Deirdre Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4076-2136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Robert Louis Stevenson and German Sāmoa
This study revisits the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson on German Sāmoa as a valuable archive for understanding the impact of Western colonialism on the Pacific. It examines Stevenson's anti-colonial perspectives in writings such as A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892), his series of letters to The Times in London (1889–1894), and his private correspondence. Stevenson's analysis of the impact of the Germans' militarism…
Making Entomologists
Creole Identity in the Enlightenment
Susanna Gale (1749‐1823) was born in St Andrew, Jamaica, a member of the spectacularly wealthy Gale clan which at one point owned in excess of 1000 enslaved people on the island. This article takes Joshua Reynolds's portrait of her as a so‐called ‘English rose’ as the starting point for an examination of the discourses surrounding White West Indian creole identity in the Enlightenment. More images are then introduced to explore issues of sameness…
The savage slave mistress
In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman slave owner, standing tall in marked contrast to her spreadeagled victim. Smeathman's aim is to present a naturalistic portrait of an everyday event, one which reveals the white woman's “private” flo…
Bulama and Sierra Leone
This chapter explores the ways in which African islands and interiors sometimes stand in for each other and sometimes compete as radical Utopian sites in the revolutionary writings of Charles Berns Wadstrom and his collaborator, the eccentric alchemist Augustus Mordenskjold. These men never realised their dream of founding what they called a &s;free community&s; in Africa, but the colony which was founded in 1791 on Bulama, 200 miles north of Sie…
Imperial Commerce, Gender, and Slavery
This chapter explores the twinned emergence in the British novel of a critique of plantation slavery and commercial imperialism with a proto-feminist questioning of the ‘commerce of the sexes’. The discourses of racial and sexual oppression resonate with one another, helping to establish connections between inequalities at home and the sufferings of distant others. It has been argued that novelistic representations of violence and suffering are c…
Afterword
Afterword: Rough crossings to new beginnings Deirdre Coleman The proposed ‘Freedom Tower’, the centrepiece of the rebuilding plan for New York’s World Trade Centre site, is to rise from the ashes of Ground Zero to a height of 1776 feet, an architectural tribute to the year the United States declared its independence as a nation. In Rough Crossings, a dramatic history of the American War of Independence, Simon Schama shows how the meaning of this …
Entertaining Entomology
Research Article| September 01 2006 Entertaining Entomology: Insects and Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century Deirdre Coleman Deirdre Coleman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 107–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-004 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ico…
Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist
In his landmark study, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (1975), David Brion Davis linked the first two decades of the anti-slavery movement to increasing domestic concern in Britain about the problems of under-employment, labour discipline, and labour management. Scrutinizing the writings of many leading abolitionists, including prominent Quakers, Davis argues that they were less concerned with how emancipated slaves mig…
History, economic history and the numbers game
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Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution
The Oakes Diaries
New business history for old
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Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access D. C. COLEMAN D. C. COLEMAN Pembroke CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXIX, April 1991, Pages 508-b–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.508-b Published: 01 April 1991
The Lever of Riches
Journal Article The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress Get access The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By JOEL MOKYR. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 349. US$24.95 hardback. ISBN o 19 506113 6.)Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change: An Historical Survey. By JOEL MOKYR. (Chur, London and New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990. Pp. viii+142. US$3…
In search of stability. Explorations in historical political economy
Adam Smith, businessmen, and the mercantile system in England
(1988). Adam Smith, businessmen, and the mercantile system in England. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 161-170
History and the Economic Past
Attitudes to New Techniques
Enterprise and History
Greene King
Proto-Industrialization
The Local and the Global in Early Modern Society
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Courtaulds
Journal Article Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History. Vol. III, Crisis and Change 1940-1965 Get access Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History. Vol. in, Crisis and Change 1940-1965. By D. C. Coleman. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 345. £15-00.) B. W. E. Alford B. W. E. Alford University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91,…
Pleasure and Pain in the Pacific
Revisions in Mercantilism
Proto-Industrialization
Trade, Government and Economy in Pre-Industrial England
An Innovation and Its Diffusion
The Lever of Riches
Journal Article The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress Get access The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By JOEL MOKYR. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 349. US$24.95 hardback. ISBN o 19 506113 6.)Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change: An Historical Survey. By JOEL MOKYR. (Chur, London and New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990. Pp. viii+142. US$3…
Labour in the English Economy of the Seventeenth Century
Attitudes to New Techniques
The British Paper Industry, 1495-1860
Journal Article Economics and Agriculture Get access Economics and Agriculture. By Anne Martin. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. Pp. viii + 169. 21s.) Edith H. Whetham Edith H. Whetham School of Agriculture, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 69, Issue 273, 1 March 1959, Page 149, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227838 Published: 01 March 1959
Naval Dockyards Under the Later Stuarts
T tHE travellers and topographers of later seventeenthand early eighteenth-century England often commented fulsomely upon the naval dockyards of the time, admiring their size and noting their growth since Tudor times. As French wars succeeded Dutch wars, so did Portsmouth and Plymouth rise to importance alongside the existing yards at Chatham, Deptford and Woolwich.2 In his i695 edition of Camden's Brittania, Gibson observed that the Navy had mul…
The ‘Gentry’ Controversy and the Aristocracy in Crisis, 1558–1641
Religion and Economic Action
Change and History
The savage slave mistress
In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman slave owner, standing tall in marked contrast to her spreadeagled victim. Smeathman's aim is to present a naturalistic portrait of an everyday event, one which reveals the white woman's “private” flo…
History, economic history and the numbers game
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Adam Smith, businessmen, and the mercantile system in England
(1988). Adam Smith, businessmen, and the mercantile system in England. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 161-170
Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England. Joyce Oldham Appleby
The Fontana Economic History of Europe. Vol. 2
Early Modern Economic England
Industrial Growth and Industrial Revolutions
The idea of the Industrial Revolution is one of the few items in the private language of economic historians which has passed into common parlance. By now the Industrial Revolution has surely earned its -right, along with ancient Greeks and early economists, to be called . But as Sir George Clark pointed out some while ago,2 other industrial revolutions are amongst us. In the writings of economic historians, revolutions abound. Leaving aside more…
Combinations of Capital and of Labour in the English Paper Industry, 1789-1825
The practical establishment of a paper-making industry in England dates from the seventeenth century.2 Earlier ventures there certainly were and of those the most famous and possibly the most important was Spilman's mill at Dartford, at work in 1588.3 During the course of the seventeenth century the number of mills increased, and on more than one occasion paper-making came to the notice of officialdom.4 In spite of the growth implied by this, Res…
London Scriveners and the Estate Market in the Later Seventeenth Century
T HE doings of Tudor and Stuart scriveners were registered by contemporaries with noticeable disapproval. In addition to exercising their purely clerical art they frequently acted as legal and financial intermediaries, and thus came under fire from current opinion on middlemen. From this uncomfortable position they have found their way into the historians' pages and emerged as pioneers of banking and stock-broking. Prof. Tawney has shown how the …
Entertaining Entomology
Research Article| September 01 2006 Entertaining Entomology: Insects and Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century Deirdre Coleman Deirdre Coleman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 107–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-004 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ico…
New business history for old
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Courtaulds
Journal Article Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History. Vol. III, Crisis and Change 1940-1965 Get access Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History. Vol. in, Crisis and Change 1940-1965. By D. C. Coleman. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 345. £15-00.) B. W. E. Alford B. W. E. Alford University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91,…
Philanthropy Deflated
London Scriveners and the Estate Market in the Later Seventeenth Century
T HE doings of Tudor and Stuart scriveners were registered by contemporaries with noticeable disapproval. In addition to exercising their purely clerical art they frequently acted as legal and financial intermediaries, and thus came under fire from current opinion on middlemen. From this uncomfortable position they have found their way into the historians' pages and emerged as pioneers of banking and stock-broking. Prof. Tawney has shown how the …
Naval Dockyards Under the Later Stuarts
T tHE travellers and topographers of later seventeenthand early eighteenth-century England often commented fulsomely upon the naval dockyards of the time, admiring their size and noting their growth since Tudor times. As French wars succeeded Dutch wars, so did Portsmouth and Plymouth rise to importance alongside the existing yards at Chatham, Deptford and Woolwich.2 In his i695 edition of Camden's Brittania, Gibson observed that the Navy had mul…
Change and History
Combinations of Capital and of Labour in the English Paper Industry, 1789-1825
The practical establishment of a paper-making industry in England dates from the seventeenth century.2 Earlier ventures there certainly were and of those the most famous and possibly the most important was Spilman's mill at Dartford, at work in 1588.3 During the course of the seventeenth century the number of mills increased, and on more than one occasion paper-making came to the notice of officialdom.4 In spite of the growth implied by this, Res…
Industrial Growth and Industrial Revolutions
The idea of the Industrial Revolution is one of the few items in the private language of economic historians which has passed into common parlance. By now the Industrial Revolution has surely earned its -right, along with ancient Greeks and early economists, to be called . But as Sir George Clark pointed out some while ago,2 other industrial revolutions are amongst us. In the writings of economic historians, revolutions abound. Leaving aside more…
Labour in the English Economy of the Seventeenth Century
Eli Heckscher and the idea of Mercantilism
It is more than a quarter of a century since the late Professor Eli Heckscher's Mercantilism first appeared, in Swedish (1931), and nearly as long since it became available in German (1932) and in English (1935). The recent publication of a revised English edition 1 E. F. Heckscher, Mercantilism (Revised Edition, Ed. E. F. Soderlund, London, 1955). All page references given in the present article are to this edition. I would like to thank Profess…
The Enforcement of English Apprenticeship, 1563-1642 . Margret Gay Davies
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
The County Committee of Kent in the Civil War
Profit and Power
I Profit and Power.- II Representative Thought and National Policy.- III Economic Relations and the Sources of Tension in the First Half of the Century.- IV War in Embryo.- V The First Dutch War.- VI Prudent Idealism: an Interlude (1654-60).- VII Foreign Trade and Domestic Politics at the Restoration.- VIII The Colonial Prelude and the Approach of the Second Dutch War.- IX A War of Tradesmen.- X Conclusion.- A List of the Principal Sources Consul…
The British Paper Industry, 1495-1860
The British Paper Industry, 1495-1860
Journal Article Economics and Agriculture Get access Economics and Agriculture. By Anne Martin. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. Pp. viii + 169. 21s.) Edith H. Whetham Edith H. Whetham School of Agriculture, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 69, Issue 273, 1 March 1959, Page 149, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227838 Published: 01 March 1959
Essaysin Bibliography and Criticism
Technology and Economic History, 1500-1750
The British Paper Industry 1495-1860. A Study in Industrial Growth
Religion and economic action
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access D. C. COLEMAN D. C. COLEMAN London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVI, Issue CCXCIX, April 1961, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVI.CCXCIX.374 Published: 01 April 1961
A Short History of Technology
British Industry
Growth and decay during the industrial revolution
The continuing debate on the standards of living in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century has proceeded largely in terms of aggregates. The battle is waged with national statistics of wages and prices, of consumption, income, and taxation; generalized statements (of not always well-founded generality) are lobbed to and fro. Not much heed seems to be paid to that diversity of the English economy of which the historian grappling w…
Religion and Economic Action
American and British Technology in the 19th Century
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access D. C. COLEMAN D. C. COLEMAN London School 0f Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXIX, Issue CCCXII, July 1964, Pages 593-b–594, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXIX.CCCXII.593-b Published: 01 July 1964
Sir John Banks, Baronet and Businessman
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