Thomas W Gallant
Biographic Data
| ID | 378135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Gallant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallant |
| SIGNATURE | GALLANT T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2202-5570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The social history of modern Greece
How is social history written and practiced in differing political and geographical contexts?As a journal, Social History has encouraged reflection on trajectories in different parts of the world though special issues on, most recently, Spain, the Caribbean, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak Republics. 1 This round-table discussion builds on this series of conversations by examining the social history and historiography of modern Greeceas written…
Modern Greece
Modern Greeceis an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighting to social, political and diplomatic aspects, it offers detailed coverage of the formation of the Greek nation state, the global Greek diaspora, the country's relationships with Europe and the United States and a range of other topics, including women, rural areas, nationalism and the Civil War, woven…
Revolutions and regimes of violence
To study the phenomenon of revolution meaningfully in a cross-cultural context, scholars need frameworks of analysis that allow them to compare and contrast specific revolutions and to identify the factors that explain why certain sociopolitical systems are prone to rebellions and others are not. This article puts forth one such framework focusing on pre- and postrevolutionary violence. Revolution is a violent act and requires men and women who a…
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913
Traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks from 1768 to 1913 Shortlisted for the 2015 London Hellenic Prize Often referred to as the ‘Long Nineteenth Century,’ this period witnessed the establishment of a Greek nation-state which had a profound impact on the Greeks everywhere. Innovatively situating the story of the Greeks into a broader Ottoman and Mediterranean context, Thomas Gallant presents the most in-dep…
Long Time Coming, Long time Gone
This article traces the past, present and future of social history since the field’s emergence in the mid-1960s until the present. It examines the origin and developmental trajectory of the field, analyzing the various challenges it has faced and how it has responded to them. It ends by suggesting one possiblway forward for the field in the 21 st century
Puzzles of the Past
no abstract
Got a Revolution, got to revolution
no abstract
The Status of Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies in Canada and the York University Experience
The development of programs devoted to Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies is a more recent phenomenon in Canada than in the United States. In addition to being younger, the programs in Canada are located in social, political and institutional situations that present them with some opportunities and challenges that differ from those facing US programs. They also confront some of the same dilemmas as colleagues elsewhere as these are common to acade…
Experiencing Dominion
Experiencing Dominion
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece
Turning the Horns
The bells tolled early on the morning of the 28th of January 1867, summoning the peasants from Agró and the surrounding areas on the island of Kerkyra. The bailiffs employed by the local landlords and the constables ordered to protect them were to arrive that day to collect the current year's rent. Most peasants in the area around Agró were sharecroppers cultivating the land of absentee landlords and bound to these plantation owners both by contr…
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece
Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece
Agency, Structure, and Explanation in Social History
Thomas W. Gallant, Agency, Structure, and Explanation in Social History: The Case of the Foundling Home on Kephallenia, Greece, during the 1830s, Social Science History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 479-508
Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context
Journal Article Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context: The Ionian Islands (Greece), 1817–1864 Get access Thomas Gallant Thomas Gallant Department of History, University of Florida, 4313 Turlington Hill, Gainesville, Fla 32611 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 23, Issue 3, Spring 1990, Pages 485–512, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/23.3.485 Publishe…
Crisis and Response
Crisis and Response: Risk-Buffering Behavior in Hellenistic Greek Communities In the wake of the severe famines of the past twenty years, historians have become more sensitive to the problems of nutritional standards, food supply, and food shortage. In this article, I argue that the historically documented increase in the incidences of subsistence crises in the poleis (states) of Greece during the Hellenistic period, 323144 B.C., was due to a cha…
Greek Bandits
Greek Bandits: Lone Wolves or a Family Affair? Γ. W. Gallant Since the work of Eric Hobsbawm (1959, 1969, 1973), the social bandit has come to occupy an important place in the study of peasant unrest and violence in rural societies. Those following in his wake have either used the social bandit as an ideal type around which to structure research—even when their topic was not social transformation as Hobsbawm's had been—or have entered into a d…
Background Noise” and Site Definition
This paper is intended as a contribution to the continuing discussion on the problem of site definition in surface survey. The data are drawn from the results of surveys undertaken by the author on the islands of Kephallenia and Lefkas off the western coast of Greece. Following a brief description of the islands, the aims and strategies of the surveys are described. Some methodologies are then proposed that can aid the researcher in the decision-…
Agricultural Systems, Land Tenure, and the Reforms of Solon
The reforms of Solon have been a source of debate for many years now. The number of articles, chapters, and books written about them is legion. The justification for the present attempt is that it approaches the problem from a slightly different angle. The overriding aims of this paper are: ( a ) to elucidate what the agricultural system was in this period and to demonstrate that it did not ‘change with glacial slowness’ and that farmers were not…
Agricultural Systems, Land Tenure, and the Reforms of Solon
The reforms of Solon have been a source of debate for many years now. The number of articles, chapters, and books written about them is legion. The justification for the present attempt is that it approaches the problem from a slightly different angle. The overriding aims of this paper are: ( a ) to elucidate what the agricultural system was in this period and to demonstrate that it did not ‘change with glacial slowness’ and that farmers were not…
Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization
Experiencing Dominion
Crisis and Response
Crisis and Response: Risk-Buffering Behavior in Hellenistic Greek Communities In the wake of the severe famines of the past twenty years, historians have become more sensitive to the problems of nutritional standards, food supply, and food shortage. In this article, I argue that the historically documented increase in the incidences of subsistence crises in the poleis (states) of Greece during the Hellenistic period, 323144 B.C., was due to a cha…
Greek Bandits
Greek Bandits: Lone Wolves or a Family Affair? Γ. W. Gallant Since the work of Eric Hobsbawm (1959, 1969, 1973), the social bandit has come to occupy an important place in the study of peasant unrest and violence in rural societies. Those following in his wake have either used the social bandit as an ideal type around which to structure research—even when their topic was not social transformation as Hobsbawm's had been—or have entered into a d…
Background Noise” and Site Definition
This paper is intended as a contribution to the continuing discussion on the problem of site definition in surface survey. The data are drawn from the results of surveys undertaken by the author on the islands of Kephallenia and Lefkas off the western coast of Greece. Following a brief description of the islands, the aims and strategies of the surveys are described. Some methodologies are then proposed that can aid the researcher in the decision-…
Turning the Horns
The bells tolled early on the morning of the 28th of January 1867, summoning the peasants from Agró and the surrounding areas on the island of Kerkyra. The bailiffs employed by the local landlords and the constables ordered to protect them were to arrive that day to collect the current year's rent. Most peasants in the area around Agró were sharecroppers cultivating the land of absentee landlords and bound to these plantation owners both by contr…
Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context
Journal Article Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context: The Ionian Islands (Greece), 1817–1864 Get access Thomas Gallant Thomas Gallant Department of History, University of Florida, 4313 Turlington Hill, Gainesville, Fla 32611 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 23, Issue 3, Spring 1990, Pages 485–512, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/23.3.485 Publishe…
Agricultural Systems, Land Tenure, and the Reforms of Solon
The reforms of Solon have been a source of debate for many years now. The number of articles, chapters, and books written about them is legion. The justification for the present attempt is that it approaches the problem from a slightly different angle. The overriding aims of this paper are: ( a ) to elucidate what the agricultural system was in this period and to demonstrate that it did not ‘change with glacial slowness’ and that farmers were not…
Background Noise” and Site Definition
This paper is intended as a contribution to the continuing discussion on the problem of site definition in surface survey. The data are drawn from the results of surveys undertaken by the author on the islands of Kephallenia and Lefkas off the western coast of Greece. Following a brief description of the islands, the aims and strategies of the surveys are described. Some methodologies are then proposed that can aid the researcher in the decision-…
Greek Bandits
Greek Bandits: Lone Wolves or a Family Affair? Γ. W. Gallant Since the work of Eric Hobsbawm (1959, 1969, 1973), the social bandit has come to occupy an important place in the study of peasant unrest and violence in rural societies. Those following in his wake have either used the social bandit as an ideal type around which to structure research—even when their topic was not social transformation as Hobsbawm's had been—or have entered into a d…
Crisis and Response
Crisis and Response: Risk-Buffering Behavior in Hellenistic Greek Communities In the wake of the severe famines of the past twenty years, historians have become more sensitive to the problems of nutritional standards, food supply, and food shortage. In this article, I argue that the historically documented increase in the incidences of subsistence crises in the poleis (states) of Greece during the Hellenistic period, 323144 B.C., was due to a cha…
Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context
Journal Article Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context: The Ionian Islands (Greece), 1817–1864 Get access Thomas Gallant Thomas Gallant Department of History, University of Florida, 4313 Turlington Hill, Gainesville, Fla 32611 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 23, Issue 3, Spring 1990, Pages 485–512, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/23.3.485 Publishe…
Agency, Structure, and Explanation in Social History
Thomas W. Gallant, Agency, Structure, and Explanation in Social History: The Case of the Foundling Home on Kephallenia, Greece, during the 1830s, Social Science History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 479-508
Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece
Turning the Horns
The bells tolled early on the morning of the 28th of January 1867, summoning the peasants from Agró and the surrounding areas on the island of Kerkyra. The bailiffs employed by the local landlords and the constables ordered to protect them were to arrive that day to collect the current year's rent. Most peasants in the area around Agró were sharecroppers cultivating the land of absentee landlords and bound to these plantation owners both by contr…
Experiencing Dominion
Experiencing Dominion
The Status of Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies in Canada and the York University Experience
The development of programs devoted to Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies is a more recent phenomenon in Canada than in the United States. In addition to being younger, the programs in Canada are located in social, political and institutional situations that present them with some opportunities and challenges that differ from those facing US programs. They also confront some of the same dilemmas as colleagues elsewhere as these are common to acade…
Got a Revolution, got to revolution
no abstract
Puzzles of the Past
no abstract
Long Time Coming, Long time Gone
This article traces the past, present and future of social history since the field’s emergence in the mid-1960s until the present. It examines the origin and developmental trajectory of the field, analyzing the various challenges it has faced and how it has responded to them. It ends by suggesting one possiblway forward for the field in the 21 st century
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913
Traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks from 1768 to 1913 Shortlisted for the 2015 London Hellenic Prize Often referred to as the ‘Long Nineteenth Century,’ this period witnessed the establishment of a Greek nation-state which had a profound impact on the Greeks everywhere. Innovatively situating the story of the Greeks into a broader Ottoman and Mediterranean context, Thomas Gallant presents the most in-dep…
Modern Greece
Modern Greeceis an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighting to social, political and diplomatic aspects, it offers detailed coverage of the formation of the Greek nation state, the global Greek diaspora, the country's relationships with Europe and the United States and a range of other topics, including women, rural areas, nationalism and the Civil War, woven…
Revolutions and regimes of violence
To study the phenomenon of revolution meaningfully in a cross-cultural context, scholars need frameworks of analysis that allow them to compare and contrast specific revolutions and to identify the factors that explain why certain sociopolitical systems are prone to rebellions and others are not. This article puts forth one such framework focusing on pre- and postrevolutionary violence. Revolution is a violent act and requires men and women who a…
The social history of modern Greece
How is social history written and practiced in differing political and geographical contexts?As a journal, Social History has encouraged reflection on trajectories in different parts of the world though special issues on, most recently, Spain, the Caribbean, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak Republics. 1 This round-table discussion builds on this series of conversations by examining the social history and historiography of modern Greeceas written…
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