Robert A Gro
Biographic Data
| ID | 537597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Gro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gro |
| SIGNATURE | GRO R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7715-7482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The American Revolution
How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–1975
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy
Energy, food, or mobility can be conceptualized as provisioning systems which are decisive to sustainability transformations in how they shape resource use and because of emissions resulting from them. To curb environmental pressures and improve societal well-being, fundamental changes to existing provisioning systems are necessary. In this article, we propose that provisioning systems be conceptualized as featuring integrated socio-metabolic and…
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century takes us back to a world where families and farms were interwoven and everywhere on the landscape. Rejecting the view that the main theme of our agricultural history is the movement from household to market production and agribusiness, Richard Lyman Bushman offers an alternative scheme. In his lucid account, family farms pursued a flexible strategy, combining “self-provisioning”—supplying as much food…
How Tourism Transformed an Alpine Valley
Commodifying snow, taming the waters. Socio-ecological niche construction in an Alpine village
White belts of snow clad mountains all over the world each winter. Even if there is no snow, the tourism industry is able to produce the white finery at the push of the button, thereby consuming large amounts of water. Studying Damüls, a well-known ski resort in Austria's westernmost province Vorarlberg, we can show that the development of a service sector within agro-pastoral landscapes was connected with novel water uses and massive interventio…
Circles and Lines
Book Review| July 01 2006 Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America. John Demos. Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 371–373. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.371 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert A. Gross; Circles and Lines: The Shape of Lif…
Shays's Rebellion
People of the Wachusett
The Impudent Historian
Journal Article The Impudent Historian: Challenging Deference in Early America Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross director of American Studies and Forrest D. Murden Jr. Professor of American Studies and History at the College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 92–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568434 Published: 01 June…
Puritans at Play
In Debt to Shays
In Debt to Shays
In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context
In Debt to Shays
After the Revolution
Journal Article “After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780–1800.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Constitution Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20560 Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 858–861, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936427 Published: 01…
The Machine-Readable Transcendentalists
THIS ESSAY reports on an effort to integrate statistics and the computer into the humanities classroom. In History 55, “Culture and Community: The Worlds of Emerson, Dickinson, and Thoreau,” at Amherst College, students were asked to carry out quantitative analyses of the U.S. census of 1850 for the towns of Amherst and Concord, Massachusetts. This assignment was conceived as a project in social history, through which students would reconstruct t…
A Village at War
Lonesome in Eden
Emily Dickinson was so deeply private a poet, so unique, so idiosyncratic a sensibility, so dedicated to exploring a self-constructed house of the imagination that an historian who wishes to use her art and life to talk about nineteenth- century culture and society —as I propose to do —ought to begin with a good defense
Liberty's Daughters
A Season of Youth
Journal Article A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Knopf, 1978. xxi + 384 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $15.00) Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 909–910, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888075 Published: 01 March 19…
The World of John Cleaveland
The Minutemen and Their World
Journal Article The Minutemen and Their World. By Robert A. Gross. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976. xiii + 242 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $8.95; paper, $3.95.) Get access Stephen E. Patterson Stephen E. Patterson University of New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 122–123, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894698 Published: 01 …
The Minutemen and Their World
The Minutemen and Their World
How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–1975
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy
Energy, food, or mobility can be conceptualized as provisioning systems which are decisive to sustainability transformations in how they shape resource use and because of emissions resulting from them. To curb environmental pressures and improve societal well-being, fundamental changes to existing provisioning systems are necessary. In this article, we propose that provisioning systems be conceptualized as featuring integrated socio-metabolic and…
The Impudent Historian
Journal Article The Impudent Historian: Challenging Deference in Early America Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross director of American Studies and Forrest D. Murden Jr. Professor of American Studies and History at the College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 92–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568434 Published: 01 June…
Commodifying snow, taming the waters. Socio-ecological niche construction in an Alpine village
White belts of snow clad mountains all over the world each winter. Even if there is no snow, the tourism industry is able to produce the white finery at the push of the button, thereby consuming large amounts of water. Studying Damüls, a well-known ski resort in Austria's westernmost province Vorarlberg, we can show that the development of a service sector within agro-pastoral landscapes was connected with novel water uses and massive interventio…
In Debt to Shays
Lonesome in Eden
Emily Dickinson was so deeply private a poet, so unique, so idiosyncratic a sensibility, so dedicated to exploring a self-constructed house of the imagination that an historian who wishes to use her art and life to talk about nineteenth- century culture and society —as I propose to do —ought to begin with a good defense
The Minutemen and Their World
The Minutemen and Their World
The Minutemen and Their World
Journal Article The Minutemen and Their World. By Robert A. Gross. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976. xiii + 242 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $8.95; paper, $3.95.) Get access Stephen E. Patterson Stephen E. Patterson University of New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 122–123, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894698 Published: 01 …
The World of John Cleaveland
A Season of Youth
Journal Article A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Knopf, 1978. xxi + 384 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $15.00) Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 909–910, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888075 Published: 01 March 19…
Liberty's Daughters
Lonesome in Eden
Emily Dickinson was so deeply private a poet, so unique, so idiosyncratic a sensibility, so dedicated to exploring a self-constructed house of the imagination that an historian who wishes to use her art and life to talk about nineteenth- century culture and society —as I propose to do —ought to begin with a good defense
A Village at War
After the Revolution
Journal Article “After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780–1800.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Constitution Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20560 Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 858–861, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936427 Published: 01…
The Machine-Readable Transcendentalists
THIS ESSAY reports on an effort to integrate statistics and the computer into the humanities classroom. In History 55, “Culture and Community: The Worlds of Emerson, Dickinson, and Thoreau,” at Amherst College, students were asked to carry out quantitative analyses of the U.S. census of 1850 for the towns of Amherst and Concord, Massachusetts. This assignment was conceived as a project in social history, through which students would reconstruct t…
In Debt to Shays
In Debt to Shays
In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context
In Debt to Shays
Puritans at Play
The Impudent Historian
Journal Article The Impudent Historian: Challenging Deference in Early America Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross director of American Studies and Forrest D. Murden Jr. Professor of American Studies and History at the College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 92–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568434 Published: 01 June…
People of the Wachusett
Shays's Rebellion
Circles and Lines
Book Review| July 01 2006 Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America. John Demos. Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 371–373. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.3.371 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert A. Gross; Circles and Lines: The Shape of Lif…
Commodifying snow, taming the waters. Socio-ecological niche construction in an Alpine village
White belts of snow clad mountains all over the world each winter. Even if there is no snow, the tourism industry is able to produce the white finery at the push of the button, thereby consuming large amounts of water. Studying Damüls, a well-known ski resort in Austria's westernmost province Vorarlberg, we can show that the development of a service sector within agro-pastoral landscapes was connected with novel water uses and massive interventio…
How Tourism Transformed an Alpine Valley
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century takes us back to a world where families and farms were interwoven and everywhere on the landscape. Rejecting the view that the main theme of our agricultural history is the movement from household to market production and agribusiness, Richard Lyman Bushman offers an alternative scheme. In his lucid account, family farms pursued a flexible strategy, combining “self-provisioning”—supplying as much food…
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy
Energy, food, or mobility can be conceptualized as provisioning systems which are decisive to sustainability transformations in how they shape resource use and because of emissions resulting from them. To curb environmental pressures and improve societal well-being, fundamental changes to existing provisioning systems are necessary. In this article, we propose that provisioning systems be conceptualized as featuring integrated socio-metabolic and…
How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–1975
The American Revolution
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