Andrew Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9161-8436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bridging the Hearing Divide
Hearing loss affects approximately two thirds of adults in the United States aged 70 years or older and frequently remains untreated despite its well-documented harms, including accelerated cognitive decline, increased caregiver burden, and higher health care expenditures. We examine the major barriers to accessing high-quality hearing care, with particular attention to the complex and fragmented landscape of insurance coverage across Medicare, M…
Daniel J. Feather. British Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa, 1960–1994
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws
The figure of Anthony Comstock may seem like an odd historical relic: a repressed, puritanical, anti-sex reformer from a bygone past. And yet, because his namesake act has been revived as a potential strategy for limiting access to reproductive healthcare, Comstock is no joke. Today, some Americans see the Comstock Act, passed by Congress in 1873, as a pathway to banning abortion and other reproductive care, effectively jettisoning any need for n…
Comstock, Reconstruction Politics, and Moral Surveillance
It is best to think of Anthony Comstock’s campaign against vice as a response to Reconstruction that afflicted the nation long after that period was over. Comstock’s rise in the 1870s was not organic; it was backed by wealthy patrons engaged in intense political fighting over issues such as racial equality, taxation, and democracy. And although Comstock began by arresting vendors of so-called obscene goods, he soon expanded his portfolio, pursuin…
Enforcing Gender at the Polls
Between 1800 and 1860, individuals deemed female by society donned male attire, represented themselves as men, and tried unlawfully to vote, thus challenging the gender binary at the foundation of U.S. democracy. Newspapers regularly featured those who were caught, describing how officials used inspection, violence, and ridicule to deny them the vote and reassert the association between gender and assigned birth sex. Commentators also linked thes…
Running the Numbers
Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900–2000
This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All three were drawn into the British Empire at a similar time and the formation of the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formally linked these countries together for a decade in the mid-twentieth century. This formal political relationship cre…
Demographic Characteristics Driving Disparities in Receipt of Long-term Services and Supports in the Community Setting
BACKGROUND: Research suggests that growth in Black and Hispanic (minority) older adults' nursing home (NH) use may be the result of disparities in access to community-based and alternative long-term services and supports (LTSS). OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine whether minority groups receiving care in NHs versus the community had fewer differences in their functional needs compared with the differences in nonminority older adults, suggesting a d…
The Political Economy of Imperial Relations
Alex Sutton has provided a detailed and erudite account of Britain’s economic relationship with Malaya from 1945 to 1960. The central argument of his work is that this relationship was characterised by continuity rather than change. Sutton’s main interest is in ‘the roles, views and decisions of [British] state managers’ (p. 4) and consequently his account is primarily based on archival material from the Bank of England and the British National A…
The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa
The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation - supporting the efforts of Sir Andrew Cohen of the Colonial Office to create a Central African Federation. Drawing on newly released archival material, The Politics and Economics of Decolonization …
Big Business and White Insecurities at the End of Empire in Southern Africa, c. 1961–1977
This paper examines popular and widespread mistrust of large-scale capitalism, and its potential for disloyalty to the post-1965 Rhodesian state, by the white middle class and small-scale capitalists in Rhodesia. It focuses on the relationship between Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland, managing director of the multinational Lonrho company, and Wilfred Brooks, the editor of the largest business/trade journal in Rhodesia, Rhodesian Property & Finance. This cas…
Special Issue
Two decades ago, a cohort of key historians made an important intervention into understanding the workings of political violence and coercion in southern Africa. The essay col- \nlection was published on the cusp of the democratic transition in South Africa in 1992.2 They focused on coercion and paternalism in the labour market and cults of violence in Mozambique; violence on the gold mines in South Africa; political and masculinist domestic viol…
Lonrho and the Limits of Corporate Power in Africa, c. 1961–1973
This article focuses on the British multinational business Lonrho and the very real limits to its corporate power. In doing so it will examine the expansion of Lonrho, under its buccaneering chairman Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland, from its Southern Rhodesian roots across the African continent. In addition, it will demonstrate how Lonrho's African businesses proved crucial in buttressing Rowland's control of Lonrho in an attempted boardroom coup during Ma…
The Ends of European Colonial Empires
Review of The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons. By MIGUEL BANDEIRA \nJERÓNIMO and ANTÓNIO COSTA PINTO. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, \n2015. x + 288 pp. ISBN 978 1 137 39405 7
Uncle Sam's Policemen
This well-written volume explores how American law regulated the movement of accused criminals across the globe. Filled with interesting stories and acute insights, it shows the potential of a closely defined topic to illuminate the broader history of the United States. Katherine Unterman argues that the Founders originally defined the United States as a land of asylum, welcoming the fugitives of the world. Over time, officials aimed to secure ru…
Foreign intervention in Africa
Elizabeth Schmidt's latest book charts the impact of foreign interventions across the African continent from the end of the Second World War until 2010. Although the term intervention is somewhat nebulous, Schmidt suggests ‘it occurs when a dominant country uses force or pressure to interfere with and exert power over the affairs of a weaker sovereign entity’ (p. 3). In addition to encompassing direct military pressure, it also includes economic,…
Overliving
The patient's apartment is full of books. A whole shelf is devoted to Virginia Woolf. I ask which novel she likes the best and am surprised when she says The Waves, a lyrical book of sensation and consciousness, with hardly a narrative at all. This, I think, is the way to live at ninety‐five . She tells me she wants to die. She can see how things are likely to go. She will fall one morning, and paramedics will be summoned to pick her up. Caregive…
Dams and the Dilemmas of Development
Britain and the Breakdown of the Colonial Environment
This article explores the tendering process for the construction of the Tanzam oil pipeline during the mid-1960s. In addressing aspects of the political response to British investment overseas and the history of the British company Lonrho, it argues that the British government's determination to concentrate financial investments at home affected its ability to project its presence through supporting business overseas. In addition, the article sug…
Portugal's War in Angola, 1961–1974
(2013). Portugal's War in Angola, 1961–1974. African Historical Review: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 167-169
Association of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Hospitalization Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors With End-Stage Renal Disease
Objectives. We determined the association of psychiatric symptoms in the year after Hurricane Katrina with subsequent hospitalization and mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Methods. A prospective cohort of ESRD patients (n = 391) treated at 9 hemodialysis centers in the New Orleans, Louisiana, area in the weeks before Hurricane Katrina were assessed for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms via telephone …
Migration and Empire
Migration and Empire. By MARJORY HARPER and STEPHEN CONSTANTINE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xi + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-199-25093-6. Migration and Empire focuses on aspects of emigration ac
Lonrho and Oil Sanctions against Rhodesia in the 1960s
This article assesses how the British multinational company Lonrho, led by its buccaneering managing-director, Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland, attempted to navigate oil sanctions against Rhodesia after the British colony had made its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965. Rowland had built, and possessed, a majority shareholding in the company which operated the oil pipeline that provided crude oil to Rhodesia's Feruka refinery nea…
Shadow of the Racketeer
Book Review| September 01 2010 Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor David Witwer Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009 vii + 336 pp., $30.00 (paper) Andrew Wender Cohen Andrew Wender Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (3): 124–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
A difficult, tedious and unwanted task”
On Tuesday 22 January, 1963, the First Secretary of State and Minister in charge of the Central Africa Office, R.A. Butler, met with the Southern Rhodesia Cabinet in Salisbury. Butler notified the Cabinet that he was visiting the Central African Federation in order to “gauge for himself” the situation. Southern Rhodesia, he remarked, was “an issue unjustifiably pursued at the United Nations” and countering this negative international opinion “was…
While Canada Slept
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
British Policy in Changing Africa
Reading English for Specialized Purposes
Andrew Cohen, Hilary Glasman, Phyllis R. Rosenbaum-Cohen, Jonathan Ferrara, Jonathan Fine, Reading English for Specialized Purposes: Discourse Analysis and the Use of Student Informants, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 551-564
Business and Decolonisation in Central Africa Reconsidered
This article re-examines the role of the copper mining industry during the decolonisation of central Africa. By focusing on the actions of the Anglo American Corporation, and the Rhodesian Selection Trust's (RST) American parent company, American Metal Climax (AMAX), it expands on Larry Butler's recent article and argues that Anglo American continued to support the federal prime minister, Sir Roy Welensky, following their public withdrawal of fun…
Britain and the Breakdown of the Colonial Environment
This article explores the tendering process for the construction of the Tanzam oil pipeline during the mid-1960s. In addressing aspects of the political response to British investment overseas and the history of the British company Lonrho, it argues that the British government's determination to concentrate financial investments at home affected its ability to project its presence through supporting business overseas. In addition, the article sug…
Lonrho and Oil Sanctions against Rhodesia in the 1960s
This article assesses how the British multinational company Lonrho, led by its buccaneering managing-director, Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland, attempted to navigate oil sanctions against Rhodesia after the British colony had made its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965. Rowland had built, and possessed, a majority shareholding in the company which operated the oil pipeline that provided crude oil to Rhodesia's Feruka refinery nea…
Smuggling, Globalization, and America's Outward State, 1870-1909
On May 16, 1870, U.S. federal marshals raided the fashionable Manhattan home of José de Bessa Guimarães, seeking $30,000 in diamonds smuggled from Rio de Janeiro. Customhouse officer Capt. James Chalker alleged that Guimarães, a wealthy Portuguese merchant, had used his position to import the gems without paying duty. The officers found nothing until one of the inspectors “intercepted” Guimarães's American-born daughter Celia fleeing the domicile…
The Ends of European Colonial Empires
Review of The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons. By MIGUEL BANDEIRA \nJERÓNIMO and ANTÓNIO COSTA PINTO. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, \n2015. x + 288 pp. ISBN 978 1 137 39405 7
Big Business and White Insecurities at the End of Empire in Southern Africa, c. 1961–1977
This paper examines popular and widespread mistrust of large-scale capitalism, and its potential for disloyalty to the post-1965 Rhodesian state, by the white middle class and small-scale capitalists in Rhodesia. It focuses on the relationship between Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland, managing director of the multinational Lonrho company, and Wilfred Brooks, the editor of the largest business/trade journal in Rhodesia, Rhodesian Property & Finance. This cas…
Shadow of the Racketeer
Book Review| September 01 2010 Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor David Witwer Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009 vii + 336 pp., $30.00 (paper) Andrew Wender Cohen Andrew Wender Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (3): 124–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
Oral Language Instructions
A group of teacher-researchers took a bottom-up, in-depth look at instructional practices and beliefs about oral language and its assessment. Forty teachers and 63 students in beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses at a Colombian University's English program participated in the study. Instrumentation included questionnaires, follow-up questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observation. The pedagogical implications included a need for gu…
A Deal Undone
Memory and History in Germany
If Canada is famously said to have more geography than history, Germany has more history than geography. What Canada really lacks, though, is not history but memory. Survey after survey shows how little Canadians know about the people and events that have shaped them. We do not teach our history and we do not celebrate our founders. It has made us a nation of amnesiacs, blissfully ignorant of our past, stumbling about in a poetic fog.The same can…
The New Africa and the United Nations
Journal Article The New Africa and the United Nations Get access ANDREW COHEN, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., O.B.E. ANDREW COHEN, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., O.B.E. This address by Sir Andrew Cohen, sometime Governor of Uganda and Permanent British Representative on the Trusteeship Council of United Nations from 1957 to 1961, was given at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Society under the chairmanship of Sir John Macpherson, …
British Policy in a Changing Africa
Journal Article British Policy in a Changing Africa Get access British Policy in a Changing Africa. By Andrew Cohen. Northwestern University Press; London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. x+118 pp. Index. (Northwestern University African Studies, No. 2.) 12s. C. E. Carrington C. E. Carrington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1960, Page 539, https://doi.org/10…
Uganda's Progress and Problems
The following address was given by the former Governor of Uganda at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society on February 7, 1957. Sir John Macpherson took the chair
Uganda's Progress and Problems
The following address was given by the former Governor of Uganda at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society on February 7, 1957. Sir John Macpherson took the chair
British Policy in Changing Africa
British Policy in Changing Africa
British Policy in a Changing Africa
Journal Article British Policy in a Changing Africa Get access British Policy in a Changing Africa. By Andrew Cohen. Northwestern University Press; London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. x+118 pp. Index. (Northwestern University African Studies, No. 2.) 12s. C. E. Carrington C. E. Carrington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1960, Page 539, https://doi.org/10…
The New Africa and the United Nations
Journal Article The New Africa and the United Nations Get access ANDREW COHEN, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., O.B.E. ANDREW COHEN, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., O.B.E. This address by Sir Andrew Cohen, sometime Governor of Uganda and Permanent British Representative on the Trusteeship Council of United Nations from 1957 to 1961, was given at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Society under the chairmanship of Sir John Macpherson, …
Development in Africa—the Problems of Today
Journal Article DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA—THE PROBLEMS OF TODAY Get access ANDREW COHEN, KCMG, KCVO, OBE ANDREW COHEN, KCMG, KCVO, OBE Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 266, January 1968, Pages 44–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095693 Published: 01 January 1968
Reading English for Specialized Purposes
Andrew Cohen, Hilary Glasman, Phyllis R. Rosenbaum-Cohen, Jonathan Ferrara, Jonathan Fine, Reading English for Specialized Purposes: Discourse Analysis and the Use of Student Informants, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 551-564
Research Notes
Elaine Tarone, Susan Gass, Charlotte Bashum, Andrew Cohen, Nathalie Bailey, Carolyn Madden, Stephen Gaies, Richard Allwright, Lois Precup, Deanne Marein-Efron, Research Notes, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 201-206
Research Notes
Leslie M. Beebe, Jane Zuengler, Alonso M. Perales, Judith Anne Fix Chun, Graylen K. Becker, Linda Kimbell, Frances Hinofotis, John Schumann, Andrew Cohen, Research Notes, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 99-103
Research Notes
Hilda Hernandez, Nancy Duke S. Lay, Zohreh Sotoodeh, Thom Hudson, Vanessa Flashner, Jan Lubin, Herbert Seliger, Miriam Eisenstein, Richard Allwright, Stephen Cooper, Andrew Cohen, Research Notes, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1982), pp. 405-411
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
An exploratory study into the construct validity of a reading comprehension test
Recent research in reading comprehension has focused on the processes of reading, while recent thinking in language testing has recognized the impor tance of gathering information on test taking processes as part of construct validation. And while there is a growing body of research on test-taking strate gies in language testing, as well as research into the relationship between item content and item performance, no research to date has attempted…
A Deal Undone
The Hands of Blues Guitarists
In this paper I contend that there was regional clustering to the ways that African American folk and blues guitar players from the early part of this century held their picking hands and that these postures facilitated certain musical patterns while inhibiting others. The player's picking hand posture therefore serves as an important determinant of the elusive quality called style. If there is such a thing as regional style, we should see it exp…
Business Myths, Lawyerly Strategies, and Social Context
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Taking Conrad Black Seriously
What is most refreshing about Conrad Black's vision of Canada in the world (winter 1997-8) is that he has a vision at all. This alone sets him apart from the political class. Our parochial internationalism imagines Canada abroad as little more than a trader and investor, convinced that foreign policy is only trade policy. To project a sense of self beyond our shores -- or, more boldly, to declare a projet de societe -- strikes these Little Canadi…
Oral Language Instructions
A group of teacher-researchers took a bottom-up, in-depth look at instructional practices and beliefs about oral language and its assessment. Forty teachers and 63 students in beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses at a Colombian University's English program participated in the study. Instrumentation included questionnaires, follow-up questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observation. The pedagogical implications included a need for gu…
Letter from Washington
EVEN BEFORE GEORGE WALKER BUSH was sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States, his administration promised a sea change from the noisy, messy, melodrama of William Jefferson Clinton, a gifted but flawed steward whose presidency seemed to lurch from crisis to crisis.In a sense, Bush had only to be someone other than Clinton. Woody Allen says that 98 per cent of life is simply showing up, and that's all the incurious, untutored Bush…
Seize the Day
Andrew Cohen, who has covered international affairs at home and abroad as a journalist for 25 years, is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.The themes of this article are explored further in While Canada Slept: How We Lost our Place in the World, to be published by McClelland & Stewart in May, 2003.A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE CALAMITOU…
The Racketeer's Progress
This article considers urban crime and the origins of the term racketeering in the United States during the 1920s. The etymology of this muddled concept can help historians separate facts from the ideologically charged rhetoric of that period. The noun racketeering emerged in Chicago amidst Prohibition-era debates about gang violence, labor unions, and competition. In 1927, Gordon Hostetter, an antiunion activist, promoted the term to describe un…
While Canada Slept
The Impact of the 2004 Elections
Oh, how different things might have been.In the weeks before the re-election of George W. Bush last November, as the polls suggested the race was a dead heat, Canadians began to entertain the idea of John F. Kerry as the next president of the United States. Indeed, the more the media discussed Kerry's election, the more it seemed like it might actually come to pass. When the votes were counted, of course, it was a fantasy. But if many Canadians w…
The Racketeer's Progress
The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940 Get access Cohen Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv, 333 pp. $60.00. George Leidenberger George Leidenberger Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ame…
The Unfinished Canadian
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