Caitlin E Murdock
Biographic Data
| ID | 4602934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlin E Murdock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlin E |
| FAMILY NAME | Murdock |
| SIGNATURE | MURDOCK C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7918-4311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lab Rats for Science: Uranium Mining, Expellees, Public Health, and Narratives of Radiation Danger in Cold War West Germany, 1955–1968
In 1955–6, three thousand German-speaking men were ‘repatriated’ from Czechoslovak forced labour camps, where they mined uranium, to West Germany, where they demanded benefits for health damage from radiation exposure. These men connected their group's experiences to the fears and developments of early Cold War West Germany, personifying the health risks of the Atomic Age and citizens’ demands that their states offer protection from such risks. T…
Men under Fire: Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918, by Jiří Hutečka
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, by Dominique Kirchner Reill
Public Health in a Radioactive Age: Environmental Pollution, Popular Therapies, and Narratives of Danger in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1970
In the 1950s and 1960s, West German citizens found themselves living in a “radioactive age.” The public learned that radiation exposure pervaded postwar society, not only from atomic testing but also from medical treatment, workplace exposures, and radium consumer goods. By 1970, West Germans—ranging from farmers and housewives, to physicians, scientists, and bureaucrats—had recast nuclear radiation from a technological wonder or health aid into …
David Clay Large. The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing
In The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing, David Clay Large tells a rollicking tale of Central Europe’s grand spas from their origins through the twentieth century. He focuses his attention on German-speaking Central Europe (Germany, Bohemia, and Austria). Although there are other important European spas, Large argues that the Central European ones offer an especially rich history. Central European spa…
Selling Scientific Authority: Radium Spas, Advertising and Popular Understandings of Radioactivity in Germany, 1900–1937
Radioactive therapies from spa water to chocolate won wide popularity in early twentieth-century Europe, connecting interest in modern science, concern about health and desire for a life that was both ‘natural’ and rational. Europeans learned to consider radioactivity a modern health aid from a variety of public experts, from scientists and physicians to government officials, advertisers and spas. German radium spas engaged in public debates abou…
A Gulag in the Erzgebirge? Forced Labor, Political Legitimacy, and Eastern German Uranium Mining in the Early Cold War, 1946–1949
“Dear Papa! I have been conscripted into a living grave. . . .” So began a letter in the West Berlin newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat in March 1948. The young man had been sent to work in the Soviet occupation zone's uranium mines, near Aue in the Saxon Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), and had written to his parents in despair. The news article that accompanied the letter explained, “The uranium mines... are not in the Urals, but in the Erzgebirge. But re…
Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe , by Emily Greble
Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe, by Emily Greble. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2012. xx, 276 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). During World War II, German occupation brought racial nationalism, genocide, and the decimation of traditional cultures to communities across Europe. In Yugoslavia, ethnic and national conflict were supposed to have been especially fierce because Nazi policy was compounded by the …
Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946
" Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in the past and present. It is an extremely well-written and engaging study, and an absolute pleasure to read." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta " Changing Places offers…
Tourist Landscapes and Regional Identities in Saxony, 1878–1938
The 1905 Kalender für das Erzgebirge und Vogtland described an apparently spontaneous shift in the relationship between the German state of Saxony's mountainous southern borderlands and its rapidly urbanizing lowlands. Yet from the 1870s to the 1930s, the Kalender , the Erzgebirgsverein that published it, and a host of similar Heimat (homeland) and tourist organizations pushed, prodded, and cajoled lowlanders into visiting the borderlands. In the…
Public Health in a Radioactive Age: Environmental Pollution, Popular Therapies, and Narratives of Danger in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1970
In the 1950s and 1960s, West German citizens found themselves living in a “radioactive age.” The public learned that radiation exposure pervaded postwar society, not only from atomic testing but also from medical treatment, workplace exposures, and radium consumer goods. By 1970, West Germans—ranging from farmers and housewives, to physicians, scientists, and bureaucrats—had recast nuclear radiation from a technological wonder or health aid into …
Tourist Landscapes and Regional Identities in Saxony, 1878–1938
The 1905 Kalender für das Erzgebirge und Vogtland described an apparently spontaneous shift in the relationship between the German state of Saxony's mountainous southern borderlands and its rapidly urbanizing lowlands. Yet from the 1870s to the 1930s, the Kalender , the Erzgebirgsverein that published it, and a host of similar Heimat (homeland) and tourist organizations pushed, prodded, and cajoled lowlanders into visiting the borderlands. In the…
Selling Scientific Authority: Radium Spas, Advertising and Popular Understandings of Radioactivity in Germany, 1900–1937
Radioactive therapies from spa water to chocolate won wide popularity in early twentieth-century Europe, connecting interest in modern science, concern about health and desire for a life that was both ‘natural’ and rational. Europeans learned to consider radioactivity a modern health aid from a variety of public experts, from scientists and physicians to government officials, advertisers and spas. German radium spas engaged in public debates abou…
A Gulag in the Erzgebirge? Forced Labor, Political Legitimacy, and Eastern German Uranium Mining in the Early Cold War, 1946–1949
“Dear Papa! I have been conscripted into a living grave. . . .” So began a letter in the West Berlin newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat in March 1948. The young man had been sent to work in the Soviet occupation zone's uranium mines, near Aue in the Saxon Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), and had written to his parents in despair. The news article that accompanied the letter explained, “The uranium mines... are not in the Urals, but in the Erzgebirge. But re…
Tourist Landscapes and Regional Identities in Saxony, 1878–1938
The 1905 Kalender für das Erzgebirge und Vogtland described an apparently spontaneous shift in the relationship between the German state of Saxony's mountainous southern borderlands and its rapidly urbanizing lowlands. Yet from the 1870s to the 1930s, the Kalender , the Erzgebirgsverein that published it, and a host of similar Heimat (homeland) and tourist organizations pushed, prodded, and cajoled lowlanders into visiting the borderlands. In the…
Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946
" Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in the past and present. It is an extremely well-written and engaging study, and an absolute pleasure to read." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta " Changing Places offers…
Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe , by Emily Greble
Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe, by Emily Greble. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2012. xx, 276 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). During World War II, German occupation brought racial nationalism, genocide, and the decimation of traditional cultures to communities across Europe. In Yugoslavia, ethnic and national conflict were supposed to have been especially fierce because Nazi policy was compounded by the …
A Gulag in the Erzgebirge? Forced Labor, Political Legitimacy, and Eastern German Uranium Mining in the Early Cold War, 1946–1949
“Dear Papa! I have been conscripted into a living grave. . . .” So began a letter in the West Berlin newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat in March 1948. The young man had been sent to work in the Soviet occupation zone's uranium mines, near Aue in the Saxon Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), and had written to his parents in despair. The news article that accompanied the letter explained, “The uranium mines... are not in the Urals, but in the Erzgebirge. But re…
Selling Scientific Authority: Radium Spas, Advertising and Popular Understandings of Radioactivity in Germany, 1900–1937
Radioactive therapies from spa water to chocolate won wide popularity in early twentieth-century Europe, connecting interest in modern science, concern about health and desire for a life that was both ‘natural’ and rational. Europeans learned to consider radioactivity a modern health aid from a variety of public experts, from scientists and physicians to government officials, advertisers and spas. German radium spas engaged in public debates abou…
David Clay Large. The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing
In The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing, David Clay Large tells a rollicking tale of Central Europe’s grand spas from their origins through the twentieth century. He focuses his attention on German-speaking Central Europe (Germany, Bohemia, and Austria). Although there are other important European spas, Large argues that the Central European ones offer an especially rich history. Central European spa…
Public Health in a Radioactive Age: Environmental Pollution, Popular Therapies, and Narratives of Danger in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1970
In the 1950s and 1960s, West German citizens found themselves living in a “radioactive age.” The public learned that radiation exposure pervaded postwar society, not only from atomic testing but also from medical treatment, workplace exposures, and radium consumer goods. By 1970, West Germans—ranging from farmers and housewives, to physicians, scientists, and bureaucrats—had recast nuclear radiation from a technological wonder or health aid into …
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, by Dominique Kirchner Reill
Men under Fire: Motivation, Morale and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918, by Jiří Hutečka
Lab Rats for Science: Uranium Mining, Expellees, Public Health, and Narratives of Radiation Danger in Cold War West Germany, 1955–1968
In 1955–6, three thousand German-speaking men were ‘repatriated’ from Czechoslovak forced labour camps, where they mined uranium, to West Germany, where they demanded benefits for health damage from radiation exposure. These men connected their group's experiences to the fears and developments of early Cold War West Germany, personifying the health risks of the Atomic Age and citizens’ demands that their states offer protection from such risks. T…
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