Christopher Capozzola
Biographic Data
| ID | 797532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Capozzola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Capozzola |
| SIGNATURE | CAPOZZOLA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The Long Progressive Era”: A Roundtable on After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York by Elisabeth Israels Perry
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Little Italy in the Great War: Philadelphia’s Italians on the Battlefield and Home Front
Cigarettes, Inc: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism
Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism. By Nan Enstad. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xiv, 333 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 10…
The Predicament of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
In August 1918, Australian Prime Minister William Hughes laid out his plan for an “Australian Monroe Doctrine” before an enthusiastic audience at the New York meeting of the Pilgrims Society, an elite club dedicated to United States-British solidarity. Hughes proposed no newfangled idea: this frothy mix of blood, soil, and policy had been brewing for decades. In the first decades of the twentieth century, every society bordering the Pacific that …
Tracing Filipino Philadelphia in the Pedro Supelana Papers
Tracing Filipino Philadelphia in the Pedro Supelana Papers Christopher Capozzola (bio) In April 1975, members of the Filipino Executive Council of Greater Philadelphia (FECGP) sent a petition to Mayor Frank Rizzo, expressing dismay that "Americans in Greater Philadelphia are not even aware that there are about 5,000 Filipinos who live among them."1 Rizzo acted quickly to accommodate another group of potential voters, but, four decades later, hist…
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 United States Empire
Legacies for Citizenship: Pinpointing Americans during and after World War I
During World War I, people everywhere clamored for maps. They pored over atlases, tore maps out of newspaper supplements, and even gathered around kiosks in town squares. They were looking for the war, of course, curious to find Sarajevo and Gallipoli, Verdun and Versailles, hopeful that tracing the shifts of battlefronts could make sense of the conflict’s human devastation and political significance. But, perhaps without even knowing it, they we…
Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Transnationalizing Asian American Studies: Two Perspectives
Book reviews of Christian Collet and Pei-Te Lien, eds., The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009); and Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho, eds., Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States
In his 1956 landmark book Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, Willard Hurst sketched an account of law's role in U.S. economic development that has influenced legal historians for decades. American law, Hurst explained, aimed to “protect and promote the release of individual creative energy” (p. 6). The primary actor in his story was the energetic landowning white man—a person Hurst took for granted as the agent of histor…
Jay Cooke’s Memoir and Wartime Finance
Better known to American history as the gambling robber baron whose failed Northern Pacific Railroad triggered the Panic of 1873, Jay C. Cooke (1821–1905) was the father of modern war finance and a brilliant salesman of the fiscal obligations of citizenship. The son of an Ohio congressman, Cooke moved to Philadelphia in 1839, whetted his appetite for bond sales during the Mexican War, and “on the 1st day of January 1861 in one of the darkest hour…
Raising Revenue and Raising Hell
It was a time of greenbacks, goldbugs, and grangers; milquetoast mugwumps; single-taxers, socialists, standpatters, and the Sugar Trust. Calls for more taxes filled the air. Populist Mary Lease urged Americans to “raise less corn and more hell,” and even Andrew Carnegie piously endorsed an estate tax “by which the State marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.” All that hell-raising pushed an income tax through Congress …
Afterburn: Knowledge and Wartime
If Americans had to select a single symbol of their country's military might, they would do well to choose the fighter jet—a carefully constructed instrument of destruction, simultaneously powerful and nimble, stealthy and loud. This essay begins with a hunch—that if American culture illuminates the social significance of a fighter jet, then learning a little about jet propulsion might reveal something about the political culture of the nation th…
Thomas Dixon's War Prayers
New Perspectives on “The War-Prayer” Essays on “The War-Prayer” Thomas Dixon’s War Prayers Christopher CAPOZZOLA Thomas L. Dixon is best known as the author of the racist novel The Clansman (1905), on which lm director D.W. Grifth based his 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. But in 1898, Reverend Thomas Dixon was pastor of the People’s Church, a non-denomi
Uncle Sam Wants You
In April 1917, the United States embarked on World War I, with little history of conscription, an army smaller than Romania's, and a political culture that saw little role for the federal government other than delivering the mail. This book tells the story of the American homefront in World War I, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization led to a significant increase in power in Washington. It shows how — in the absence of a strong federal…
Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James a Suydam by Katherine E Manthorne and Mark D Mitchell
Sargent and Italy
Jacob Lawrence: Historian
The artist Jacob Lawrence established his reputation as a painter of historical subjects, focusing particularly on African-American history. While historians have often used his paintings as illustrations of the black experience, they have not adequately confronted the historiographic and methodological challenges posed by Lawrence's work. This is particularly true of Lawrence's best known series, ‘The Migration of the Negro’ (1941). In preparati…
Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I
Journal Article Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I Get access Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I. By Ellis Mark. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xxii, 325 pp. $45.00, isbn0-253-33923-5.) Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for oth…
The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America
Journal Article The Only Badge Needed is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America Get access Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola visiting instructor in the Department of American Literature and Civilization at Middlebury College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Pages 1354–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307…
A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the Aids Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
The Man Who Illuminated the Gilded Age
John Singer Sargent at the Tate Gallery, London: 15 October 1998-17 January 1999; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 21 February-31 May 1999; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 27 June-26 September 1999. Funded in Washington in part by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities and the Ford Motor Company. Funded in Boston in part by BankBoston. John Singer Sargent. By Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, eds. Washington, D.C. and Prince…
Thorstein Veblen and the Politics of War, 1914-1920
A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the Aids Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America
Journal Article The Only Badge Needed is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America Get access Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola visiting instructor in the Department of American Literature and Civilization at Middlebury College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Pages 1354–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Thorstein Veblen and the Politics of War, 1914-1920
Thorstein Veblen and the Politics of War, 1914-1920
The Man Who Illuminated the Gilded Age
John Singer Sargent at the Tate Gallery, London: 15 October 1998-17 January 1999; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 21 February-31 May 1999; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 27 June-26 September 1999. Funded in Washington in part by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities and the Ford Motor Company. Funded in Boston in part by BankBoston. John Singer Sargent. By Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, eds. Washington, D.C. and Prince…
Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I
Journal Article Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I Get access Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I. By Ellis Mark. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xxii, 325 pp. $45.00, isbn0-253-33923-5.) Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for oth…
The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America
Journal Article The Only Badge Needed is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America Get access Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola visiting instructor in the Department of American Literature and Civilization at Middlebury College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Pages 1354–1382, https://doi.org/10.2307…
A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the Aids Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
Sargent and Italy
Jacob Lawrence: Historian
The artist Jacob Lawrence established his reputation as a painter of historical subjects, focusing particularly on African-American history. While historians have often used his paintings as illustrations of the black experience, they have not adequately confronted the historiographic and methodological challenges posed by Lawrence's work. This is particularly true of Lawrence's best known series, ‘The Migration of the Negro’ (1941). In preparati…
Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James a Suydam by Katherine E Manthorne and Mark D Mitchell
Uncle Sam Wants You
In April 1917, the United States embarked on World War I, with little history of conscription, an army smaller than Romania's, and a political culture that saw little role for the federal government other than delivering the mail. This book tells the story of the American homefront in World War I, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization led to a significant increase in power in Washington. It shows how — in the absence of a strong federal…
Thomas Dixon's War Prayers
New Perspectives on “The War-Prayer” Essays on “The War-Prayer” Thomas Dixon’s War Prayers Christopher CAPOZZOLA Thomas L. Dixon is best known as the author of the racist novel The Clansman (1905), on which lm director D.W. Grifth based his 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. But in 1898, Reverend Thomas Dixon was pastor of the People’s Church, a non-denomi
Raising Revenue and Raising Hell
It was a time of greenbacks, goldbugs, and grangers; milquetoast mugwumps; single-taxers, socialists, standpatters, and the Sugar Trust. Calls for more taxes filled the air. Populist Mary Lease urged Americans to “raise less corn and more hell,” and even Andrew Carnegie piously endorsed an estate tax “by which the State marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.” All that hell-raising pushed an income tax through Congress …
Afterburn: Knowledge and Wartime
If Americans had to select a single symbol of their country's military might, they would do well to choose the fighter jet—a carefully constructed instrument of destruction, simultaneously powerful and nimble, stealthy and loud. This essay begins with a hunch—that if American culture illuminates the social significance of a fighter jet, then learning a little about jet propulsion might reveal something about the political culture of the nation th…
Jay Cooke’s Memoir and Wartime Finance
Better known to American history as the gambling robber baron whose failed Northern Pacific Railroad triggered the Panic of 1873, Jay C. Cooke (1821–1905) was the father of modern war finance and a brilliant salesman of the fiscal obligations of citizenship. The son of an Ohio congressman, Cooke moved to Philadelphia in 1839, whetted his appetite for bond sales during the Mexican War, and “on the 1st day of January 1861 in one of the darkest hour…
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Transnationalizing Asian American Studies: Two Perspectives
Book reviews of Christian Collet and Pei-Te Lien, eds., The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009); and Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho, eds., Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States
In his 1956 landmark book Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, Willard Hurst sketched an account of law's role in U.S. economic development that has influenced legal historians for decades. American law, Hurst explained, aimed to “protect and promote the release of individual creative energy” (p. 6). The primary actor in his story was the energetic landowning white man—a person Hurst took for granted as the agent of histor…
The United States Empire
Legacies for Citizenship: Pinpointing Americans during and after World War I
During World War I, people everywhere clamored for maps. They pored over atlases, tore maps out of newspaper supplements, and even gathered around kiosks in town squares. They were looking for the war, of course, curious to find Sarajevo and Gallipoli, Verdun and Versailles, hopeful that tracing the shifts of battlefronts could make sense of the conflict’s human devastation and political significance. But, perhaps without even knowing it, they we…
Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization
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…
Tracing Filipino Philadelphia in the Pedro Supelana Papers
Tracing Filipino Philadelphia in the Pedro Supelana Papers Christopher Capozzola (bio) In April 1975, members of the Filipino Executive Council of Greater Philadelphia (FECGP) sent a petition to Mayor Frank Rizzo, expressing dismay that "Americans in Greater Philadelphia are not even aware that there are about 5,000 Filipinos who live among them."1 Rizzo acted quickly to accommodate another group of potential voters, but, four decades later, hist…
The Predicament of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
In August 1918, Australian Prime Minister William Hughes laid out his plan for an “Australian Monroe Doctrine” before an enthusiastic audience at the New York meeting of the Pilgrims Society, an elite club dedicated to United States-British solidarity. Hughes proposed no newfangled idea: this frothy mix of blood, soil, and policy had been brewing for decades. In the first decades of the twentieth century, every society bordering the Pacific that …
Cigarettes, Inc: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism
Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism. By Nan Enstad. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xiv, 333 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 10…
“The Long Progressive Era”: A Roundtable on After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York by Elisabeth Israels Perry
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Little Italy in the Great War: Philadelphia’s Italians on the Battlefield and Home Front
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