Neil Kamil
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Kamil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamil |
| SIGNATURE | KAMIL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Portable Lives
This contribution focuses on early modern refugee artisans, and their families, who engaged actively with print culture while cobbling together spiritual ideas, natural philosophies, local scientific knowledge, and dexterous craft skills during the earliest years of the industrial revolution. It provides a “deep” history of the little-known entrepreneur Jacques Fontaine (1658–1728), a Huguenot refugee. Together with his wife and sister-in-law, Fo…
For a Short Time Only
Peter Benes is the longtime director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. His aim in this entertaining and painstakingly researched book is to show how migration, itinerancy, and the diffusion of European popular culture in early America were intertwined. “Strolling” work meant “amusements and the ‘minor’ arts,” from puppetry and acrobatics to waxworks (p. 6). Itinerant-taught “mannered or schooled culture,” such as psalmody and penman…
The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
Sarah Rivett's ambitious book revisits two enduring subjects: Puritan testimonies of faith and Christian Reformed science. Rivett contextualizes local and transatlantic debates involving London's Royal Society and Massachusetts's ministers and natural philosophers over the legitimacy of divine knowledge ostensibly derived from the invisible sanctum of the soul and documented by ministerial and scientific “experts” who interpreted and transcribed …
From New Babylon to Eden
Journal Article From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina Get access From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Ruymbeke Bertrand Van. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xviii, 396 pp. $49.95, isbn1-57003-583-0.) Neil Kamil Neil Kamil University of TexasAustin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Fortress of the Soul
For a Short Time Only
Peter Benes is the longtime director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. His aim in this entertaining and painstakingly researched book is to show how migration, itinerancy, and the diffusion of European popular culture in early America were intertwined. “Strolling” work meant “amusements and the ‘minor’ arts,” from puppetry and acrobatics to waxworks (p. 6). Itinerant-taught “mannered or schooled culture,” such as psalmody and penman…
Fortress of the Soul
From New Babylon to Eden
Journal Article From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina Get access From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Ruymbeke Bertrand Van. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xviii, 396 pp. $49.95, isbn1-57003-583-0.) Neil Kamil Neil Kamil University of TexasAustin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
Sarah Rivett's ambitious book revisits two enduring subjects: Puritan testimonies of faith and Christian Reformed science. Rivett contextualizes local and transatlantic debates involving London's Royal Society and Massachusetts's ministers and natural philosophers over the legitimacy of divine knowledge ostensibly derived from the invisible sanctum of the soul and documented by ministerial and scientific “experts” who interpreted and transcribed …
For a Short Time Only
Peter Benes is the longtime director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. His aim in this entertaining and painstakingly researched book is to show how migration, itinerancy, and the diffusion of European popular culture in early America were intertwined. “Strolling” work meant “amusements and the ‘minor’ arts,” from puppetry and acrobatics to waxworks (p. 6). Itinerant-taught “mannered or schooled culture,” such as psalmody and penman…
Portable Lives
This contribution focuses on early modern refugee artisans, and their families, who engaged actively with print culture while cobbling together spiritual ideas, natural philosophies, local scientific knowledge, and dexterous craft skills during the earliest years of the industrial revolution. It provides a “deep” history of the little-known entrepreneur Jacques Fontaine (1658–1728), a Huguenot refugee. Together with his wife and sister-in-law, Fo…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)