Steven M Gelber
Biographic Data
| ID | 262657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven M Gelber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelber |
| SIGNATURE | GELBER S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultivating Regionalism
The number of American colleges quintupled between 1820 and 1860. Nowhere was this enthusiasm for new colleges more pronounced than in the Midwest, where a higher education boom was fueled by a combination of denominational diversity and land speculation. On the eve of the Civil War, two dozen colleges operated in Ohio alone, far more per capita than in eastern states. According to Kenneth H. Wheeler, the distinctiveness of midwestern colleges wa…
Horse Trading in the Age of Cars
"The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the …
Hobbies
Journal Article Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. By Steven M. Gelber. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 374 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11392-7. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-231-11393-5.) Get access Gary Cross Gary Cross Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages…
Do-It-Yourself
Do-It-Yourself: Constructing, Repairing and Maintaining Domestic Masculinity Steven M. Gelber (bio) In the 1860s when Harriet Robinson annually set aside a full month for the spring cleaning of her Malden, Massachusetts home, she had the occasional assistance of hired help, but none from her husband William. Over the years, as the Robinsons improved their house by installing weather stripping, repapering rooms, refinishing furniture, and putting …
The Lawn
Journal Article The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession. By Virginia Scott Jenkins. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. x, 246 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-56098-406-6.) Get access Steven M. Gelber Steven M. Gelber Sanfa Clara University, Santa Clara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 756–757, https://doi.org/10…
Free Market Metaphor
Stamp collecting and industrial capitalism in the United States emerged simultaneously in the mid-nineteenth century. England issued the first government postage stamp in 1840, and other nations quickly adopted the idea. The United States printed its first official stamp in 1847, although it was preceded by the provisionals issued by local postmasters. Postage stamps were a product of the industrial revolution. The adoption of the prepaid penny p…
Saving the Earth
Saving the Earth
Journal Article Saving the Earth: The History of a Middle-Class Millenarian Movement. By Steven M. Gelber and Martin L. Cook. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. x + 337 pp. $40.00.) Get access Ruth Alden Doan Ruth Alden Doan Hollins College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 739–740, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079674 Published:…
A Job You Can't Lose
The category ofleisure activity known as hobbies appears to have experienced an unprecedented growth in public acceptance in the United States during the great depression. Municipalities, schools, and businesses sponsored hobby clubs. The media, including newspapers, magazines and radio, regularly focused on hobby activity. Several national organizations emerged to promote hobbies, and the collecting activities of the president of the United Stat…
Black Milwaukee
Working at Playing
Baseball emerged as America's first mass popular sport during the period of industrialization. The first organized games in the late 1840's coincided with the initial wave of factory building, and the baseball craze of the decade after the Civil War paralleled the development of a full-blown industrial economy. Baseball was not merely a "mirror of American life," it was an integral part of the cultural matrix of modern business society.1 Baseball…
Do-It-Yourself
Do-It-Yourself: Constructing, Repairing and Maintaining Domestic Masculinity Steven M. Gelber (bio) In the 1860s when Harriet Robinson annually set aside a full month for the spring cleaning of her Malden, Massachusetts home, she had the occasional assistance of hired help, but none from her husband William. Over the years, as the Robinsons improved their house by installing weather stripping, repapering rooms, refinishing furniture, and putting …
Hobbies
Journal Article Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. By Steven M. Gelber. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 374 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11392-7. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-231-11393-5.) Get access Gary Cross Gary Cross Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages…
Free Market Metaphor
Stamp collecting and industrial capitalism in the United States emerged simultaneously in the mid-nineteenth century. England issued the first government postage stamp in 1840, and other nations quickly adopted the idea. The United States printed its first official stamp in 1847, although it was preceded by the provisionals issued by local postmasters. Postage stamps were a product of the industrial revolution. The adoption of the prepaid penny p…
A Job You Can't Lose
The category ofleisure activity known as hobbies appears to have experienced an unprecedented growth in public acceptance in the United States during the great depression. Municipalities, schools, and businesses sponsored hobby clubs. The media, including newspapers, magazines and radio, regularly focused on hobby activity. Several national organizations emerged to promote hobbies, and the collecting activities of the president of the United Stat…
Working at Playing
Baseball emerged as America's first mass popular sport during the period of industrialization. The first organized games in the late 1840's coincided with the initial wave of factory building, and the baseball craze of the decade after the Civil War paralleled the development of a full-blown industrial economy. Baseball was not merely a "mirror of American life," it was an integral part of the cultural matrix of modern business society.1 Baseball…
Horse Trading in the Age of Cars
"The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the …
Black Milwaukee
Working at Playing
Baseball emerged as America's first mass popular sport during the period of industrialization. The first organized games in the late 1840's coincided with the initial wave of factory building, and the baseball craze of the decade after the Civil War paralleled the development of a full-blown industrial economy. Baseball was not merely a "mirror of American life," it was an integral part of the cultural matrix of modern business society.1 Baseball…
Black Milwaukee
Saving the Earth
Saving the Earth
Journal Article Saving the Earth: The History of a Middle-Class Millenarian Movement. By Steven M. Gelber and Martin L. Cook. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. x + 337 pp. $40.00.) Get access Ruth Alden Doan Ruth Alden Doan Hollins College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 739–740, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079674 Published:…
A Job You Can't Lose
The category ofleisure activity known as hobbies appears to have experienced an unprecedented growth in public acceptance in the United States during the great depression. Municipalities, schools, and businesses sponsored hobby clubs. The media, including newspapers, magazines and radio, regularly focused on hobby activity. Several national organizations emerged to promote hobbies, and the collecting activities of the president of the United Stat…
Free Market Metaphor
Stamp collecting and industrial capitalism in the United States emerged simultaneously in the mid-nineteenth century. England issued the first government postage stamp in 1840, and other nations quickly adopted the idea. The United States printed its first official stamp in 1847, although it was preceded by the provisionals issued by local postmasters. Postage stamps were a product of the industrial revolution. The adoption of the prepaid penny p…
The Lawn
Journal Article The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession. By Virginia Scott Jenkins. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. x, 246 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-56098-406-6.) Get access Steven M. Gelber Steven M. Gelber Sanfa Clara University, Santa Clara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 756–757, https://doi.org/10…
Do-It-Yourself
Do-It-Yourself: Constructing, Repairing and Maintaining Domestic Masculinity Steven M. Gelber (bio) In the 1860s when Harriet Robinson annually set aside a full month for the spring cleaning of her Malden, Massachusetts home, she had the occasional assistance of hired help, but none from her husband William. Over the years, as the Robinsons improved their house by installing weather stripping, repapering rooms, refinishing furniture, and putting …
Hobbies
Journal Article Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. By Steven M. Gelber. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 374 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11392-7. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-231-11393-5.) Get access Gary Cross Gary Cross Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages…
Horse Trading in the Age of Cars
"The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the …
Cultivating Regionalism
The number of American colleges quintupled between 1820 and 1860. Nowhere was this enthusiasm for new colleges more pronounced than in the Midwest, where a higher education boom was fueled by a combination of denominational diversity and land speculation. On the eve of the Civil War, two dozen colleges operated in Ohio alone, far more per capita than in eastern states. According to Kenneth H. Wheeler, the distinctiveness of midwestern colleges wa…
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