Chris Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6954-9611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In view and under foot: The hidden story of fallow deer, knuckle-bone floors and British estates
The chance discovery of an 18th-century knuckle-bone floor at the National Trust property of Belton House in Lincolnshire prompted a review of all known post-medieval knuckle-bone floors i
The Stalinist Dictatorship
From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. 'second revolution' and its aftermath remodelled the Soviet State and the Bolshevik party, restructured all institutions and reconstituted all social relationships. Millions found their lives changed forever. Nothing was untouched and no one was unaffec…
Wild to domestic and back again: The dynamics of fallow deer management in medieval England (c. 11 th -16 th century AD)
This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive scientific study of the fallow deer, a non-native species whose medieval-period introduction to Britain transformed the cultural landscape. It brings together data from traditional zooarchaeological analyses with those derived from new ageing techniques as well as the results of a programme of radiocarbon dating, multi-element isotope studies and genetic analyses. These new data are here …
Lenin's death in the British press
This article draws on British press reports on Lenin in the ten days or so after his death on 21 January 1924 and shows how the texts—almost universally hostile in their appraisals—are saturated with gender, class and power distinctions and tropes of race, class, family, climate and geography. These are deployed to explain character or advanced as causative agents. In addition, physiognomic explanations predominate, and supposed binary opposites …
What is History? The Case of Late Stalinism
The first part of this article examines the construction of the history of the high politics of Late Stalinism by reviewing five episodes in the period c.1946 to 1953. I suggest that these episodes are usually narrated as examples of either ‘monolithic orthodoxy’ or ‘neo-pluralism’, and conclude that a third narrative structure could be added: ‘pressured elites’. The second part of the article analyses these three narratives as cultural artefacts…
Remarks
The text refers to a previous article on one of the major battles of the First World War. It tried to explore the difficulties of representation in the context of the relationship of evidence to experience and the ascription of meaning by historians. The text focuses on ways of escaping from the 'cause-event-consequence' of most academic history writing and refers to a variety of techniques and voice – poetry, prose, listings, imaginary conversat…
Impressions of the Somme: An experiment
Impressions of the Somme uses one of the major battles of the First World War to explore the difficulties of representation in the context of the following problems: the historian's motivation; the constitution evidence; the relationship of evidence to experience; the ascription of meaning, whether by historians, commentators, writers or participants. The article tries to avoid the ‘cause‐event‐consequence’ of much academic history and adopts ins…
Stalin's Russia
Recovering Stalin's Russia / The rise of Stalin / Collectivization / Industrialization / Purges and politics / Foreign policy / War and late Stalinism / Culture and society / Conclusion: history and Stalin's Russia
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929
The New Economic Policy and Cotton: 1. Industry 2. Workforce Part II. The Mill: 3. Field and factory 4. Machines and trades 5. Making an operative 6. Workers' institutional commitments Part III. The Crisis of 1923 and its Consequences: 7. The market collapses 8. Organizing Taylorism: production 9. Organizing Taylorism: wages 10. 1925 Part IV. The Crisis of 1927 and its Consequences: 11. Confusion worse confounded 12. Shop-floor responses 13. The …
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy
Cardiac Transplantation: Facts, Figures and Implications
Workers' traditions and regime ambitions: Cotton operatives and the Smychka in NEP
Colette: Graphics
Stalin's Russia
Recovering Stalin's Russia / The rise of Stalin / Collectivization / Industrialization / Purges and politics / Foreign policy / War and late Stalinism / Culture and society / Conclusion: history and Stalin's Russia
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929
The New Economic Policy and Cotton: 1. Industry 2. Workforce Part II. The Mill: 3. Field and factory 4. Machines and trades 5. Making an operative 6. Workers' institutional commitments Part III. The Crisis of 1923 and its Consequences: 7. The market collapses 8. Organizing Taylorism: production 9. Organizing Taylorism: wages 10. 1925 Part IV. The Crisis of 1927 and its Consequences: 11. Confusion worse confounded 12. Shop-floor responses 13. The …
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy
What is History? The Case of Late Stalinism
The first part of this article examines the construction of the history of the high politics of Late Stalinism by reviewing five episodes in the period c.1946 to 1953. I suggest that these episodes are usually narrated as examples of either ‘monolithic orthodoxy’ or ‘neo-pluralism’, and conclude that a third narrative structure could be added: ‘pressured elites’. The second part of the article analyses these three narratives as cultural artefacts…
Impressions of the Somme: An experiment
Impressions of the Somme uses one of the major battles of the First World War to explore the difficulties of representation in the context of the following problems: the historian's motivation; the constitution evidence; the relationship of evidence to experience; the ascription of meaning, whether by historians, commentators, writers or participants. The article tries to avoid the ‘cause‐event‐consequence’ of much academic history and adopts ins…
Colette: Graphics
Workers' traditions and regime ambitions: Cotton operatives and the Smychka in NEP
Cardiac Transplantation: Facts, Figures and Implications
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921-1929
The New Economic Policy and Cotton: 1. Industry 2. Workforce Part II. The Mill: 3. Field and factory 4. Machines and trades 5. Making an operative 6. Workers' institutional commitments Part III. The Crisis of 1923 and its Consequences: 7. The market collapses 8. Organizing Taylorism: production 9. Organizing Taylorism: wages 10. 1925 Part IV. The Crisis of 1927 and its Consequences: 11. Confusion worse confounded 12. Shop-floor responses 13. The …
Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy
Stalin's Russia
Recovering Stalin's Russia / The rise of Stalin / Collectivization / Industrialization / Purges and politics / Foreign policy / War and late Stalinism / Culture and society / Conclusion: history and Stalin's Russia
Impressions of the Somme: An experiment
Impressions of the Somme uses one of the major battles of the First World War to explore the difficulties of representation in the context of the following problems: the historian's motivation; the constitution evidence; the relationship of evidence to experience; the ascription of meaning, whether by historians, commentators, writers or participants. The article tries to avoid the ‘cause‐event‐consequence’ of much academic history and adopts ins…
Remarks
The text refers to a previous article on one of the major battles of the First World War. It tried to explore the difficulties of representation in the context of the relationship of evidence to experience and the ascription of meaning by historians. The text focuses on ways of escaping from the 'cause-event-consequence' of most academic history writing and refers to a variety of techniques and voice – poetry, prose, listings, imaginary conversat…
What is History? The Case of Late Stalinism
The first part of this article examines the construction of the history of the high politics of Late Stalinism by reviewing five episodes in the period c.1946 to 1953. I suggest that these episodes are usually narrated as examples of either ‘monolithic orthodoxy’ or ‘neo-pluralism’, and conclude that a third narrative structure could be added: ‘pressured elites’. The second part of the article analyses these three narratives as cultural artefacts…
Lenin's death in the British press
This article draws on British press reports on Lenin in the ten days or so after his death on 21 January 1924 and shows how the texts—almost universally hostile in their appraisals—are saturated with gender, class and power distinctions and tropes of race, class, family, climate and geography. These are deployed to explain character or advanced as causative agents. In addition, physiognomic explanations predominate, and supposed binary opposites …
Wild to domestic and back again: The dynamics of fallow deer management in medieval England (c. 11 th -16 th century AD)
This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive scientific study of the fallow deer, a non-native species whose medieval-period introduction to Britain transformed the cultural landscape. It brings together data from traditional zooarchaeological analyses with those derived from new ageing techniques as well as the results of a programme of radiocarbon dating, multi-element isotope studies and genetic analyses. These new data are here …
The Stalinist Dictatorship
From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. 'second revolution' and its aftermath remodelled the Soviet State and the Bolshevik party, restructured all institutions and reconstituted all social relationships. Millions found their lives changed forever. Nothing was untouched and no one was unaffec…
In view and under foot: The hidden story of fallow deer, knuckle-bone floors and British estates
The chance discovery of an 18th-century knuckle-bone floor at the National Trust property of Belton House in Lincolnshire prompted a review of all known post-medieval knuckle-bone floors i
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