Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 505015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhodri |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffreys-Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFREYS-JONES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh, Scotland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Hidden Cost of Freedom
The Listeners
Journal Article The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States Get access The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. By Brian Hochman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $35.00.) Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 3, December …
Double Crossed
In Double Crossed Matthew Avery Sutton agrees with the finding of a 1970s U.S. Senate inquiry, arguing that the Central Intelligence Agency (Cia) should not deploy missionaries. He believes that the resources of the Cia are now sufficiently adequate and that the agency no longer needs to deploy godly men and women in a manner that breaches separation of church and state. The situation was different during the military emergency that faced the nat…
Hollywood's Spies
In April 1939 Warner Bros. released the movie Confessions of a Nazi Spy, which told the story of how a heroic Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent, Leon Turrou, exposed and destroyed a German spy ring operating in the United States. It was the first Hollywood movie to tackle the Nazi menace head on, but not the industry's earliest contribution to the struggle against fascism. Laura B. Rosenzweig, an independent scholar working in the Off…
The Social Misconstruction of Reality
From the time of the ancient Greeks, thinkers have known the earth is round. Yet popular legend has persisted that Columbus proved this fact for the first time, and scholarship abounds with similar perpetuated errors. Why do social misconstructions—widely shared, long-lasting acceptance of facts or interpretations that are mistaken—persist when ample evidence is readily available to counter them? How and why are corrections resisted or dismissed?…
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China
This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, langua…
The American Left
How left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA, from the 1900s to the present day Winner of the American Politics Group’s 2013 Neustadt Book Prize Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left’s numerous achievements, including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of American culture, black rights and civil liberties, awakening the USA to the …
The American Left
Only the right has recognized the potency of the American left. The book explains why others have underestimated the left in the USA, citing the relative absence of a free press in America, the disposition of the left to deny its own existence in the name of pragmatism, and the left’s fallacy that the right is always wrong, and thus in error in pointing to the left’s impact. The book sets forth the achievements of the left. These achievements inc…
Presidential and Prime Ministerial Women in the Americas
The Americas and Latin America in particular are sharply in advance of the global norm when it comes to the incidence of female presidential and prime ministerial leadership. One reason is the relatively high and increasing incidence of democracy on the two continents. Another is that the Americas are more progressive than other parts of the world. The relatively peaceful state of the region over the last half century is an additional factor, for…
The Rosenberg File
This is a video that gets more sophisticated as it moves along. It opens with broad strokes of the filmic brush. They paint a scene of 1940s Cold War tension, of a band of Communist conspirators who spied for the Soviet Union, and of a remorseless process of detection by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its helpers that led to the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on a charge of having betrayed atomic secrets to the Russians. …
Peace Now
Cold War Civil Rights
My grandfather, a musical Welsh coal miner blacklisted throughout the 1930s for union activities, idolized Paul Robeson—great singer, champion of the oppressed, himself blacklisted in McCarthyite America, and one of the indicative characters in this superb book by Mary L. Dudziak, professor of law at the University of Southern California. According to Dudziak, the images of racial injustice broadcast by Robeson and others became a real worry to A…
Shadow Warriors
Journal Article Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea. By William B. Breuer New York and Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War. By Ed Evanhoe Annapolis Get access Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1483–1484, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Changing Differences
Changing Differences
Journal Article Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American foreign Policy, 1917–1994. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii, 275 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8135-2166-1.) Get access Emily S. Rosenberg Emily S. Rosenberg Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Page 246, htt…
North American Spies
Journal Article North American Spies: New Revisionist Essays. Ed. by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Andrew Lownie. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. x, 256 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7006-0525-8.) Get access Timothy J. Naftali Timothy J. Naftali University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1768, https://doi.org/10.230…
CIA and American Democracy
The Samuel Gompers Papers, 3
The CIA and American Democracy
The CIA and American Democracy
The CIA and American Democracy
War, Prosperity and Depression
Lord Lothian and American Democracy
There is a distinction between those attributes of a diplomat which make him an ambassador from a people, an expert on the affairs and policies of his own country, and those less usual ones which make him an ambassador to a people, an expert on the affairs and policies of his host country. On the "horses for courses" principle, it has been suggested that, just as one's man in Paris ought to be able to distinguish between a Van Gogh and a Gauguin,…
The State and the Unions
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCV, Issue CCCLXXVII, July 1980, Pages 943–944, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCV.CCCLXXVII.943 Published: 01 July 1980
War, Prosperity and Depression
The CIA and American Democracy
The Listeners
Journal Article The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States Get access The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. By Brian Hochman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $35.00.) Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 3, December …
Lord Lothian and American Democracy
There is a distinction between those attributes of a diplomat which make him an ambassador from a people, an expert on the affairs and policies of his own country, and those less usual ones which make him an ambassador to a people, an expert on the affairs and policies of his host country. On the "horses for courses" principle, it has been suggested that, just as one's man in Paris ought to be able to distinguish between a Van Gogh and a Gauguin,…
The Montreal Spy Ring of 1898 and the Origins of "Domestic" Surveillance in the United States
The Watergate affair has reminded Americans of the abuses that can occur when surveillance is instituted in the name of national security. The affair induces the suspicion that national security is too often and too lightly invoked in justification of normally unacceptable acts of intrusion. Con- tinuous, central surveillance was, however, begun by the United States during the Spanish-American War of 1898, when the Treasury Depart- ment's Secret …
W. Somerset Maugham
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874-1966) WAS CHIEF AGENT IN RUSSIA for the British and American secret services during the crucial few weeks which preceded the Bolshevik coup of 1917. Yet the voluminous literature concerning him has been almost exclusively devoted to fiction and personality, and mainly confined to French and English interests. Historians have left the field to literary critics, and they in turn have paid little attention to the political …
American Espionage
Journal Article American Espionage: From Secret Service to CIA. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New York: Free Press, 1977. xi + 276 pp. Illustrations, charts, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Robert K. Murray Robert K. Murray Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3, December 1978, Pages 821–822, https://doi.org/10.2…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCV, Issue CCCLXXVII, July 1980, Pages 943–944, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCV.CCCLXXVII.943 Published: 01 July 1980
Violence and Reform in American History
Violence in American history has become a subject of some interest and study irt recent years
Lord Lothian and American Democracy
There is a distinction between those attributes of a diplomat which make him an ambassador from a people, an expert on the affairs and policies of his own country, and those less usual ones which make him an ambassador to a people, an expert on the affairs and policies of his host country. On the "horses for courses" principle, it has been suggested that, just as one's man in Paris ought to be able to distinguish between a Van Gogh and a Gauguin,…
The State and the Unions
War, Prosperity and Depression
The CIA and American Democracy
The CIA and American Democracy
The CIA and American Democracy
The Samuel Gompers Papers, 3
CIA and American Democracy
North American Spies
Journal Article North American Spies: New Revisionist Essays. Ed. by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Andrew Lownie. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. x, 256 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-7006-0525-8.) Get access Timothy J. Naftali Timothy J. Naftali University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1768, https://doi.org/10.230…
Changing Differences
Changing Differences
Journal Article Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American foreign Policy, 1917–1994. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii, 275 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8135-2166-1.) Get access Emily S. Rosenberg Emily S. Rosenberg Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Page 246, htt…
Shadow Warriors
Journal Article Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea. By William B. Breuer New York and Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War. By Ed Evanhoe Annapolis Get access Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1483–1484, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Peace Now
Cold War Civil Rights
My grandfather, a musical Welsh coal miner blacklisted throughout the 1930s for union activities, idolized Paul Robeson—great singer, champion of the oppressed, himself blacklisted in McCarthyite America, and one of the indicative characters in this superb book by Mary L. Dudziak, professor of law at the University of Southern California. According to Dudziak, the images of racial injustice broadcast by Robeson and others became a real worry to A…
The Rosenberg File
This is a video that gets more sophisticated as it moves along. It opens with broad strokes of the filmic brush. They paint a scene of 1940s Cold War tension, of a band of Communist conspirators who spied for the Soviet Union, and of a remorseless process of detection by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its helpers that led to the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on a charge of having betrayed atomic secrets to the Russians. …
The American Left
How left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA, from the 1900s to the present day Winner of the American Politics Group’s 2013 Neustadt Book Prize Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left’s numerous achievements, including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of American culture, black rights and civil liberties, awakening the USA to the …
The American Left
Only the right has recognized the potency of the American left. The book explains why others have underestimated the left in the USA, citing the relative absence of a free press in America, the disposition of the left to deny its own existence in the name of pragmatism, and the left’s fallacy that the right is always wrong, and thus in error in pointing to the left’s impact. The book sets forth the achievements of the left. These achievements inc…
Presidential and Prime Ministerial Women in the Americas
The Americas and Latin America in particular are sharply in advance of the global norm when it comes to the incidence of female presidential and prime ministerial leadership. One reason is the relatively high and increasing incidence of democracy on the two continents. Another is that the Americas are more progressive than other parts of the world. The relatively peaceful state of the region over the last half century is an additional factor, for…
The Social Misconstruction of Reality
From the time of the ancient Greeks, thinkers have known the earth is round. Yet popular legend has persisted that Columbus proved this fact for the first time, and scholarship abounds with similar perpetuated errors. Why do social misconstructions—widely shared, long-lasting acceptance of facts or interpretations that are mistaken—persist when ample evidence is readily available to counter them? How and why are corrections resisted or dismissed?…
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China
This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, langua…
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