Douglas B Craig
Biographic Data
| ID | 299102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas B Craig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Craig |
| SIGNATURE | CRAIG D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Measuring Hohokam Household Inequality with Construction Costs of Domestic Architecture at Pueblo Grande
Recent archaeological efforts to explain the emergence and persistence of social inequality have been hampered by little information about how wealth was transmitted across generations, and how it may have accumulated or diminished over time. Building on studies that have shown domestic architecture to be an excellent material expression of household wealth, we provide a method for reconstructing the amount of labor invested in house construction…
Academia in a Time of Pandemic: An Australian Perspective
Although Australia has (so far) contained the spread of Covid-19 within its population relatively successfully, its universities and academic life have suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic. This has been the result of campus shutdowns, unsympathetic government policy, and the collapse of the previously lucrative supply of international students. The result has been financial stringency throughout the Australian university sector, signific…
Jessica L. Adler. Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Although the United States’ military involvement in World War I lasted only nineteen months, its legacies are now seen as profound – not only for the men and women who participated in the conflict but also for American statecraft in general. For many years, however, the Great War was neglected by American historians who were more attracted to investigating the military, diplomatic, and domestic impact of the larger and longer U.S. involvement in …
Calculating Hohokam Domestic Architecture Building Costs to Test an Environmental Model of Architectural Changes
Studies of domestic architectural variation are rare in archaeological research, possibly because the essential methods remain underdeveloped. To encourage a comparative approach to explaining the construction differences in household dwellings, we designed and utilized objective and easily applied means to calculate labor costs for constructing a variety of domestic architectural styles in Hohokam society. We applied Abrams's (1989, 1994) approa…
Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Radio broadcasting was often viewed by American scholars as a homegrown industry that radiated outward to the world, but recently that historiography has enjoyed a transnational turn. Led by Michelle Hilmes and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, new analyses have looked at radio broadcasting as a bi- (or multi-) directional exchange of technologies and cultures across oceans and national borders. Across the Waves is the latest additio…
Preclassic Hohokam
The establishment of the first permanent farming villages in the southern Southwest coincided with the emergence of the Hohokam cultural tradition. This chapter examines the environmental, demographic, and social processes that shaped the development of Hohokam culture. Special attention is paid to the timing and tempo of cultural change across the region. Three periods of rapid change are discussed—the first associated with the establishment of …
American Enterprise
American Enterprise,” according to its promotion on the National Museum of American History Web site, “chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy that resulted in the continual remaking of American business—and American life.” This is a large exhibition, taking up eight thousand square feet of the museum's ground floor in a long corridor layout with a large alcove, the Wallace H. Coulter Exchange, dedicated to interactive a…
Commemoration in the United States: The reason for fighting I never got straight
The United States entered the First World War late, in April 1917, and so its centenary commemoration of the war will begin well after those of its former associated powers and enemies. Even in 2017, however, US commemoration will likely be muted by the past and present ramifications of the debate and confusion over the meanings and significance of the First World War to the United States that have raged since the end of the war itself
Progressives at War: William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker
In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between the Civil War and World War II. Both Baker and McAdoo migrated from the South to northern industrial cities and took up professions that had nothing to do with staple-crop agriculture. Both eventually became cabinet officers in the presidential administration of an…
The Historical Presidency: Mr Secretary, My Son‐in‐Law: W illiam G . M c A doo, W oodrow W ilson, and the Presidential Cabinet
The presidential cabinet has long been neglected by political scientists and political historians. The former tend to dismiss the cabinet as a noninstitution that has never transcended its lack of constitutional foundation; the latter have generally ignored it. Focusing on the progressive era, and upon one of W oodrow W ilson's most prominent cabinet secretaries, this article argues for a reconsideration of the presidential cabinet and its indivi…
Radio, modern communication media and the technological sublime
Leo Marx and others have argued that the reception of technology in the United States during the nineteenth century was conditioned by the technological sublime. John F. Kasson defined this as a powerful emotion, utility, and moral purpose, suffused with the conviction that the health of the republic was indicated and improved by technological progress. This article provides different perspectives on the American technological sublime, as well as…
Ham Radio's Technical Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Ham Radio’s Technical Culture Douglas Craig (bio) Ham Radio’s Technical Culture. By Kristen Haring . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. Pp xvii+220. $27.95. In her 1991 book Listening In, Susan J. Douglas described amateur radio broadcasting—or ham radio—as "one of the most important yet least visible subcultures in America." Now, in this brief but intriguing work, Kristen Haring explores the history, culture, and significance of ham…
Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940
The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934
Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940
Douglas B. Craig, a senior lecturer in history at the Australian National University, charts the ideologically contested but institutionally smooth triumph of commercial radio in inter-war American political culture. Craig provides an impressively researched and useful study of how key players within the political and commercial arenas debated, regulated, and uti-lized—for their specific interests—commercial radio as a medium. He draws on a broad…
Labor Investmnent and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona
Southwestern archaeologists have long recognized that platform mounds required a considerable amount of labor and organizational skill to build. Attempts to specify these behavioral dimensions have generally met with failure, however, either due to a lack of data or because researchers have been unable to place mound construction within a larger social context. Recent excavations at the Meddler Point site in central Arizona provide important new …
Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona
Douglas B. Craig, James P. Holmlund, Jeffery J. Clark, Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 245-259
The Roosevelt Presence: A Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Journal Article The Roosevelt Presence: A Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By Patrick J. Maney. (New York: Twayne, 1992. xvi, 255 pp. Cloth, $26.95, ISBN 0-8057-7758-X. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8057-7786-5.) Get access Douglas Craig Douglas Craig Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 325–326,…
Seek and Ye Shall Find: Democratic Ideological Conflict in the 1920s
Largely unaffected by the developments in social history in the last generation, Douglas B. Craig's examination of the Democratic party in the 1920s is, he concedes, clearly at odds with 'new political history' (p. 7). Numbers, for example, do not enter his study, so he employs no regression analysis or even any simple tables or charts about voting. Similarly, questions involving the reigning trinity of race, class, and gender have little influen…
After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934
Journal Article After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920–1934. By Douglas B. Craig. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. x, 405 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2058-X.) Get access Jordan A. Schwarz Jordan A. Schwarz Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1130–1131, http…
After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934
Journal Article After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920–1934. By Douglas B. Craig. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. x, 405 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2058-X.) Get access Jordan A. Schwarz Jordan A. Schwarz Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1130–1131, http…
Labor Investmnent and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona
Southwestern archaeologists have long recognized that platform mounds required a considerable amount of labor and organizational skill to build. Attempts to specify these behavioral dimensions have generally met with failure, however, either due to a lack of data or because researchers have been unable to place mound construction within a larger social context. Recent excavations at the Meddler Point site in central Arizona provide important new …
Calculating Hohokam Domestic Architecture Building Costs to Test an Environmental Model of Architectural Changes
Studies of domestic architectural variation are rare in archaeological research, possibly because the essential methods remain underdeveloped. To encourage a comparative approach to explaining the construction differences in household dwellings, we designed and utilized objective and easily applied means to calculate labor costs for constructing a variety of domestic architectural styles in Hohokam society. We applied Abrams's (1989, 1994) approa…
Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Radio broadcasting was often viewed by American scholars as a homegrown industry that radiated outward to the world, but recently that historiography has enjoyed a transnational turn. Led by Michelle Hilmes and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, new analyses have looked at radio broadcasting as a bi- (or multi-) directional exchange of technologies and cultures across oceans and national borders. Across the Waves is the latest additio…
Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona
Douglas B. Craig, James P. Holmlund, Jeffery J. Clark, Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 245-259
Seek and Ye Shall Find: Democratic Ideological Conflict in the 1920s
Largely unaffected by the developments in social history in the last generation, Douglas B. Craig's examination of the Democratic party in the 1920s is, he concedes, clearly at odds with 'new political history' (p. 7). Numbers, for example, do not enter his study, so he employs no regression analysis or even any simple tables or charts about voting. Similarly, questions involving the reigning trinity of race, class, and gender have little influen…
After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934
Journal Article After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920–1934. By Douglas B. Craig. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. x, 405 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2058-X.) Get access Jordan A. Schwarz Jordan A. Schwarz Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1130–1131, http…
The Roosevelt Presence: A Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Journal Article The Roosevelt Presence: A Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By Patrick J. Maney. (New York: Twayne, 1992. xvi, 255 pp. Cloth, $26.95, ISBN 0-8057-7758-X. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8057-7786-5.) Get access Douglas Craig Douglas Craig Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 325–326,…
Labor Investmnent and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona
Southwestern archaeologists have long recognized that platform mounds required a considerable amount of labor and organizational skill to build. Attempts to specify these behavioral dimensions have generally met with failure, however, either due to a lack of data or because researchers have been unable to place mound construction within a larger social context. Recent excavations at the Meddler Point site in central Arizona provide important new …
Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona
Douglas B. Craig, James P. Holmlund, Jeffery J. Clark, Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 245-259
Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940
Douglas B. Craig, a senior lecturer in history at the Australian National University, charts the ideologically contested but institutionally smooth triumph of commercial radio in inter-war American political culture. Craig provides an impressively researched and useful study of how key players within the political and commercial arenas debated, regulated, and uti-lized—for their specific interests—commercial radio as a medium. He draws on a broad…
Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940
The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934
Ham Radio's Technical Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Ham Radio’s Technical Culture Douglas Craig (bio) Ham Radio’s Technical Culture. By Kristen Haring . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. Pp xvii+220. $27.95. In her 1991 book Listening In, Susan J. Douglas described amateur radio broadcasting—or ham radio—as "one of the most important yet least visible subcultures in America." Now, in this brief but intriguing work, Kristen Haring explores the history, culture, and significance of ham…
Radio, modern communication media and the technological sublime
Leo Marx and others have argued that the reception of technology in the United States during the nineteenth century was conditioned by the technological sublime. John F. Kasson defined this as a powerful emotion, utility, and moral purpose, suffused with the conviction that the health of the republic was indicated and improved by technological progress. This article provides different perspectives on the American technological sublime, as well as…
Progressives at War: William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker
In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between the Civil War and World War II. Both Baker and McAdoo migrated from the South to northern industrial cities and took up professions that had nothing to do with staple-crop agriculture. Both eventually became cabinet officers in the presidential administration of an…
The Historical Presidency: Mr Secretary, My Son‐in‐Law: W illiam G . M c A doo, W oodrow W ilson, and the Presidential Cabinet
The presidential cabinet has long been neglected by political scientists and political historians. The former tend to dismiss the cabinet as a noninstitution that has never transcended its lack of constitutional foundation; the latter have generally ignored it. Focusing on the progressive era, and upon one of W oodrow W ilson's most prominent cabinet secretaries, this article argues for a reconsideration of the presidential cabinet and its indivi…
Commemoration in the United States: The reason for fighting I never got straight
The United States entered the First World War late, in April 1917, and so its centenary commemoration of the war will begin well after those of its former associated powers and enemies. Even in 2017, however, US commemoration will likely be muted by the past and present ramifications of the debate and confusion over the meanings and significance of the First World War to the United States that have raged since the end of the war itself
American Enterprise
American Enterprise,” according to its promotion on the National Museum of American History Web site, “chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy that resulted in the continual remaking of American business—and American life.” This is a large exhibition, taking up eight thousand square feet of the museum's ground floor in a long corridor layout with a large alcove, the Wallace H. Coulter Exchange, dedicated to interactive a…
Preclassic Hohokam
The establishment of the first permanent farming villages in the southern Southwest coincided with the emergence of the Hohokam cultural tradition. This chapter examines the environmental, demographic, and social processes that shaped the development of Hohokam culture. Special attention is paid to the timing and tempo of cultural change across the region. Three periods of rapid change are discussed—the first associated with the establishment of …
Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Radio broadcasting was often viewed by American scholars as a homegrown industry that radiated outward to the world, but recently that historiography has enjoyed a transnational turn. Led by Michelle Hilmes and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, new analyses have looked at radio broadcasting as a bi- (or multi-) directional exchange of technologies and cultures across oceans and national borders. Across the Waves is the latest additio…
Jessica L. Adler. Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Although the United States’ military involvement in World War I lasted only nineteen months, its legacies are now seen as profound – not only for the men and women who participated in the conflict but also for American statecraft in general. For many years, however, the Great War was neglected by American historians who were more attracted to investigating the military, diplomatic, and domestic impact of the larger and longer U.S. involvement in …
Calculating Hohokam Domestic Architecture Building Costs to Test an Environmental Model of Architectural Changes
Studies of domestic architectural variation are rare in archaeological research, possibly because the essential methods remain underdeveloped. To encourage a comparative approach to explaining the construction differences in household dwellings, we designed and utilized objective and easily applied means to calculate labor costs for constructing a variety of domestic architectural styles in Hohokam society. We applied Abrams's (1989, 1994) approa…
Academia in a Time of Pandemic: An Australian Perspective
Although Australia has (so far) contained the spread of Covid-19 within its population relatively successfully, its universities and academic life have suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic. This has been the result of campus shutdowns, unsympathetic government policy, and the collapse of the previously lucrative supply of international students. The result has been financial stringency throughout the Australian university sector, signific…
Measuring Hohokam Household Inequality with Construction Costs of Domestic Architecture at Pueblo Grande
Recent archaeological efforts to explain the emergence and persistence of social inequality have been hampered by little information about how wealth was transmitted across generations, and how it may have accumulated or diminished over time. Building on studies that have shown domestic architecture to be an excellent material expression of household wealth, we provide a method for reconstructing the amount of labor invested in house construction…
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