David Mclean
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mclean |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclean |
| SIGNATURE | MCLEAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4345-5083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Release from response interference in color-word contingency learning
In identifying the print colors of words when some combinations of color and word occur more frequently than others, people quickly show evidence of learning these associations. This contingency learning effect is evident in faster and more accurate responses to high-contingency combinations than to low-contingency combinations. Across four experiments, we systematically varied the number of response-irrelevant word stimuli connected to response-…
In-verse reflection
Medical educators recognize the value of reflection for medical students and the role creative writing can play in fostering this. However, direct creative writing tasks can be challenging for many students, particularly those with limited experience in the arts and humanities. An alternative strategy is to utilize an indirect approach, engaging students with structured tasks that obliquely encourage reflection. This paper reports one such approa…
Intention and performance when reading aloud
Famine on the Coast
While the significance of private charity, local organisation and government policy have all been evaluated with respect to Irish famine relief, the role of the Royal Navy in distributing food and assisting ashore has been overlooked within the existing historical literature. Operating from its base at Cork and receiving provisions from Plymouth and Portsmouth, the navy battled against Atlantic storms throughout the winter of 1846–7, and for mont…
The Social History of English Seamen, 1650-1815
Michael Zeheter, Epidemics, Empire and Environments
What did nineteenth-century Madras and Quebec have in common? Both were within the empire, although that might be said of many towns and cities of the world. Both had to confront cholera and other epidemics whereby the limits of medical knowledge would be sorely tested and all the problems facing public health reform laid bare. Yet this was also true of Britain and across most of Europe too. The shared identity of the two settlements rests essent…
New Perceptions of the Vietnam War
New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact. Edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2015), pp.vi + 262. £27.69 (pb)
Opium and Empire
What was the connection between opium and Britain’s first war with China? That is not an easy question to answer and one that has too often been complicated further by the zeal with which academics have injected various, though usually ill-defined, notions of imperialism into the debate. Richard J. Grace struggles with the latter issue, offering, or so he claims in his foreword, a microcosm of the imperial experience. Grace looks to test Cain and…
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History for policy
The case for the relevance of history to government policy analysis and development must contend with opposition from several sources, including the scepticism of many historians towards the idea of applied history. We argue that these objections have obscured the extent to which historical awareness can contribute to sound policy choices and cast light on the value of government intervention. We see particular value in the methods devised by Ric…
Constructors in a foreign land
With railways prohibited in Persia before 1914, roads were the only means to improve the country's transport infrastructure and to allow the inland movement of merchandise. The experience of Lynch & Co. when constructing and operating the Bakhtiari road provides a detailed insight into the difficulties which could face British-owned firms abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries asits commercial activities became entangled with…
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Protecting wood and killing germs
Discovering chemicals as disinfectants and for timber preservation offered profitable opportunities in the early nineteenth century. After 1839 Sir William Burnett promoted his pioneering patent for zinc chloride – attempting to persuade both fellow medical practitioners and the Admiralty of its widespread uses. Trials in the navy, among migrants to Canada in 1847–48, and during Britain's 1849 cholera epidemic were all intended to demonstrate the…
Trade, Politics and the Navy in Latin America
When military conflict and economic disruption in the river Plate region led to a British naval occupation of the river Paraná in 1845–46, traders from many nations followed the warships upstream hoping to conduct business in the Argentine interior and with Paraguay. Since the 1920s historians have uniformly disparaged this Paraná expedition as a commercial failure, insisting that the foreign intruders found neither trade nor welcome among the lo…
From British Colony to American Satellite? Australia and the USA during the Cold War
This article challenges the widely‐accepted view that Australia's strategic relationship with the USA during the period 1945–69 thwarted the full development of Australian nationhood and, in so doing, formed an obstacle to Australia's accommodation with its region. It argues that the most influential perspectives on the subject place too much emphasis on the 1940s as a watershed in Australian foreign policy history, exaggerate differences between…
Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean’s account exposes the struggles between local and national government as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between polic…
Australia in the Cold War
country's foreign relations. Commonly accepted perspectives on Australia's experience during the cold war, which maintained that the period had been characterized by Australia's servility to the United States, influenced the public response to issues such as Australia's military commitments in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 1998, and demonstrated the appeal of an Australian version of the 'Vietnam syndrome'. While for Americans the most powerful le…
Education and Empire
The social problems accompanying industrialization and rapid urban growth provoked a widespread debate which forced education onto the political agenda, and the new ideas about teaching methods, curricula and the physical and moral care of children, developed rapidly. This study, based on records of the Admiralty Schools at Greenwich, provides an insight into the problems and the achievements of mid-19th century schools, catering for a range of p…
War, Diplomacy, and Informal Empire
La Plata and the British before 1836 war and the invasion of Uruguay, 1836-43 the failure of diplomacy, 1843 Britain, France and the policy of intervention, 1844 the beginning of hostilities, 1845 an expedition into the Parana, 1845-6 Hood's mission to la Plata, 1846 Ouseley continues the war, 1846-7 the diplomacy of Howden and Walewski, 1847 Palmerston's search for a peace settlement, 1848 the resumption of relations at Buenos Aires, 1848-9 the …
War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire
The massive transformations that occurred in the decade 1940-50 were decisive in shaping the modern history of Southeast Asia, and have determined the course of politics in the region right up to the present day. The 1940s saw the break-up of the European colonial empires in Southeast Asia and the creation of independent nation states. However, this nationalist revolution met resistance, not only from the colonial powers, but also from peripheral…
Symposium
(1991). Symposium: The decline of America? Paul Kennedy and his critics. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 60-69
Anzus origins
(1990). Anzus origins: A Reassessment. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 94, pp. 64-82
American Nationalism, the China Myth, and the Truman Doctrine
Journal Article American Nationalism, the China Myth, and the Truman Doctrine: The Question of Accommodation with Peking, 1949–50 Get access David McLean David McLean Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1986, Pages 25–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1986.tb00448.x Published: 01 June 2007
The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–4
Journal Article The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–4 Get access DAVID MCLEAN DAVID MCLEAN King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXVIII, January 1981, Pages 117–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXVIII.117 Published: 01 January 1981
A Professor Extraordinary
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War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire
The massive transformations that occurred in the decade 1940-50 were decisive in shaping the modern history of Southeast Asia, and have determined the course of politics in the region right up to the present day. The 1940s saw the break-up of the European colonial empires in Southeast Asia and the creation of independent nation states. However, this nationalist revolution met resistance, not only from the colonial powers, but also from peripheral…
Finance and "Informal Empire" before the First World War
Anzus origins
(1990). Anzus origins: A Reassessment. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 94, pp. 64-82
Trade, Politics and the Navy in Latin America
When military conflict and economic disruption in the river Plate region led to a British naval occupation of the river Paraná in 1845–46, traders from many nations followed the warships upstream hoping to conduct business in the Argentine interior and with Paraguay. Since the 1920s historians have uniformly disparaged this Paraná expedition as a commercial failure, insisting that the foreign intruders found neither trade nor welcome among the lo…
A Professor Extraordinary
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–4
Journal Article The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–4 Get access DAVID MCLEAN DAVID MCLEAN King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXVIII, January 1981, Pages 117–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXVIII.117 Published: 01 January 1981
Famine on the Coast
While the significance of private charity, local organisation and government policy have all been evaluated with respect to Irish famine relief, the role of the Royal Navy in distributing food and assisting ashore has been overlooked within the existing historical literature. Operating from its base at Cork and receiving provisions from Plymouth and Portsmouth, the navy battled against Atlantic storms throughout the winter of 1846–7, and for mont…
Protecting wood and killing germs
Discovering chemicals as disinfectants and for timber preservation offered profitable opportunities in the early nineteenth century. After 1839 Sir William Burnett promoted his pioneering patent for zinc chloride – attempting to persuade both fellow medical practitioners and the Admiralty of its widespread uses. Trials in the navy, among migrants to Canada in 1847–48, and during Britain's 1849 cholera epidemic were all intended to demonstrate the…
Commerce, Finance, and British Diplomatic Support in China, 1885-86
Finance and "Informal Empire" before the First World War
A Professor Extraordinary
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–4
Journal Article The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843–4 Get access DAVID MCLEAN DAVID MCLEAN King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXVIII, January 1981, Pages 117–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXVIII.117 Published: 01 January 1981
American Nationalism, the China Myth, and the Truman Doctrine
Journal Article American Nationalism, the China Myth, and the Truman Doctrine: The Question of Accommodation with Peking, 1949–50 Get access David McLean David McLean Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1986, Pages 25–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1986.tb00448.x Published: 01 June 2007
Anzus origins
(1990). Anzus origins: A Reassessment. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 94, pp. 64-82
Symposium
(1991). Symposium: The decline of America? Paul Kennedy and his critics. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 60-69
War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire
The massive transformations that occurred in the decade 1940-50 were decisive in shaping the modern history of Southeast Asia, and have determined the course of politics in the region right up to the present day. The 1940s saw the break-up of the European colonial empires in Southeast Asia and the creation of independent nation states. However, this nationalist revolution met resistance, not only from the colonial powers, but also from peripheral…
War, Diplomacy, and Informal Empire
La Plata and the British before 1836 war and the invasion of Uruguay, 1836-43 the failure of diplomacy, 1843 Britain, France and the policy of intervention, 1844 the beginning of hostilities, 1845 an expedition into the Parana, 1845-6 Hood's mission to la Plata, 1846 Ouseley continues the war, 1846-7 the diplomacy of Howden and Walewski, 1847 Palmerston's search for a peace settlement, 1848 the resumption of relations at Buenos Aires, 1848-9 the …
Education and Empire
The social problems accompanying industrialization and rapid urban growth provoked a widespread debate which forced education onto the political agenda, and the new ideas about teaching methods, curricula and the physical and moral care of children, developed rapidly. This study, based on records of the Admiralty Schools at Greenwich, provides an insight into the problems and the achievements of mid-19th century schools, catering for a range of p…
Australia in the Cold War
country's foreign relations. Commonly accepted perspectives on Australia's experience during the cold war, which maintained that the period had been characterized by Australia's servility to the United States, influenced the public response to issues such as Australia's military commitments in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 1998, and demonstrated the appeal of an Australian version of the 'Vietnam syndrome'. While for Americans the most powerful le…
From British Colony to American Satellite? Australia and the USA during the Cold War
This article challenges the widely‐accepted view that Australia's strategic relationship with the USA during the period 1945–69 thwarted the full development of Australian nationhood and, in so doing, formed an obstacle to Australia's accommodation with its region. It argues that the most influential perspectives on the subject place too much emphasis on the 1940s as a watershed in Australian foreign policy history, exaggerate differences between…
Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean’s account exposes the struggles between local and national government as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between polic…
Trade, Politics and the Navy in Latin America
When military conflict and economic disruption in the river Plate region led to a British naval occupation of the river Paraná in 1845–46, traders from many nations followed the warships upstream hoping to conduct business in the Argentine interior and with Paraguay. Since the 1920s historians have uniformly disparaged this Paraná expedition as a commercial failure, insisting that the foreign intruders found neither trade nor welcome among the lo…
Protecting wood and killing germs
Discovering chemicals as disinfectants and for timber preservation offered profitable opportunities in the early nineteenth century. After 1839 Sir William Burnett promoted his pioneering patent for zinc chloride – attempting to persuade both fellow medical practitioners and the Admiralty of its widespread uses. Trials in the navy, among migrants to Canada in 1847–48, and during Britain's 1849 cholera epidemic were all intended to demonstrate the…
Books
History for policy
The case for the relevance of history to government policy analysis and development must contend with opposition from several sources, including the scepticism of many historians towards the idea of applied history. We argue that these objections have obscured the extent to which historical awareness can contribute to sound policy choices and cast light on the value of government intervention. We see particular value in the methods devised by Ric…
Constructors in a foreign land
With railways prohibited in Persia before 1914, roads were the only means to improve the country's transport infrastructure and to allow the inland movement of merchandise. The experience of Lynch & Co. when constructing and operating the Bakhtiari road provides a detailed insight into the difficulties which could face British-owned firms abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries asits commercial activities became entangled with…
Answers at your fingertips
New Perceptions of the Vietnam War
New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact. Edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2015), pp.vi + 262. £27.69 (pb)
Opium and Empire
What was the connection between opium and Britain’s first war with China? That is not an easy question to answer and one that has too often been complicated further by the zeal with which academics have injected various, though usually ill-defined, notions of imperialism into the debate. Richard J. Grace struggles with the latter issue, offering, or so he claims in his foreword, a microcosm of the imperial experience. Grace looks to test Cain and…
The Social History of English Seamen, 1650-1815
Michael Zeheter, Epidemics, Empire and Environments
What did nineteenth-century Madras and Quebec have in common? Both were within the empire, although that might be said of many towns and cities of the world. Both had to confront cholera and other epidemics whereby the limits of medical knowledge would be sorely tested and all the problems facing public health reform laid bare. Yet this was also true of Britain and across most of Europe too. The shared identity of the two settlements rests essent…
Famine on the Coast
While the significance of private charity, local organisation and government policy have all been evaluated with respect to Irish famine relief, the role of the Royal Navy in distributing food and assisting ashore has been overlooked within the existing historical literature. Operating from its base at Cork and receiving provisions from Plymouth and Portsmouth, the navy battled against Atlantic storms throughout the winter of 1846–7, and for mont…
Intention and performance when reading aloud
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