J L Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J L Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J L |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Royal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2693-5800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unforeseeable’ and ‘inevitable’: Constructions of prison suicide in Scotland’s Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiries
Rates of suicides are on the rise in Scottish prisons. Fatal Accident and Sudden Deaths Inquiries (FAIs) carried out by sheriffs following these deaths provide a valuable source of knowledge regarding how the criminal justice system understands and responds to incarcerated people's suicides. Informed by literature in critical suicide studies and narrative criminology, we conducted an abductive, narrative qualitative analysis of 37 FAI reports of …
Roundtable on When A Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
ROUNDTABLE ON WHEN A DREAM DIES brings together four scholars to reflect on the significance and impact of Pamela Riney-Kehrberg’s new book When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s (University of Kansas Press, 2022). Historians J. L. Anderson, Jenny Barker-Devine, and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil are joined by rural sociologist Mark Friedberger and each offers thought-provoking assessments of the new work, and Riney-Kehrber…
The Extraordinary Ethics of Self-Defence: Embodied Vulnerability and Gun Rights among Transgender Shooters in the United States
Ethical ways of being form in response to bodily perceptions of vulnerability. Arguments that position firearms as defensive tools have become increasingly common in debates about gun legislation over the last two decades. This rhetoric has its origin in counter-hegemonic movements like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence, which argued that African-Americans need guns to resist state-sanctioned violence from the police. For white men and wom…
E. Paul Durrenberger, the Dawn of Industrial Agriculture: Anthropology, Literature, and History
Iowa Agricultural History: Old Perspectives and New Directions
Nature at War: American Environments and World War II
Nature at War is a fresh, engaging examination of how the American war effort resulted in an environmental transformation unique in scale and duration. The editors assembled twelve chapters, grouped into five topic areas, including new weapons and spaces, military materials (food, plants, metals, and energy), landscapes, the scientific frontier, and conservation. All of the essays offer new insights into government priorities in organizing enviro…
Kristin L. Hoganson. The Heartland: An American History
Many Americans on the coasts see the Midwest as “flyover country,” an insulated, isolationist, and unchanging region that embodies the American mainstream. Even in the middle states, those supposed traits are valued and enshrined as heartland myth. But instead of a static heartland buffeted by change on the coasts, author Kristin L. Hoganson contends in The Heartland that the real Midwest was and remains more borderland than hinterland, a place t…
Nous n'avons plus peur: La mobilisation inattendue des travailleur.ses de Ryanair
Le succès de la compagnie aérienne Ryanair repose notamment sur son modèle économique fondé sur les bas salaires. Pour le préserver, elle n'a pas hésité à faire la guerre aux syndicats, à choisir les pays aux législations les plus accommodantes pour ses pratiques managériales agressives. Cependant, depuis 2017, la multinationale a été contrainte de reconnaître les syndicats, d'écouter et de négocier avec ses salarié.es. Cet article retrace les co…
Roundtable Review
Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada by Douglas McCalla
Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935
The story of the county farm and home bureaus has often been obscured by an emphasis on the political activities of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and how it influenced farm policy and exercised control over the countryside. For Nancy K. Berlage this traditional focus on the AFBF ignores how improvement-minded rural people organized at the local level and ultimately shaped the national organization. Farm and home bureaus reflected the…
Debate
This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence. I argue that anthropology is uniquely situated to provide a better understanding of how this ethical system is produced, thereby allowing us to move beyond the falsely dichotomous terms of the gun control debate. Recently returned from a period of fieldwork with a gun rights activist community in San…
Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland by Cynthia Clampitt
Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland, by Cynthia Clampitt. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2015. xxii, 288 pp. $95.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In Midwest Maize, popular history writer Cynthia Clampitt successfully explains the history of corn in a regional context. This is no easy task. Com was and remains significant in several American regions, not just the Midwest, requiring the author to maintain focus while shifting …
Michelle Mart. Pesticides, a Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
What has love got to do with pesticides? Quite a lot, observes Michelle Mart in Pesticides, a Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals. Americans fell in love with pesticides in the post–World War II period because they were tools to ensure abundant agricultural production at home and to affirm technological superiority abroad. The love affair endured despite evidence that the reliance on chemicals was not necessarily healthy…
The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Journal Article The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History Get access Jon K. Lauck. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013. 166 pp. Paper, $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1232–1233, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav005 Published: 01 March 2015
Kendra Smith-Howard. Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
Pure milk in the twentieth-century United States is a paradox. Creating a commodity that could be accepted as pure required technological intervention and regulation even as continued technological intervention and regulation repeatedly threatened that purity. Farmers, processors, advertisers, lawmakers, and bureaucrats subsequently and repeatedly remade milk and dairy products, invoking such contested terms as nature, purity, and modernity. Kend…
Mark R. Finlay, 15 September 1960-6 October 2013
Mark Finlay died unexpectedly on 6 October 2013. Mark earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at Iowa State University, completing his dissertation titled "Science, Practice, and Politics: German Agricultural Experiment Stations in the Nineteenth Century" in 1992. That year Mark was appointed assistant professor history at Armstrong Atlantic State University. He was promoted to associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2005. In 1999 Mark received the p…
Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security
Reviewed by: Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security J. L. Anderson (bio) Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security. By Mark R. Finlay. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+317. $49.95. Japan's attack on the United States in December 1941 brought American dependency on foreign rubber into sharp and painful focus. Cut off from Asian supplies, how…
A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (review)
Reviewed by: A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 J. L. Anderson (bio) A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929. By Paul K. Conkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Pp. xiv+223. $29.95. This is a brief overview of American farm life, technology, and federal farm policy during the twentieth century. Paul Conkin, distinguished professor emeritu…
A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
Book Review| April 01 2009 A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression. Dwight W. Hoover. J. L. Anderson J. L. Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 247–248. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. L. Anderson; A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa …
Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (review)
Reviewed by: Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South J. L. Anderson (bio) Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South. By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge and Washington, D.C.: Louisiana State University Press in cooperation with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2005. Pp. xii+209. $26.95. In Toxic Drift, a leading historian of the rural South addresses the role of pesticides and the fede…
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture (review)
Reviewed by: From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture J. L. Anderson (bio) From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. By Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi+356. $65. While Southern farming during the twentieth century has received close scrutiny from historians, this has not been true of farming in the twelve Midwe…
The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida
Book Review| July 01 2006 The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida. Gordon Patterson. J. L. Anderson J. L. Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 373–375. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. L. Anderson; The Mosquito Wars: A…
War on Weeds: Iowa Farmers and Growth-Regulator Herbicides
After World War II farmers transformed the Iowa landscape by using newly developed growth regulator herbicides while simultaneously shaping the way herbicides were used. Herbicides met many farmers' goals, including cutting fuel and labor costs of cultivating while boosting yields by reducing weed competition for soil nutrients, light, and moisture. In the 1940s and 1950s, experts advised farmers to only use chemicals to supplement mechanical cul…
The quickest way possible: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-drawn Combines, 1940-1960
Debate
This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence. I argue that anthropology is uniquely situated to provide a better understanding of how this ethical system is produced, thereby allowing us to move beyond the falsely dichotomous terms of the gun control debate. Recently returned from a period of fieldwork with a gun rights activist community in San…
The Extraordinary Ethics of Self-Defence: Embodied Vulnerability and Gun Rights among Transgender Shooters in the United States
Ethical ways of being form in response to bodily perceptions of vulnerability. Arguments that position firearms as defensive tools have become increasingly common in debates about gun legislation over the last two decades. This rhetoric has its origin in counter-hegemonic movements like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence, which argued that African-Americans need guns to resist state-sanctioned violence from the police. For white men and wom…
Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935
The story of the county farm and home bureaus has often been obscured by an emphasis on the political activities of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and how it influenced farm policy and exercised control over the countryside. For Nancy K. Berlage this traditional focus on the AFBF ignores how improvement-minded rural people organized at the local level and ultimately shaped the national organization. Farm and home bureaus reflected the…
The quickest way possible: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-drawn Combines, 1940-1960
A Measure of the Effect of British Public Finance, 1793-1815
Japanese Swordfighters and American Gunfighters
Like so many Japanese critical terms, gendai-geki and jidai-geki are simultaneously precise and loose categorizations for the two major megagenres of Japanese films. Gendai-geki generally refers to motion pictures which have a setting contemporaneous with the time of filming. Jidai-geki is not the Japanese equivalent of such general English language terms as historical drama, costume drama, or period drama. It primarily refers to films set in the…
Aspects of The Effect on the British Economy of the Wars Against France, 1793–18151
Japanese Swordfighters and American Gunfighters
Like so many Japanese critical terms, gendai-geki and jidai-geki are simultaneously precise and loose categorizations for the two major megagenres of Japanese films. Gendai-geki generally refers to motion pictures which have a setting contemporaneous with the time of filming. Jidai-geki is not the Japanese equivalent of such general English language terms as historical drama, costume drama, or period drama. It primarily refers to films set in the…
A Measure of the Effect of British Public Finance, 1793-1815
A Measure of the Effect of British Public Finance, 1793-18151
History as a climatologist sees it
Natural Disasters and the Historical Response
Weather, Climate and Human Affairs: A Book of Essays and Other Papers
Explaining Long-Term Economic Change
This book provides an introduction to, and critical review of, the competing models that have been developed to explain long-term and large-scale economic change. The global pattern of production and distribution has its origins in the historical heritage of component societies and in their physical difference. Attempts to explain the social and economic dynamics which have produced this pattern are usually couched in the form of 'models'. These …
The quickest way possible: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-drawn Combines, 1940-1960
The Quickest Way Possible”: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-Drawn Combines, 1940–1960
Research Article| October 01 2002 “The Quickest Way Possible”: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-Drawn Combines, 1940–1960 J. L. Anderson J. L. Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 669–688. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.669 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. L. Anderson; “The Quickest Way Possible”: Iowa Farm Families and Tractor-Drawn…
War on Weeds: Iowa Farmers and Growth-Regulator Herbicides
After World War II farmers transformed the Iowa landscape by using newly developed growth regulator herbicides while simultaneously shaping the way herbicides were used. Herbicides met many farmers' goals, including cutting fuel and labor costs of cultivating while boosting yields by reducing weed competition for soil nutrients, light, and moisture. In the 1940s and 1950s, experts advised farmers to only use chemicals to supplement mechanical cul…
Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (review)
Reviewed by: Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South J. L. Anderson (bio) Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South. By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge and Washington, D.C.: Louisiana State University Press in cooperation with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2005. Pp. xii+209. $26.95. In Toxic Drift, a leading historian of the rural South addresses the role of pesticides and the fede…
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture (review)
Reviewed by: From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture J. L. Anderson (bio) From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. By Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi+356. $65. While Southern farming during the twentieth century has received close scrutiny from historians, this has not been true of farming in the twelve Midwe…
The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida
Book Review| July 01 2006 The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida. Gordon Patterson. J. L. Anderson J. L. Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 373–375. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. L. Anderson; The Mosquito Wars: A…
A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (review)
Reviewed by: A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 J. L. Anderson (bio) A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929. By Paul K. Conkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Pp. xiv+223. $29.95. This is a brief overview of American farm life, technology, and federal farm policy during the twentieth century. Paul Conkin, distinguished professor emeritu…
A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
Book Review| April 01 2009 A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression. Dwight W. Hoover. J. L. Anderson J. L. Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 247–248. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. L. Anderson; A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa …
Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security
Reviewed by: Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security J. L. Anderson (bio) Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security. By Mark R. Finlay. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+317. $49.95. Japan's attack on the United States in December 1941 brought American dependency on foreign rubber into sharp and painful focus. Cut off from Asian supplies, how…
Kendra Smith-Howard. Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
Pure milk in the twentieth-century United States is a paradox. Creating a commodity that could be accepted as pure required technological intervention and regulation even as continued technological intervention and regulation repeatedly threatened that purity. Farmers, processors, advertisers, lawmakers, and bureaucrats subsequently and repeatedly remade milk and dairy products, invoking such contested terms as nature, purity, and modernity. Kend…
Mark R. Finlay, 15 September 1960-6 October 2013
Mark Finlay died unexpectedly on 6 October 2013. Mark earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at Iowa State University, completing his dissertation titled "Science, Practice, and Politics: German Agricultural Experiment Stations in the Nineteenth Century" in 1992. That year Mark was appointed assistant professor history at Armstrong Atlantic State University. He was promoted to associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2005. In 1999 Mark received the p…
The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Journal Article The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History Get access Jon K. Lauck. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013. 166 pp. Paper, $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1232–1233, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav005 Published: 01 March 2015
Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland by Cynthia Clampitt
Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland, by Cynthia Clampitt. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2015. xxii, 288 pp. $95.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In Midwest Maize, popular history writer Cynthia Clampitt successfully explains the history of corn in a regional context. This is no easy task. Com was and remains significant in several American regions, not just the Midwest, requiring the author to maintain focus while shifting …
Michelle Mart. Pesticides, a Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
What has love got to do with pesticides? Quite a lot, observes Michelle Mart in Pesticides, a Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals. Americans fell in love with pesticides in the post–World War II period because they were tools to ensure abundant agricultural production at home and to affirm technological superiority abroad. The love affair endured despite evidence that the reliance on chemicals was not necessarily healthy…
Roundtable Review
Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada by Douglas McCalla
Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935
The story of the county farm and home bureaus has often been obscured by an emphasis on the political activities of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and how it influenced farm policy and exercised control over the countryside. For Nancy K. Berlage this traditional focus on the AFBF ignores how improvement-minded rural people organized at the local level and ultimately shaped the national organization. Farm and home bureaus reflected the…
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