Robert Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3871-4941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On whiteness
Julian, a white woman, is an anti-racism writer and facilitator (who, with Cheryl Garvey designed and delivered the Museums Association programme); Rob Lewis is Director of Transformation at Birmingham Museums Trust, a white man and participant on the Museum Associations pilot Anti-Racist Leadership programme in 2024. This conversation offers a personal reflection on coming to understand whiteness for Rob and Julian and took place following the c…
The Future Marker ge ‐ within the Temporal and Modal System of Potawatomi
The Algonquian language Potawatomi has two future tenses. This paper presents a description and analysis of those tenses and the modal to show how these markers overlap and differ. I give special attention to the future ge‐ because it has been scarcely and sparsely discussed in previous literature. I draw examples from archived Potawatomi narratives. I argue that contrary to what has been previously argued, the future tenses overlap in the future…
A multidisciplinary approach to resolve the taxonomy of the historically extinct sea mink ( Neogale macrodon ) (Maine, USA)
This paper addresses the taxonomic status of the extinct large-bodied sea mink Neogale macrodon . Since the early twentieth century, bones of this mink have been found commingled with those of the extant mink, Neogale vison , in Maine’s prehistoric archaeological sites. These two size classes of mink have been described as separate species and as sexually dimorphic size variants of N. vison . A century later, researchers revisited this dispute us…
Roundtable
One hundred years after Paris last hosted, the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in the French capital this summer. To mark this centenary, French History gathered a group of academics together to write blog posts in response to different aspects of Paris 2024. Their posts, which were originally hosted on the French History Network Blog, invited readers to delve into the historical, cultural and sporting references being evoked by the openin…
Chicago's Industrial Decline
This book charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn…
Women on the Move
Book Review| April 01 2020 Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing Gilles, Roger. Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 288. Notes, illustrations, and index. $29.95, hb. $29.95, eb. Robert W. Lewis Robert W. Lewis California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (…
Property Rights, Redevelopment Areas, and Toronto Ratepayer Associations in the 1950s
In the 1950s, Toronto ratepayer associations inserted themselves into debates about property relations and the appropriate use of the City’s new redevelopment authority as then being tested by elected officials and developers. Two case studies are presented: a designated redevelopment area where the City failed to close a deal with development firms, and a request, ultimately denied, by a developer group to to have the City establish another area…
The female football spectator in England, 1870–1914
Flanerie has recently undergone a conceptual expansion to include other observations of modernity, incorporating the flaneuse, a female equivalent in late nineteenth/early twentieth century cities. This scholarship makes a convincing case that public (masculine) spaces and domestic (feminine) spaces were not so mutually exclusive as to preclude a female presence within cities. A flaneuse could (within certain limitations) experience the city, pro…
Things we know about media and morality
Manchester and the Emergence of an Association Football Culture, 1840–1880
This paper provides a critique of the article by Gary James and Dave Day on ‘The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester, 1840–1884', published in Sport in History. We suggest an alternative interpretation of Manchester's football history during this period, arguing that Association football was a minor form of football in a city largely dominated by the rugby code. Furthermore, by employing an artificial construct of Mancheste…
Building Urban Infrastructure
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Testing a Dual-Process Model of Media Enjoyment and Appreciation
This article presents a dual-process model of media entertainment representing 2 psychological appraisal processes, and examines how these processes evoke appreciation or enjoyment as a function of the presence/absence of cognitive conflict. The first process (which characterizes experiences of appreciation) is deliberative and slow, and results from cognitive conflict. The second process (which characterizes experiences of enjoyment) is automati…
Repeated Exposure to Narrative Entertainment and the Salience of Moral Intuitions
R. Tamborini (2011, 2012) recently proposed the model of intuitive morality and exemplars (MIME), which combines theoretical developments in moral psychology with media theory to predict the influence of media exposure on morality. To test predictions from this model, a quasi-experimental study conducted over 8 weeks exposed selected participants to an online soap opera. Participants' moral intuitions were measured pre-exposure and postexposure. …
Egoism Versus Altruism in Television Content for Young Audiences
The model of intuitive morality and exemplars is an organizational framework that was created to incorporate theories of basic human motivations with both micro- and macrolevel media research. Thus far, literature has integrated a framework of basic moral intuitions (here labeled altruistic motivations) with the model but has yet to integrate a framework of basic egoistic motivations. The current study integrates frameworks for both altruistic an…
The Morality of May 2, 2011
Following the death of Osama bin Laden in the late hours of May 1, 2011, many print newspapers throughout the United States and the world ran front-page coverage of his death the following day. Although public support for bin Laden's death was largely consistent, newspaper headlines across the country varied in their presentation of the story, from “Got the Bastard!” to a more stoic “bin Laden dead.” Content analysis derived from the model of int…
Football Hooliganism Revisited
In the light of the republication of my original article on ‘Football hooliganism in England before 1914’ in the volume Sports History: Critical Concepts, edited by Wray Vamplew and published by Routledge in 2014, I offer here a belated reply to the counter-critique of my arguments given by Patrick Murphy, Eric Dunning and Joseph Maguire in their article in the International Journal of the History of Sport in 1998. I regard this debate as still r…
Enacting Brittany
In an excellent new monograph, Patrick Young offers a thoughtful analysis of the development of tourism in Brittany, France's culturally distinctive north-western region. During the years of France
Predicting Media Appeal From Instinctive Moral Values
Zillmann's moral sanction theory defines morality subcultures for entertainment as groups of media viewers who evaluate character actions with shared value systems. However, the theory provides no a priori means to identify these shared value systems. The model of intuitive morality and exemplars incorporates a theoretical framework for identifying and testing the factors from which these shared value systems emerge. This study applies the model'…
Segregation and the Social Relations of Place, Bombay, 1890–1910
For many, a defining feature of the colonial Indian city is the high rate of segregation of its European and Indians residents. Building on recent work that explores the messy realities of social and spatial relations, this paper argues that the social geographies of the colonial city were built on the social relations of place—the network of social relations that are bound up with a particular material setting. The result was that social spaces …
Characterizing Mood Management as Need Satisfaction
This study attempted to (a) extend traditional mood management theory research by investigating the influence of the intrinsic needs for competence and autonomy on selective exposure to video games and (b) test the influence of satisfying these needs on resultant mood repair. An experiment varied satisfaction of competence and autonomy needs using false feedback. Subjects then selected media that varied in level of user demand. Measures of need s…
Numbers didn't count
Street and house numbers are part of the modern state's geo-locational regime, by which people and places are made legible to distant governments and bureaucrats. Some writers have suggested that they were important in colonial cities, where urban regulation and political control was often insecure, but we know little about their extent and significance in such settings. Bombay and Calcutta c .1901 are significant test cases, being two of the lar…
Modern industrial policy and zoning
Industrial policy has long been considered a federal responsibility. Indeed, most scholars date modern local economic development programmes as starting in the 1960s. Before that, in this view, industrial policy was ad hoc , unco-ordinated and fragmented. In this article, I argue that the origins of modern industrial policy initiated by the local state slowly emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century in Chicago. Using an assortment of sou…
Stories of Chicago
From the “Phoenix of Legends” to the “Ultimate Monument” of the Times
This article analyzes the renovation and construction of the Parc des Princes and the Stade de France in post-Second World War Paris. The history of the two stadia testifies to a shift in the envisioned role of stadia in the Parisian basin between the late 1960s and the end of the twentieth century and stands as evidence for the emergence of new urban planning actors. Both stadia were also critiqued as symbols of broader problems with Parisian ur…
A happy confluence of planning and statistics
In India in 1901, a rare statistical event occurred. A confluence of interests gave a group of nascent planners new influence over the conduct of a census, with the result being a rich body of published information for Bombay and Calcutta. Useful in its day, this material now offers exceptional insights into social conditions, and the concerns of planners, in two great colonial cities. Having sketched the confluence of interests, this research no…
Constructing a Fault(y) Zone
The way we think about the geography of American cities and suburbs in the first half of this century has, for several decades, been framed by the writings of Ernest W. Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Chauncy Harris, and Edward Ullman. Burgess's zonal model has been especially influential, gaining ascendancy in the postwar period. Contemporaries knew, and recent historical research has shown, that this model was faulty in several important respects. It gain…
The Nature of Circulation
The idea that the urban environment is socially produced and contested is a central concern of urban political ecology. Drawing from the theme of circulation, it is argued that Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge is a socio-physical manifestation of capitalist urban nature that had important repercussions for the city's landscape, particularly the development of North Michigan Avenue. As fixed capital, the bridge functioned as a metabolic vehicle th…
The Morality of May 2, 2011
Following the death of Osama bin Laden in the late hours of May 1, 2011, many print newspapers throughout the United States and the world ran front-page coverage of his death the following day. Although public support for bin Laden's death was largely consistent, newspaper headlines across the country varied in their presentation of the story, from “Got the Bastard!” to a more stoic “bin Laden dead.” Content analysis derived from the model of int…
The genesis of professional football
(1997). The genesis of professional football: Bolton‐Blackburn‐Darwen, the centre of innovation 1878–85. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 21-54
The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950
How the Past Matters
The past matters because it affects the present, and we can make serious errors of judgment when we ignore this fact. In studying the past, however, we should try to view it in its own terms and not simply in the light of current concerns. This will not only make for better history, but may be useful in broadening the terms of contemporary debates. These themes are illustrated in terms of the twentieth-century North American city. The influence o…
Football hooliganism in England before 1914
Predicting Media Appeal From Instinctive Moral Values
Zillmann's moral sanction theory defines morality subcultures for entertainment as groups of media viewers who evaluate character actions with shared value systems. However, the theory provides no a priori means to identify these shared value systems. The model of intuitive morality and exemplars incorporates a theoretical framework for identifying and testing the factors from which these shared value systems emerge. This study applies the model'…
The Segregated City
Science, philosophy and human behavior in the Soviet Union
Journal Article Science, philosophy and human behavior in the Soviet Union Get access Science, philosophy and human behavior in the Soviet Union. By Loren R. Graham. New York, Guildford: Columbia University Press. 1987. 565pp. Index. ISBN 0 231 06442 X. Robert Lewis Robert Lewis 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 304–305, http…
Nationality and Population Change in Russia and the USSR
Segregation and the Social Relations of Place, Bombay, 1890–1910
For many, a defining feature of the colonial Indian city is the high rate of segregation of its European and Indians residents. Building on recent work that explores the messy realities of social and spatial relations, this paper argues that the social geographies of the colonial city were built on the social relations of place—the network of social relations that are bound up with a particular material setting. The result was that social spaces …
World War II Manufacturing and the Postwar Southern Economy
MANY SCHOLARS CONSIDER THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN economy after World War II to be a central element of the regional and economic history of the United States in the twentieth century. Even though several reasons have been posited for the region's changes, many observers believe that manufacturing expansion during the war was a principal cause. Large-scale manufacturing growth allied with agricultural change and rising wages supposedly pr…
Redesigning the Workplace
In 1912, the Gisholt Machine Company, makers of lathes, balancing machines, and other machinery, built an addition to their shop in Madison, Wisconsin. Although the older building had been considered a modern plant when it was built, only twelve years earlier, it was already out of date. To remain competitive, Gisholt constructed a new building in which the work space could be reorganized to minimize material handling and facilitate the flow of w…
Manchester and the Emergence of an Association Football Culture, 1840–1880
This paper provides a critique of the article by Gary James and Dave Day on ‘The Emergence of an Association Football Culture in Manchester, 1840–1884', published in Sport in History. We suggest an alternative interpretation of Manchester's football history during this period, arguing that Association football was a minor form of football in a city largely dominated by the rugby code. Furthermore, by employing an artificial construct of Mancheste…
Numbers didn't count
Street and house numbers are part of the modern state's geo-locational regime, by which people and places are made legible to distant governments and bureaucrats. Some writers have suggested that they were important in colonial cities, where urban regulation and political control was often insecure, but we know little about their extent and significance in such settings. Bombay and Calcutta c .1901 are significant test cases, being two of the lar…
Modern industrial policy and zoning
Industrial policy has long been considered a federal responsibility. Indeed, most scholars date modern local economic development programmes as starting in the 1960s. Before that, in this view, industrial policy was ad hoc , unco-ordinated and fragmented. In this article, I argue that the origins of modern industrial policy initiated by the local state slowly emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century in Chicago. Using an assortment of sou…
Local Production Practices and Chicago's Automotive Industry, 1900–1930
Chicago's large, diverse automotive industry specialized in truck, bus, and taxicab assembly, as well as automotive-parts manufacture, in the first decades of the twentieth century. From having just a handful of companies before World War I, by the mid 1920s Chicago grew to include more than 600 firms that were producing a wide assortment of automotiverelated products. This large, successful industry emerged out of two sets of advantages: First, …
Hierarchy and technological innovation in Soviet industry
Science and Industrialization in the USSR
Developmental Transitions in Male Sexuality
Relationships Between Birth Weight and Selected Social, Environmental and Medical Care Factors
Relationships Between Birth Weight and Selected Social, Environmental and Medical Care Factors Robert Lewis, Mark Charles, and K. M. Patwary CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.11.973 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Things we know about media and morality
Building Urban Infrastructure
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Egoism Versus Altruism in Television Content for Young Audiences
The model of intuitive morality and exemplars is an organizational framework that was created to incorporate theories of basic human motivations with both micro- and macrolevel media research. Thus far, literature has integrated a framework of basic moral intuitions (here labeled altruistic motivations) with the model but has yet to integrate a framework of basic egoistic motivations. The current study integrates frameworks for both altruistic an…
Method — Or Madness
Hemingway on Love
The Literary Reputation of Hemingway in Europe
Relationships Between Birth Weight and Selected Social, Environmental and Medical Care Factors
Relationships Between Birth Weight and Selected Social, Environmental and Medical Care Factors Robert Lewis, Mark Charles, and K. M. Patwary CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.11.973 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Comment on
Employment, Income and the Growth of the Barriadas in Lima, Peru
Frontier and Civilization in the Thought of Frederick Law Olmsted
BORN IN 1822, FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED PURSUED MANY VOCATIONS before his death in 1903. A gentleman farmer in New York and Connecticut in the 1840s interested in scientific agriculture, he became one of the most popular travel writers of the next decade, renowned for his detailed observations of Southern life. His literary activities included editing the cosmopolitan Putnam's Magazine and being one of the founders of the Nation. During the Civil War…
Nationality and Population Change in Russia and the USSR
Developmental Transitions in Male Sexuality
Science and Industrialisation in the U.S.S.R
Seaside holiday resorts in the United States and Britain
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Science and Industrialization in the USSR
Science and Industrialisation in the USSR
Hierarchy and technological innovation in Soviet industry
The Actor's Eye
Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938-1945
Science, Nonscience, and the Cultural Revolution
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Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928-1930
This book contains a full translation of a major but little-known Soviet work on Soviet national income accounts for a crucial stage in the social and economic transformation of the Soviet economy from 1928 to 1930. These were years of mass collectivisation and the launching of the Soviet industrialisation drive. The USSR was perhaps unique in having a well-developed statistical service able to record the detailed changes in economic relationship…
Tableaux vivants
Au milieu du XIXe siècle, la mode se répandit aux Etats-Unis des « tableaux vivants », où une ou plusieurs personnes posaient, immobiles et en silence, pour représenter un tableau, soit en public, soit plutôt en privé : la liberté y était plus grande. Si les conventions venaient droit d'Europe, les sujets, eux, étaient américains, courants, moraux et allégoriques : rarement la haute culture de la Renaissance ou celle des peintres modernes y trouv…
The Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster. By Viktor Haynesand Marko Bojcun. London: Hogarth. 1988. 233pp. Index. Pb.: £7.95. ISBN 0 7012 0816 3. Robert Lewis Robert Lewis 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 1988, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621045 Published: 01 January 1988
Science, philosophy and human behavior in the Soviet Union
Journal Article Science, philosophy and human behavior in the Soviet Union Get access Science, philosophy and human behavior in the Soviet Union. By Loren R. Graham. New York, Guildford: Columbia University Press. 1987. 565pp. Index. ISBN 0 231 06442 X. Robert Lewis Robert Lewis 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 304–305, http…
The Letters of Edith Wharton
Chernobyl
Journal Article Chernobyl: a documentary story Get access Chernobyl: a documentary story. By Iurii Shcherbak. London: Macmillan for Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 1989. 168pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 333 49666 3. Pb.: £6.99; ISBN 0 333 49667 1. Robert Lewis Robert Lewis 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 1990, Page 408, https://doi…
The Segregated City
Are Republics Becoming Ethnically Homogeneous
One of the major problems facing independence movements in the USSR is that significant and increasing numbers of people reside outside their national homelands and, therefore, are considered aliens in the national homelands of others. The ancestral homeland is intimately enmeshed with nationalism, and the deep emotional attachment to and the sense of exclusive ownership of the sacred soil of the homeland should not be underestimated. Most ethnic…
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