Lynn Hollen Lees
Biographic Data
| ID | 353172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Hollen Lees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn Hollen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lees |
| SIGNATURE | LEES L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6616-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Making the global turn matter: Strategies and pathways
The survey examines the past, present and future of the urban history field in Britain, mixing memories and reflections. I trace the global turn of that field and the challenges it brings. One argument concerns the impact of a global scale on the methods and the explanatory frameworks used. A second concern is the role of economic history and economic frameworks of analysis in the writing of urban history, and I advocate their continued relevance
Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67, by Stan Neal
Becoming Malay: The Case of the Batak Orphans in 1930s Perak
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 94, Part 2, No. 321, December 2021
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from the harsh, racial hierarchies of sugar and rubber estates, and cosmopolitan urban societies. Empire meant mobility, fluidity, and hybridity, as well a…
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786–1941
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from the harsh, racial hierarchies of sugar and rubber estates, and cosmopolitan urban societies. Empire meant mobility, fluidity, and hybridity, as well a…
Studying Migration on a Global Scale
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A Social History of the Social Science History Association during Its Early Years
Social historians formed an important part of the Social Science History Association from its early days, and they widened its intellectual space beyond initial emphases on political history and quantitative methods. Lee Benson and other faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Charles and Louise Tilly, were particularly influential in attracting a broad mix of scholars to the group. The openness of the association and its interdisci…
The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of The Cambridge World History, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The second book questions the extent to which the transformations of the modern world have been shared, focussin…
Michael B. Katz’s “From Site to Place” and Urban History in Europe and Beyond
Discipline and delegation: Colonial governance in Malayan towns, 1880–1930
British colonial administrators had two strategies for governing towns in Malaya during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They used Sanitary Boards to improve public health and to control populations indirectly, and they relied on police forces for direct forms of discipline. Both strategies reveal the overall weakness of the British colonial regime in that region
Urban civil society: The context of empire
Using the example of cities in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article examines the implications of globalization for models of colonial urban society. Royal celebrations and voluntary associations provide evidence of a well-developed hybridized social life in Malayan towns. A multicultural civil society based upon an independent print culture, a sizeable literate p…
Being British in Malaya, 1890–1940
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International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851–1914
Although free-standing companies helped facilitate international capital flows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their ability to operate effectively over the long run in a global economy has been questioned. This essay looks at one free-standing company, the Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., in British Malaya to assess its managerial performance and strategies for transferring information. Through diversification, subcontracting, r…
The Making of Urban Europe, 1000–1994: With a New Preface and a New Chapter
Europe became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book begins with North Sea and Mediterranean traders sailing away from Dorestad and Amalfi, and with warrior kings building castles to fortify their conquests. It tells of the dynamism of textile towns in Flanders and Ireland. While London and Hamburg flourished by reaching out to the world and once vibrant Spanish cities slid into somnlence, a Russian urban network…
The challenge of political change: Urban history in the 1990s
Urban history is a rapidly expanding, flourishing field in Europe. Nevertheless, urban scholars would do well to re-examine the paradigms within which they have been working as the field today lacks central questions and general interpretive models. Moreover, the common focus on urban biography or upon one region within a single nation-state has become increasingly outmoded, given the international scale of economic processes and migration flows.…
Urban Public Space and Imagined Communities in the 1980s and 1990s
A partir de Los Angeles, Paris, Beijing et Berlin, l'A. demontre la necessite des places publiques dans la vie sociale, pour les celebrations et commemorations, mais regrette et denonce ces lieux menacants pour les citoyens, ce qui oblige a reconsiderer la notion de qualite de vie civique
Victorian Cities
A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well
Samuel Hays and the Social Analysis of City: A Symposium
The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851 . John M. Merriman
Urban Decline and Regional Economies: Brabant, Castile, and Lombardy, 1550-1750
Urban troubles were endemic in early modern Europe. Not only did cities undergo sieges, conquests, and epidemics, but the rapid spread of rural protoindustrial manufacturing threatened established markets and employment patterns. The acute problems of Antwerp, captured by Spanish troops in 1685, or of Como, whose textile industry collapsed in the early seventeenth century are not isolated examples of cities in trouble. Many more could be offered.…
Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900
The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1950
The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950
Exiles of Erin: Irish Migrants in Victorian London
The structure of nineteenth century cities
Exiles of Erin: Irish Migrants in Victorian London
Urban Public Space and Imagined Communities in the 1980s and 1990s
A partir de Los Angeles, Paris, Beijing et Berlin, l'A. demontre la necessite des places publiques dans la vie sociale, pour les celebrations et commemorations, mais regrette et denonce ces lieux menacants pour les citoyens, ce qui oblige a reconsiderer la notion de qualite de vie civique
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786-1941
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from the harsh, racial hierarchies of sugar and rubber estates, and cosmopolitan urban societies. Empire meant mobility, fluidity, and hybridity, as well a…
Being British in Malaya, 1890–1940
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International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851–1914
Although free-standing companies helped facilitate international capital flows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their ability to operate effectively over the long run in a global economy has been questioned. This essay looks at one free-standing company, the Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., in British Malaya to assess its managerial performance and strategies for transferring information. Through diversification, subcontracting, r…
Urban Decline and Regional Economies: Brabant, Castile, and Lombardy, 1550-1750
Urban troubles were endemic in early modern Europe. Not only did cities undergo sieges, conquests, and epidemics, but the rapid spread of rural protoindustrial manufacturing threatened established markets and employment patterns. The acute problems of Antwerp, captured by Spanish troops in 1685, or of Como, whose textile industry collapsed in the early seventeenth century are not isolated examples of cities in trouble. Many more could be offered.…
The Irish Countryman Urbanized: A Comparative Perspective on the Famine Migration
Discipline and delegation: Colonial governance in Malayan towns, 1880–1930
British colonial administrators had two strategies for governing towns in Malaya during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They used Sanitary Boards to improve public health and to control populations indirectly, and they relied on police forces for direct forms of discipline. Both strategies reveal the overall weakness of the British colonial regime in that region
The study of social conflict in English industrial towns
The problem of social conflict is central to the historiography of nineteenth-century cities. Since Friedrich Engels wrote his powerful indictment of social relations in English industrial towns, urban historians have told and retold tales of dramatic struggles between workers and their middle-class employers. Whether seen from a Marxist or non-Marxist perspective, the standard books on social life in industrial towns abound with strikes, demonst…
Le peuple de Juin 1848
Les Journées de Juin 1848 ont toujours occupé une place particulière parmi les nombreuses insurrections parisiennes du xixe siècle. Certains historiens ont à la fois expliqué et justifié le mouvement par la faim des insurgés et leur désir de travailler. D'autres ont attribué les revendications des combattants aux théories socialistes ou aux convoitises allumées par les démagogues. Récemment, les travaux de Peter Amann et de Rémi Gossez sur les cl…
A Social History of the Social Science History Association during Its Early Years
Social historians formed an important part of the Social Science History Association from its early days, and they widened its intellectual space beyond initial emphases on political history and quantitative methods. Lee Benson and other faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Charles and Louise Tilly, were particularly influential in attracting a broad mix of scholars to the group. The openness of the association and its interdisci…
Urban civil society: The context of empire
Using the example of cities in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article examines the implications of globalization for models of colonial urban society. Royal celebrations and voluntary associations provide evidence of a well-developed hybridized social life in Malayan towns. A multicultural civil society based upon an independent print culture, a sizeable literate p…
The challenge of political change: Urban history in the 1990s
Urban history is a rapidly expanding, flourishing field in Europe. Nevertheless, urban scholars would do well to re-examine the paradigms within which they have been working as the field today lacks central questions and general interpretive models. Moreover, the common focus on urban biography or upon one region within a single nation-state has become increasingly outmoded, given the international scale of economic processes and migration flows.…
The structure of nineteenth century cities
Victorian Attitudes to Race
The Study of Cities and the Study of Social Processes: Two Directions in Recent Urban History
Journal Article The Study of Cities and the Study of Social Processes: Two Directions in Recent Urban History Get access Lynn H. Lees Lynn H. Lees Mount Holyoke College and University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 7, Issue 3, Spring 1974, Pages 330–337, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/7.3.330 Published: 01 March 1974
Le peuple de Juin 1848
Les Journées de Juin 1848 ont toujours occupé une place particulière parmi les nombreuses insurrections parisiennes du xixe siècle. Certains historiens ont à la fois expliqué et justifié le mouvement par la faim des insurgés et leur désir de travailler. D'autres ont attribué les revendications des combattants aux théories socialistes ou aux convoitises allumées par les démagogues. Récemment, les travaux de Peter Amann et de Rémi Gossez sur les cl…
The Irish Countryman Urbanized: A Comparative Perspective on the Famine Migration
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Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology
attention being paid to the complexity of his ideas, shifts in his concerns and changes in emphasis in many of these areas. Moreover, Matthews' interest in how Park's work reflects the svariety of doctrines current in a confusing and overcrowded period in the history of social thought' overshadows a concern for either what was original and creative in Park's outlook, or, the emergence of the innovative style of social research expressed in the mo…
The study of social conflict in English industrial towns
The problem of social conflict is central to the historiography of nineteenth-century cities. Since Friedrich Engels wrote his powerful indictment of social relations in English industrial towns, urban historians have told and retold tales of dramatic struggles between workers and their middle-class employers. Whether seen from a Marxist or non-Marxist perspective, the standard books on social life in industrial towns abound with strikes, demonst…
Exiles of Erin: Irish Migrants in Victorian London
A Second Comment on Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. By Michael J. Piore
Journal Article A Second Comment on Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. By Michael J. Piore Get access Lynn Hollen Lees Lynn Hollen Lees University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 4, Summer 1981, Pages 778–780, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.4.778 Published: 01 July 1981
Exiles of Erin. Irish Migrants in Victorian London
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain
The structure of nineteenth century cities
Masters, Unions and Men: Work Control in Building and the Rise of Labour, 1830-1914
Exiles of Erin: Irish Migrants in Victorian London
The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1950
The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950
Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900
Urban Decline and Regional Economies: Brabant, Castile, and Lombardy, 1550-1750
Urban troubles were endemic in early modern Europe. Not only did cities undergo sieges, conquests, and epidemics, but the rapid spread of rural protoindustrial manufacturing threatened established markets and employment patterns. The acute problems of Antwerp, captured by Spanish troops in 1685, or of Como, whose textile industry collapsed in the early seventeenth century are not isolated examples of cities in trouble. Many more could be offered.…
Victorian Cities
A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well
Samuel Hays and the Social Analysis of City: A Symposium
The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851 . John M. Merriman
The challenge of political change: Urban history in the 1990s
Urban history is a rapidly expanding, flourishing field in Europe. Nevertheless, urban scholars would do well to re-examine the paradigms within which they have been working as the field today lacks central questions and general interpretive models. Moreover, the common focus on urban biography or upon one region within a single nation-state has become increasingly outmoded, given the international scale of economic processes and migration flows.…
Urban Public Space and Imagined Communities in the 1980s and 1990s
A partir de Los Angeles, Paris, Beijing et Berlin, l'A. demontre la necessite des places publiques dans la vie sociale, pour les celebrations et commemorations, mais regrette et denonce ces lieux menacants pour les citoyens, ce qui oblige a reconsiderer la notion de qualite de vie civique
The Making of Urban Europe, 1000–1994: With a New Preface and a New Chapter
Europe became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book begins with North Sea and Mediterranean traders sailing away from Dorestad and Amalfi, and with warrior kings building castles to fortify their conquests. It tells of the dynamism of textile towns in Flanders and Ireland. While London and Hamburg flourished by reaching out to the world and once vibrant Spanish cities slid into somnlence, a Russian urban network…
International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851–1914
Although free-standing companies helped facilitate international capital flows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their ability to operate effectively over the long run in a global economy has been questioned. This essay looks at one free-standing company, the Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., in British Malaya to assess its managerial performance and strategies for transferring information. Through diversification, subcontracting, r…
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