Seth Archer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Archer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Archer |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lower than the Angels: Racial Jurisprudence and Paternalism in Zion
readers of this journal know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rendered African Americans second-class citizens until 1978. Whether or not that was a long time ago depends, of course, on your perspective. (It was within my lifetime, and I still suit up for basketball on the weekends.) Yet how and why this happened are poorly understood, according to the authors of this book—and as much by people within the church as by those ou…
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native peo…
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Ed. by Jaime Marroquín Arredondo and Ralph Bauer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. vi, 355 pp. $55.00.) Seth Archer Seth Archer Utah State University, Logan, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, Mar…
Hawaiian health and the filibuster of Walter Murray Gibson
Scholars know Hawai‘i’s “minister of everything” as an upstart who rose to prominence by defending Hawaiian sovereignty. Few have noticed that Walter Murray Gibson’s influence stemmed from a paternalistic campaign to improve Islander health and expand the labor force for an emerging plantation complex. Improbably, public health presented Gibson, an excommunicated Mormon missionary, with a platform to pursue his lifelong dream of ruling a Pacific …
K ealani C ook . Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania
In this fascinating book, Kealani Cook explores Native Hawaiian cultural and political exchanges across Oceania during the high water mark of American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century. Following recent scholarship on Hawaiian national identity by David A. Chang, Marie Alohalani Brown, and Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Cook highlights the role of historical memory in three major Native Hawaiian “projects” (29) of the era: Protestant ev…
Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai'i, 1778–1855
Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century. Introduced diseases resulted in reduced life spans, rising infertility and infant mortality, and persistent poor health for generations of Islande…
Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai'i, 1778-1855
Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific. Studies in Pacific Worlds. By Joy Schulz
This book is a compelling and thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century American missionary children in Hawai‘i—the generation that orchestrated the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and annexation to the United States. While the political story has been told, Joy Schulz adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural milieu of settler children who came to see the islands of their birth as their birthright. Hawaiian By Birt…
Colonialism and Other Afflictions: Rethinking Native American Health History
Scholarly debate persists about the role of disease in the European colonization of the Americas. Were human pathogens the shock troops of conquest or a by‐product of colonial incursions? Biological warfare or an accident of ecology? Historians and other scholars have recently raised the stakes on this 500‐year‐old debate by questioning the received narrative of Native American disease and depopulation after 1492 – in particular, the notion of “v…
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
Journal Article Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii Get access Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii . By Haley James L. . ( New York : St. Martin's , 2014 . xxxviii + 405 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.99 , CAN$34.50 .) Seth Archer Seth Archer University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 2015, Pages 524–525, https://…
Remedial Agents: Missionary Physicians and the Depopulation of Hawai'i
This article examines the activities and perspectives of nineteenth-century American missionary physicians in the Hawaiian Islands. The physicians' attitudes toward Hawaiian morbidity and depopulation are viewed in relation to the greater missionary community's role in the political transformation of the island nation. The article argues that missionary physicians monitored and reported on Native Hawaiian depopulation (a result of introduced west…
Colonialism and Other Afflictions: Rethinking Native American Health History
Scholarly debate persists about the role of disease in the European colonization of the Americas. Were human pathogens the shock troops of conquest or a by‐product of colonial incursions? Biological warfare or an accident of ecology? Historians and other scholars have recently raised the stakes on this 500‐year‐old debate by questioning the received narrative of Native American disease and depopulation after 1492 – in particular, the notion of “v…
Remedial Agents: Missionary Physicians and the Depopulation of Hawai'i
This article examines the activities and perspectives of nineteenth-century American missionary physicians in the Hawaiian Islands. The physicians' attitudes toward Hawaiian morbidity and depopulation are viewed in relation to the greater missionary community's role in the political transformation of the island nation. The article argues that missionary physicians monitored and reported on Native Hawaiian depopulation (a result of introduced west…
Remedial Agents: Missionary Physicians and the Depopulation of Hawai'i
This article examines the activities and perspectives of nineteenth-century American missionary physicians in the Hawaiian Islands. The physicians' attitudes toward Hawaiian morbidity and depopulation are viewed in relation to the greater missionary community's role in the political transformation of the island nation. The article argues that missionary physicians monitored and reported on Native Hawaiian depopulation (a result of introduced west…
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
Journal Article Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii Get access Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii . By Haley James L. . ( New York : St. Martin's , 2014 . xxxviii + 405 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.99 , CAN$34.50 .) Seth Archer Seth Archer University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 2015, Pages 524–525, https://…
Colonialism and Other Afflictions: Rethinking Native American Health History
Scholarly debate persists about the role of disease in the European colonization of the Americas. Were human pathogens the shock troops of conquest or a by‐product of colonial incursions? Biological warfare or an accident of ecology? Historians and other scholars have recently raised the stakes on this 500‐year‐old debate by questioning the received narrative of Native American disease and depopulation after 1492 – in particular, the notion of “v…
Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai'i, 1778–1855
Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century. Introduced diseases resulted in reduced life spans, rising infertility and infant mortality, and persistent poor health for generations of Islande…
Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai'i, 1778-1855
Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific. Studies in Pacific Worlds. By Joy Schulz
This book is a compelling and thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century American missionary children in Hawai‘i—the generation that orchestrated the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and annexation to the United States. While the political story has been told, Joy Schulz adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural milieu of settler children who came to see the islands of their birth as their birthright. Hawaiian By Birt…
Hawaiian health and the filibuster of Walter Murray Gibson
Scholars know Hawai‘i’s “minister of everything” as an upstart who rose to prominence by defending Hawaiian sovereignty. Few have noticed that Walter Murray Gibson’s influence stemmed from a paternalistic campaign to improve Islander health and expand the labor force for an emerging plantation complex. Improbably, public health presented Gibson, an excommunicated Mormon missionary, with a platform to pursue his lifelong dream of ruling a Pacific …
K ealani C ook . Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania
In this fascinating book, Kealani Cook explores Native Hawaiian cultural and political exchanges across Oceania during the high water mark of American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century. Following recent scholarship on Hawaiian national identity by David A. Chang, Marie Alohalani Brown, and Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Cook highlights the role of historical memory in three major Native Hawaiian “projects” (29) of the era: Protestant ev…
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Ed. by Jaime Marroquín Arredondo and Ralph Bauer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. vi, 355 pp. $55.00.) Seth Archer Seth Archer Utah State University, Logan, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, Mar…
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native peo…
Lower than the Angels: Racial Jurisprudence and Paternalism in Zion
readers of this journal know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rendered African Americans second-class citizens until 1978. Whether or not that was a long time ago depends, of course, on your perspective. (It was within my lifetime, and I still suit up for basketball on the weekends.) Yet how and why this happened are poorly understood, according to the authors of this book—and as much by people within the church as by those ou…
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