Robert P Swierenga
Biographic Data
| ID | 278903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Swierenga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Swierenga |
| SIGNATURE | SWIERENGA R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920
Book Review| July 01 2003 Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920, Suzanne M. Sinke. Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (4): 92–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501359 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert P. …
Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals
Book Review| July 01 2001 Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals, Firth Haring Fabend. Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 108–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502761 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
Born in the Country: A History of Rural America
Journal Article Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. By David B. Danbom. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xii, 306 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-5039-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8018-5040-1.) Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 171–172…
The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora
Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among …
The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora
Journal Article The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora. By Robert P. Swierenga. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. 465 pp. $37.95, ISBN 0-8143-2433-9.) Get access Robert A. Rockaway Robert A. Rockaway Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 704–705, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel
The Delayed Transition from Folk to Labor Migration: The Netherlands, 1880–1920
This article analyzes Netherlands government statistics on overseas emigration, 1880-1920, which reveal that the process of industrialization caused a major social structural shift in the 1890s. A system of urban labor migration replaced the traditional rural folk movement and the primary destination shifted away from the United States to Dutch colonies in Asia and South America. The Netherlands belatedly 'caught up' with the rest of Western Euro…
The Delayed Transition from Folk to Labor Migration: The Netherlands, 1880- 1920
Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History
Journal Article Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History. Ed. by Philip R. VanderMeer and Robert P. Swierenga. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xii + 236 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-8135-1671-4. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8135-1672-2.) Get access Thomas A. Tweed Thomas A. Tweed University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History
1. Introduction / Philip R. VanderMeer and Robert P. Swierenga -- 2. Declension, gender, and the religious / Harry S. Stout and Catherine A. Brekus -- 3. Sinners are turned into saints in numbers / Gerald F. Moran -- 4. Enthusiastic piety /Marilyn J. Westerkamp -- 5. The spirit in the flesh / Linda K. Pritchard -- 6. Sex and the second Great Awakening / Terry D. Bilhartz -- 7. Women, feminism, and the new religious history / Margaret Susan Thomps…
A Bittersweet Land: The Dutch Experience in Canada, 1890-1980
The Settlement of the Old Northwest: Ethnic Pluralism in a Featureless Plain
Under-Reporting of Dutch Immigration Statistics: A Recalculation
The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change
Review of: The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change. Swierenga, Robert P., ed
History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland
How the Saints Persevere: Social Factors in the Vitality of the Christian Reformed Church
The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics
Journal Article The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics. By Daniel Feller. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. xvi + 264 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50.) Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Pages 144–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903769 Published: 0…
History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland
Journal Article History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland Get access History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland. By Malin James C.. Edited by Swierenga Robert P.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xxix + 376 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $28.50, cloth; $13.95, paper.) Dan L. Flores Dan L. Flores Texas Tech University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qu…
Catholic and Protestant Emigration From the Netherlands in the 19th Century: A Comparative Social Structural Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to describe, analyze, and compare the characteristics of three Dutch emigrant groups--Dutch Reformed, Seceders (Afgescheidenen), and Roman Catholics--in the nineteenth century. Because the Catholics are a neglected group in emigration research, the paper will focus on the Roman Catholic emigrants from the southern provinces of the Netherlands (Limburg, Noord-Brabant, and Gelderland), although the other two groups will…
A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782-1982
A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782–1982. Ed. by J. W. Schulte Nordholt and Robert P. Swierenga. (New York: Octagon/Meulenhoff, 1982. viii + 279 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, notes, and index. $25.00.) Gerald F. De Jong Gerald F. De Jong University of South Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September 1983, Pag…
Quantitative Methods in Rural Landholding
Quantitative Methods in Rural Landholding The study of American land tenure was one of the first fields to benefit from the use of quantitative techniques. As early as I9I5, midwestern agricultural economists and historians undertook statistical studies of farm tenure and tenancy. With the advent of punch cards and sorting machines in the I940s, rural historians pioneered in their use and, when the computer age on campus began in the early I96os,…
Small Business in American Life
Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820–1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files
International migration statistics in the nineteenth century are acknowledged to be deficient and biased, but there are few source-critical studies to determine the extent of underreporting and omissions. This article provides a critical analysis of the statistics of Dutch emigration to North America in the period 1835–1880, based on the method of nominal record-linkage of computer files derived from Netherlands emigration lists and U.S. ship pas…
Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files
Robert P. Swierenga, Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files, The International Migration Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 445-470
Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920
Book Review| July 01 2003 Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920, Suzanne M. Sinke. Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (4): 92–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501359 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert P. …
Ethnocultural Political Analysis: A New Approach to American Ethnic Studies
At the seventy-ninth annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1964, a panel of scholars enlivened one of the sessions with a heated debate over the effects of ethnic assimilation in American culture. The topic of debate, 'Beyond the Melting Pot: Irish and Jewish Separateness in American Society', focused on a recent controversial study of ethnic mixture in New York City by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both sociologis…
Computers and American History: The Impact of the "New" Generation
Journal Article Computers and American History: The Impact of the “New” Generation Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga professor of history Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 4, March 1974, Pages 1045–1070, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901012 Published: 01 March 1974
History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland
Dutch Immigrant Demography, 1820-1880
The author analyzes the demographic and social composition of Dutch immigrant households at the time of their arrival in the United States. The data are derived from ship passenger lists for selected U.S. ports over the period 1820-1880. Age-sex ratios and family status of the immigrants are considered and an attempt is made determine if migration patterns shifted in response to basic socioeconomic structural changes or if short-term cultural and…
Land Speculator “Profits” Reconsidered: Central Iowa as a Test Case
“Show us a non-resident who has made money speculating in western land,” wrote a frontier newspaper editor in 1850, “and we will show you a rare bird, more rare by far than a successful gold hunter.” Despite this warning and dozens like it, thousands of investors ventured surplus or borrowed funds on frontier land throughout the nineteenth century. Many, in fact, jumped from one frontier to the next on the heels of government surveyors and land o…
Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Immigrant Religion: The Social Bases of the Antebellum Dutch Reformed Schism
Journal Article Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Immigrant Religion: The Social Bases of the Antebellum Dutch Reformed Schism Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 1, Fall 1980, Pages 113–135, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.1.113 Published: 01 October 1980
Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among …
The Delayed Transition from Folk to Labor Migration: The Netherlands, 1880- 1920
The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change
Review of: The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change. Swierenga, Robert P., ed
The Equity Effects of Public Land Speculation in Iowa: Large versus Small Speculators
The economic impact of American public land policies in the nineteenth century can be assessed either in terms of their efficiency or equity effects, that is, their impact on national growth rates or on income distribution. Robert W. Fogel and Jack Rutner recently explored the growth question and discovered that federal land policy had a positive but minimal effect on economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century. This suggests that the equity qu…
A House for all Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago 1890-1936
Journal Article A House for all Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago 1890–1936. By John M. Allswang. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1971. x + 253 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 3, December 1971, …
Under-Reporting of Dutch Immigration Statistics: A Recalculation
Catholic and Protestant Emigration From the Netherlands in the 19th Century: A Comparative Social Structural Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to describe, analyze, and compare the characteristics of three Dutch emigrant groups--Dutch Reformed, Seceders (Afgescheidenen), and Roman Catholics--in the nineteenth century. Because the Catholics are a neglected group in emigration research, the paper will focus on the Roman Catholic emigrants from the southern provinces of the Netherlands (Limburg, Noord-Brabant, and Gelderland), although the other two groups will…
Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820–1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files
International migration statistics in the nineteenth century are acknowledged to be deficient and biased, but there are few source-critical studies to determine the extent of underreporting and omissions. This article provides a critical analysis of the statistics of Dutch emigration to North America in the period 1835–1880, based on the method of nominal record-linkage of computer files derived from Netherlands emigration lists and U.S. ship pas…
Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files
Robert P. Swierenga, Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files, The International Migration Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 445-470
Computers and Comparative History
Computers and Comparative History That computer technology has profoundly affected scholarly research is a truism. Yet, impact of computers on comparative historical studies remains slight. As recently as I968, in a collection of essays, twenty-three prominent historians discussed possibilities for comparative research and methods in their respective fields of specialization, but not one mentioned potential for computer-assisted work.' This is su…
Historical Social Research: Concept, Method, and Technique
The “Western Land Business: ” The Story of Easley & Willingham, Speculators
Were frontier land investments during the nineteenth century as unprofitable as most scholars have surmised? The history of one of the most significant land-investment firms serves as a useful case study in suggesting an answer
Land Speculator “Profits” Reconsidered: Central Iowa as a Test Case
“Show us a non-resident who has made money speculating in western land,” wrote a frontier newspaper editor in 1850, “and we will show you a rare bird, more rare by far than a successful gold hunter.” Despite this warning and dozens like it, thousands of investors ventured surplus or borrowed funds on frontier land throughout the nineteenth century. Many, in fact, jumped from one frontier to the next on the heels of government surveyors and land o…
The “Western Land Business: ” The Story of Easley & Willingham, Speculators
Were frontier land investments during the nineteenth century as unprofitable as most scholars have surmised? The history of one of the most significant land-investment firms serves as a useful case study in suggesting an answer
The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837
Journal Article The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837 and Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier Get access The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837. By Rohrbough Malcolm J.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. xiii, 331 p. Maps, bibliography, index. $8.75.)Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa F…
A House for all Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago 1890-1936
Journal Article A House for all Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago 1890–1936. By John M. Allswang. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1971. x + 253 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 3, December 1971, …
Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier
Journal Article Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier and The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of the Confederation to the New Deal Get access Swierenga Robert P., Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1968, xxvii pp., 260 pp., no price.Dick Everett, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of…
"The "Odious Tax Title: A Study in Nineteenth Century Legal History
Journal Article The “Odious Tax Title”: A Study in Nineteenth Century Legal History Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga *History Department, Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 1971, Pages 124–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/844231 Published: 01 April 1971
Ethnocultural Political Analysis: A New Approach to American Ethnic Studies
At the seventy-ninth annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1964, a panel of scholars enlivened one of the sessions with a heated debate over the effects of ethnic assimilation in American culture. The topic of debate, 'Beyond the Melting Pot: Irish and Jewish Separateness in American Society', focused on a recent controversial study of ethnic mixture in New York City by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both sociologis…
Quantification in American History: Theory and Research
The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal
The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands From the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal Get access The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands From the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal. By Dick Everett. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. xii, 413 p. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. $9.50.) Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works b…
Quantification in American History: Theory and Research
Computers and American History: The Impact of the "New" Generation
Journal Article Computers and American History: The Impact of the “New” Generation Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga professor of history Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 4, March 1974, Pages 1045–1070, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901012 Published: 01 March 1974
The Equity Effects of Public Land Speculation in Iowa: Large versus Small Speculators
The economic impact of American public land policies in the nineteenth century can be assessed either in terms of their efficiency or equity effects, that is, their impact on national growth rates or on income distribution. Robert W. Fogel and Jack Rutner recently explored the growth question and discovered that federal land policy had a positive but minimal effect on economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century. This suggests that the equity qu…
Computers and Comparative History
Computers and Comparative History That computer technology has profoundly affected scholarly research is a truism. Yet, impact of computers on comparative historical studies remains slight. As recently as I968, in a collection of essays, twenty-three prominent historians discussed possibilities for comparative research and methods in their respective fields of specialization, but not one mentioned potential for computer-assisted work.' This is su…
Iowa on the Eve of the Civil War: A Decade of Frontier Politics
Iowa on the Eve of the Civil War: A Decade of Frontier Politics Get access Iowa on the Eve of the Civil War: A Decade of Frontier Politics. By Rosenberg Morton M.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. ix, 262 p. Map on endsheets, bibliography, index. $8.95.) Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 1,…
Historical Social Research: Concept, Method, and Technique
Land Speculation and Its Impact on American Economic Growth and Welfare: A Historiographical Review
Journal Article Land Speculation and Its Impact on American Economic Growth and Welfare: A Historiographical Review Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga professor of history Kent State University, Ohio. This article was initially presented, in slightly revised form, as a university lecture at the London School of Economics, London, England, May 4, 1976, and at the University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May 31, 1976. The author expr…
From Sweden to America: A History of the Migration
Journal Article From Sweden to America: A History of the Migration. Ed. by Harald Runblom and Hans Norman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press and University of Uppsala, 1976. 391 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Robert P. Swierenga Robert P. Swierenga Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa
Journal Article Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa. By Robert P. Swierenga. (Westport: Greenwood, 1976. xix + 262 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, source notes, and index. $14.95.) Get access Frederick C. Luebke Frederick C. Luebke University of Nebraska, Lincoln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 1977…
Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa
Journal Article Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa Get access Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa. By Swierenga Robert P.. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976. xix, 263 p. Illustrations, maps, tables, graphs, index. $14.95.) Burton J. Williams Burton J. Williams Central Washington State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarter…
Ambivalent Americans: The Know-Nothing Party in Maryland
The Open University and Urban History: A review of two new courses
The Open University has for some years run an Urban Development Course (DT 201), which Anthony Sutcliffe reviewed favourably in the 1974 Yearbook . His only regret, from an urban historian's perspective, was ‘the almost complete absence of a historical approach’ from the course. He found it depressing that ‘the relevance of urban history to contemporary urban studies is not yet apparent to the great mass of social scientists’. It is therefore goo…
Hired Hands and Plowboys: Farm Labor in the Midwest, 1815-60
First Majority--Last Minority: The Transformation of Rural Life in America
Frontier America, 1800-1840: A Comparative Demographic Analysis of the Settlement Process
Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa
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