Albion M Urdank
Biographic Data
| ID | 333181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albion M Urdank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albion M |
| FAMILY NAME | Urdank |
| SIGNATURE | URDANK A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Author’s response
I write to offer some clarification regarding Andrew Hinde's review of my book, Birth, Death and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community, which appeared in a recent issue of your journal. First, with regard to Dr. Hinde’s objection to my use of event history analysis as a hazard model, I described event-history analysis in the following terms: “The event affecting the life of an individual, or the transition between events, normally se…
The Rationalisation of Rural Sport: British Sheepdog Trials, 1873–1946
The article analyses the evolution in both the forms and changing social content of British Sheepdog trials, from the first recorded event at Bala, Wales in 1873 to the advent of their revival following the Second World War (during which they had been suspended). Contrary to popular myth, early trials were gentry sponsored and therefore heavily freighted with elite values concerning the nature of the shepherds' craft. Early trials accented speed,…
Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment . Linda Clarke Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britian . Andrew…
Perry of London: A Family and Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753 . Jacob M. Price
Quantification and Social History: A Reply to Jeffrey Cox
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
The Family and Demographic Behavior in Belgium, Germany, and Italy, 1700–1920: A Review Essay
The author reviews three books that explore the character of the demographic transition through microstudies of selected European populations....[One] study is devoted to demographic change in fourteen German agricultural villages in approximately the years 1750-1914....[Another] examines changes in family life and reproduction in a Belgian textile city Verviers during the three decades after 1850....[The third focuses] on the socio-demographic h…
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
Victorian Things
Literacy and Popular Culture: England, 1750-1914. David Vincent , Peter Burke , Ruth Finnegan
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
Religion and Reproduction among English Dissenters: Gloucestershire Baptists in the Demographic Revolution
The growth of English Nonconformity during the era of the demographic revolution (circa1750-1850) has long been regarded as an impediment to the reconstruction of reproductive behavior. Historical demographers have relied heavily on Church of England registers of baptisms, burials, and marriages, while treating Protestant dissenters from the Church of England secondarily, as a factor of underestimation in the Anglican record. Such treatment sugge…
The Consumption of Rental Property: Gloucestershire Plebeians and the Market Economy, 1750-1860
Economy, I750-I860 In recent years, historians have come to rely on wills and probate inventories for the study of such diverse subjects as economic structure, inheritance practices, the mass consumption of consumer goods, and patterns of religious belief. Scholars have generally favored working with inventories because, as formal lists of the monetary values of personal assets at the death of a testator, this source seems to lend itself more com…
Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution
Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of than their own Glorious Revolution. To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a mi…
Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England
Custom, Conflict, and Traditional Authority in the Gloucester Weaver Strike of 1825
The Gloucester weaver strike of 1825 was part of a national revival of trade-union activity following Parliament's repeal of the Combination Acts in 1824. The strike also occupied a central place in Gloucester's economic history, marking a turning point in the evolution of its woolen trade from a protoindustrial to a factory-based system. For this reason, the strike embodied in its form the transitional state of the industry, combining characteri…
Economic Decline in the English Industrial Revolution: The Gloucester Wool Trade, 1800–1840
This study questions the concept of entrepreneurial failure, traditionally invoked to account for the demise of the Gloucestershire wool trade in the Industrial Revolution. Gloucester clothiers used steam power selectively because of the high cost of coal but on a more regular basis and at greater capacity than scholars have commonly admitted. Excess capacity due to overcapitalization accounted for the failure of mills with large engines; underut…
The Rationalisation of Rural Sport: British Sheepdog Trials, 1873–1946
The article analyses the evolution in both the forms and changing social content of British Sheepdog trials, from the first recorded event at Bala, Wales in 1873 to the advent of their revival following the Second World War (during which they had been suspended). Contrary to popular myth, early trials were gentry sponsored and therefore heavily freighted with elite values concerning the nature of the shepherds' craft. Early trials accented speed,…
Economic Decline in the English Industrial Revolution: The Gloucester Wool Trade, 1800–1840
This study questions the concept of entrepreneurial failure, traditionally invoked to account for the demise of the Gloucestershire wool trade in the Industrial Revolution. Gloucester clothiers used steam power selectively because of the high cost of coal but on a more regular basis and at greater capacity than scholars have commonly admitted. Excess capacity due to overcapitalization accounted for the failure of mills with large engines; underut…
Custom, Conflict, and Traditional Authority in the Gloucester Weaver Strike of 1825
The Gloucester weaver strike of 1825 was part of a national revival of trade-union activity following Parliament's repeal of the Combination Acts in 1824. The strike also occupied a central place in Gloucester's economic history, marking a turning point in the evolution of its woolen trade from a protoindustrial to a factory-based system. For this reason, the strike embodied in its form the transitional state of the industry, combining characteri…
Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England
Fabricating History: English Writers on the French Revolution
Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of than their own Glorious Revolution. To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a mi…
The Consumption of Rental Property: Gloucestershire Plebeians and the Market Economy, 1750-1860
Economy, I750-I860 In recent years, historians have come to rely on wills and probate inventories for the study of such diverse subjects as economic structure, inheritance practices, the mass consumption of consumer goods, and patterns of religious belief. Scholars have generally favored working with inventories because, as formal lists of the monetary values of personal assets at the death of a testator, this source seems to lend itself more com…
The Family and Demographic Behavior in Belgium, Germany, and Italy, 1700–1920: A Review Essay
The author reviews three books that explore the character of the demographic transition through microstudies of selected European populations....[One] study is devoted to demographic change in fourteen German agricultural villages in approximately the years 1750-1914....[Another] examines changes in family life and reproduction in a Belgian textile city Verviers during the three decades after 1850....[The third focuses] on the socio-demographic h…
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
Victorian Things
Literacy and Popular Culture: England, 1750-1914. David Vincent , Peter Burke , Ruth Finnegan
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
Religion and Reproduction among English Dissenters: Gloucestershire Baptists in the Demographic Revolution
The growth of English Nonconformity during the era of the demographic revolution (circa1750-1850) has long been regarded as an impediment to the reconstruction of reproductive behavior. Historical demographers have relied heavily on Church of England registers of baptisms, burials, and marriages, while treating Protestant dissenters from the Church of England secondarily, as a factor of underestimation in the Anglican record. Such treatment sugge…
Quantification and Social History: A Reply to Jeffrey Cox
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
Perry of London: A Family and Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753 . Jacob M. Price
Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment . Linda Clarke Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britian . Andrew…
The Rationalisation of Rural Sport: British Sheepdog Trials, 1873–1946
The article analyses the evolution in both the forms and changing social content of British Sheepdog trials, from the first recorded event at Bala, Wales in 1873 to the advent of their revival following the Second World War (during which they had been suspended). Contrary to popular myth, early trials were gentry sponsored and therefore heavily freighted with elite values concerning the nature of the shepherds' craft. Early trials accented speed,…
Author’s response
I write to offer some clarification regarding Andrew Hinde's review of my book, Birth, Death and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community, which appeared in a recent issue of your journal. First, with regard to Dr. Hinde’s objection to my use of event history analysis as a hazard model, I described event-history analysis in the following terms: “The event affecting the life of an individual, or the transition between events, normally se…
History (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (4 works)