Charlotte M Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte M Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte M |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gibraltarians’ attitudes towards Brexit and the Gibraltar-Spain frontier
This paper theorizes the border as imbricated in everyday life, especially in a small territory such as Gibraltar. We document the results of a 2018 survey of Gibraltarians’ attitudes toward the frontier between the 2016 Brexit referendum and the planned departure of the UK from the EU in 2019. We argue that virtually all respondents felt that a change in the border regime would affect community cohesion and identity. Second, we argue that genera…
The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. Volume 4
A Passion for Birds
Journal Article A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon. By Mark V. Barrow Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 326 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-04402-3.) Get access Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1615, https://doi.org/10.2307/25683…
Seeds of Change
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 177 reform. The expertise that went into the engineering aspects of irrigation would be applied to economic, agricultural, and social planning. Yet his two California colonies at Durham and Delhi were less than successful. Kluger notes the economic reasons for failure but tells us as well that Mead’s vision was probably doomed from the outset. How, after all, could one create a hearty independent farmer by regi…
Seeds of Change
A Naturalist in Indian Territory
The Origins of Natural Science in America
954 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Project (Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford) to reveal the coercive administration of the project and local resistance to it. With his “alternative history [of] the Manhattan Engineering District” (p. 252), Hales reevaluates the myth of the origin of atomic power by telling the story from the viewpoint of its effect on local residents, produc tion workers, and the immediate environment. The second essay, “Prie…
Thomas Say
Journal Article Thomas Say: New World Naturalist. By Patricia Tyson Stroud. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. xvi + 340 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8122-3103-1.) Get access Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 665–666, https://doi.org/…
The Origins of Natural Science in America
Natural History and the New World, 1524-1770
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
136 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Unfortunately, though in the same category, it is not in the same class. Its major weakness is that it attempts to remedy the historical record, but ignores any larger historical context. One misses, for ex ample, a sense of what was an inheritance from the Progressive Era in the scientific activism of the 1930s. There is little exploration of the extent to which American radical scientists borrowed ideas …
Charles Wright on the Boundary, 1849-1852, or Plantae Wrightianae Revisited . Elizabeth A. Shaw
The Eagle's Nest
A Yankee Botanist in the Carolinas
The Eagle's Nest
Journal Article The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812–1842. By Charlotte M. Porter. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1986. xiii + 251 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert V. Bruce Robert V. Bruce Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 506–507, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900062 Published: 01 September 198…
Martha Maxwell
The Fort Tejon Letters, 1857-1859 . John Xantus , Ann Zwinger
The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont. Volume III
Natural History in America, 1609-1860
Biographical Dictionary of Rocky Mountain Naturalists
Rafinesque
The Life and Travels of John Bartram
The Art of Decorative Design . Christopher Dresser
Only One Man Died
Journal Article Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Get access Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. By Chuinard Eldon G.. (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1979. 444 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.00.) Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter Museum of Broadcasting Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
A Passion for Birds
Journal Article A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon. By Mark V. Barrow Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 326 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-04402-3.) Get access Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1615, https://doi.org/10.2307/25683…
Gibraltarians’ attitudes towards Brexit and the Gibraltar-Spain frontier
This paper theorizes the border as imbricated in everyday life, especially in a small territory such as Gibraltar. We document the results of a 2018 survey of Gibraltarians’ attitudes toward the frontier between the 2016 Brexit referendum and the planned departure of the UK from the EU in 2019. We argue that virtually all respondents felt that a change in the border regime would affect community cohesion and identity. Second, we argue that genera…
The Eagle's Nest
Journal Article The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812–1842. By Charlotte M. Porter. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1986. xiii + 251 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert V. Bruce Robert V. Bruce Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 506–507, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900062 Published: 01 September 198…
The Belgian War Mother
Essay| July 01 1915 The Belgian War Mother Charlotte Porter Charlotte Porter Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1915) 2 (4): 783. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1915.2.4.783 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Charlotte Porter; The Bel…
Only One Man Died
Journal Article Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Get access Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. By Chuinard Eldon G.. (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1979. 444 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.00.) Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter Museum of Broadcasting Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
The Art of Decorative Design . Christopher Dresser
The Life and Travels of John Bartram
Biographical Dictionary of Rocky Mountain Naturalists
Rafinesque
The Fort Tejon Letters, 1857-1859 . John Xantus , Ann Zwinger
The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont. Volume III
Natural History in America, 1609-1860
A Yankee Botanist in the Carolinas
The Eagle's Nest
Journal Article The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812–1842. By Charlotte M. Porter. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1986. xiii + 251 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert V. Bruce Robert V. Bruce Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 506–507, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900062 Published: 01 September 198…
Martha Maxwell
Charles Wright on the Boundary, 1849-1852, or Plantae Wrightianae Revisited . Elizabeth A. Shaw
The Eagle's Nest
Natural History and the New World, 1524-1770
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
136 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Unfortunately, though in the same category, it is not in the same class. Its major weakness is that it attempts to remedy the historical record, but ignores any larger historical context. One misses, for ex ample, a sense of what was an inheritance from the Progressive Era in the scientific activism of the 1930s. There is little exploration of the extent to which American radical scientists borrowed ideas …
A Naturalist in Indian Territory
The Origins of Natural Science in America
954 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Project (Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford) to reveal the coercive administration of the project and local resistance to it. With his “alternative history [of] the Manhattan Engineering District” (p. 252), Hales reevaluates the myth of the origin of atomic power by telling the story from the viewpoint of its effect on local residents, produc tion workers, and the immediate environment. The second essay, “Prie…
Thomas Say
Journal Article Thomas Say: New World Naturalist. By Patricia Tyson Stroud. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. xvi + 340 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8122-3103-1.) Get access Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 665–666, https://doi.org/…
The Origins of Natural Science in America
Seeds of Change
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 177 reform. The expertise that went into the engineering aspects of irrigation would be applied to economic, agricultural, and social planning. Yet his two California colonies at Durham and Delhi were less than successful. Kluger notes the economic reasons for failure but tells us as well that Mead’s vision was probably doomed from the outset. How, after all, could one create a hearty independent farmer by regi…
Seeds of Change
A Passion for Birds
Journal Article A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon. By Mark V. Barrow Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 326 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-04402-3.) Get access Charlotte M. Porter Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1615, https://doi.org/10.2307/25683…
The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. Volume 4
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