George Robb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Robb |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Robb |
| SIGNATURE | ROBB G |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Paterson University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4601-3776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Debris Field to 1st Punic War Battle Map: Site Formation in the Egadi Battle Zone
On 10 March 241 BC the last naval battle of the 1st Punic War was fought off Sicily in the Aegates (modern Egadi) Island group. A large debris field on the sea-floor northwest of Levanzo Island is clearly the result of the battle between Rome and Carthage. In a controlled experiment, replica artefacts were dropped into the sea over the battle zone and their movements tracked to reveal certain aspects of the site’s formation. The experiment’s resu…
Zooming in: Epidemic, pandemic, endemic
Like all the essays that appear in this volume, our introduction is a story of disruption, hesitation, and innovation necessitated by the challenges of an unprecedented year. A longstanding Interdi
Rethinking World War I
Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
MATTHEW C. HENDLEY. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914-1932. Catriona Pennell. A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World Wa…
Journal Article Matthew C. Hendley. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914–1932. Catriona Pennell. A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland. Get access Matthew C. Hendley. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914–1932. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 360. $95.00. Catriona Pen…
Depicting a Female Fraud: Sarah Howe and the Boston Women's Bank
Crime and Empire, 1840–1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context (review)
Reviewed by: Crime and Empire, 1840–1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context George Robb Crime and Empire, 1840–1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context. Edited by Barry Godfrey-Graeme Dunstall. Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2005. This collection of essays, which grew out of a conference in New Zealand on “Comparative Histories of Crime,” addresses itself to the issue of how crime was conceived and managed in the heyda…
A Want of Order and Good Discipline”: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison , by Richard W. Ireland
Reviewed by: “A Want of Order and Good Discipline”: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison George Robb (bio) “A Want of Order and Good Discipline”: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison, by Richard W. Ireland; pp. xiii + 302. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, £45.00, $75.00. Richard Ireland has written a detailed and carefully researched history of Carmarthen County Gaol from the 1840s until 1877, the year in which local gaols we…
Women and White-Collar Crime
Journal Article Women and White-Collar Crime: Debates on Gender, Fraud and the Corporate Economy in England and America, 1850–1930 Get access George Robb George Robb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 1058–1072, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azl069 Published: 01 November 2006
Between Science and Spiritualism: Frances Swiney's Vision of a Sexless Future
Disorder in the Court
This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a tri
Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
Circe in Crinoline: Domestic Poisonings in Victorian England
During the Victorian era, about forty women were tried for poisoning their husbands. Despite the small number, the cases loomed large in the public imagi nation and were given widespread and sensational coverage by the press. Evidence presented at poison trials tells us much regarding Victorian ideas about science, domestic routines, patterns of marital conflict, and attitudes toward women in general. Fears of domestic poisonings caused Parliamen…
White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929
White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845–1929
In the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and partnerships to a complex financial structure dominated by large, joint-stock companies. The tremendous growth of big business created a world of new opportunities for criminal exploitation. The promotion and management of public companies and the trading of commercial securities proved vulnerable to t…
Popular Religion and the Christianization of the Scottish Highlands in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Graduate Students in Education: A Comparison of Counselor, Supervisor, and Teacher Candidates
Male and female graduate students majoring in counseling and guidance were compared with their peers specializing in supervision or a teaching field. Significant differences among subgroups of both sexes were observed on both intellective and nonintellective variables. Male counselor candidates were more clearly differentiated from noncounseling majors than female counselor candidates. However, the similarities among categories of graduate studen…
Differences among Male A, B, and C Master's Degree Candidates in a Counseling Practicum
Little or no research has been done on the counseling practicum grade as a measure of counseling effectiveness. This study explored the intellective and nonintellective differences among males with A, B, and C grades in the counseling practicum. Significant differences among grade categories were observed on 7 of 17 variables. The nature and direction of the differences among males with grades of A, B, or C suggested that practicum grades tend to…
Characteristics of High-Rated and Low-Rated Master's Degree Candidates in Counseling and Guidance
The relationship between intellective and non-intellective variables and counseling competence was investigated by comparing student counselors rated as falling within the top 25 percent in overall competence at the end of an evaluation seminar with their counterparts rated in the bottom 25 percent. Competence was operationally defined as a composite of knowledge of counseling theories and techniques, knowledge of and ability to use test data in …
Significance of Bone Trabeculae in the Treatment of Lead Poisoning: Lead Studies XVII
Significance of Bone Trabeculae in the Treatment of Lead Poisoning Lead Studies XVII Joseph C. Aub, George P. Robb, and Elsie Rossmeisl CopyRight*Read before the Industrial Hygiene Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting at Montreal, Canada, September 15, 1931. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.22.8.825 Published Online: August 29, 2011
England in the Sudan
Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Women and White-Collar Crime
Journal Article Women and White-Collar Crime: Debates on Gender, Fraud and the Corporate Economy in England and America, 1850–1930 Get access George Robb George Robb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 1058–1072, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azl069 Published: 01 November 2006
Characteristics of High-Rated and Low-Rated Master's Degree Candidates in Counseling and Guidance
The relationship between intellective and non-intellective variables and counseling competence was investigated by comparing student counselors rated as falling within the top 25 percent in overall competence at the end of an evaluation seminar with their counterparts rated in the bottom 25 percent. Competence was operationally defined as a composite of knowledge of counseling theories and techniques, knowledge of and ability to use test data in …
Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Depicting a Female Fraud: Sarah Howe and the Boston Women's Bank
Popular Religion and the Christianization of the Scottish Highlands in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Graduate Students in Education: A Comparison of Counselor, Supervisor, and Teacher Candidates
Male and female graduate students majoring in counseling and guidance were compared with their peers specializing in supervision or a teaching field. Significant differences among subgroups of both sexes were observed on both intellective and nonintellective variables. Male counselor candidates were more clearly differentiated from noncounseling majors than female counselor candidates. However, the similarities among categories of graduate studen…
Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
England in the Sudan
Significance of Bone Trabeculae in the Treatment of Lead Poisoning: Lead Studies XVII
Significance of Bone Trabeculae in the Treatment of Lead Poisoning Lead Studies XVII Joseph C. Aub, George P. Robb, and Elsie Rossmeisl CopyRight*Read before the Industrial Hygiene Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting at Montreal, Canada, September 15, 1931. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.22.8.825 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Characteristics of High-Rated and Low-Rated Master's Degree Candidates in Counseling and Guidance
The relationship between intellective and non-intellective variables and counseling competence was investigated by comparing student counselors rated as falling within the top 25 percent in overall competence at the end of an evaluation seminar with their counterparts rated in the bottom 25 percent. Competence was operationally defined as a composite of knowledge of counseling theories and techniques, knowledge of and ability to use test data in …
Differences among Male A, B, and C Master's Degree Candidates in a Counseling Practicum
Little or no research has been done on the counseling practicum grade as a measure of counseling effectiveness. This study explored the intellective and nonintellective differences among males with A, B, and C grades in the counseling practicum. Significant differences among grade categories were observed on 7 of 17 variables. The nature and direction of the differences among males with grades of A, B, or C suggested that practicum grades tend to…
Graduate Students in Education: A Comparison of Counselor, Supervisor, and Teacher Candidates
Male and female graduate students majoring in counseling and guidance were compared with their peers specializing in supervision or a teaching field. Significant differences among subgroups of both sexes were observed on both intellective and nonintellective variables. Male counselor candidates were more clearly differentiated from noncounseling majors than female counselor candidates. However, the similarities among categories of graduate studen…
Popular Religion and the Christianization of the Scottish Highlands in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845–1929
In the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and partnerships to a complex financial structure dominated by large, joint-stock companies. The tremendous growth of big business created a world of new opportunities for criminal exploitation. The promotion and management of public companies and the trading of commercial securities proved vulnerable to t…
White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929
Circe in Crinoline: Domestic Poisonings in Victorian England
During the Victorian era, about forty women were tried for poisoning their husbands. Despite the small number, the cases loomed large in the public imagi nation and were given widespread and sensational coverage by the press. Evidence presented at poison trials tells us much regarding Victorian ideas about science, domestic routines, patterns of marital conflict, and attitudes toward women in general. Fears of domestic poisonings caused Parliamen…
Disorder in the Court
This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a tri
Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
Between Science and Spiritualism: Frances Swiney's Vision of a Sexless Future
Women and White-Collar Crime
Journal Article Women and White-Collar Crime: Debates on Gender, Fraud and the Corporate Economy in England and America, 1850–1930 Get access George Robb George Robb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 1058–1072, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azl069 Published: 01 November 2006
Crime and Empire, 1840–1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context (review)
Reviewed by: Crime and Empire, 1840–1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context George Robb Crime and Empire, 1840–1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context. Edited by Barry Godfrey-Graeme Dunstall. Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2005. This collection of essays, which grew out of a conference in New Zealand on “Comparative Histories of Crime,” addresses itself to the issue of how crime was conceived and managed in the heyda…
A Want of Order and Good Discipline”: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison , by Richard W. Ireland
Reviewed by: “A Want of Order and Good Discipline”: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison George Robb (bio) “A Want of Order and Good Discipline”: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison, by Richard W. Ireland; pp. xiii + 302. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, £45.00, $75.00. Richard Ireland has written a detailed and carefully researched history of Carmarthen County Gaol from the 1840s until 1877, the year in which local gaols we…
Depicting a Female Fraud: Sarah Howe and the Boston Women's Bank
MATTHEW C. HENDLEY. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914-1932. Catriona Pennell. A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World Wa…
Journal Article Matthew C. Hendley. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914–1932. Catriona Pennell. A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland. Get access Matthew C. Hendley. Organized Patriotism and the Crucible of War: Popular Imperialism in Britain, 1914–1932. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 360. $95.00. Catriona Pen…
Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Rethinking World War I
From Debris Field to 1st Punic War Battle Map: Site Formation in the Egadi Battle Zone
On 10 March 241 BC the last naval battle of the 1st Punic War was fought off Sicily in the Aegates (modern Egadi) Island group. A large debris field on the sea-floor northwest of Levanzo Island is clearly the result of the battle between Rome and Carthage. In a controlled experiment, replica artefacts were dropped into the sea over the battle zone and their movements tracked to reveal certain aspects of the site’s formation. The experiment’s resu…
Zooming in: Epidemic, pandemic, endemic
Like all the essays that appear in this volume, our introduction is a story of disruption, hesitation, and innovation necessitated by the challenges of an unprecedented year. A longstanding Interdi
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