Catherine Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5923-5005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. South
Transnational Labor in the Age of Slavery
Journal Article Transnational Labor in the Age of Slavery Get access Zach Sell. Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 352 pp. $17.24. (Paperback). Catherine Armstrong Catherine Armstrong Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 46, Issue 4, September 2022, Pages 836–838, h…
Black Foodways and Places: The Didactic Epistemology of Food Memories in the WPA Narratives
This article examines the ways that African American interviewees remembered and recounted the foodways under slavery. It explores the significance of these memories, and shows that their telling was deliberately structured to act as a pedagogical message to younger members of the black community, thus crafting a place for themselves as holders of historical memory. Though problematic and requiring sensitive reading, the WPA narratives of six sta…
The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas
While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-traditional forms of slavery that existed outside the plantation system to illustrate the pluralities of slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, fr…
American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914
Slavery casts a long shadow over American history; despite the cataclysmic changes of the Civil War and emancipation, the United States carried antebellum notions of slavery into its imperial expansion at the turn of the twentieth-century. African American, Chinese and other immigrant labourers were exploited in the name of domestic economic development, and overseas, local populations were made into colonial subjects of America. How did the U.S.…
Revolutions from Grub Street: A history of magazine publishing in Britain
Revolutions from Grub Street: A history of magazine publishing in Britain." Business History, 61(2), pp. 382–383
The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800, by Robert S. DuPlessis
This outstanding book by Robert S. DuPlessis has a great deal to recommend it to researchers working on the Atlantic World, as well as to postgraduate and undergraduate students. Its accessible style should be a model for all academics intending to set pen to paper. Its historical scholarship is exemplary, with wide-ranging evidence analysed thoroughly. I did not want to put this book down. The breadth of coverage is admirable—it truly tackles th…
Jane Kamensky. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
The highly readable and informative volume A Revolution in Color is a welcome addition to histories of the colonial and Revolutionary era with a transatlantic focus. In this case, the often told history of the American Revolution is seen through the prism of the life of one man, the artist John Singleton Copley. In the hands of Jane Kamensky, a master storyteller, Copley’s biography is built on the methodologies of art history and material cultur…
Print, religion and identity: The cultural significance of Thomas Gage
This article revisits the Atlantic significance of Thomas Gage, by placing his experience in the context of the religious turmoil of the seventeenth century and of stories of other converts from Catholicism, showing that his biographers’ judgement of him, as uniquely heinous, is unjustified. Five aspects of his life are explored, illustrating the complexities of his experience and the liminality of his identity. His early life as a Catholic, the …
Introduction: Poor white slave ownership
International audience
Introduction: Slavery and landscape
By the eighteenth century, racial slavery had matured into a fully fledged, firmly established, profitable form of labour in the Atlantic World. In slave societies, the development of the plantatio
Frederick Law Olmsted and the cultural geography of southern slave autonomy
Frederick Law Olmsted’s account of his journeys through the southern states, undertaken from 1852 to 1857 reveals that Olmsted, in whom a sense of place was especially strong, characterised enslaved people’s relative freedom by place, delineating the plantation (even its slave quarters) as the areas of strictest control while liminal spaces at the edge of plantations, as well as roads, rivers, towns, markets and cities represented places of auton…
The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England, by Russell M. Lawson
This volume about John Smith’s hitherto lesser-known interest in New England is well written, accessible to the non-expert reader and to the undergraduate, and also offers a great deal of depth and focus. However, it is a flawed account which claims more than it can eventually deliver. The progress of the book is broadly chronological, although, at times, Lawson jumps between Smith’s various written accounts, leaving the reader disoriented and un…
Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745
Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745. A variety of literary genres are examined to discover how authors described the landscape, climate, flora and fauna of America, particularly of the new southern colonies of Carolina and Georgia. Chapters are arranged thematically, each exploring how …
Audrey Horning. Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
This fascinating book will be of interest to scholars of early modern England, Ireland, and colonial North America. It makes a new contribution to the overcrowded field of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century English colonialism in two ways: first, in undertaking a comparative survey of the English plantation experience in Ireland and North America, and second, in integrating archaeological findings with the historical record. This book …
The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate . By Jeanne D. Petit
(2013). The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate. By Jeanne D. Petit. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 302-304
Black Foodways and Places: The Didactic Epistemology of Food Memories in the WPA Narratives
This article examines the ways that African American interviewees remembered and recounted the foodways under slavery. It explores the significance of these memories, and shows that their telling was deliberately structured to act as a pedagogical message to younger members of the black community, thus crafting a place for themselves as holders of historical memory. Though problematic and requiring sensitive reading, the WPA narratives of six sta…
Frederick Law Olmsted and the cultural geography of southern slave autonomy
Frederick Law Olmsted’s account of his journeys through the southern states, undertaken from 1852 to 1857 reveals that Olmsted, in whom a sense of place was especially strong, characterised enslaved people’s relative freedom by place, delineating the plantation (even its slave quarters) as the areas of strictest control while liminal spaces at the edge of plantations, as well as roads, rivers, towns, markets and cities represented places of auton…
The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate . By Jeanne D. Petit
(2013). The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate. By Jeanne D. Petit. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 302-304
Audrey Horning. Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
This fascinating book will be of interest to scholars of early modern England, Ireland, and colonial North America. It makes a new contribution to the overcrowded field of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century English colonialism in two ways: first, in undertaking a comparative survey of the English plantation experience in Ireland and North America, and second, in integrating archaeological findings with the historical record. This book …
Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745
Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745. A variety of literary genres are examined to discover how authors described the landscape, climate, flora and fauna of America, particularly of the new southern colonies of Carolina and Georgia. Chapters are arranged thematically, each exploring how …
Print, religion and identity: The cultural significance of Thomas Gage
This article revisits the Atlantic significance of Thomas Gage, by placing his experience in the context of the religious turmoil of the seventeenth century and of stories of other converts from Catholicism, showing that his biographers’ judgement of him, as uniquely heinous, is unjustified. Five aspects of his life are explored, illustrating the complexities of his experience and the liminality of his identity. His early life as a Catholic, the …
Introduction: Poor white slave ownership
International audience
Introduction: Slavery and landscape
By the eighteenth century, racial slavery had matured into a fully fledged, firmly established, profitable form of labour in the Atlantic World. In slave societies, the development of the plantatio
Frederick Law Olmsted and the cultural geography of southern slave autonomy
Frederick Law Olmsted’s account of his journeys through the southern states, undertaken from 1852 to 1857 reveals that Olmsted, in whom a sense of place was especially strong, characterised enslaved people’s relative freedom by place, delineating the plantation (even its slave quarters) as the areas of strictest control while liminal spaces at the edge of plantations, as well as roads, rivers, towns, markets and cities represented places of auton…
The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England, by Russell M. Lawson
This volume about John Smith’s hitherto lesser-known interest in New England is well written, accessible to the non-expert reader and to the undergraduate, and also offers a great deal of depth and focus. However, it is a flawed account which claims more than it can eventually deliver. The progress of the book is broadly chronological, although, at times, Lawson jumps between Smith’s various written accounts, leaving the reader disoriented and un…
The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800, by Robert S. DuPlessis
This outstanding book by Robert S. DuPlessis has a great deal to recommend it to researchers working on the Atlantic World, as well as to postgraduate and undergraduate students. Its accessible style should be a model for all academics intending to set pen to paper. Its historical scholarship is exemplary, with wide-ranging evidence analysed thoroughly. I did not want to put this book down. The breadth of coverage is admirable—it truly tackles th…
Jane Kamensky. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
The highly readable and informative volume A Revolution in Color is a welcome addition to histories of the colonial and Revolutionary era with a transatlantic focus. In this case, the often told history of the American Revolution is seen through the prism of the life of one man, the artist John Singleton Copley. In the hands of Jane Kamensky, a master storyteller, Copley’s biography is built on the methodologies of art history and material cultur…
Revolutions from Grub Street: A history of magazine publishing in Britain
Revolutions from Grub Street: A history of magazine publishing in Britain." Business History, 61(2), pp. 382–383
The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas
While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-traditional forms of slavery that existed outside the plantation system to illustrate the pluralities of slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, fr…
American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914
Slavery casts a long shadow over American history; despite the cataclysmic changes of the Civil War and emancipation, the United States carried antebellum notions of slavery into its imperial expansion at the turn of the twentieth-century. African American, Chinese and other immigrant labourers were exploited in the name of domestic economic development, and overseas, local populations were made into colonial subjects of America. How did the U.S.…
Black Foodways and Places: The Didactic Epistemology of Food Memories in the WPA Narratives
This article examines the ways that African American interviewees remembered and recounted the foodways under slavery. It explores the significance of these memories, and shows that their telling was deliberately structured to act as a pedagogical message to younger members of the black community, thus crafting a place for themselves as holders of historical memory. Though problematic and requiring sensitive reading, the WPA narratives of six sta…
Transnational Labor in the Age of Slavery
Journal Article Transnational Labor in the Age of Slavery Get access Zach Sell. Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 352 pp. $17.24. (Paperback). Catherine Armstrong Catherine Armstrong Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 46, Issue 4, September 2022, Pages 836–838, h…
Haunting the Landscape: Fear and Empowerment in Slavery and its Aftermath in the U.S. South
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