Tawny Paul

Dados Biográficos

ID3937218
NOMETawny Paul
PRENOMESTawny
SOBRENOMEPaul
ASSINATURAPAUL T
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ORCID0000-0003-1948-196X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Commodification and Unfreedom in Eighteenth-Century England

    Tawny PaulARTICLESlavery and Abolition2026

    Contrary to prevailing notions of Britain as a land of liberty, there has been growing scholarly interest in documenting forms of unfreedom in eighteenth-century Britain. While scholarly interest has focused on the enslaved, in practice a broad spectrum of people were priced, commodified, and sold. They experienced incomplete forms of commodification that were temporary, partial, and sometimes voluntary. Britons understood humans to be commodifia…

  • The Matrix of Human Commodification in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

    Tawny Paul, Andrew Apter et al.ARTICLESlavery and Abolition2026

    This Forum examines varieties of commodified labour and personhood in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. The authors consider a range of ways in which human life and labour were commodified, from prostitution and pawnship to debt bondage, indentured servitude, enslavement, and onomastics. These foci offer numerous ways to think beyond current paradigms of labour, political authority, and the theorization of capital in our understanding of com…

  • Involuntary Investors in British State-Building

    Open AccessTawny PaulARTICLEPast & Present2025

    This article investigates the relationship between government liquidity, personal credit, and state practices in eighteenth-century Britain, drawing on a case study of seamen’s tickets: promises on paper issued to sailors by the Royal Navy to collect their wages at a future date. Because it was normal for tickets to remain unpaid for years, mariners and their households often sold them. To do so, they relied on an industry akin to modern payday l…

  • Karen Harvey. The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder

    Open AccessTawny PaulARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Karen Harvey. The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England. Get access Karen Harvey. The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. vi, 211. Cloth $21.95. Tawny Paul Tawny Paul University of California, Los Angeles, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…

  • Commemorative Street Naming

    Open AccessTawny PaulARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Commemorative Street Naming: Fungibility, Ownership, and the Renaming of MLK Boulevard in Los Angeles Get access Tawny Paul Tawny Paul Director of the Public History Initiative, UCLA, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1306–1317, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad358 Published: 26 Septembe…

  • The Poverty of Disaster

    Open AccessTawny PaulBOOKPoverty of Disaster2019

    Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny P…

  • Teaching Urban Sustainability

    Open AccessGeoffrey L Buckley, Tawny Paul et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2019Citada por: 1Referências: 6

    Since 2011 more than 100 students from Ohio University have travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study history, urban planning, and sustainability. In this paper we recount the genesis of this highly successful program, situate it in the broader literature on urban sustainability and study abroad, and then unpack its contents. We then consider how the adoption of green living practices combined with hands-on and experiential learning activities d…

  • Accounting for Men's Work

    Open AccessK Tawny Paul, Tawny PaulARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2018Citada por: 3

    This article addresses the social, cultural and gendered meanings of men’s work in early modern Britain. As has long been accepted for women, men’s work should be seen as multiple rather than single-occupational focused. Drawing on the diaries of three middle-rank tradesmen from the eighteenth century, the article considers the different forms that work took, and how words denoting labour such as ‘employment’, ‘work’ and ‘business’ were actually …

  • Encountering an Imaginary Heritage

    Open AccessTawny PaulCHAPTERGlobal Migrations2016

    Around the world, some 40 million people claim Scottish ancestry. Every year thousands of members of the Scottish diaspora travel to their imagined homeland. They come to Scotland to experience the culture of their ancestors and to walk in the places where their forebears walked. They come to Scotland because, like many diasporic populations around the globe, they imagine that their home is somewhere other than in the place they reside, and they …

  • Credit, reputation, and masculinity in British urban commerce

    Open AccessK Tawny Paul, Tawny PaulARTICLEThe Economic History Review2013Citada por: 1Referências: 23

    This article draws on cases of public insult from the Edinburgh consistory court to explore constructions of credit and reputation during the eighteenth century. Scotland's unique legal context offers new insights into the honour of men and women, replacing the received view that female honour was almost entirely about sexual honour and complicating our understanding of male honour among the middling sort. In contrast to studies that view the cre…