Jason M Colby
Biographic Data
| ID | 710779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason M Colby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason M |
| FAMILY NAME | Colby |
| SIGNATURE | COLBY J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Persistent Dream
The Shadow of American Slavery
Despite copious scholarship on both the U.S. empire and American slavery, the two topics are rarely examined together. This is the task Catherine Armstrong sets for herself. Relying on newspapers, pamphlets, novels, and travelogues, American Slavery, American Imperialism explores the role that perceptions of slavery and other coercive labor systems, both at home and abroad, had on U.S. imperial thought and expansion from 1865 through the 1920s. W…
Conscripting Leviathan: Science, Cetaceans, and the Cold War
Conscripting Leviathan: Science, Cetaceans, and the Cold War Jason M Colby Jason M Colby [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 3, June 2020, Pages 466–478, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa011 Published: 08 April 2020
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of…
The Rooseveltian Moment
On February 18, 1909, just weeks before he left office, President Theodore Roosevelt hosted the North American Conservation Conference. In addition to fostering cooperation with Canada and Mexico on a range of resource issues, Roosevelt hoped the gathering would provide a springboard for a subsequent World Congress at The Hague, which would place the conservation discussion on the global stage. Despite support from dozens of nations, The Hague ga…
Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States , by Heidi Tinsman
Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, by Heidi Tinsman. Durham, Duke University Press, 2014. xiv, 363 pp. $26.95 US (paper). If the first three-quarters of the twentieth century belonged to the apple, orange, and banana, the past forty years have been the age of the grape. In the 1970s and 1980s, after a two-decade decline in grape consumption, North Americans began eating a lot more of the vine-g…
A Chasm of Values and Outlook”: The Carter Administration’s Human Rights Policy in Guatemala
Scholars have often depicted Jimmy Carter’s human rights policy as naïve and counterproductive. In doing so, many have pointed to Guatemala, where Carter’s policies seemed to alienate the military government without ending its abuses. Yet such critics have failed to acknowledge the obstacles Carter’s policy faced as well as its long‐term influence on U.S. policy and on Guatemala itself. Drawing upon recently declassified documents, this article e…
Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush
Despite its long and contentious encounter with the U.S. empire, Panama has received little attention from North American scholars. Rather than a lived-in place with its own history, it usually appears as a transit point. This is certainly true of most studies of the California Gold Rush, which rarely note that 200,000 Americans crossed the isthmus between 1848 and 1860, and even more rarely consider the impact of that migration on Panama itself.…
"Banana Growing and Negro Management": Race, Labor, and Jim Crow Colonialism in Guatemala, 1884–1930
In the spring of 1912, twenty-six-year-old Hugh Wilson learned of his appointment as U.S. chargé d’affaires in Guatemala City. A former Yale classmate of Secretary of State Philander C. Knox's son, Wilson welcomed the news and promptly boarded a New Orleans steamer for Puerto Barrios, Guatemala's busy banana port. There he was met by the United Fruit Company's superintendent, Dartmouth-educated Victor M. Cutter. With “a broad grin on a rugged cle…
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
A Chasm of Values and Outlook”: The Carter Administration’s Human Rights Policy in Guatemala
Scholars have often depicted Jimmy Carter’s human rights policy as naïve and counterproductive. In doing so, many have pointed to Guatemala, where Carter’s policies seemed to alienate the military government without ending its abuses. Yet such critics have failed to acknowledge the obstacles Carter’s policy faced as well as its long‐term influence on U.S. policy and on Guatemala itself. Drawing upon recently declassified documents, this article e…
"Banana Growing and Negro Management": Race, Labor, and Jim Crow Colonialism in Guatemala, 1884–1930
In the spring of 1912, twenty-six-year-old Hugh Wilson learned of his appointment as U.S. chargé d’affaires in Guatemala City. A former Yale classmate of Secretary of State Philander C. Knox's son, Wilson welcomed the news and promptly boarded a New Orleans steamer for Puerto Barrios, Guatemala's busy banana port. There he was met by the United Fruit Company's superintendent, Dartmouth-educated Victor M. Cutter. With “a broad grin on a rugged cle…
Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush
Despite its long and contentious encounter with the U.S. empire, Panama has received little attention from North American scholars. Rather than a lived-in place with its own history, it usually appears as a transit point. This is certainly true of most studies of the California Gold Rush, which rarely note that 200,000 Americans crossed the isthmus between 1848 and 1860, and even more rarely consider the impact of that migration on Panama itself.…
A Chasm of Values and Outlook”: The Carter Administration’s Human Rights Policy in Guatemala
Scholars have often depicted Jimmy Carter’s human rights policy as naïve and counterproductive. In doing so, many have pointed to Guatemala, where Carter’s policies seemed to alienate the military government without ending its abuses. Yet such critics have failed to acknowledge the obstacles Carter’s policy faced as well as its long‐term influence on U.S. policy and on Guatemala itself. Drawing upon recently declassified documents, this article e…
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of…
The Rooseveltian Moment
On February 18, 1909, just weeks before he left office, President Theodore Roosevelt hosted the North American Conservation Conference. In addition to fostering cooperation with Canada and Mexico on a range of resource issues, Roosevelt hoped the gathering would provide a springboard for a subsequent World Congress at The Hague, which would place the conservation discussion on the global stage. Despite support from dozens of nations, The Hague ga…
Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States , by Heidi Tinsman
Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, by Heidi Tinsman. Durham, Duke University Press, 2014. xiv, 363 pp. $26.95 US (paper). If the first three-quarters of the twentieth century belonged to the apple, orange, and banana, the past forty years have been the age of the grape. In the 1970s and 1980s, after a two-decade decline in grape consumption, North Americans began eating a lot more of the vine-g…
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Conscripting Leviathan: Science, Cetaceans, and the Cold War
Conscripting Leviathan: Science, Cetaceans, and the Cold War Jason M Colby Jason M Colby [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 3, June 2020, Pages 466–478, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa011 Published: 08 April 2020
The Shadow of American Slavery
Despite copious scholarship on both the U.S. empire and American slavery, the two topics are rarely examined together. This is the task Catherine Armstrong sets for herself. Relying on newspapers, pamphlets, novels, and travelogues, American Slavery, American Imperialism explores the role that perceptions of slavery and other coercive labor systems, both at home and abroad, had on U.S. imperial thought and expansion from 1865 through the 1920s. W…
The Persistent Dream
History (7 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Empire (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)