Benjamin H Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 358896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin H Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin H |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Historian in Context
Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963) was, during his life, a towering figure in the US historical profession, particularly among those interested in the West. The author of four major scholarly works and the editor of many influential volumes (including the Handbook of Texas, which he established, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), Webb received two Guggenheim Fellowships and numerous honorary degrees. He served as President of the American …
American Environmentalism And The Visage Of A Second Gilded Age
The moniker “Gilded Age” invokes questions of wealth, class, and political economy. When paired with a subsequent “Progressive Era,” as in the name of this journal and the society that sponsors it, the implication is that economic developments after the Civil War gave rise to pressing questions of workplace safety, income distribution, monopoly, and the like, which reform and protest movements rightly sought to rectify. Whether to invoke the Gild…
Greg Grandin. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
In the arresting and original The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, Greg Grandin argues that the contemporary politics of the U.S.-Mexico border mark the end of one of the United States’ most influential and protean cultural myths, that of the frontier. For more than a century, he argues, “the frontier served as a powerful symbol of American universalism,” conveying movement and openness, but also the p…
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside
The shared economic crisis of the Great Depression engulfed Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, with particular severity in the countryside. In both countries, reformist governors (Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Lázaro Cárdenas of Michoacán) came to presidential power on the basis of commitments to address the unprecedented crisis. As Tore C. Olsson shows in this outstanding book, the efforts of the Roosevelt and Cárdenas regimes to…
Negotiating North America’ New National Borders
The introductory essay of this volume refers to the ‘diluvial proportions’ of the literature on borders and borderlands in North American history, a description that might with equal justice be applied to the entire historiography of the United States and the imperial currents from which it emerged in the late eighteenth century. Like US historiography as a whole, the body of work on North American borderlands simultaneously benefits and suffers …
Negotiating North Americaâ s New National Borders
The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
The Plan de San Diego, a 1915 manifesto that proposed a rebellion against US rule in the American Southwest, has attracted sustained scholarly attention since the 1950s. The uprising associated with the Plan began as a series of raids on ranches, irrigation works, and railroads by ethnic Mexicans and quickly developed into a full-blown regional rebellion, in which a small guerrilla army battled local posses, Texas Rangers, and the thousands of fe…
Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas
Ever since September 1859, when he led a daring raid into the young border city of Browns-ville, Texas, Juan Cortina has been enshrined in the folklore of the lower U.S.-Mexico border as a valiant opponent of Anglo hegemony and racial chauvinism. Jerry Thompson’s biography is not only the most thorough and exhaustively researched treatment of Cortina to date, but it also breaks new ground in placing Cortina’s political and military exploits in th…
The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty‐First Century
The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty‐First Century. William A. Shutkln. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
This ambitious and graceful work traces the interactions between Mexicans, whites, and blacks in central Texas from the turn of the century to the 1930s. As the number of Mexicans migrating to Texas sharply increased with the start of the 1910 revolution, cotton production in the region simultaneously shifted from small owners, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers to larger enterprises dependent on wage labor. Neil Foley asks how these three groups …
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside
The shared economic crisis of the Great Depression engulfed Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, with particular severity in the countryside. In both countries, reformist governors (Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Lázaro Cárdenas of Michoacán) came to presidential power on the basis of commitments to address the unprecedented crisis. As Tore C. Olsson shows in this outstanding book, the efforts of the Roosevelt and Cárdenas regimes to…
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
This ambitious and graceful work traces the interactions between Mexicans, whites, and blacks in central Texas from the turn of the century to the 1930s. As the number of Mexicans migrating to Texas sharply increased with the start of the 1910 revolution, cotton production in the region simultaneously shifted from small owners, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers to larger enterprises dependent on wage labor. Neil Foley asks how these three groups …
The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty‐First Century
The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty‐First Century. William A. Shutkln. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000
Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas
Ever since September 1859, when he led a daring raid into the young border city of Browns-ville, Texas, Juan Cortina has been enshrined in the folklore of the lower U.S.-Mexico border as a valiant opponent of Anglo hegemony and racial chauvinism. Jerry Thompson’s biography is not only the most thorough and exhaustively researched treatment of Cortina to date, but it also breaks new ground in placing Cortina’s political and military exploits in th…
Negotiating North America’ New National Borders
The introductory essay of this volume refers to the ‘diluvial proportions’ of the literature on borders and borderlands in North American history, a description that might with equal justice be applied to the entire historiography of the United States and the imperial currents from which it emerged in the late eighteenth century. Like US historiography as a whole, the body of work on North American borderlands simultaneously benefits and suffers …
Negotiating North Americaâ s New National Borders
The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
The Plan de San Diego, a 1915 manifesto that proposed a rebellion against US rule in the American Southwest, has attracted sustained scholarly attention since the 1950s. The uprising associated with the Plan began as a series of raids on ranches, irrigation works, and railroads by ethnic Mexicans and quickly developed into a full-blown regional rebellion, in which a small guerrilla army battled local posses, Texas Rangers, and the thousands of fe…
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside
The shared economic crisis of the Great Depression engulfed Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, with particular severity in the countryside. In both countries, reformist governors (Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Lázaro Cárdenas of Michoacán) came to presidential power on the basis of commitments to address the unprecedented crisis. As Tore C. Olsson shows in this outstanding book, the efforts of the Roosevelt and Cárdenas regimes to…
American Environmentalism And The Visage Of A Second Gilded Age
The moniker “Gilded Age” invokes questions of wealth, class, and political economy. When paired with a subsequent “Progressive Era,” as in the name of this journal and the society that sponsors it, the implication is that economic developments after the Civil War gave rise to pressing questions of workplace safety, income distribution, monopoly, and the like, which reform and protest movements rightly sought to rectify. Whether to invoke the Gild…
Greg Grandin. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
In the arresting and original The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, Greg Grandin argues that the contemporary politics of the U.S.-Mexico border mark the end of one of the United States’ most influential and protean cultural myths, that of the frontier. For more than a century, he argues, “the frontier served as a powerful symbol of American universalism,” conveying movement and openness, but also the p…
A Historian in Context
Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963) was, during his life, a towering figure in the US historical profession, particularly among those interested in the West. The author of four major scholarly works and the editor of many influential volumes (including the Handbook of Texas, which he established, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), Webb received two Guggenheim Fellowships and numerous honorary degrees. He served as President of the American …
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Agrarian society (2 works)