Michael R Adamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Adamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamson |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMSON M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oil Has to Come from Someone’s Backyard
This article uses the case of Santa Barbara County, California, to argue that the opposition to oil well drilling on Southern California’s urban neighborhoods and beaches was contingent on place, and it analyzes the implications of this contingent opposition in the context of widespread support for autocentric, dispersed, and fossil-fuel-dependent regional development. Those who protested drilling in their midst supported extraction in places “is…
Framing Boosterism
Book Review| August 01 2019 Framing Boosterism: The California Historical Society Showcases Los Angeles and San Francisco Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco, Selections from the California Historical Society Collection. Erin Garcia, Curator; Tim Evans, Exhibition Design. California Historical Society, San Francisco, October 12, 2018–March 10, 2019. Michael R. Adamson Michael R. Adamson Michael R. Adamson, Ph.D., is Di…
Peace Proposals, Diplomacy, and War: Was an Opportunity Lost for an Early Settlement in Vietnam
This forum includes essays by six leading experts on the Vietnam War discussing the recent book by James G. Hershberg, Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), which recounts the various secret efforts mediated by East European governments to foster peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam that would bring an end to the war. All of the commentators praise the book and the scope…
The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform: The Shoup Mission to Japan in Historical Context
This volume of essays explores the history of the US tax mission to Japan during the occupation following World War II. Under General MacArthur, economist Carl S. Shoup led the mission with the charge of framing a tax system for Japan designed to strengthen democracy and accelerate economic recovery. The volume examines the sources, conduct and effects of the mission and situates the mission within the history of international financial and fisca…
The Role of the Independent: Ralph B. Lloyd and the Development of California's Coastal Oil Region, 1900-1940
Independents, or nonintegrated companies, played a significant role in finding and producing crude oil in California, just as they had in Texas. They were able to do so because the resources of majors, or integrated firms, were not decisive in the search for oil. As both majors and independents increased in number, the factors of risk and uncertainty persuaded independents and majors to cooperate with each other. The case of Ralph B. Lloyd demons…
Oil Booms and Boosterism: Local Elites, Outside Companies, and the Growth of Ventura, California
This article examines the intersection of oil industry interests and the growth strategy of local elites in the wake of Ventura, California's oil boom of the 1920s. It amends urban growth machine and civic boosterism theory by showing why cosmopolitan capital may exert influence over parochial politics even if it does not have a direct interest in population increase. The study also finds that oil development sustained long-term quantitative grow…
"Must We Overlook All Impairment of Our Interests?" Debating the Foreign Aid Role of the Export-Import Bank, 1934-41
Journal Article “Must We Overlook All Impairment of Our Interests?” Debating the Foreign Aid Role of the Export-Import Bank, 1934–41 Get access Michael R. Adamson Michael R. Adamson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 29, Issue 4, September 2005, Pages 589–623, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00508.x Published: 11 August 2005
The Makings of a Fine Prosperity: Thomas M. Storke, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and the Campaign to Approve the Cachuma Project
This article considers the qualitative growth strategy that newspaper editor Thomas M. Storke promoted for the city of Santa Barbara, California,duringthe mid-twentiethcentury. It focuses on the role that his newspaper—the Santa Barbara News Press—played in “selling” to the community a federal water project that enabled Storke’s developmentvision for Santa Barbara to be realized. In elaboratingthis example of successful nonquantitative growth pro…
Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council Joseph A. Pratt William H. Becker William M. McClenahan, Jr
Ambassadorial Roles and Foreign Policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. Commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957–61
This study examines the roles played by Elbridge Durbrow and Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassadors to South Vietnam from 1957 to 1961 and 1961 to 1963, respectively, in the implementation of U. S. policy at a pivotal moment when Washington conceded some of the leverage that it might have wielded over South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. It illustrates how presidential administrations redefine ambassadorial roles and how ambassadors carry out t…
The Failure of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council Experiment, 1934–1940
This article explores the contentious U.S. State Department–Foreign Bondholders Protective Council relationship in the context of interwar foreign economic policy and bureaucratic competition. U.S. officials created the council in 1933 to represent the interests of U.S. investors in the settlement of the numerous dollar bond issues that had gone into default. The article shows why the council failed to perform as U.S. officials expected and outli…
Oil Development and the Accomplishment of Place
Dans cet article, l'A. repond a l'article publie en 2000 dans la presente revue par Molotch, Freudenburg et Paulsen, qui avaient analyse les determinants historiques, socioculturels et economiques du developpement des villes californiennes de Santa Barbara et de Ventura. Pour etayer leur these selon laquelle les villes se distinguent par leur caractere et par leur tradition, ils avaient etudie l'industrie petroliere en tant que force de developpe…
Delusions of Development: The Eisenhower Administration and the Foreign Aid Program in Vietnam, 1955-1960
Ambassadorial Roles and Foreign Policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. Commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957–61
This study examines the roles played by Elbridge Durbrow and Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassadors to South Vietnam from 1957 to 1961 and 1961 to 1963, respectively, in the implementation of U. S. policy at a pivotal moment when Washington conceded some of the leverage that it might have wielded over South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. It illustrates how presidential administrations redefine ambassadorial roles and how ambassadors carry out t…
Oil Development and the Accomplishment of Place
Dans cet article, l'A. repond a l'article publie en 2000 dans la presente revue par Molotch, Freudenburg et Paulsen, qui avaient analyse les determinants historiques, socioculturels et economiques du developpement des villes californiennes de Santa Barbara et de Ventura. Pour etayer leur these selon laquelle les villes se distinguent par leur caractere et par leur tradition, ils avaient etudie l'industrie petroliere en tant que force de developpe…
Oil Has to Come from Someone’s Backyard
This article uses the case of Santa Barbara County, California, to argue that the opposition to oil well drilling on Southern California’s urban neighborhoods and beaches was contingent on place, and it analyzes the implications of this contingent opposition in the context of widespread support for autocentric, dispersed, and fossil-fuel-dependent regional development. Those who protested drilling in their midst supported extraction in places “is…
Oil Booms and Boosterism: Local Elites, Outside Companies, and the Growth of Ventura, California
This article examines the intersection of oil industry interests and the growth strategy of local elites in the wake of Ventura, California's oil boom of the 1920s. It amends urban growth machine and civic boosterism theory by showing why cosmopolitan capital may exert influence over parochial politics even if it does not have a direct interest in population increase. The study also finds that oil development sustained long-term quantitative grow…
Delusions of Development: The Eisenhower Administration and the Foreign Aid Program in Vietnam, 1955-1960
Ambassadorial Roles and Foreign Policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. Commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957–61
This study examines the roles played by Elbridge Durbrow and Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassadors to South Vietnam from 1957 to 1961 and 1961 to 1963, respectively, in the implementation of U. S. policy at a pivotal moment when Washington conceded some of the leverage that it might have wielded over South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. It illustrates how presidential administrations redefine ambassadorial roles and how ambassadors carry out t…
The Failure of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council Experiment, 1934–1940
This article explores the contentious U.S. State Department–Foreign Bondholders Protective Council relationship in the context of interwar foreign economic policy and bureaucratic competition. U.S. officials created the council in 1933 to represent the interests of U.S. investors in the settlement of the numerous dollar bond issues that had gone into default. The article shows why the council failed to perform as U.S. officials expected and outli…
Oil Development and the Accomplishment of Place
Dans cet article, l'A. repond a l'article publie en 2000 dans la presente revue par Molotch, Freudenburg et Paulsen, qui avaient analyse les determinants historiques, socioculturels et economiques du developpement des villes californiennes de Santa Barbara et de Ventura. Pour etayer leur these selon laquelle les villes se distinguent par leur caractere et par leur tradition, ils avaient etudie l'industrie petroliere en tant que force de developpe…
Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council Joseph A. Pratt William H. Becker William M. McClenahan, Jr
The Makings of a Fine Prosperity: Thomas M. Storke, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and the Campaign to Approve the Cachuma Project
This article considers the qualitative growth strategy that newspaper editor Thomas M. Storke promoted for the city of Santa Barbara, California,duringthe mid-twentiethcentury. It focuses on the role that his newspaper—the Santa Barbara News Press—played in “selling” to the community a federal water project that enabled Storke’s developmentvision for Santa Barbara to be realized. In elaboratingthis example of successful nonquantitative growth pro…
"Must We Overlook All Impairment of Our Interests?" Debating the Foreign Aid Role of the Export-Import Bank, 1934-41
Journal Article “Must We Overlook All Impairment of Our Interests?” Debating the Foreign Aid Role of the Export-Import Bank, 1934–41 Get access Michael R. Adamson Michael R. Adamson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 29, Issue 4, September 2005, Pages 589–623, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00508.x Published: 11 August 2005
Oil Booms and Boosterism: Local Elites, Outside Companies, and the Growth of Ventura, California
This article examines the intersection of oil industry interests and the growth strategy of local elites in the wake of Ventura, California's oil boom of the 1920s. It amends urban growth machine and civic boosterism theory by showing why cosmopolitan capital may exert influence over parochial politics even if it does not have a direct interest in population increase. The study also finds that oil development sustained long-term quantitative grow…
The Role of the Independent: Ralph B. Lloyd and the Development of California's Coastal Oil Region, 1900-1940
Independents, or nonintegrated companies, played a significant role in finding and producing crude oil in California, just as they had in Texas. They were able to do so because the resources of majors, or integrated firms, were not decisive in the search for oil. As both majors and independents increased in number, the factors of risk and uncertainty persuaded independents and majors to cooperate with each other. The case of Ralph B. Lloyd demons…
The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform: The Shoup Mission to Japan in Historical Context
This volume of essays explores the history of the US tax mission to Japan during the occupation following World War II. Under General MacArthur, economist Carl S. Shoup led the mission with the charge of framing a tax system for Japan designed to strengthen democracy and accelerate economic recovery. The volume examines the sources, conduct and effects of the mission and situates the mission within the history of international financial and fisca…
Peace Proposals, Diplomacy, and War: Was an Opportunity Lost for an Early Settlement in Vietnam
This forum includes essays by six leading experts on the Vietnam War discussing the recent book by James G. Hershberg, Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), which recounts the various secret efforts mediated by East European governments to foster peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam that would bring an end to the war. All of the commentators praise the book and the scope…
Framing Boosterism
Book Review| August 01 2019 Framing Boosterism: The California Historical Society Showcases Los Angeles and San Francisco Boomtowns: How Photography Shaped Los Angeles and San Francisco, Selections from the California Historical Society Collection. Erin Garcia, Curator; Tim Evans, Exhibition Design. California Historical Society, San Francisco, October 12, 2018–March 10, 2019. Michael R. Adamson Michael R. Adamson Michael R. Adamson, Ph.D., is Di…
Oil Has to Come from Someone’s Backyard
This article uses the case of Santa Barbara County, California, to argue that the opposition to oil well drilling on Southern California’s urban neighborhoods and beaches was contingent on place, and it analyzes the implications of this contingent opposition in the context of widespread support for autocentric, dispersed, and fossil-fuel-dependent regional development. Those who protested drilling in their midst supported extraction in places “is…
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