Kristofer Allerfeldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristofer Allerfeldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristofer |
| FAMILY NAME | Allerfeldt |
| SIGNATURE | ALLERFELDT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI-based healthcare: A new dawn or apartheid revisited
The Bubonic Plague outbreak that wormed its way through San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 tells a story of prejudice guiding health policy, resulting in enormous suffering for much of its Chinese population. This article seeks to discuss the potential for hidden “prejudice” should Artificial Intelligence (AI) gain a dominant foothold in healthcare systems. Using a toy model, this piece explores potential future outcomes, should AI continue to dev…
E rika L ee . America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
In the Summer of 2008, I had a very enjoyable lunch with the late Aristide Zolberg. Professor Zolberg was arguably the foremost scholar of immigration history at the time, and having recently published his original and weighty A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America the previous year, he was at the height of his reputation. As we finished a long conversation, I asked him whether the United States had ever had what he w…
World War One and the American Constitution, by William G. Ross
There can be little doubt that, although the USA famously entered the Great War late—and suffered considerably fewer casualties than most of its ‘co-belligerents’—those twenty months it did spend at war had a disproportionately galvanising effect on the nation. One of the most important results of the conflict was a massive growth in the power, reach and influence of the Federal government. Although many war measures were exactly that—wartime exp…
Marcus Braun and “White Slavery”: Shifting Perceptions of People Smuggling and Human Trafficking in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
When the history of American abolitionist legislation is assessed—if it gets any consideration at all—the 1910 White Slave Act is often regarded as a flawed overreaction to a largely imagined, or at least exaggerated, problem. However, the law, usually known as the Mann Act, has arguably influenced US trafficking policy more than any other single law since the 13th Amendment. This article examines the career, ambitions and misfortunes of one of t…
The Progressive Era in the USA: 1890–1921
Contents: Series preface Introduction: In search of progressivism, Daniel T. Rodgers Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: a reconsideration, Alan Brinkley Farmers and the state in the progressive era, Elizabeth Sanders The discovery that business corrupts politics: a reappraisal of the origins of progressivism, Richard L. McCormick Railroads and regulation, 1877-1916: conspiracy or public interest?, Robert W. Harbeson The protean character of …
Jason E. Pierce. Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
As historians, as academics, we know better than to judge a book by its cover. However, that does not mean that a book’s cover cannot make us want to read it—or put us off. Jason E. Pierce’s Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West has a great cover: a happy photo of a couple dancing, whirling exuberantly. The image certainly draws the reader in, but sadly the story the book tells would probably not encourage m…
National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882
Journal Article National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882 Get access Deirdre M. Moloney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xii, 315 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 626–627, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau352 Published: 01 September 2014
Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History From 1865-1941
In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation, media, and incarceration affected the criminal underworld. In ten thematic chapters, Crime and the Rise of Modern America turns to the outla…
And We Got Here First’: Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self-Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s
Congressman Albert Johnson was co-sponsor of the 1924 Immigration Act — the so-called National Origins Act. Partly as a result of this, he has been considered one of the arch-advocates of a more restrictive immigration policy in early twentieth-century America. Closer examination proves his stance to be more reasoned than his reputation would suggest. Such scrutiny shows him to be no less committed to restriction and reveals some unpleasant polit…
Rejecting the United States of the World: The consequences of Woodrow Wilson's new diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act
In January 1919 Woodrow Wilson attended the Paris Peace Conference to thrash out terms for the end of the world's most bloody war to that date. Wilson arrived with a plan for a permanent end to war as a means of settling international disputes. Central to this desire was a belief in international law, which would be backed by an international police body the League of Nations. During and after the Conference, Wilson's ambitions ran into increasin…
Beyond the Huddled Masses: American Immigration and The Treaty of Versailles
This work uncovers the human history underlying the state actions on immigration. It is a vivid and varied new look at some of the most shaping forces in American history and identity, and offers important new perspective on early twentieth century American-European relations. How did American isolationism after the Treaty of Versailles, accentuated by stringent immigration restrictions predominantly against Asians and Europeans, work to shape Am…
Wilsonian Pragmatism? Woodrow Wilson, Japanese Immigration, and the Paris Peace Conference
He [Wilson] was more than just an idealist: he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader. Herbert Hoover 1 1 Herbert Hoover, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (rev. ed. Baltimore, 1992) ix. The issue of the Japanese plea for race equality at the Paris Peace Conference is generally seen as a secondary issue for American delegates. Most accounts se…
Race and Restriction: Anti‐Asian Immigration Pressures in the Pacific North‐west of America during the Progressive Era, 1885–1924
This article explores the role that the north‐western states of Washington and Oregon played in the anti‐Chinese and anti‐Japanese movements of the Progressive Era. In extending the investigation to include the agitation led by the Knights of Labor during the 1880s and the final exclusion of the Japanese in 1924, it will demonstrate that, although the methods employed by the two exclusionist movements may have varied, the sentiments were virtuall…
Race and Restriction: Anti‐Asian Immigration Pressures in the Pacific North‐west of America during the Progressive Era, 1885–1924
This article explores the role that the north‐western states of Washington and Oregon played in the anti‐Chinese and anti‐Japanese movements of the Progressive Era. In extending the investigation to include the agitation led by the Knights of Labor during the 1880s and the final exclusion of the Japanese in 1924, it will demonstrate that, although the methods employed by the two exclusionist movements may have varied, the sentiments were virtuall…
Marcus Braun and “White Slavery”: Shifting Perceptions of People Smuggling and Human Trafficking in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
When the history of American abolitionist legislation is assessed—if it gets any consideration at all—the 1910 White Slave Act is often regarded as a flawed overreaction to a largely imagined, or at least exaggerated, problem. However, the law, usually known as the Mann Act, has arguably influenced US trafficking policy more than any other single law since the 13th Amendment. This article examines the career, ambitions and misfortunes of one of t…
And We Got Here First’: Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self-Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s
Congressman Albert Johnson was co-sponsor of the 1924 Immigration Act — the so-called National Origins Act. Partly as a result of this, he has been considered one of the arch-advocates of a more restrictive immigration policy in early twentieth-century America. Closer examination proves his stance to be more reasoned than his reputation would suggest. Such scrutiny shows him to be no less committed to restriction and reveals some unpleasant polit…
Wilsonian Pragmatism? Woodrow Wilson, Japanese Immigration, and the Paris Peace Conference
He [Wilson] was more than just an idealist: he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader. Herbert Hoover 1 1 Herbert Hoover, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (rev. ed. Baltimore, 1992) ix. The issue of the Japanese plea for race equality at the Paris Peace Conference is generally seen as a secondary issue for American delegates. Most accounts se…
Race and Restriction: Anti‐Asian Immigration Pressures in the Pacific North‐west of America during the Progressive Era, 1885–1924
This article explores the role that the north‐western states of Washington and Oregon played in the anti‐Chinese and anti‐Japanese movements of the Progressive Era. In extending the investigation to include the agitation led by the Knights of Labor during the 1880s and the final exclusion of the Japanese in 1924, it will demonstrate that, although the methods employed by the two exclusionist movements may have varied, the sentiments were virtuall…
Wilsonian Pragmatism? Woodrow Wilson, Japanese Immigration, and the Paris Peace Conference
He [Wilson] was more than just an idealist: he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader. Herbert Hoover 1 1 Herbert Hoover, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (rev. ed. Baltimore, 1992) ix. The issue of the Japanese plea for race equality at the Paris Peace Conference is generally seen as a secondary issue for American delegates. Most accounts se…
Beyond the Huddled Masses: American Immigration and The Treaty of Versailles
This work uncovers the human history underlying the state actions on immigration. It is a vivid and varied new look at some of the most shaping forces in American history and identity, and offers important new perspective on early twentieth century American-European relations. How did American isolationism after the Treaty of Versailles, accentuated by stringent immigration restrictions predominantly against Asians and Europeans, work to shape Am…
Rejecting the United States of the World: The consequences of Woodrow Wilson's new diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act
In January 1919 Woodrow Wilson attended the Paris Peace Conference to thrash out terms for the end of the world's most bloody war to that date. Wilson arrived with a plan for a permanent end to war as a means of settling international disputes. Central to this desire was a belief in international law, which would be backed by an international police body the League of Nations. During and after the Conference, Wilson's ambitions ran into increasin…
And We Got Here First’: Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self-Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s
Congressman Albert Johnson was co-sponsor of the 1924 Immigration Act — the so-called National Origins Act. Partly as a result of this, he has been considered one of the arch-advocates of a more restrictive immigration policy in early twentieth-century America. Closer examination proves his stance to be more reasoned than his reputation would suggest. Such scrutiny shows him to be no less committed to restriction and reveals some unpleasant polit…
Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History From 1865-1941
In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation, media, and incarceration affected the criminal underworld. In ten thematic chapters, Crime and the Rise of Modern America turns to the outla…
National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882
Journal Article National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882 Get access Deirdre M. Moloney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xii, 315 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 626–627, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau352 Published: 01 September 2014
The Progressive Era in the USA: 1890–1921
Contents: Series preface Introduction: In search of progressivism, Daniel T. Rodgers Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: a reconsideration, Alan Brinkley Farmers and the state in the progressive era, Elizabeth Sanders The discovery that business corrupts politics: a reappraisal of the origins of progressivism, Richard L. McCormick Railroads and regulation, 1877-1916: conspiracy or public interest?, Robert W. Harbeson The protean character of …
Jason E. Pierce. Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
As historians, as academics, we know better than to judge a book by its cover. However, that does not mean that a book’s cover cannot make us want to read it—or put us off. Jason E. Pierce’s Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West has a great cover: a happy photo of a couple dancing, whirling exuberantly. The image certainly draws the reader in, but sadly the story the book tells would probably not encourage m…
World War One and the American Constitution, by William G. Ross
There can be little doubt that, although the USA famously entered the Great War late—and suffered considerably fewer casualties than most of its ‘co-belligerents’—those twenty months it did spend at war had a disproportionately galvanising effect on the nation. One of the most important results of the conflict was a massive growth in the power, reach and influence of the Federal government. Although many war measures were exactly that—wartime exp…
Marcus Braun and “White Slavery”: Shifting Perceptions of People Smuggling and Human Trafficking in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
When the history of American abolitionist legislation is assessed—if it gets any consideration at all—the 1910 White Slave Act is often regarded as a flawed overreaction to a largely imagined, or at least exaggerated, problem. However, the law, usually known as the Mann Act, has arguably influenced US trafficking policy more than any other single law since the 13th Amendment. This article examines the career, ambitions and misfortunes of one of t…
AI-based healthcare: A new dawn or apartheid revisited
The Bubonic Plague outbreak that wormed its way through San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 tells a story of prejudice guiding health policy, resulting in enormous suffering for much of its Chinese population. This article seeks to discuss the potential for hidden “prejudice” should Artificial Intelligence (AI) gain a dominant foothold in healthcare systems. Using a toy model, this piece explores potential future outcomes, should AI continue to dev…
E rika L ee . America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
In the Summer of 2008, I had a very enjoyable lunch with the late Aristide Zolberg. Professor Zolberg was arguably the foremost scholar of immigration history at the time, and having recently published his original and weighty A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America the previous year, he was at the height of his reputation. As we finished a long conversation, I asked him whether the United States had ever had what he w…
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