David L Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6456-5444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief, by Ronald Hutton
The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum
This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that the royal touch simply could not be practised in such circumstances, yet there were ways in whi…
The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 3: 16 December 1653 to 2 September 1658
The Making of Oliver Cromwell, by Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton’s new book, covering Oliver Cromwell’s life from his birth in 1599 down to the end of the first Civil War in 1646, is a major addition to Cromwellian studies. Hutton argues that, although Cromwell has been the subject of a large number of biographies, including five major ones since 1990, his recent biographers have ended up ‘taking him essentially at his own evaluation’ (p. 4). They have thus presented him as ‘an intensely courageo…
Perhaps Ned Ludd had a point
Biography and History in Film
Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017
HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence has demonstrated that there is substantial local variation in the prevalence of HIV; however, subnational variation has not been investigated at a high spatial resolution across the continent. Here we explore within-country variation at a 5 × 5-km resolution in sub-Saharan Africa by estimating the prevalence of HIV among adults (aged 15–49 years) and the corres…
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: A s…
BackgroundThe Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk–outcome associations. With each annual GBD study, we update the GBD CRA to incorporate improved methods, new risks and risk–outcome pairs, and new data on risk exposure levels and risk–outcome associatio…
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: A systematic analys…
BACKGROUND: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and provision of services. We comparatively assessed the patterns and trends of healthy life expectancy (HALE), which quantifies the number of years of life expected to be lived in good health, and the complementary measure o…
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: A systematic analysis for the Global B…
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 354 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. Previous GBD studies have shown how the decline of mortality rates from 1990 to 2016 has led to an increase in life expectancy, an ageing global population, and an expansion of the non-fatal…
Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Modern England, by Noah Millstone
Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Modern England, by Noah Millstone Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Modern England, by Noah Millstone (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2016; pp. xvi + 358. £74.99). David L Smith David L Smith Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 133, Issue 563, August 2018, Pages …
Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: An analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
BACKGROUND: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of "leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as they aim to improve the health of populations. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016), we measured 37 of the 50 health-related SDG indicators over the period 1990-2016 for 188…
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…
BACKGROUND: As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-fatal outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global burden of disease. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016. METHO…
Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
BACKGROUND: Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 264 causes in 195 locations from 1980 to 2016. This assessment includes evaluation of the expected epidemiological transition with changes in development and where local patterns …
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global …
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long time series, this study can monitor risk exposure trends critical to health surveillance and inform policy debates on the importance of addressing risks in context. METHODS: We used the comparative risk assessment framework dev…
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause mortality has changed with respect to development status can identify exemplars for best practice. To accomplish this, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) estimated age-specific and …
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: A systematic analys…
BACKGROUND: Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify specific needs for resource allocation in research, policy development, and programme decision making. Using the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016, we drew from two widely used summary measures to monitor such changes in population health: di…
Dandal Kura: A narrative to challenge Boko Haram
Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency
A radical change in leadership has yet to remove Boko Haram and the terror it brings to the people of Nigeria. At the time Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency was published, Goodluck Jonatha
The Western Design and the spiritual geopolitics of Cromwellian foreign policy
This paper explores the multi-faceted nature of the spiritual geopolitics that shaped Cromwellian foreign policy in relation to the Western Design of 1654-5. It stresses the central importance of Protestant religion as a motivating force and argues that the failure of the Design was interpreted in religious terms just as much as its original aims had been. A number of motives combined to drive Cromwell into launching the Western Design. These inc…
Milton and the People, by Paul Hammond
This fascinating and important book explores John Milton’s complex and ambivalent attitude towards ‘the people’. Paul Hammond analyses the different ways in which Milton used this term, sometimes in an unrestrictive sense to mean the whole nation, at other times in a restrictive sense to refer to a godly and virtuous minority. Although an advocate of popular sovereignty, Milton increasingly distrusted ‘the vulgar’—what he called the ‘image-doting…
Quantifying the Impact of Human Mobility on Malaria
Mobile Phone “Hot Spots” An obstacle to developing effective national malaria control programs is a lack of understanding of human movements, which are an important component of disease transmission. As mobile phones have become increasingly ubiquitous, it is now possible to collect individual-level, longitudinal data on human movements on a massive scale. Wesolowski et al. (p. 267 ) analyzed mobile phone call data records representing the travel…
Securing the Englishman's Castle: Situational Crime Prevention in the Nineteenth Century
In 1839, the Constabulary Force Commission, created by Parliament to study the conditions of crime and policing beyond London and to make recommendations for jurisdictional reforms, published its findings in the First Constabulary Report . To illustrate for readers the necessity of establishing constabularies modeled after London's Metropolitan Police Force in counties and boroughs throughout England and Wales, Edwin Chadwick, utilitarian reforme…
Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640–1660, by Geoffrey Smith
In this fascinating book, Geoffrey Smith explores the lives and experiences of those Royalists who served Charles I and Charles II as agents, spies and conspirators during the 1640s and 1650s. He takes us into a murky world of intrigue and intelligence-gathering that is all the more challenging to reconstruct because it was by definition intended to remain secret. The book is based on a huge amount of research in the relevant primary sources, bot…
The Varieties of Politics in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
The political history of early modern Britain and Ireland continues to expand and develop in exciting and creative ways. It seems that most historical subjects have their political aspects, and we have certainly moved a long way from the days when political, social, cultural, and religious histories inhabited different worlds with relatively little overlap between them. Instead, the climate at present is inclusive enough to discern politics in th…
Incorporation and Mechanical Solidarity in an Underground Coal Mine
In this article we illustrate the concern with mechanical solidarity exhibited by work groups within a dangerous work setting. Building upon the notions of Ralph Turner and Louis Zurcher, the argument is made that groups which must continually deal with potential disaster will manifest mechanical solidarity as the dominant form of social integration. In the underground coal mine, games and dramatic performances which subvert outside behavioral ex…
Police stress: A conceptual overview
The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649
Catholic, Anglican or Puritan? Edward Sackville, Fourth Earl of Dorset and the Ambiguities of Religion in Early Stuart England
The religion of Edward Sackville, fourth earl of Dorset, foxed his contemporaries, and he has proved an equally slippery customer for those modern historians who wish to see unbridgeable confessional gulfs opening up in the 1620s and 1630s. A detailed study of him reveals ambiguities of position that confused his contemporaries and confound modern categorisation. Those who knew Dorset differed dramatically in their perception of his religion. To …
The 4th Earl of Dorset and the Politics of the Sixteen-Twenties
Journal Article The 4th Earl of Dorset and the Politics of the Sixteen-Twenties Get access David L. Smith David L. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 65, Issue 156, February 1992, Pages 37–53, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1992.tb00917.x Published: 12 October 2007
The Fourth Earl of Dorset and the Personal Rule of Charles I
The assembly of the Long Parliament in November 1640 witnessed an outburst of passionate hostility toward recent royal policies in church and state. “The Common-wealth hath bin miserably torne and macerated,” declared Harbottle Grimston, “and all the proprieties and liberties shaken: the Church distracted, the Gospell and Professors of it persecuted, and the whole Kingdome over-run with multitudes and swarmes of projecting cater-wormes and caterp…
The Western Design and the spiritual geopolitics of Cromwellian foreign policy
This paper explores the multi-faceted nature of the spiritual geopolitics that shaped Cromwellian foreign policy in relation to the Western Design of 1654-5. It stresses the central importance of Protestant religion as a motivating force and argues that the failure of the Design was interpreted in religious terms just as much as its original aims had been. A number of motives combined to drive Cromwell into launching the Western Design. These inc…
Securing the Englishman's Castle: Situational Crime Prevention in the Nineteenth Century
In 1839, the Constabulary Force Commission, created by Parliament to study the conditions of crime and policing beyond London and to make recommendations for jurisdictional reforms, published its findings in the First Constabulary Report . To illustrate for readers the necessity of establishing constabularies modeled after London's Metropolitan Police Force in counties and boroughs throughout England and Wales, Edwin Chadwick, utilitarian reforme…
Oliver Cromwell, the First Protectorate Parliament and Religious Reform
Sigmund Freud and the Crick-Koch Hypothesis: A Footnote to the History of Consciousness Studies
The author describes Crick and Koch's recently developed theory of the neurophysiological basis of consciousness as synchronised neural oscillations. The thesis that neural oscillations provide the neurophysiological basis for consciousness was anticipated by Sigmund Freud in his 1895 'Project for a scientific psychology'. Freud attempted to solve his neuropsychological 'problem of quality' by means of the hypothesis that information concerning c…
The More Posed and Wise Advice’: The Fourth Earl of Dorset and the English Civil Wars
‘To me he was always the embodiment of Cavalier romance.’ Thus Vita Sackville-West on her seventeenth-century ancestor, Edward Sackville, fourth earl of Dorset. Such labelling indicates the problems which still bedevil any study of Civil War royalism. Brian Wormald's Clarendon brilliantly revealed that the men who joined Charles I in 1642 represented a broad range of opinion. Above all, he made us aware of a coherent group of moderate (‘constitut…
Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts of Black Art
ion--rather than as human beings in the context of history, constantly responding to the particularities of their situation in terms of their own perceptions. Consequently, it follows that there are correct black ideas, even a correct black art. Some black people are more truly black than others. Indeed, true black people, at the end of Baraka's Black Art are told to speak in a single black voice: Baraka's voice. In essence, Baraka's poem argues …
The Dalmellington Iron Company. Its Engines and Men
The Division of Labor: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
While Durkheim's The Division of Labor has generated a considerable body of empirical research, the multidimensional concept division of labor lacks both definitional clarity and adequate operational measures. In an attempt to rectify these problems, an open-ended definition approach for specification of the concept and a set of criteria to evaluate the validity of division of labor measures are suggested. The focus is on functional differentiati…
"Dreadful" Museum Experience Recounted
Policy Making for Urban Deprivation
Impact of Law-Related Education Materials on Student Cognitive and Affective Outcomes
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarry J. FraserBarry J. Fraser is a senior lecturer in the area of educational evaluation in the School of Education at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.David L. SmithDavid L. Smith is a lecturer in the area of curriculum in the Department of Education at the University of Sydney
Police stress: A conceptual overview
Incorporation and Mechanical Solidarity in an Underground Coal Mine
In this article we illustrate the concern with mechanical solidarity exhibited by work groups within a dangerous work setting. Building upon the notions of Ralph Turner and Louis Zurcher, the argument is made that groups which must continually deal with potential disaster will manifest mechanical solidarity as the dominant form of social integration. In the underground coal mine, games and dramatic performances which subvert outside behavioral ex…
The graduate program at Duquesne University
Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts of Black Art
ion--rather than as human beings in the context of history, constantly responding to the particularities of their situation in terms of their own perceptions. Consequently, it follows that there are correct black ideas, even a correct black art. Some black people are more truly black than others. Indeed, true black people, at the end of Baraka's Black Art are told to speak in a single black voice: Baraka's voice. In essence, Baraka's poem argues …
Chapter 6: Evaluation of Physical Health Effects Due to Volcanic Hazards: Crystalline Silica in Mount St. Helens Volcanic Ash
This investigation has shown that crystalline silica has been identified as being present in the Mount St. Helens volcanic ash at levels of 3 to 7 per cent by weight. This identification has been established using X-ray powder diffraction, infrared spectrophotometry, visible spectrophotometry, electron microscopy, and Laser Raman spectrophotometry. Quantitative analysis by IR, XRD, and visible spectrophotometry requires a preliminary phosphoric a…
Formulating and evaluating hypotheses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Little psychoanalytic literature exists dealing with the formulation and evaluation of hypotheses in the therapeutic situation. This paper is an initial exploration and systematization of criteria presently in use. Hypothesis formation is discussed in terms of the accumulation of data and its recontextualization. Then follows an account of prevalidation, the silent evaluation of an hypothesis. Before an hypothesis can be turned into an interventi…
Its: ‘Invisible tutorial systems’
Psychotherapy and narration: The contribution of Paul Ricoeur
IUS bituminous: Solidarity and legal order in a dangerous work environment
In this article we examine the nature of legal order in two work settings, both of which are located in a dangerous environment. It is our contention that the weight of law resides with those rules whose observance is considered crucial to group survival, and that the manner of their enforcement will reflect the level of solidarity characteristic of the work organization. In order to better explain the nature of integration and social control in …
Grovel time is here again
The Open Secret of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Fourth Earl of Dorset and the Personal Rule of Charles I
The assembly of the Long Parliament in November 1640 witnessed an outburst of passionate hostility toward recent royal policies in church and state. “The Common-wealth hath bin miserably torne and macerated,” declared Harbottle Grimston, “and all the proprieties and liberties shaken: the Church distracted, the Gospell and Professors of it persecuted, and the whole Kingdome over-run with multitudes and swarmes of projecting cater-wormes and caterp…
The More Posed and Wise Advice’: The Fourth Earl of Dorset and the English Civil Wars
‘To me he was always the embodiment of Cavalier romance.’ Thus Vita Sackville-West on her seventeenth-century ancestor, Edward Sackville, fourth earl of Dorset. Such labelling indicates the problems which still bedevil any study of Civil War royalism. Brian Wormald's Clarendon brilliantly revealed that the men who joined Charles I in 1642 represented a broad range of opinion. Above all, he made us aware of a coherent group of moderate (‘constitut…
Catholic, Anglican or Puritan? Edward Sackville, Fourth Earl of Dorset and the Ambiguities of Religion in Early Stuart England
The religion of Edward Sackville, fourth earl of Dorset, foxed his contemporaries, and he has proved an equally slippery customer for those modern historians who wish to see unbridgeable confessional gulfs opening up in the 1620s and 1630s. A detailed study of him reveals ambiguities of position that confused his contemporaries and confound modern categorisation. Those who knew Dorset differed dramatically in their perception of his religion. To …
The 4th Earl of Dorset and the Politics of the Sixteen-Twenties
Journal Article The 4th Earl of Dorset and the Politics of the Sixteen-Twenties Get access David L. Smith David L. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 65, Issue 156, February 1992, Pages 37–53, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1992.tb00917.x Published: 12 October 2007
Representative Emersons: Versions of American Identity
In 1903, William James began his address to the Emerson centenary gathering at Concord with a meditation on death and memory:The pathos of death is this, that when the days of one's life are ended, those days that were so crowded with business and felt so heavy in their passing, what remains of one in memory should usually be so slight a thing.... It is as if the whole of a man's significance had now shrunk into a mere musical note or phrase, sug…
Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640–1649
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional tre…
The evolution of Duquesne University's project for a human science psychology
(1996). The evolution of Duquesne University's project for a human science psychology. The Humanistic Psychologist: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 79-94
The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576-1649
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