John Smolenski
Biographic Data
| ID | 833004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Smolenski |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Smolenski |
| SIGNATURE | SMOLENSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History
The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic
Specter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as …
Jessica Choppin Roney. Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Jessica Choppin Roney’s Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia is a deeply researched and cogent account of political behavior in Philadelphia from that city’s founding to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Looking at topics as various as the creation of Philadelphia’s city government, collective efforts to ameliorate the condition of the urban poor, and the formation of fire …
Murder on the Margins: The Paxton Massacre and the Remaking of Sovereignty in Colonial Pennsylvania
On December 14 and 27, 1763, rioters in western Pennsylvania attacked and killed nearly two dozen Conestoga Indians living near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Five weeks later, two hundred and fifty men, calling themselves the Paxton Boys, marched on Pennsylvania to kill Indians housed there for their protection. These events sparked outrage, as pro- and anti-Paxtonite authors debated the attacks. Defenders of the massacre claimed that they had not onl…
Kathleen Donegan. Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Historians have written countless volumes on the transfer of English cultural ways to North America, but few have focused on the earliest years of that transfer, those moments of dislocation colonizers endured as they established outposts on the continental littoral. Settlers in these initial stages worried about their very survival, not of the prospect of recreating their homeland on the western shores of the Atlantic. What, in these moments of …
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century Get access Mark L. Thompson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xiv, 265 pp. $48.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Page 915, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau672 Published: 01 December 2014
New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
Introduction: The Ordering of Authority in the Colonial Americas -John Smolenski PART I. NARRATING VIOLENCE AND LEGALITY Introduction to Part I 1. Law's Wilderness: The Discourse of English Colonizing, the Violence of Intrusion, and the Failures of American History -Christopher Tomlins 2. Dialogical Encounters in a Space of Death -Richard Price PART II. AUTHORITY AND INTIMATE VIOLENCE Introduction to Part II 3. The Authority of Gender: Marital Di…
Hearing Voices: Microhistory, Dialogicality and the Recovery of Popular Culture on an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation
Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754
"Culture, History, and the "Religion Concept
Culture, History, and the “Religion Concept” John Smolenski* (bio) Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Edited by David D. Hall. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 280 pages. $57.50 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). New Directions in American Religious History. Edited by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 512 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Retelling U.S. Religious History. Edited b…
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century Get access Mark L. Thompson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xiv, 265 pp. $48.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Page 915, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau672 Published: 01 December 2014
"Culture, History, and the "Religion Concept
Culture, History, and the “Religion Concept” John Smolenski* (bio) Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Edited by David D. Hall. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 280 pages. $57.50 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). New Directions in American Religious History. Edited by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 512 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Retelling U.S. Religious History. Edited b…
"Culture, History, and the "Religion Concept
Culture, History, and the “Religion Concept” John Smolenski* (bio) Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice. Edited by David D. Hall. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 280 pages. $57.50 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). New Directions in American Religious History. Edited by Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 512 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Retelling U.S. Religious History. Edited b…
Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754
Hearing Voices: Microhistory, Dialogicality and the Recovery of Popular Culture on an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation
New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
Introduction: The Ordering of Authority in the Colonial Americas -John Smolenski PART I. NARRATING VIOLENCE AND LEGALITY Introduction to Part I 1. Law's Wilderness: The Discourse of English Colonizing, the Violence of Intrusion, and the Failures of American History -Christopher Tomlins 2. Dialogical Encounters in a Space of Death -Richard Price PART II. AUTHORITY AND INTIMATE VIOLENCE Introduction to Part II 3. The Authority of Gender: Marital Di…
The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century Get access Mark L. Thompson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xiv, 265 pp. $48.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Page 915, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau672 Published: 01 December 2014
Murder on the Margins: The Paxton Massacre and the Remaking of Sovereignty in Colonial Pennsylvania
On December 14 and 27, 1763, rioters in western Pennsylvania attacked and killed nearly two dozen Conestoga Indians living near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Five weeks later, two hundred and fifty men, calling themselves the Paxton Boys, marched on Pennsylvania to kill Indians housed there for their protection. These events sparked outrage, as pro- and anti-Paxtonite authors debated the attacks. Defenders of the massacre claimed that they had not onl…
Kathleen Donegan. Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Historians have written countless volumes on the transfer of English cultural ways to North America, but few have focused on the earliest years of that transfer, those moments of dislocation colonizers endured as they established outposts on the continental littoral. Settlers in these initial stages worried about their very survival, not of the prospect of recreating their homeland on the western shores of the Atlantic. What, in these moments of …
Jessica Choppin Roney. Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Jessica Choppin Roney’s Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia is a deeply researched and cogent account of political behavior in Philadelphia from that city’s founding to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Looking at topics as various as the creation of Philadelphia’s city government, collective efforts to ameliorate the condition of the urban poor, and the formation of fire …
The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic
Specter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as …
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History
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