Nathaniel Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathaniel Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathaniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3576-5623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Returning “Our Royal Animal” to its “Fatherland”
In the aftermath of World War I, soldiers and poachers killed the last European bison in Białowieża Forest, the former hunting grounds of kings and tsars. Over the next two decades, Polish zoologists and hunter-naturalists—as representatives of a “restored” Polish state—worked with international organizations to revive the species from the few animals scattered on estates and zoos across Europe and restore “purebred” bison to Białowieża. Explorin…
Przemyśl, Poland
The city of Przemyśl, now near the Polish border with Ukraine, is perhaps best known as the site of a massive Austro-Hungarian fortress and horrific siege during World War I. John Fahey's thoroughly researched book explores the city's relationship with that fortress from the period of the Ausgleich and proclamation of Galician self-government in 1867 to the beginning of World War II. During this period, Przemyśl was transformed “from a small town…
From Cotton and Smoke
Long known as the “Polish Manchester,” thanks to its status as a gritty, rapidly growing textile city in the nineteenth century, Łódź continued to experience the major shocks of the twentieth century in East-Central Europe, including the dissolution of empire and the emergence of the nation state, the two world wars, the rise and fall of Communism, and de-industrialization. As a major industrial center for the Russian Empire, a textile city that …
Vagabond tourism and a non-colonial European gaze
From November 1931 to November 1936, the Polish citizen Kazimierz Nowak traversed the African continent, from Libya to Cape Town to Algiers, primarily by bicycle and almost entirely without using motorised transportation. With no major sponsors or state support, Nowak paid for his journey by sending numerous photographs and dispatches back to Poland for publication. This article argues that his critical gaze on colonialism and capitalism in those…
Plenty of Food in “A World of Electric Light
Based on official proclamations, diaries, police records, and occasional newspaper reports, this examination of Cracow during the First World War explores the effect of the war on modern systems and amenities such as mobility, sanitation, communication, entertainment, and the provision of food. It pays particular attention to attitudes toward new technologies such as automobiles and airplanes, which had exemplified the wondrous potential of moder…
Modernity Derailed
Research Article| October 01 2019 Modernity Derailed?: The Urban Experience in Three Polish-speaking Cities during the First World War Robert Blobaum; Robert Blobaum West Virginia University Robert Blobaum is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University. His most recent book is A Minor Apocalypse: Warsaw during the First World War (2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
The Devil's Wheels
Reviewed by: The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic by Sasha Disko Nathaniel D. Wood (bio) The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic. By Sasha Disko. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Pp. 374. Hardcover $120. This book, the second in the series "Explorations in Mobility," edited by Gijs Mom, Mimi Sheller, and Georgine Clarsen, follows Mom's book Atlantic Automobilism (Berghan, 2014) and precedes a fort…
Scott Ury. Barricades and Banners
Journal Article Scott Ury. Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry. Get access Scott Ury. Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2012. Pp. xxii, 415. $60.00. Nathaniel D. Wood Nathaniel D. Wood University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
The ‘Polish Mecca’, the ‘Little Vienna on the Vistula’ or ‘Big-City Cracow’? Imagining Cracow before the Great War
This article explores the tendency of citizens to liken their city to other cities in an effort to promote particular visions of their hometown. It examines three mythic visions of fin-de-siècle Cracow – the Polish Mecca, the Little Vienna on the Vistula and modern Big-City Cracow – as reflected in contemporary accounts and historical scholarship, demonstrating how they functioned to promote national, imperial and interurban identification. Most …
The Socialist Prefabs after Utopia
This short essay introduces three articles about Socialist prefabricated apartment buildings in the Czech Republic and Poland. The essay begins by noting the impossibility of replacing the apartment blocks of the Communist bloc after 1989, despite their clear connotation with the undesirable gray uniformity of the old regime, and asks what their legacy has been for their inhabitants in the twenty years since. Based on summaries of the three artic…
Urban Self-Identification in East Central Europe Before the Great War
This article explores the development of urban and interurban identities in fln-de-siècle East Central Europe as alternative sources of identity that do not fit simply within standard national-historical narratives. The author focuses on Cracow as an example of this trend. Analyzing three popular illustrated newspapers from the city, he argues that thanks to popular press representations of the big city at home and abroad, as well as the experien…
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Urban Self-Identification in East Central Europe Before the Great War
This article explores the development of urban and interurban identities in fln-de-siècle East Central Europe as alternative sources of identity that do not fit simply within standard national-historical narratives. The author focuses on Cracow as an example of this trend. Analyzing three popular illustrated newspapers from the city, he argues that thanks to popular press representations of the big city at home and abroad, as well as the experien…
The Socialist Prefabs after Utopia
This short essay introduces three articles about Socialist prefabricated apartment buildings in the Czech Republic and Poland. The essay begins by noting the impossibility of replacing the apartment blocks of the Communist bloc after 1989, despite their clear connotation with the undesirable gray uniformity of the old regime, and asks what their legacy has been for their inhabitants in the twenty years since. Based on summaries of the three artic…
The ‘Polish Mecca’, the ‘Little Vienna on the Vistula’ or ‘Big-City Cracow’? Imagining Cracow before the Great War
This article explores the tendency of citizens to liken their city to other cities in an effort to promote particular visions of their hometown. It examines three mythic visions of fin-de-siècle Cracow – the Polish Mecca, the Little Vienna on the Vistula and modern Big-City Cracow – as reflected in contemporary accounts and historical scholarship, demonstrating how they functioned to promote national, imperial and interurban identification. Most …
Scott Ury. Barricades and Banners
Journal Article Scott Ury. Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry. Get access Scott Ury. Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2012. Pp. xxii, 415. $60.00. Nathaniel D. Wood Nathaniel D. Wood University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Plenty of Food in “A World of Electric Light
Based on official proclamations, diaries, police records, and occasional newspaper reports, this examination of Cracow during the First World War explores the effect of the war on modern systems and amenities such as mobility, sanitation, communication, entertainment, and the provision of food. It pays particular attention to attitudes toward new technologies such as automobiles and airplanes, which had exemplified the wondrous potential of moder…
Modernity Derailed
Research Article| October 01 2019 Modernity Derailed?: The Urban Experience in Three Polish-speaking Cities during the First World War Robert Blobaum; Robert Blobaum West Virginia University Robert Blobaum is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University. His most recent book is A Minor Apocalypse: Warsaw during the First World War (2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
The Devil's Wheels
Reviewed by: The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic by Sasha Disko Nathaniel D. Wood (bio) The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic. By Sasha Disko. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Pp. 374. Hardcover $120. This book, the second in the series "Explorations in Mobility," edited by Gijs Mom, Mimi Sheller, and Georgine Clarsen, follows Mom's book Atlantic Automobilism (Berghan, 2014) and precedes a fort…
Vagabond tourism and a non-colonial European gaze
From November 1931 to November 1936, the Polish citizen Kazimierz Nowak traversed the African continent, from Libya to Cape Town to Algiers, primarily by bicycle and almost entirely without using motorised transportation. With no major sponsors or state support, Nowak paid for his journey by sending numerous photographs and dispatches back to Poland for publication. This article argues that his critical gaze on colonialism and capitalism in those…
From Cotton and Smoke
Long known as the “Polish Manchester,” thanks to its status as a gritty, rapidly growing textile city in the nineteenth century, Łódź continued to experience the major shocks of the twentieth century in East-Central Europe, including the dissolution of empire and the emergence of the nation state, the two world wars, the rise and fall of Communism, and de-industrialization. As a major industrial center for the Russian Empire, a textile city that …
Returning “Our Royal Animal” to its “Fatherland”
In the aftermath of World War I, soldiers and poachers killed the last European bison in Białowieża Forest, the former hunting grounds of kings and tsars. Over the next two decades, Polish zoologists and hunter-naturalists—as representatives of a “restored” Polish state—worked with international organizations to revive the species from the few animals scattered on estates and zoos across Europe and restore “purebred” bison to Białowieża. Explorin…
Przemyśl, Poland
The city of Przemyśl, now near the Polish border with Ukraine, is perhaps best known as the site of a massive Austro-Hungarian fortress and horrific siege during World War I. John Fahey's thoroughly researched book explores the city's relationship with that fortress from the period of the Ausgleich and proclamation of Galician self-government in 1867 to the beginning of World War II. During this period, Przemyśl was transformed “from a small town…
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