Tamara Plakins Thornton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Plakins Thornton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara Plakins |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornton |
| SIGNATURE | THORNTON T P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
E li C ook . The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
Ostensibly focused on how social prosperity and human welfare came to be measured in monetized units, Eli Cook’s The Pricing of Progress is in fact more ambitious, exploring the origins, development, and ultimate hegemony of capitalism in American life and thought. Cook’s work is original, thought-provoking, and important. He argues that the essence of capitalist ascendancy was not commodification and market exchange but the reconceptualization o…
American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation
Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century
In this engagingly written study, Joseph A. Conforti examines how three centuries of New Englanders constructed a powerful regional identity, each generation reimagining the essence of New England in ways that addressed the concerns of its own times. In the colonial era, New Englanders continually redefined the founders' “errand into the wilderness” (actually a product of the second generation, Conforti argues), as the Bible Commonwealth was firs…
Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860
How men and women interact, the respect young show old and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. Bowing To Necessities is the chronologically most wide-ranging study, covering the long period of 1620 to 1860, of its kind. Working through two centuries of conduct literature, Professor Hemphill provides a wonderful retelling of American history to the Civil War, illuminating crucial …
The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from "The New England Primer" to "The Scarlet Letter
Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural pow…
Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America
Journal Article Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America. By Megan L. Benton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 323 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-08213-4.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1543–1544, h…
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
Journal Article Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xiv, 248 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06477-2.) Get access Anne Ruggles Gere Anne Ruggles Gere University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1746–1747, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567596 Publi…
Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880- 1920
Journal Article Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880–1920. By Anne Ruggles Gere. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv, 367 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02301-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06604-9.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Performance
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Journal Article Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language. By Douglas C. Baynton. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xii, 228 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-22603963-3.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 6…
Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens
Journal Article Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens. By Robert E. Grese. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xvi, 304 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-4287-5.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1124, https://doi.org/10…
Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of The Massachusetts Historical Society
Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century urban America.
Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800-1830
Journal Article Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800–1830. By Jean V. Matthews. (Boston: Twayne, 1991. xii + 188 pp. Cloth, $26.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, College at Fredonia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1064–1065, https://doi.org/10.…
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845
As the culture of commercial capitalism came to dominate nineteenth-century New England, it changed people's ideas about how the world functioned, the nature of their work, their relationships to one another, and even the way they conceived of themselves as separate individuals. Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's work and career, when seen in the context of the…
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Journal Article Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785–1860. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xii + 244 pp. $29.95.) Get access Alexander von Hoffman Alexander von Hoffman Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1002–1003, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079…
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life Among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Between Generations: Boston Agricultural Reform and the Aging of New England, 1815-1830
middle generation, wrote John Lowell in 1823, between the revolutionary patriots, & the modern man.' If Lowell is remembered at all, it is probably as one who clung to the heritage bequeathed by the generation of men who witnessed the Revolution and who ruled Massachusetts in the years following independence. In Lowell's pamphlets blasting the Jeffersonian policies of embargo and war, we see a Massachusetts Federalist incensed at the rejection of…
The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from "The New England Primer" to "The Scarlet Letter
Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural pow…
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845
As the culture of commercial capitalism came to dominate nineteenth-century New England, it changed people's ideas about how the world functioned, the nature of their work, their relationships to one another, and even the way they conceived of themselves as separate individuals. Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's work and career, when seen in the context of the…
The Moral Dimensions of Horticulture in Antebellum America
IN the three decades before the Civil War, Boston was pearcrazy. So great was the enthusiasm for pear cultivation that no less than 310 varieties of the fruit were displayed at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's annual exhibition in 1852.1 Of course not all Bostonians were horticulture buffs; by and large the pear craze bypassed the middle and working classes. It was the social and economic elite-wealthy merchants and manufacturers and the…
The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture
Our current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centuries. From Puritans and Quakers to Boy Scouts and hippies, our quest for the simple life is an enduring, complex tradition in American culture. Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, Shi introduces a rich cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them T…
Between Generations: Boston Agricultural Reform and the Aging of New England, 1815-1830
middle generation, wrote John Lowell in 1823, between the revolutionary patriots, & the modern man.' If Lowell is remembered at all, it is probably as one who clung to the heritage bequeathed by the generation of men who witnessed the Revolution and who ruled Massachusetts in the years following independence. In Lowell's pamphlets blasting the Jeffersonian policies of embargo and war, we see a Massachusetts Federalist incensed at the rejection of…
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life Among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845
As the culture of commercial capitalism came to dominate nineteenth-century New England, it changed people's ideas about how the world functioned, the nature of their work, their relationships to one another, and even the way they conceived of themselves as separate individuals. Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's work and career, when seen in the context of the…
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Journal Article Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785–1860. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xii + 244 pp. $29.95.) Get access Alexander von Hoffman Alexander von Hoffman Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1002–1003, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079…
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century urban America.
Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800-1830
Journal Article Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800–1830. By Jean V. Matthews. (Boston: Twayne, 1991. xii + 188 pp. Cloth, $26.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, College at Fredonia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1064–1065, https://doi.org/10.…
Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of The Massachusetts Historical Society
Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens
Journal Article Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens. By Robert E. Grese. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xvi, 304 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-4287-5.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1124, https://doi.org/10…
So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Journal Article Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language. By Douglas C. Baynton. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xii, 228 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-22603963-3.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 6…
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Performance
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880- 1920
Journal Article Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880–1920. By Anne Ruggles Gere. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xiv, 367 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02301-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06604-9.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
Journal Article Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xiv, 248 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06477-2.) Get access Anne Ruggles Gere Anne Ruggles Gere University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1746–1747, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567596 Publi…
Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860
How men and women interact, the respect young show old and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. Bowing To Necessities is the chronologically most wide-ranging study, covering the long period of 1620 to 1860, of its kind. Working through two centuries of conduct literature, Professor Hemphill provides a wonderful retelling of American history to the Civil War, illuminating crucial …
The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from "The New England Primer" to "The Scarlet Letter
Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural pow…
Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America
Journal Article Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America. By Megan L. Benton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 323 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-08213-4.) Get access Tamara Plakins Thornton Tamara Plakins Thornton State University of New York, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1543–1544, h…
American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation
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