William Schell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Schell |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Schell |
| SIGNATURE | SCHELL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murray State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Story of Silver
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World. By William L. Silber. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xx, 340 pp. $29.95.) William Schell, Jr. William Schell, Jr. Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, M…
Americans in the Treasure House
Journal Article Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire Get access Jason Ruiz. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. xviii, 275 pp. Cloth, $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1300–1301, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav137 Published: 01 March 2015
Leading Them to the Promised Land
As suggested by Mark Benbow’s title, Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915, Wilson had something of a Moses complex. This was reflected in his policy toward revolutionary Mexico: “We are chosen, and prominently chosen,” said Wilson on more than one occasion, “to show the way to the nations of the world how they shall walk in the paths of liberty.” Benbow describes the “cognitiv…
The Mexican Wars for Independence
In The Mexican Wars for Independence Timothy J. Henderson generously seasons his retelling of this familiar tale with interesting, often enlightening anecdotes that reflect the influence of the new cultural history. Take for example his depiction of Father Miguel Hidalgo’s revolt as a Keystone Cops comedy of errors, or his characterization of the massacre of the Spanish and creole defenders of the Alhóndiga as “an impromptu religious fiesta . . .…
Emiliano Zapata and the Old Regime
Four decades after its publication, John Womack's masterpiece Zapata and the Mexican Revolution remains the definitive account of the man and his movement and the basis of the generally agreed upon facts. It is also perhaps the most cited work of Anglophone Latin American history. This is not hyperbole. The index of Alan Knight's highly regarded Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants lists thirty-seven pages under “Zapata, Emiliano.”Womack is cited fi…
Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
On April 23, scholars around the world received e-mails announcing the death of Andre Gunder Frank in Luxembourg at the age of 76. Hyperprolific and multilingual, Gunder produced over a thousand publications in 30 languages and was at work on his final book almost to the end, when the pain and fatigue of his multiple cancers made it impossible to continue. An intellectual provocateur who had more important ideas in a year than many of us will hav…
Empire and Revolution
John Mason Hart locates the origin of globalization in the entry of Americans and their capital into Mexico. Porfirian Mexico was the laboratory where “American elites tested a variety of approaches they have since used to extend their power and influence around the globe” (p. 5). In effect, the global capitalist culture embodied in NAFTA, the WTO, and the IMF is a neo-Porfirian hegemony emanating from an imperial United States. As in Revolutiona…
Silver Symbiosis
In 1904 Finance Minister José I. Limantour ordered a monetary census in preparation for Mexico’s conversion to the gold standard. In it, Porfirian bean counters found only one hundred million of the four billion-plus pesos of various sorts reportedly minted over the centuries. Even assuming a significant undercounting, in that time Mexico had exported at least 3.5 billion pesos; in short, the peso was the most widely circulated coin in history.1 …
México-India
Victor O. Story (1955-1998)
The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile
Money as Commodity
Después de discutir la influencia que tuvo la plata en los ciclos económicos del Porfiriato, este artículo examina el impacto de la conversión de México al patrón oro en 1905, implementada por José Ives Limantour, y su subsecuente contribución a la recesión que precedió a la Revolución de 1910. Se hace hincapié en la relación económica de México con Asia a través del mercado del peso
En busca de un gobierno alterno
A Mexican View of America in the 1860s
This book, compiled and translated from the writings of Matias Romero, Mexican charge and minister during the 1860-67 period, offers the insightful commentaries of a foreign diplomat who resided in the United States during the secession crisis, the Civil War, and reconstruction
American Investment in Tropical Mexico
The following article examines U.S. investment in Mexico at the turn of the century, focusing on the tropical plantation companies and their promises of enormous profits. Viewed in the light—or shadow—of Dollar Diplomacy, the usual interpretation of such events has been that American investors exported profits and undermined internal development while the U.S. government established political hegemony. This article calls both of these outcomes in…
Money as Commodity
Después de discutir la influencia que tuvo la plata en los ciclos económicos del Porfiriato, este artículo examina el impacto de la conversión de México al patrón oro en 1905, implementada por José Ives Limantour, y su subsecuente contribución a la recesión que precedió a la Revolución de 1910. Se hace hincapié en la relación económica de México con Asia a través del mercado del peso
American Investment in Tropical Mexico
The following article examines U.S. investment in Mexico at the turn of the century, focusing on the tropical plantation companies and their promises of enormous profits. Viewed in the light—or shadow—of Dollar Diplomacy, the usual interpretation of such events has been that American investors exported profits and undermined internal development while the U.S. government established political hegemony. This article calls both of these outcomes in…
Silver Symbiosis
In 1904 Finance Minister José I. Limantour ordered a monetary census in preparation for Mexico’s conversion to the gold standard. In it, Porfirian bean counters found only one hundred million of the four billion-plus pesos of various sorts reportedly minted over the centuries. Even assuming a significant undercounting, in that time Mexico had exported at least 3.5 billion pesos; in short, the peso was the most widely circulated coin in history.1 …
The Story of Silver
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World. By William L. Silber. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xx, 340 pp. $29.95.) William Schell, Jr. William Schell, Jr. Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, M…
Americans in the Treasure House
Journal Article Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire Get access Jason Ruiz. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. xviii, 275 pp. Cloth, $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1300–1301, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav137 Published: 01 March 2015
American Investment in Tropical Mexico
The following article examines U.S. investment in Mexico at the turn of the century, focusing on the tropical plantation companies and their promises of enormous profits. Viewed in the light—or shadow—of Dollar Diplomacy, the usual interpretation of such events has been that American investors exported profits and undermined internal development while the U.S. government established political hegemony. This article calls both of these outcomes in…
A Mexican View of America in the 1860s
This book, compiled and translated from the writings of Matias Romero, Mexican charge and minister during the 1860-67 period, offers the insightful commentaries of a foreign diplomat who resided in the United States during the secession crisis, the Civil War, and reconstruction
En busca de un gobierno alterno
Money as Commodity
Después de discutir la influencia que tuvo la plata en los ciclos económicos del Porfiriato, este artículo examina el impacto de la conversión de México al patrón oro en 1905, implementada por José Ives Limantour, y su subsecuente contribución a la recesión que precedió a la Revolución de 1910. Se hace hincapié en la relación económica de México con Asia a través del mercado del peso
The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile
Victor O. Story (1955-1998)
México-India
Silver Symbiosis
In 1904 Finance Minister José I. Limantour ordered a monetary census in preparation for Mexico’s conversion to the gold standard. In it, Porfirian bean counters found only one hundred million of the four billion-plus pesos of various sorts reportedly minted over the centuries. Even assuming a significant undercounting, in that time Mexico had exported at least 3.5 billion pesos; in short, the peso was the most widely circulated coin in history.1 …
Empire and Revolution
John Mason Hart locates the origin of globalization in the entry of Americans and their capital into Mexico. Porfirian Mexico was the laboratory where “American elites tested a variety of approaches they have since used to extend their power and influence around the globe” (p. 5). In effect, the global capitalist culture embodied in NAFTA, the WTO, and the IMF is a neo-Porfirian hegemony emanating from an imperial United States. As in Revolutiona…
Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
On April 23, scholars around the world received e-mails announcing the death of Andre Gunder Frank in Luxembourg at the age of 76. Hyperprolific and multilingual, Gunder produced over a thousand publications in 30 languages and was at work on his final book almost to the end, when the pain and fatigue of his multiple cancers made it impossible to continue. An intellectual provocateur who had more important ideas in a year than many of us will hav…
Emiliano Zapata and the Old Regime
Four decades after its publication, John Womack's masterpiece Zapata and the Mexican Revolution remains the definitive account of the man and his movement and the basis of the generally agreed upon facts. It is also perhaps the most cited work of Anglophone Latin American history. This is not hyperbole. The index of Alan Knight's highly regarded Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants lists thirty-seven pages under “Zapata, Emiliano.”Womack is cited fi…
The Mexican Wars for Independence
In The Mexican Wars for Independence Timothy J. Henderson generously seasons his retelling of this familiar tale with interesting, often enlightening anecdotes that reflect the influence of the new cultural history. Take for example his depiction of Father Miguel Hidalgo’s revolt as a Keystone Cops comedy of errors, or his characterization of the massacre of the Spanish and creole defenders of the Alhóndiga as “an impromptu religious fiesta . . .…
Leading Them to the Promised Land
As suggested by Mark Benbow’s title, Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915, Wilson had something of a Moses complex. This was reflected in his policy toward revolutionary Mexico: “We are chosen, and prominently chosen,” said Wilson on more than one occasion, “to show the way to the nations of the world how they shall walk in the paths of liberty.” Benbow describes the “cognitiv…
Americans in the Treasure House
Journal Article Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire Get access Jason Ruiz. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. xviii, 275 pp. Cloth, $55.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1300–1301, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav137 Published: 01 March 2015
The Story of Silver
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World. By William L. Silber. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xx, 340 pp. $29.95.) William Schell, Jr. William Schell, Jr. Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, M…
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