Nancy Fitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3956758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Fitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitch |
| SIGNATURE | FITCH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Entrepreneurial Nobles” Or “Aristocratic Serfs”
This article examines the changing nature of aristocratic land acquisitions in central France in the centuries before the outbreak of revolution in 1789. It shows how nobles bought up or confiscated peasant land to engross large estates. Since their acquisition rarely altered the legal status of such lands, aristocrats surprisingly were among those responsible for paying the bulk of the feudal dues at the end of the Old Regime (and were probably …
The Man on Devil's Island
Journal Article The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France, by Ruth Harris Get access The Man on Devil’s Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France, by Ruth Harris (London: Allen Lane, 2010; pp. xvii + 541. £30). Nancy Fitch Nancy Fitch California State University, Fullerton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue …
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Christopher Forth has written an important book that adds considerably to the recent scholarship on the Dreyfus Affair by placing it in the broader context of gender anxieties in fin-de-siècle France. Everything about the Affair, it seems, touched on or challenged commonly understood representations of masculinity in this period. As Forth suggests, Dreyfus himself provoked ‘the Affair’ by not ‘acting’ like the man he should have been. Not only wa…
Artists under Vichy
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism: The Dreyfus Affair in Rural France Nancy Fitch Nancy Fitch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 97, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 55–95, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/97.1.55 Published: 01 February 1992
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism
Labor History at the American Historical Association
The 1989 annual meeting of the American Historical Association was characterized by a seemingly small number of panels identifiable as labor history in the traditional sense of the word. One could attribute this phenomenon either to the conservatism of the organization or to what many are beginning to call the "crisis" in labor history, but it was also apparent that scholars are beginning to think about labor in new ways. Some of the change is po…
The Crisis in History
Les Petits Parisiens En Province
Nancy Fitch is Associate Professor of History at Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. 01002. She is completing a study on the transition from feudal ism to capitalism in central France.ABSTRACT: By the end of the nineteenth century, thousands of households in the Allier supplemented family income by raising Parisian foundlings for the Bureau of Public Assistance. The article surveys the developments that led to this situation and the institutions th…
Statistical Fantasies and Historical Facts
The Household and the Computer
The author reviews the conclusions of Wachter Hammel and Laslett (see 45: Title 2614) regarding the social values associated with preindustrial household formation in England. She discusses the value of the approach taken by the authors and examines the appropriateness and accuracy of their methodology. Errors and limitations in the use of micro-simulation models are identified and various conceptual problems in the method used are discussed (ANN…
Statistical and Mathematical Methods For Historians
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Christopher Forth has written an important book that adds considerably to the recent scholarship on the Dreyfus Affair by placing it in the broader context of gender anxieties in fin-de-siècle France. Everything about the Affair, it seems, touched on or challenged commonly understood representations of masculinity in this period. As Forth suggests, Dreyfus himself provoked ‘the Affair’ by not ‘acting’ like the man he should have been. Not only wa…
Statistical Fantasies and Historical Facts
Entrepreneurial Nobles” Or “Aristocratic Serfs”
This article examines the changing nature of aristocratic land acquisitions in central France in the centuries before the outbreak of revolution in 1789. It shows how nobles bought up or confiscated peasant land to engross large estates. Since their acquisition rarely altered the legal status of such lands, aristocrats surprisingly were among those responsible for paying the bulk of the feudal dues at the end of the Old Regime (and were probably …
The Household and the Computer
The author reviews the conclusions of Wachter Hammel and Laslett (see 45: Title 2614) regarding the social values associated with preindustrial household formation in England. She discusses the value of the approach taken by the authors and examines the appropriateness and accuracy of their methodology. Errors and limitations in the use of micro-simulation models are identified and various conceptual problems in the method used are discussed (ANN…
Statistical and Mathematical Methods For Historians
Statistical Fantasies and Historical Facts
Les Petits Parisiens En Province
Nancy Fitch is Associate Professor of History at Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. 01002. She is completing a study on the transition from feudal ism to capitalism in central France.ABSTRACT: By the end of the nineteenth century, thousands of households in the Allier supplemented family income by raising Parisian foundlings for the Bureau of Public Assistance. The article surveys the developments that led to this situation and the institutions th…
The Crisis in History
Labor History at the American Historical Association
The 1989 annual meeting of the American Historical Association was characterized by a seemingly small number of panels identifiable as labor history in the traditional sense of the word. One could attribute this phenomenon either to the conservatism of the organization or to what many are beginning to call the "crisis" in labor history, but it was also apparent that scholars are beginning to think about labor in new ways. Some of the change is po…
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism: The Dreyfus Affair in Rural France Nancy Fitch Nancy Fitch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 97, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 55–95, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/97.1.55 Published: 01 February 1992
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism
Artists under Vichy
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Christopher Forth has written an important book that adds considerably to the recent scholarship on the Dreyfus Affair by placing it in the broader context of gender anxieties in fin-de-siècle France. Everything about the Affair, it seems, touched on or challenged commonly understood representations of masculinity in this period. As Forth suggests, Dreyfus himself provoked ‘the Affair’ by not ‘acting’ like the man he should have been. Not only wa…
The Man on Devil's Island
Journal Article The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France, by Ruth Harris Get access The Man on Devil’s Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France, by Ruth Harris (London: Allen Lane, 2010; pp. xvii + 541. £30). Nancy Fitch Nancy Fitch California State University, Fullerton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue …
Entrepreneurial Nobles” Or “Aristocratic Serfs”
This article examines the changing nature of aristocratic land acquisitions in central France in the centuries before the outbreak of revolution in 1789. It shows how nobles bought up or confiscated peasant land to engross large estates. Since their acquisition rarely altered the legal status of such lands, aristocrats surprisingly were among those responsible for paying the bulk of the feudal dues at the end of the Old Regime (and were probably …
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