James West Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James West Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James West |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON J W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Little History of the United States
‘They Say’
Few students have had the opportunity to consider the contrasting social identties pursued by African Americans following abolotion of slavery, nor to understand how whites’ skewed construction of those aspirations were a reaction against them. The story of Ida Wells provides a useful narrative frame for understanding the treacherous crosscurrents of race that shaped social identites.Wells was born into slavery in 1862, of mixed parentage, and ra…
George Elson (ca. 1875-ca. 1950)
We know little of Elson's childhood. His father, a Scot, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company and, as was often the custom of the country, married a Cree. George grew up nurtured by both cultures, yet in some respects caught between them, like so many children of mixed parentage. In his mid-twenties, having worked for a survey crew of the Grand Trunk Railroad, he found himself in Missanabie, Ontario, when fate struck. A journalist from New York by…
After the Fact
CHAPTER ONE Serving Time in Virginia: The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History CHAPTER TWO The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem: Studying Crisis at the Community Level CHAPTER THREE Declaring Independence: The Strategies of Documentary Analysis CHATPER FOUR Jackson's Frontier--and Turner's: History and Grand Theory CHAPTER FIVE The Invisible Pioneers: Ecological Transformations along the Western Frontier CHAPTER SIX The Madness of John…
The New Narrative History
Once again, there are wars and rumors of wars in the realm of historians and not just along the outer marches. Members of the profession are openly debating the health of their discipline, and concluding that it has lost far too much of its vibrancy and direction. To be sure, the outward signs continue vigorous. Quarterlies roll off the press with merciless regularity, while monographs proliferate like coathangers in bedroom closets. Even the tar…
The Logic of Millennial Thought
The Sacred Cause of Liberty
The Logic of Millennial Thought
The Logic of Millennial Thought
The Australian Frontier in New Guinea, 1870-1885
Labor in the Philippine Economy
The New Narrative History
Once again, there are wars and rumors of wars in the realm of historians and not just along the outer marches. Members of the profession are openly debating the health of their discipline, and concluding that it has lost far too much of its vibrancy and direction. To be sure, the outward signs continue vigorous. Quarterlies roll off the press with merciless regularity, while monographs proliferate like coathangers in bedroom closets. Even the tar…
Labor in the Philippine Economy
The Australian Frontier in New Guinea, 1870-1885
The Sacred Cause of Liberty
The Logic of Millennial Thought
The Logic of Millennial Thought
The Logic of Millennial Thought
The New Narrative History
Once again, there are wars and rumors of wars in the realm of historians and not just along the outer marches. Members of the profession are openly debating the health of their discipline, and concluding that it has lost far too much of its vibrancy and direction. To be sure, the outward signs continue vigorous. Quarterlies roll off the press with merciless regularity, while monographs proliferate like coathangers in bedroom closets. Even the tar…
After the Fact
CHAPTER ONE Serving Time in Virginia: The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History CHAPTER TWO The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem: Studying Crisis at the Community Level CHAPTER THREE Declaring Independence: The Strategies of Documentary Analysis CHATPER FOUR Jackson's Frontier--and Turner's: History and Grand Theory CHAPTER FIVE The Invisible Pioneers: Ecological Transformations along the Western Frontier CHAPTER SIX The Madness of John…
George Elson (ca. 1875-ca. 1950)
We know little of Elson's childhood. His father, a Scot, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company and, as was often the custom of the country, married a Cree. George grew up nurtured by both cultures, yet in some respects caught between them, like so many children of mixed parentage. In his mid-twenties, having worked for a survey crew of the Grand Trunk Railroad, he found himself in Missanabie, Ontario, when fate struck. A journalist from New York by…
‘They Say’
Few students have had the opportunity to consider the contrasting social identties pursued by African Americans following abolotion of slavery, nor to understand how whites’ skewed construction of those aspirations were a reaction against them. The story of Ida Wells provides a useful narrative frame for understanding the treacherous crosscurrents of race that shaped social identites.Wells was born into slavery in 1862, of mixed parentage, and ra…
A Little History of the United States
History (10 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works)