Jonathan M Chu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan M Chu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Chu |
| SIGNATURE | CHU J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Promise to Pay: The Politics and Power of Money in Early America. By Katie A. Moore
How Much Is That in Real Money?Jonathan M. ChuOur misunderstanding of money, especially paper money, according to Christine Desan, challenges our treatment of its history. Because, as Desan points out, all money is a constitutional construction, its history should begin with government's role in its creation and the consequences that flow from it if we are to grasp fully its impact upon public finance and private economic transactions.1 Katie Moo…
In Memoriam Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022)
I sadly note the passing of Richard S. Dunn, professor emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania and director emeritus of the McNeil Center. A dear friend to scholars of early America and distinguished historian, Professor Dunn's first work, Puritans and Yankess: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England, 1630–1717 illustrated his wide-ranging interests that placed a classic New England subject, the Winthrop family, in a transatlantic context. His pat…
In Memoriam Robert L. Middlekauff (1929--2021)
The Quarterly sadly acknowledges the passing of the distinguished early American historian Robert L. Middlekauff, a long-time member of our Board of Editors and a judge of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts's Whitehill Prize Committee. A consummate scholar, Bob brought his erudition and wit to numerous topics, ranging from the theology of New England puritans to the humor of Benjamin Franklin, winning the Bancroft Prize for his probing intelle…
World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution
Elizabeth Drinker would have liked to have achieved “that state of tranquility, or equality of mind, which good or bad fortune, as it is called, can neither exalt nor depress, [but] is hard to attain”; and “Henry Drinker was a practical as well as a pious man” (pp. 370, 365). Around this remarkable, if somewhat conventional Quaker Philadelphia couple, World of Trouble tells the story of a family caught up in the American Revolution. The book demo…
Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
Stumbling Towards the Constitution
Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation a
Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court
Street Law began as a Georgetown University School of Law community service project to enable District of Columbia students to navigate their legal environment, but it evolved into a multifaceted organization devoted to educating the public in law, democracy, and human rights. The Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court Web site was developed from Street Law's original mission and, supported by the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, is inten…
When Property Does Not Mean Property: An Analysis of the Existence of International Intellectual Property
This paper endeavours to dispel the logical conclusion which one may draw from the territorial nature of intellectual property rights and aims to show that the term "international intellectual property" may refer to the underlying products of intellect which give rise to rights granted internationally and which are, themselves, rights of a different sort.To suggest that "there is no such thing as international intellectual property" may have been…
Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America
The Many Legalities of Early America
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation reminds us of the divide that frequently separates historian from social scientist. According to Keith L. Dougherty, formulas such as the one above help us understand why some states continued to support the Confederation Congress while others did not. Drawing upon Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action (1965), Dougherty develops a theory of joint product, that states would not pay thei…
Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
Journal Article Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America Get access Balleisen Edward J., Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xv, 322 pp. $49.95 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts-Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American J…
The demon and Daniel Webster: Drinking in the antebellum senate
A recollection by Hannibal Hamlin of a speech given by Daniel Webster during the debates over the Compromise of 1850 provides the starting point for a brief examination of Webster's renowned fondness for alcohol. While shedding light upon the extent and culture of drinking among American politicians of the period, the note also provides a poignant perspective on the failure of traditional mechanisms used for resolving disputes in the antebellum S…
Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Journal Article Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 354 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2432-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4739-9.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue…
An Independent Means: The American Revolution and the Rise of a National Economy
Scholars endlessly debate about whether the economy of Britain's North American colonies had become autonomous on the eve of Independence and whether and when it could accurately be termed capitalistic, but they tend to agree that the colonies had their share of acquisitive entrepreneurs who understood the commodity value of money and shaped their behavior accordingly. Although this point of convergence ultimately leaves the issue of American eco…
Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives
Journal Article Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. By Huping Ling. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xviii, 252 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-3863-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-3864-3.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere
Portraying the man behind the myth, A True Republican goes beyond the famous ride to explore Paul Revere's larger role in the American Revolution, the evolution of his political thought, and his transformation from Revolutionary artisan to entrepreneur in the early republic. Jayne E. Triber's insightful reading of both primary and secondary sources - including government documents, Masonic records, and Revere's personal and business papers - illu…
Does Real American History Begin with Jamestown and Plymouth
Does Real American History Begin with Jamestown and Plymouth? Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu is professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles as well as Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (1985). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History…
Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684-1809
Journal Article Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684–1809 Get access Rowe G. S., Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684–1809. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. 366 pp. $45.00. Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts-Boston Search for other works by this aut…
Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution
Journal Article Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution. By William C. Kashatus III. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1990. xiv + 168 pp. Cloth, $40.25; paper, $20.75.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1054–10…
The Law in America, 1607-1861
Journal Article The Law in America, 1607–1861 Get access The Law in America, 1607–1861Pencak William Holt Wythe W.Jr. ed. New York: New York Historical Society, 1989, xiii, 310 pp. $19.95. Jonathan Chu Jonathan Chu University of Massachusetts—Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 1991, Pages 219–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/845717 Published: 01 …
The Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem: From Communal Mission to Family Economy
Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and "Lower Sort" during the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Journal Article Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and “Lower Sort” during the American Revolution, 1773–1783. By Steven Rosswurm. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xv + 373 pp. $40.00.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1307–1308, htt…
Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation
Journal Article Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation. By H. Larry Ingle. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xv + 310 pp. $29.95.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1061–1062, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902193 Published: 01 December 1987
Nursing A Poisonous Tree Litigation and Property Law in Seventeenth-Century Essex County, Massachusetts The Case of Bishop's Farm
Journal Article Nursing A Poisonous Tree Litigation and Property Law in Seventeenth-Century Essex County, Massachusetts The Case of Bishop's Farm Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu *History department, University of Massachusetts—Boston. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1987, Pages 221–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/845691 Published: 01 July …
The Social and Political Contexts of Heterodoxy: Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Kittery
I N late 1662 and through the summer of 1663, the York County Court launched a concerted attack against Quakers in its part of Massachusetts.* York county magistrate Richard Waldron arrested three visiting Quaker women and had them beaten out of the jurisdiction; then, apparently in response to his recommendations, the court proceeded to cite local Quakers living in Kittery for their failure to attend orthodox church services.l Although Waldron's…
Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
Chu explains the rise of religious toleration in America through an examination of the Puritan response to Quakerism in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. He casts the phenomenon in a new light, arguing that toleration for Quakerism emerged out of the very values and structures of Puritan life in Massachusetts Bay as early as the 1660s. Intolerance, Chu submits, became a threat to the separation of church and state, of local and central authority…
Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation
Journal Article Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation. By H. Larry Ingle. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xv + 310 pp. $29.95.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1061–1062, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902193 Published: 01 December 1987
Nursing A Poisonous Tree Litigation and Property Law in Seventeenth-Century Essex County, Massachusetts The Case of Bishop's Farm
Journal Article Nursing A Poisonous Tree Litigation and Property Law in Seventeenth-Century Essex County, Massachusetts The Case of Bishop's Farm Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu *History department, University of Massachusetts—Boston. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1987, Pages 221–252, https://doi.org/10.2307/845691 Published: 01 July …
Neighbors, Friends or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to the Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
Chu explains the rise of religious toleration in America through an examination of the Puritan response to Quakerism in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. He casts the phenomenon in a new light, arguing that toleration for Quakerism emerged out of the very values and structures of Puritan life in Massachusetts Bay as early as the 1660s. Intolerance, Chu submits, became a threat to the separation of church and state, of local and central authority…
Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and "Lower Sort" during the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Journal Article Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and “Lower Sort” during the American Revolution, 1773–1783. By Steven Rosswurm. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. xv + 373 pp. $40.00.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1307–1308, htt…
The Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem: From Communal Mission to Family Economy
Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution
Journal Article Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution. By William C. Kashatus III. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1990. xiv + 168 pp. Cloth, $40.25; paper, $20.75.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1054–10…
The Law in America, 1607-1861
Journal Article The Law in America, 1607–1861 Get access The Law in America, 1607–1861Pencak William Holt Wythe W.Jr. ed. New York: New York Historical Society, 1989, xiii, 310 pp. $19.95. Jonathan Chu Jonathan Chu University of Massachusetts—Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 1991, Pages 219–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/845717 Published: 01 …
Does Real American History Begin with Jamestown and Plymouth
Does Real American History Begin with Jamestown and Plymouth? Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu is professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles as well as Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (1985). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History…
Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684-1809
Journal Article Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684–1809 Get access Rowe G. S., Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684–1809. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. 366 pp. $45.00. Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts-Boston Search for other works by this aut…
A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere
Portraying the man behind the myth, A True Republican goes beyond the famous ride to explore Paul Revere's larger role in the American Revolution, the evolution of his political thought, and his transformation from Revolutionary artisan to entrepreneur in the early republic. Jayne E. Triber's insightful reading of both primary and secondary sources - including government documents, Masonic records, and Revere's personal and business papers - illu…
Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives
Journal Article Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. By Huping Ling. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xviii, 252 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-3863-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-3864-3.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
The demon and Daniel Webster: Drinking in the antebellum senate
A recollection by Hannibal Hamlin of a speech given by Daniel Webster during the debates over the Compromise of 1850 provides the starting point for a brief examination of Webster's renowned fondness for alcohol. While shedding light upon the extent and culture of drinking among American politicians of the period, the note also provides a poignant perspective on the failure of traditional mechanisms used for resolving disputes in the antebellum S…
Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Journal Article Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 354 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2432-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4739-9.) Get access Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue…
An Independent Means: The American Revolution and the Rise of a National Economy
Scholars endlessly debate about whether the economy of Britain's North American colonies had become autonomous on the eve of Independence and whether and when it could accurately be termed capitalistic, but they tend to agree that the colonies had their share of acquisitive entrepreneurs who understood the commodity value of money and shaped their behavior accordingly. Although this point of convergence ultimately leaves the issue of American eco…
Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
Journal Article Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America Get access Balleisen Edward J., Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xv, 322 pp. $49.95 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). Jonathan M. Chu Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts-Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American J…
The Many Legalities of Early America
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation
Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation reminds us of the divide that frequently separates historian from social scientist. According to Keith L. Dougherty, formulas such as the one above help us understand why some states continued to support the Confederation Congress while others did not. Drawing upon Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action (1965), Dougherty develops a theory of joint product, that states would not pay thei…
Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America
When Property Does Not Mean Property: An Analysis of the Existence of International Intellectual Property
This paper endeavours to dispel the logical conclusion which one may draw from the territorial nature of intellectual property rights and aims to show that the term "international intellectual property" may refer to the underlying products of intellect which give rise to rights granted internationally and which are, themselves, rights of a different sort.To suggest that "there is no such thing as international intellectual property" may have been…
Stumbling Towards the Constitution
Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation a
Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court
Street Law began as a Georgetown University School of Law community service project to enable District of Columbia students to navigate their legal environment, but it evolved into a multifaceted organization devoted to educating the public in law, democracy, and human rights. The Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court Web site was developed from Street Law's original mission and, supported by the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, is inten…
Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
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