatment of the bird’s liturgical service to the sun carries a metapoetic signifi…
Comparing and combining process-based crop models and statistical models with some implications for climate change
We compare predictions of a simple process-based crop model (Soltani and Sinclair 2012), a simple statistical model (Schlenker and Roberts 2009), and a combination of both models to actual maize yields on a large, representative sample of farmer-managed fields in the Corn Belt region of the United States. After statistical post-model calibration, the process model (Simple Simulation Model, or SSM) predicts actual outcomes slightly better than the…
Turning the race-class dialectic on its head: The case of an AFL union
Using his research into the American Federation of Musicians, the author shows how those trained in jazz and classical music responded negatively to the emergence of jump blues and rock-and-roll music in the late 1940s. Interracial solidarity within the union was made possible in part by the creation of a particular class distinction based on taste, formed through musical training and performance. Though it has been customary for followers of W. …
Greater Sensitivity to Drought Accompanies Maize Yield Increase in the U.S. Midwest
Predicting Responses to Drought The U.S. Corn Belt accounts for a sizeable portion of the world's maize growth. Various influences have increased yields over the years. Lobell et al. (p. 516 ; see the Perspective by Ort and Long ) now show that sensitivity to drought has been increasing as well. It seems that as plants have been bred for increased yield under ideal conditions, the plants become more sensitive to non-ideal conditions. A key factor…
Inventing the Victorian age: The Greville Diary and its Early Critics
Journal Article Inventing the Victorian age: the Greville Diary and its Early Critics Get access M.J.D. Roberts M.J.D. Roberts 1Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2013, Pages 350–367, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.824694 Published: 01 September 2013
Gladstonian Liberalism and Environment Protection, 1865-76
Historians have, in recent times, produced a considerable literature attempting to interpret the motives of Victorian pioneers of concern for the preservation of 'natural' environments and to evaluate the cultural implications of the attitudes, which they aimed to promote. Yet no systematic study so far exists of the earliest and most politically effective Victorian movement for environmental protection-the campaign for the protection from commer…
Late Roman Elegy
This article highlights that elegy in the late Roman period was highly adaptable to subject matter, its form serving a variety of purposes, from the martyrdom of St Hippolytus to Christian moral instruction to the later life musings on earlier affairs by the mid-sixth-century Maximianus. The poems of Rutilius Namatianius, Orientius, and Maximianus represent the most ambitious and longest elegies from late antiquity. Venantius Fortunatus enhances …
The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion – By Dominic Erdozain
Evangelicalism and Scandal in Victorian England: The Case of the Pearsall Smiths
Contemporary, sociology‐assisted, enthusiasm for the study of ‘scandal’ has opened a rich field of possibilities for historians of Victorian England including historians of Victorian religious thought and practice. While exploration of this field has so far focused on the scandals of the culturally marginalized (notably Roman Catholics), the role of scandal in shaping mainstream Protestant evangelical culture in an age of ‘media‐generated celebri…
Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy produced and are thus critical for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level yields for these two crops, plus cotton (a warmer-weather crop), with a new fine-scale weather dataset that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures within each day and across all days in the growin…
The Deathbed of Lord Palmerston: An Episode in Victorian Cultural History
Lord Palmerston died on 18 October 1865, still prime minister at the age of eighty. He was given a state funeral in Westminster Abbey on 27 October. By that time his stepson-in-law, Lord Shaftesbury, had begun spreading the word to a half-believing, half-unpersuaded public that Palmerston had died ‘the good [evangelical] death’, confessing in his last moments not only his sins but his belief in a life to come for all penitent believers in Christ'…
Between Fame and Eccentricity: John ‘Rob Roy’ Macgregor, Almost Eminent Victorian
This paper celebrates Jill Roe’s contribution to the study of biography by exploring some changing attitudes to the purpose of biography in nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the authorised biography of an – to modern eyes – eccentric ‘muscular Christian‘, John MacGregor, the paper traces a mutation in audience expectation from a view of biography as ‘exemplary’ in a moral or religious sense to a view of it as exemplary in a cultural sense …
Creation in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Latin Poets of Late Antiquity
In the Latin poetry of late antiquity, the influence of Virgil is all pervasive. Ovid, typically, comes second, though a distant second. But Ovidian references and allusions recur with sufficient frequency throughout the period from the fourth to the sixth centuries to leave no doubt that both poets and readers were familiar with and continued to derive inspiration from his poetry: to take three examples, in the fifth century (probably), an anony…
To bridle the falsehood of unconscionable workmen, and for her own satisfaction’: What the Jacobean housewife needed to know about men's work, and why
The concept of luxury in British political economy: Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
In the discourse of 18th-century British intellectuals the term 'luxury' held a well-recognized and much disputed place. Dispute arose chiefly around the problem of disentangling the economic, moral-theological and political strands of the term. The object of the present paper is to trace forward the history of debate over the concept along one develop ing line of specialization - that of 19th-century political economy. It will be seen how the te…
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Victorian feminists faced a dilemma in their dealings with the state. This dilemma intensified in the years following the 1867 Reform Act. Radical feminist leaders (Josephine Butler, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Wolstenholme) eagerly adopted an ‘equality before the law’ stance in order to link women's credentials for citizenship with conventional principles of liberal individualism. Yet the same leaders were recurrently angered and frightened by the s…
Sickels and Scythes: Women's Work and Men's Work at Harvest Time
Sickels and Scythes: Women's Work and Men's Work at Harvest Time Michael Roberts Michael Roberts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, SPRING 1979, Pages 3–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/7.1.3 Published: 01 March 1979
The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its Early Critics, 1802–1812
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Public and private in early nineteenth‐century London: The vagrant act of 1822 and its enforcement∗
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Victorian feminists faced a dilemma in their dealings with the state. This dilemma intensified in the years following the 1867 Reform Act. Radical feminist leaders (Josephine Butler, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Wolstenholme) eagerly adopted an ‘equality before the law’ stance in order to link women's credentials for citizenship with conventional principles of liberal individualism. Yet the same leaders were recurrently angered and frightened by the s…
Rereading Marx and Nietzsche
Twilight of Work: The Labor Question in Nietzsche and Marx
This essay is an intervention into the debate regarding the possibility and/or desirability of articulating Nietzsche with Marx as a means to expand upon the foundations of critical social theory. Critics who oppose such an articulation do so because they see Nietzsche's political views as elitist, if not reactionary, and therefore incompatible with any Marxist-influenced theoretical project. On the other hand, theorists who do attempt such an ar…
Private Patronage and the Church of England, 1800–1900
It is well known that, during the nineteenth century in England, there was widespread criticism of the traditional professions. Their members, it was alleged, formed an excessively privileged group owing their position more to patronage than to personal merit or competence. It is equally well known that patronage was believed to be particularly rampant in the nineteenth-century Church of England. (The novels of Trollope have ensured this.) It has…
Waves of simulation: Arguing authenticity in an era of surfing the hyperreal
This article is an examination of the impact of new, technologically sophisticated wave pools upon the culture of surfers. Appropriating the concepts of simulation from the work of postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard, and mechanical reproduction from the critical theorist Walter Benjamin, we consider how the spectre of perfectly simulated waves in controlled environments has signaled a new era in the history of the social construction and contes…
Creation in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Latin Poets of Late Antiquity
In the Latin poetry of late antiquity, the influence of Virgil is all pervasive. Ovid, typically, comes second, though a distant second. But Ovidian references and allusions recur with sufficient frequency throughout the period from the fourth to the sixth centuries to leave no doubt that both poets and readers were familiar with and continued to derive inspiration from his poetry: to take three examples, in the fifth century (probably), an anony…
To bridle the falsehood of unconscionable workmen, and for her own satisfaction’: What the Jacobean housewife needed to know about men's work, and why
Pressure-Group Politics and the Church of England: The Church Defence Institution 1859–1896
The latter half of the nineteenth century was a time of political mobilisation for religious organisations. This is a well-established fact in the case of English nonconformity – not quite such a well-established fact in the case of the Established Church. My concern in this paper is to trace the response of the Church of England to the extension of electoral politics, a response chiefly evidenced in the work of the Church Institution. This body,…
Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers
Turning the race-class dialectic on its head: The case of an AFL union
Using his research into the American Federation of Musicians, the author shows how those trained in jazz and classical music responded negatively to the emergence of jump blues and rock-and-roll music in the late 1940s. Interracial solidarity within the union was made possible in part by the creation of a particular class distinction based on taste, formed through musical training and performance. Though it has been customary for followers of W. …
Gladstonian Liberalism and Environment Protection, 1865-76
Historians have, in recent times, produced a considerable literature attempting to interpret the motives of Victorian pioneers of concern for the preservation of 'natural' environments and to evaluate the cultural implications of the attitudes, which they aimed to promote. Yet no systematic study so far exists of the earliest and most politically effective Victorian movement for environmental protection-the campaign for the protection from commer…
The concept of luxury in British political economy: Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
In the discourse of 18th-century British intellectuals the term 'luxury' held a well-recognized and much disputed place. Dispute arose chiefly around the problem of disentangling the economic, moral-theological and political strands of the term. The object of the present paper is to trace forward the history of debate over the concept along one develop ing line of specialization - that of 19th-century political economy. It will be seen how the te…
Horace Satires 2.5: Restrained Indignation
The Religious Thought of Charles de Remusat During the Second Empire
T he C onstitutional D evelopment of S weden in the R eign of G ustav A dolf 1
The New Forces in Western Europe
The New Forces in Western Europe Get access Michael Roberts Michael Roberts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 1945, Pages 1–14, https://doi.org/10.2307/3018988 Published: 01 January 1945
The Political Objectives of Gustavus Adolphus in Germany
The motives which impelled Gustav Adolf to invade Pomerania in June 1630, and the political objectives at which he aimed in the following two-and-a-half years, were once among the classic battlegrounds of German—and, to a less conspicuous extent, of Swedish—historiography. Since about 1920 the debate has noticeably flagged. Historians have in general been content to take their stand upon positions established by the researches of Bertil Boëthius …
Irrigation policy in British Ceylon during the nineteenth century
The Religious Thought of Charles de Remusat During the Second Empire
Sickels and Scythes: Women's Work and Men's Work at Harvest Time
Sickels and Scythes: Women's Work and Men's Work at Harvest Time Michael Roberts Michael Roberts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, SPRING 1979, Pages 3–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/7.1.3 Published: 01 March 1979
Private Patronage and the Church of England, 1800–1900
It is well known that, during the nineteenth century in England, there was widespread criticism of the traditional professions. Their members, it was alleged, formed an excessively privileged group owing their position more to patronage than to personal merit or competence. It is equally well known that patronage was believed to be particularly rampant in the nineteenth-century Church of England. (The novels of Trollope have ensured this.) It has…
A contemporary newspaper account of the reception provided for a Karāva notable on his receiving the title of ‘ Mudaliyar of the Governor's Gate’ in 1853
The procession from Colombo and welcome at Moratuwa of Jeronis de Soysa, Esq., after his appointment to the rank of Mudaliyar of the Governor's Gate
The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its Early Critics, 1802–1812
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
Horace Satires 2.5: Restrained Indignation
Pressure-Group Politics and the Church of England: The Church Defence Institution 1859–1896
The latter half of the nineteenth century was a time of political mobilisation for religious organisations. This is a well-established fact in the case of English nonconformity – not quite such a well-established fact in the case of the Established Church. My concern in this paper is to trace the response of the Church of England to the extension of electoral politics, a response chiefly evidenced in the work of the Church Institution. This body,…
Public and private in early nineteenth‐century London: The vagrant act of 1822 and its enforcement∗
The Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Victorian feminists faced a dilemma in their dealings with the state. This dilemma intensified in the years following the 1867 Reform Act. Radical feminist leaders (Josephine Butler, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Wolstenholme) eagerly adopted an ‘equality before the law’ stance in order to link women's credentials for citizenship with conventional principles of liberal individualism. Yet the same leaders were recurrently angered and frightened by the s…
Rereading Marx and Nietzsche
To bridle the falsehood of unconscionable workmen, and for her own satisfaction’: What the Jacobean housewife needed to know about men's work, and why
The concept of luxury in British political economy: Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
In the discourse of 18th-century British intellectuals the term 'luxury' held a well-recognized and much disputed place. Dispute arose chiefly around the problem of disentangling the economic, moral-theological and political strands of the term. The object of the present paper is to trace forward the history of debate over the concept along one develop ing line of specialization - that of 19th-century political economy. It will be seen how the te…
Creation in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Latin Poets of Late Antiquity
In the Latin poetry of late antiquity, the influence of Virgil is all pervasive. Ovid, typically, comes second, though a distant second. But Ovidian references and allusions recur with sufficient frequency throughout the period from the fourth to the sixth centuries to leave no doubt that both poets and readers were familiar with and continued to derive inspiration from his poetry: to take three examples, in the fifth century (probably), an anony…
Between Fame and Eccentricity: John ‘Rob Roy’ Macgregor, Almost Eminent Victorian
This paper celebrates Jill Roe’s contribution to the study of biography by exploring some changing attitudes to the purpose of biography in nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the authorised biography of an – to modern eyes – eccentric ‘muscular Christian‘, John MacGregor, the paper traces a mutation in audience expectation from a view of biography as ‘exemplary’ in a moral or religious sense to a view of it as exemplary in a cultural sense …
The Deathbed of Lord Palmerston: An Episode in Victorian Cultural History
Lord Palmerston died on 18 October 1865, still prime minister at the age of eighty. He was given a state funeral in Westminster Abbey on 27 October. By that time his stepson-in-law, Lord Shaftesbury, had begun spreading the word to a half-believing, half-unpersuaded public that Palmerston had died ‘the good [evangelical] death’, confessing in his last moments not only his sins but his belief in a life to come for all penitent believers in Christ'…
Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy produced and are thus critical for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level yields for these two crops, plus cotton (a warmer-weather crop), with a new fine-scale weather dataset that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures within each day and across all days in the growin…
Evangelicalism and Scandal in Victorian England: The Case of the Pearsall Smiths
Contemporary, sociology‐assisted, enthusiasm for the study of ‘scandal’ has opened a rich field of possibilities for historians of Victorian England including historians of Victorian religious thought and practice. While exploration of this field has so far focused on the scandals of the culturally marginalized (notably Roman Catholics), the role of scandal in shaping mainstream Protestant evangelical culture in an age of ‘media‐generated celebri…
The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion – By Dominic Erdozain
Late Roman Elegy
This article highlights that elegy in the late Roman period was highly adaptable to subject matter, its form serving a variety of purposes, from the martyrdom of St Hippolytus to Christian moral instruction to the later life musings on earlier affairs by the mid-sixth-century Maximianus. The poems of Rutilius Namatianius, Orientius, and Maximianus represent the most ambitious and longest elegies from late antiquity. Venantius Fortunatus enhances …
Inventing the Victorian age: The Greville Diary and its Early Critics
Journal Article Inventing the Victorian age: the Greville Diary and its Early Critics Get access M.J.D. Roberts M.J.D. Roberts 1Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2013, Pages 350–367, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.824694 Published: 01 September 2013
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