Robert Michael Morrissey
Biographic Data
| ID | 456169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Michael Morrissey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrissey |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISSEY R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701–1815
Climate, Ecology and History in North America's Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands
In the late 1600s, one of the largest population centres in North America - the so-called Grand Village of the Kaskaskias in the upper Illinois River Valley - suddenly dissolved as various factions among its indigenous inhabitants split apart. While historians have often explained the resulting migrations as a response to the beginnings of colonial history in this region, this article argues that a greater factor may have been climate change. The…
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
George Edward Milne. Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
The Natchez Revolt of 1729 was one of the most devastating episodes of violence between colonists and Indians in colonial America. In many previous accounts, historians have focused on the role of French commandant Captain Étienne de Chépart, whose aggressive demands for Natchez land near Fort Rosalie soured the previously amicable relations between the Indians and the colonists, provoking a large-scale attack which resulted in over two hundred c…
The Country is Greatly Injured: Human-Animal Relationships, Ecology and the Fate of Empire in the Eighteenth Century Mississippi Valley Borderlands
At the end of the Seven Years' War, the British Empire made its most serious effort to establish control over the trans-Appalachian west when it sent soldiers and colonists to the formerly-French settlements of the so-called Illinois Country. Despite this region's abundant resources and the presence of sympathetic Illinois Indians in the area, the British effort failed dismally. This essay explains the weakness of the British in part by examining…
Introduction: Grassroots History: Global Environmental Histories from Below
Introduction:Grassroots History: Global Environmental Histories from Below Robert Michael Morrissey (bio) and Roderick I. Wilson (bio) On January 21, 2016, the front page of the website for the New York Times featured an attention-grabbing headline. "The Hottest Year on Record," bold letters declared, "Globally, 2015 Was the Warmest Year in Recorded History."1 Beneath the Times' straightforward headline appeared a detailed discussion that touched…
Empire by collaboration Indians, colonists, and governments in colonial Illinois country: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Empire by Collaboration explores the remarkable collaborative culture of colonial Illinois Country, where settlers, natives, and imperial officials negotiated local and imperial priorities and gave rise to new economies and forms of social life
Archives of Connection: “Whole Network” Analysis and Social History
Social network analysis is a burgeoning field of sociology, but it has only recently been adopted by social historians. This article provides an overview of the promise of social network analysis for social history, as well as a critical discussion of what the method does and does not provide. It focuses especially on the problem of “whole network” analysis and sketches questions that social network analysis can help answer in the past. The autho…
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World, edited by Cécile Vidal
The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and Fall of the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia
Among the largest population centers in North America toward the end of the seventeenth century was the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, which, combined with surrounding settlements, enveloped as many as twenty thousand people for approximately two decades. Located at the top of the Illinois River valley, the village is not normally considered a significant part of American history, so it has remained relatively unknown. In many accounts, the loca…
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana , by Sophie White
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race Colonial Louisiana, by Sophie White. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. x. 325pp. $45.00 US (cloth). In the North American empire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, colonial officials hoped to Frenchify Native Americans, and convert them to ways of living. At the same time, they worried that Frenchmen might l…
Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695-1735
The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and Fall of the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia
Among the largest population centers in North America toward the end of the seventeenth century was the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, which, combined with surrounding settlements, enveloped as many as twenty thousand people for approximately two decades. Located at the top of the Illinois River valley, the village is not normally considered a significant part of American history, so it has remained relatively unknown. In many accounts, the loca…
Climate, Ecology and History in North America's Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands
In the late 1600s, one of the largest population centres in North America - the so-called Grand Village of the Kaskaskias in the upper Illinois River Valley - suddenly dissolved as various factions among its indigenous inhabitants split apart. While historians have often explained the resulting migrations as a response to the beginnings of colonial history in this region, this article argues that a greater factor may have been climate change. The…
Archives of Connection: “Whole Network” Analysis and Social History
Social network analysis is a burgeoning field of sociology, but it has only recently been adopted by social historians. This article provides an overview of the promise of social network analysis for social history, as well as a critical discussion of what the method does and does not provide. It focuses especially on the problem of “whole network” analysis and sketches questions that social network analysis can help answer in the past. The autho…
Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695-1735
The Country is Greatly Injured: Human-Animal Relationships, Ecology and the Fate of Empire in the Eighteenth Century Mississippi Valley Borderlands
At the end of the Seven Years' War, the British Empire made its most serious effort to establish control over the trans-Appalachian west when it sent soldiers and colonists to the formerly-French settlements of the so-called Illinois Country. Despite this region's abundant resources and the presence of sympathetic Illinois Indians in the area, the British effort failed dismally. This essay explains the weakness of the British in part by examining…
Introduction: Grassroots History: Global Environmental Histories from Below
Introduction:Grassroots History: Global Environmental Histories from Below Robert Michael Morrissey (bio) and Roderick I. Wilson (bio) On January 21, 2016, the front page of the website for the New York Times featured an attention-grabbing headline. "The Hottest Year on Record," bold letters declared, "Globally, 2015 Was the Warmest Year in Recorded History."1 Beneath the Times' straightforward headline appeared a detailed discussion that touched…
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana , by Sophie White
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race Colonial Louisiana, by Sophie White. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. x. 325pp. $45.00 US (cloth). In the North American empire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, colonial officials hoped to Frenchify Native Americans, and convert them to ways of living. At the same time, they worried that Frenchmen might l…
Kaskaskia Social Network: Kinship and Assimilation in the French-Illinois Borderlands, 1695-1735
Empire by collaboration Indians, colonists, and governments in colonial Illinois country: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Empire by Collaboration explores the remarkable collaborative culture of colonial Illinois Country, where settlers, natives, and imperial officials negotiated local and imperial priorities and gave rise to new economies and forms of social life
Archives of Connection: “Whole Network” Analysis and Social History
Social network analysis is a burgeoning field of sociology, but it has only recently been adopted by social historians. This article provides an overview of the promise of social network analysis for social history, as well as a critical discussion of what the method does and does not provide. It focuses especially on the problem of “whole network” analysis and sketches questions that social network analysis can help answer in the past. The autho…
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World, edited by Cécile Vidal
The Power of the Ecotone: Bison, Slavery, and the Rise and Fall of the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia
Among the largest population centers in North America toward the end of the seventeenth century was the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, which, combined with surrounding settlements, enveloped as many as twenty thousand people for approximately two decades. Located at the top of the Illinois River valley, the village is not normally considered a significant part of American history, so it has remained relatively unknown. In many accounts, the loca…
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
George Edward Milne. Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
The Natchez Revolt of 1729 was one of the most devastating episodes of violence between colonists and Indians in colonial America. In many previous accounts, historians have focused on the role of French commandant Captain Étienne de Chépart, whose aggressive demands for Natchez land near Fort Rosalie soured the previously amicable relations between the Indians and the colonists, provoking a large-scale attack which resulted in over two hundred c…
The Country is Greatly Injured: Human-Animal Relationships, Ecology and the Fate of Empire in the Eighteenth Century Mississippi Valley Borderlands
At the end of the Seven Years' War, the British Empire made its most serious effort to establish control over the trans-Appalachian west when it sent soldiers and colonists to the formerly-French settlements of the so-called Illinois Country. Despite this region's abundant resources and the presence of sympathetic Illinois Indians in the area, the British effort failed dismally. This essay explains the weakness of the British in part by examining…
Introduction: Grassroots History: Global Environmental Histories from Below
Introduction:Grassroots History: Global Environmental Histories from Below Robert Michael Morrissey (bio) and Roderick I. Wilson (bio) On January 21, 2016, the front page of the website for the New York Times featured an attention-grabbing headline. "The Hottest Year on Record," bold letters declared, "Globally, 2015 Was the Warmest Year in Recorded History."1 Beneath the Times' straightforward headline appeared a detailed discussion that touched…
Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701–1815
Climate, Ecology and History in North America's Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands
In the late 1600s, one of the largest population centres in North America - the so-called Grand Village of the Kaskaskias in the upper Illinois River Valley - suddenly dissolved as various factions among its indigenous inhabitants split apart. While historians have often explained the resulting migrations as a response to the beginnings of colonial history in this region, this article argues that a greater factor may have been climate change. The…
French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
History (9 works) · American History and Culture (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works)