Jonathan Rose
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Rose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rose |
| SIGNATURE | ROSE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1323-0870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1899 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Destruction, Policy, and the Evolving Consequences of Washington, DC’s 1968 Civil Disturbance
We study the aftermath of the 1968 Washington, D.C. civil disturbance to illuminate the mechanisms that drive urban redevelopment in the presence of low demand and racial tension. Using a within-block identification strategy, we show that destruction caused lots to remain vacant for the next thirty years and only recently converge in terms of structure value. The city acted to preclude for-profit land owners from leaving land vacant until demand …
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality
Many third‐sector organisations (TSOs) deliver employability support for vulnerable groups, but can they address the quality of jobs their users enter? The question is timely in the UK, given structural constraints presented by its neoliberal labour market/welfare regime and the recently elected Labour Government's aim of moving job centres towards a supportive approach focused on ‘good work’. An interesting comparison emerges with Scotland, wher…
Citizen Engagement and Subnational Electoral Reform in Canada: Three Paradoxes
Examining the rich history of subnational electoral reforms in Canada, we identify three distinct waves of reform, as well as three paradoxical trends pertaining to both the nature of the proposed alternative system and the process by which reform was attempted. First, while reduced constraints and lower stakes at the municipal level should encourage more frequent electoral experimentation, changes to provincial legislation have left many local g…
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s
D. J. Taylor, Orwell: The New Life
The World Isn’t Fair, but Shouldn’t Elections Be? Evaluating Prospective Beliefs about the Fairness of Elections and Referenda
Almost all academic literature about the causes and consequences of fairness of elections and referenda is based on retrospective evaluations. One of the strongest findings of such studies is that nonvoting is higher among citizens who retrospectively perceived an election as unfair. However, on logical grounds, it is impossible to attribute lower rates of voting to retrospectively perceived unfairness because at the time of the vote citizens can…
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Short-term residential mortgage contracts in American economic history
Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Covers pornography and the origins of the transgender movement Explores everyday reading in Nazi Germany Analyses prison reading Examines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nations Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kin…
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers
Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Shows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and China Explores how digital media has transformed literary criticis Portrays everyday reading in art Includes reading across national and cultural lines Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, worke…
Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers
Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers
Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life as a statesman This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story and on the dec…
Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers
Edinburgh History of Reading: Modern Readers
Winner–loser effects in contentious constitutional referenda: Perceptions of procedural fairness and the Brexit referendum
This article addresses a critical gap in the literature on winner–loser effects that consists of the lack of attention for highly contentious constitutional referenda. It uses unique multi-wave panel data of over 13,000 people that is unrivalled in size and richness. We estimate causal effects of the referendum on rarely studied but crucial public perceptions of the fairness of the way a referendum is conducted. These perceptions pertain to the h…
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
The Great Depression of the 1930s involved a severe disruption in the supply of home mortgage credit. This paper empirically identifies a mechanism lying behind this credit crunch: the impairment of lenders' balance sheets by illiquid foreclosed real estate. With data on hundreds of building and loans (B&Ls), the leading mortgage lenders in this period, we find that the overhang of foreclosed real estate explains about 30 percent of the drop in n…
A Companion to the History of the Book
This chapter considers the changing role of typography and the evolving practices of the typographer across six centuries. It charts the effect of technology, trade, and training on the profession as typographic responsibility passed from printer to compositor, to designer, and finally to Everyman. This chapter also considers the changing visual appearance of typographic books and their journey to free themselves from the conventions of the manus…
Companion to the History of the Book
Back to the Future of Library History / Alternative Futures for Library History
In response to a recent article by Donald Davis and John Aho, “Whither Library History?,” Jonathan Rose discusses six possible alternatives for the future of library history. Library historians can either continue to produce a traditional kind of library history or reframe their subject as a subfield of information science, mainstream history, or the history of the book. They can also adopt the models of such critical theorists as Antonio Gramsci…
Fake News in Context: Truth and Untruths
Fake News appears to be the most modern of social problems. After bursting onto the scene in 2016, spurred in no small part by then Presidential candidate Trump and his commitment to a post-truth style of politics, Fake News has become a key battleground in many contemporary societies. Nonetheless, in this context it is not always clear what Fake News, as a concept, actually means. In recent academic work, Tandoc Jr., Lim, and Ling (2018) identif…
Readers' Liberation: The Literary Agenda
Reader's Liberation addresses question of what we should be reading to obtain information, examining how past readers encountered the same problems that today's readers face, and how they dealt with them.
Up from Middlebrow
The Chinese had a word for it—wanbao quanshu. It’s a bibliographic term, which literally means “complete compendia of myriad treasures,” but an alternate translation might be “middlebrow.” These were encyclopedic works that distilled and summarized sophisticated science, history, and politics in cheap, accessible, illustrated guidebooks. Their audience (as a 1933 survey of Shanghai bookstalls confirmed) was neither the educated elite nor the impo…
Close but no Cigar: The Measurement of Corruption
The financial cost of corruption has recently been estimated at more than 5 per cent of global GDP. Yet, despite the widespread agreement that corruption is one of the most pressing policy challenges facing world leaders, it remains as widespread today, possibly even more so, as it was when concerted international attention began being devoted to the issue following the end of the Cold War. In reality, we still have a relatively weak understandin…
The Meaning of Corruption: Testing the Coherence and Adequacy of Corruption Definitions
Corruption is one of the most important issues facing the world today, yet despite its importance, there remains significant confusion about exactly what corruption is. A multitude of definitions have been advanced, but there remains an inability to offer an authoritative definition. While this could be merely a reflection of trivial variations on the same theme, it is possible that it reflects substantive disagreements that may suggest that the …
Brexit, Trump, and Post-Truth Politics
‘Post-truth politics’ emerged as an enduring theme of 2016; particularly following the Brexit referendum in the UK and the electoral college victory of Donald Trump in the US. Concern about post-truth politics has led some to suggest that statements made during election and referenda campaigns should be subject to regulatory oversight, in a way analogous to the regulation of advertising claims. However, calls for greater regulatory oversight of p…
Winner–loser effects in contentious constitutional referenda: Perceptions of procedural fairness and the Brexit referendum
This article addresses a critical gap in the literature on winner–loser effects that consists of the lack of attention for highly contentious constitutional referenda. It uses unique multi-wave panel data of over 13,000 people that is unrivalled in size and richness. We estimate causal effects of the referendum on rarely studied but crucial public perceptions of the fairness of the way a referendum is conducted. These perceptions pertain to the h…
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s
Political science approaches to integrity and corruption
Integrity ought logically to be a particularly important concept within political science. If those acting within the political system do not have integrity, our ability to trust them, to have confidence in their actions, and perhaps even to consider them legitimate can be challenged. Indeed, the very concept of integrity goes some way towards underwriting positive views of political actors. Yet, despite this importance, political science as a di…
How might reform of the political system appeal to discontented citizens
In Britain, levels of political trust have declined, stimulating policy makers to explore ways of appealing to discontented citizens. One such initiative involves reform of the political system. Yet, this raises the question of which types of political reform are likely to appeal to discontented citizens. Existing studies have examined how individuals respond to political reforms, yet these studies only consider a limited range of institutional c…
Paranoia and the Film System
Journal Article Paranoia and the Film System Get access Jacqueline Rose Jacqueline Rose Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 1976, Pages 85–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.4.85 Published: 01 December 1976
The New Deal and the origins of the modern American real estate loan contract
The Branding of States: The Uneasy Marriage of Marketing to Politics
This article reviews the growing literature on state branding and argues that any attempt to understand the impact of advertising and marketing on politics cannot be divorced from the larger phenomenon of privatization of the state. The article examines the way in which states have marketed themselves drawing on examples from Canada, the US, the UK, and other nations. It argues that the practice of state marketing is a pernicious one, and the abi…
Short-term residential mortgage contracts in American economic history
The History of Education as the History of Reading
Footnote* This paper surveys recent studies in the history of reading that historians of education will find useful, given that all education involves some form of reading. It describes the sources that historians of reading use, the models they employ (such as the 'Reading Revolution' of the eighteenth century), and the questions they address (such as the influence of gender on reading). Dissenting from the Frankfurt School, Marxism, poststructu…
Selling the Goods and Services Tax: Government Advertising and Public Discourse in Canada
This note examines the Canadian federal government's attempts to use communication programmes to influence public opinion toward the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Using internal government documents and polling data, the authors describe the scope and objectives of the GST campaign, and assess its effectiveness in shaping public opinion. They then describe some of the weaknesses in popular discourse about the propriety of communication programmes…
Hoover's Truce: Wage Rigidity in the Onset of the Great Depression
This article analyzes President Herbert Hoover's role in causing wage rigidity during the onset of the Great Depression, through two conferences in which he encouraged business leaders to maintain high wages. New data on the set of firms and trade associations attending these conferences provides evidence that Hoover's conferences delayed the cuts in hourly wages at a small number of large firms, although this result may have been due to characte…
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
The Great Depression of the 1930s involved a severe disruption in the supply of home mortgage credit. This paper empirically identifies a mechanism lying behind this credit crunch: the impairment of lenders' balance sheets by illiquid foreclosed real estate. With data on hundreds of building and loans (B&Ls), the leading mortgage lenders in this period, we find that the overhang of foreclosed real estate explains about 30 percent of the drop in n…
From Arm's Length to Hands-on: The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940
Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada; the dualism had demanded double-barrelled ministries and the rotation of the capital, after 1849, between Toronto and Quebec City every four years. The year 1867 was therefore a watershed. The creation of the province of Ontario demanded that a civil service be put in place to support the new offices of the lieutenant-governor, Executive C…
The Invisible Sources of Nineteen Eighty‐Four
The Despatchen of Colonel Thomas Graham on the Italian Campaion of 1796–1797
Papers from Colonel Graham, appointed to proceed on a Special Mission
Environmental experts in the chemical industry
The essential role of scientists in chemical industry in invironmental improvement is collaboration with legislating authorities to ensure that legislation is based on facts and not on emotion and that the full consequences of proposed laws are fully understood before enactment. Some results of ill‐judged and hysterical anti‐pollution legislation outside the U.K. are discussed
Paranoia and the Film System
Journal Article Paranoia and the Film System Get access Jacqueline Rose Jacqueline Rose Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 1976, Pages 85–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.4.85 Published: 01 December 1976
Apostle Arnold: The Life and Death of Arnold Toynbee, 1852-1883. Alon Kadish
Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences
The Invisible Sources of Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Government Advertising in a Crisis: The Quebec Referendum Precedent
This paper examines the federal government advertising strategy during the 1980 Quebec referendum. It is argued that during periods of political instability governments use persuasive advertising disguised as informational advertising
Willingly to School: The Working-Class Response to Elementary Education in Britain, 1875–1918
In Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, 1860–1914 , J. S. Hurt employs what has become a classic opening in works of social history. “Much of the history of education,” he declares, “has been written from the top, from the perspective of those who ran and provided the schools, be they civil servants or members of the religious societies that promoted the cause of popular education. Little has been written from the viewpoint of those who …
Selling the Goods and Services Tax: Government Advertising and Public Discourse in Canada
This note examines the Canadian federal government's attempts to use communication programmes to influence public opinion toward the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Using internal government documents and polling data, the authors describe the scope and objectives of the GST campaign, and assess its effectiveness in shaping public opinion. They then describe some of the weaknesses in popular discourse about the propriety of communication programmes…
From Arm's Length to Hands-on: The Formative Years of Ontario's Public Service, 1867-1940
Confederation was a relief to legislators who had to ensure the uneasy union between Upper and Lower Canada; the dualism had demanded double-barrelled ministries and the rotation of the capital, after 1849, between Toronto and Quebec City every four years. The year 1867 was therefore a watershed. The creation of the province of Ontario demanded that a civil service be put in place to support the new offices of the lieutenant-governor, Executive C…
The Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution
Book Review| January 01 1999 The Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890Baark, ErikA New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850-1914Black, AlistairEmpire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870Bayly, C. A.Reading Berlin 1900Fritzsche, PeterThe News under Russia's Old Regime: The De…
The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act that was inextricably bound up with the murder of 6 million Jews. By burning and looting libraries and censoring un-German publications, the Nazis aimed to eradicate all traces of Jewish culture along with the Jewish people themselves.The Holocaust and the Book examines this bleak chapter in the history of printing, readi…
The intellectual life of the British working classes
Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, h…
Was Capitalism Good for Victorian Literature
few years ago, in a Rod Serling-esque mood, I ventured a prediction: in the not-distant future, when Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan have gone the way of the New Criticism, “the truly hot literary theorist of the day [will be] Paul Samuelson” (Rose 132). Today I can report that it is coming to pass, and sooner than I expected. We are now witnessing the emergence of something quite unprecedented—a capitalist criticism. Take a…
Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age
Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age Get access Boyer Allen D.. Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 2003. 344 pp. $60.00. Jonathan Rose Jonathan Rose Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 46, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 348–350, https://doi.org/10.2307/3692451 Published: 01 July 2004
Litigation and political conflict in fifteenth-century East Anglia: Conspiracy and attaint actions and sir John Fastolf
Sir John Fastolf was a wealthy fifteenth-century knight and a successful military commander in the wars with France. During the last decade of his life, he was involved in a number of legal disputes with his East Anglian adversaries, the supporters of the duke of Suffolk. This paper studies one of those disputes, which involved conspiracy and attaint actions between John Andrew, a Suffolk adherent, and Thomas Howes and John Porter, two Fastolf se…
Bound for the 1890s: Essays on Writing and Publishing in Honor of James G. Nelson , edited by Jonathan Allison Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930 , edited by David Finkelstein
The History of Education as the History of Reading
Footnote* This paper surveys recent studies in the history of reading that historians of education will find useful, given that all education involves some form of reading. It describes the sources that historians of reading use, the models they employ (such as the 'Reading Revolution' of the eighteenth century), and the questions they address (such as the influence of gender on reading). Dissenting from the Frankfurt School, Marxism, poststructu…
Lady Chatterley’s Broker: Banking on Modernism
Historians of the book are the hard-boiled detectives of literary studies: they ask embarrassing but necessary questions, they follow the money, and nothing shocks them. Book historians know the gritty truth that books are not created solely by their authors: patrons, publishers, editors, literary agents, designers, booksellers, and lawyers all contribute to the final product. And book historians recognize that books are bought and sold. Marxists…
The Branding of States: The Uneasy Marriage of Marketing to Politics
This article reviews the growing literature on state branding and argues that any attempt to understand the impact of advertising and marketing on politics cannot be divorced from the larger phenomenon of privatization of the state. The article examines the way in which states have marketed themselves drawing on examples from Canada, the US, the UK, and other nations. It argues that the practice of state marketing is a pernicious one, and the abi…
Studying the Past: The Nature and Development of Legal History as an Academic Discipline
This article pursues two themes. First, it argues that there is a commonality between the general interest in the past, the interest of historians, and the interest of legal historians. Second, it shows that several ideas about the past commonly appear in all three contexts. In pursuing these themes, the article begins by reviewing the initial study of the past and the emergence of history and legal history in academia. It explores the various re…
Hoover's Truce: Wage Rigidity in the Onset of the Great Depression
This article analyzes President Herbert Hoover's role in causing wage rigidity during the onset of the Great Depression, through two conferences in which he encouraged business leaders to maintain high wages. New data on the set of firms and trade associations attending these conferences provides evidence that Hoover's conferences delayed the cuts in hourly wages at a small number of large firms, although this result may have been due to characte…
When Citizens Decide: Lessons From Citizens' Assemblies on Electoral Reform
Three large-scale democratic experiments have taken place in which groups of randomly selected ordinary citizens were asked to independently design the next electoral system. The lessons drawn from the research are relevant for those interested in political participation, public opinion, deliberation, public policy, and democracy.
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
Journal Article The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All Get access Linebaugh Peter. The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 376 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Jonathan Rose Jonathan Rose Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 541–5…
The Age of Aphasia
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