Randal L Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randal L Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randal L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Louis Bromfield and the Pursuit of Agroecological Abundance: The Use and Limits of an Environmentalist Alternative
In the early Cold War years, neo-Malthusian authors alarmed many readers with predictions that food and other resources would fall short in supplying rapidly growing populations as ecological conditions worsened. Louis Bromfield, a prominent author, political commentator and soil conservationist, countered the neo-Malthusians by claiming that modernising farming reforms, particularly involving better care of the soil, would allow long-time abunda…
William Boyd. The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Given the topic, this book undoubtedly should be read in hard copy. William Boyd’s study of papermaking in the American South tracks this important industry’s move southward in the 1930s and follows the story to the consolidation and globalization of the twenty-first century. By 1970 “the South enjoyed undisputed national leadership in the production of pulp and paper,” and “global leadership” soon followed (7). For his examples, Boyd often turns…
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure at this historical juncture. Accounting for the conceptual and material capacities of infrastr…
Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America
A Courtroom Massacre: Politics and Public Sentiment in Progressive-Era Virginia
REMINISCING, FLOYD ALLEN'S ATTORNEY RECOUNTED HIS CLIENT'S actions in the courtroom in Carroll County, Virginia, on March 14, 1912: [Floyd] hesitated a moment, and then he arose.... He looked to me like a man who was about to say something, and had hardly made up his mind what he was going to say, but as he got straight, he moved off to my left, I would say five or six feet, and he seemed to gain his speech, and he said something like this, 'I ju…
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
It's 1895 in Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with an ax. Suspicion soon falls on a young black sawmill hand, who tries to flee the county. Captured, he implicates three women, accusing them of plotting the murder and wielding the ax. In vivid courtroom scenes, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Suzanne Lebsock recounts their dramatic trials and brings us close to women we would never otherwise know: a devout (and pregnant…
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
The Last DAys of the Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the largest …
William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South
Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher
Before Nascar: The Corporate and Civic Promotion of Automobile Racing in the American South, 1903-1927
IN RECENT DECADES, HISTORIANS STUDYING THE SOUTH HAVE ANALYZED sport and leisure activities to illuminate an array of broader topics. For example, they have mined accounts of ball games and horse races for insights into such vital aspects of society as segregation, gender relations, honor, and social class. (1) Although scholars have only begun to investigate automobile racing, an examination of this popular sport has the potential to reveal much…
William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South
Journal Article William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South. By Randal L. Hall. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 262 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8131-2155-8.) Get access Dewey W. Grantham Dewey W. Grantham Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure at this historical juncture. Accounting for the conceptual and material capacities of infrastr…
Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College
William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South
Journal Article William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South. By Randal L. Hall. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 262 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8131-2155-8.) Get access Dewey W. Grantham Dewey W. Grantham Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307…
William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South
Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher
Before Nascar: The Corporate and Civic Promotion of Automobile Racing in the American South, 1903-1927
IN RECENT DECADES, HISTORIANS STUDYING THE SOUTH HAVE ANALYZED sport and leisure activities to illuminate an array of broader topics. For example, they have mined accounts of ball games and horse races for insights into such vital aspects of society as segregation, gender relations, honor, and social class. (1) Although scholars have only begun to investigate automobile racing, an examination of this popular sport has the potential to reveal much…
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
The Last DAys of the Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the largest …
A Courtroom Massacre: Politics and Public Sentiment in Progressive-Era Virginia
REMINISCING, FLOYD ALLEN'S ATTORNEY RECOUNTED HIS CLIENT'S actions in the courtroom in Carroll County, Virginia, on March 14, 1912: [Floyd] hesitated a moment, and then he arose.... He looked to me like a man who was about to say something, and had hardly made up his mind what he was going to say, but as he got straight, he moved off to my left, I would say five or six feet, and he seemed to gain his speech, and he said something like this, 'I ju…
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
It's 1895 in Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with an ax. Suspicion soon falls on a young black sawmill hand, who tries to flee the county. Captured, he implicates three women, accusing them of plotting the murder and wielding the ax. In vivid courtroom scenes, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Suzanne Lebsock recounts their dramatic trials and brings us close to women we would never otherwise know: a devout (and pregnant…
Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America
William Boyd. The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Given the topic, this book undoubtedly should be read in hard copy. William Boyd’s study of papermaking in the American South tracks this important industry’s move southward in the 1930s and follows the story to the consolidation and globalization of the twenty-first century. By 1970 “the South enjoyed undisputed national leadership in the production of pulp and paper,” and “global leadership” soon followed (7). For his examples, Boyd often turns…
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure at this historical juncture. Accounting for the conceptual and material capacities of infrastr…
Louis Bromfield and the Pursuit of Agroecological Abundance: The Use and Limits of an Environmentalist Alternative
In the early Cold War years, neo-Malthusian authors alarmed many readers with predictions that food and other resources would fall short in supplying rapidly growing populations as ecological conditions worsened. Louis Bromfield, a prominent author, political commentator and soil conservationist, countered the neo-Malthusians by claiming that modernising farming reforms, particularly involving better care of the soil, would allow long-time abunda…
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