Charles G Steffen
Biographic Data
| ID | 954804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles G Steffen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles G |
| FAMILY NAME | Steffen |
| SIGNATURE | STEFFEN C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murray State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
(Dis)Empowering Homeless People: The Battle for Atlanta’s Imperial Hotel, 1990-1991
This article examines the occupation of Atlanta’s Imperial Hotel by homeless people in the summer of 1990. This dramatic event represented the apogee of homeless empowerment in Atlanta during the last thirty years. It allows us to examine a “poor people’s movement” that wielded the power of disruption to put the issue of affordable housing on the agenda of the city’s governing regime. The Imperial takeover also provides an opportunity to consider…
The Corporate Campaign against Homelessness: Class Power and Urban Governance in Neoliberal Atlanta, 1973-1988
This article deals with the efforts of Atlanta's business community to remove homeless people from the downtown area during the 1970s and 1980s. The corporate sector pursued a two-pronged strategy in rolling out this removal project. First, it attempted to define homelessness as a public safety problem requiring a beefed-up police presence in the central city. Second, it attempted to leverage social services in such a way as to physically displac…
Newspapers for Free: The Economies of Newspaper Circulation in the Early Republic
In a manner that astounded foreign observers and citizens alike, newspapers defined new republic of United States as did no other institution. By 182Os roughly six hundred newspapers, including sixty big-city dailies, were being pulled off nation's presses, a quantitative accomplishment in which editors took understandable pride.1 In 1814 Nathan Hale of Boston Daily Advertiser wrote, we have any striking traits of national character, their origin…
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Journal Article Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania Get access Fox Francis S.Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania 2000University Park Pennsylvania State University Pressxx212$29.95, ISBN 0-271-02062-8 Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen Georgia State UniversityAtlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
In Search of the Good Overseer: The Failure of the Agricultural Reform Movement in Lowcountry South Carolina, 1821-1834
Charles G. Steffen, In Search of the Good Overseer: The Failure of the Agricultural Reform Movement in Lowcountry South Carolina, 1821-1834, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 753-802
American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850
Given the fundamental changes that transformed American society in the years between Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship in a printer's shop and mid-19th-century efforts to organize labouring men and women, no social group offers a more interesting spectacle than skilled tradesmen or artisans. They came from various ethnic backgrounds (some worked in slavery), took their religion and politics seriously, lived mostly in cities but also in the count…
From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland 1660-1776
The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County
Journal Article The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. By Jean B. Lee. (New York: Norton, 1994. xviii, 388 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-393-03658-8.) Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 694, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082225 Published…
New Light on the Chesapeake
According to an old joke, it takes twelve Virginians to change a light bulb: one to replace the bulb and eleven to talk about how much better the old one was. At times in recent years, it has seemed that something similar might be said of historians of the early Chesapeake, with the preponderant majority described as surrounding the expired fixture, comparing it to others further north, and debating the causes of its decline. Beneath this caricat…
From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660-1776
Journal Article From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660–1776. By Charles G. Steffen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. xii, 209 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-1829-8.) Get access Barrett B. Rutman Barrett B. Rutman University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1284–1…
From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660-1776
The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660-1769
Journal Article The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660–1769 Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen professor of history Murray State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 9–33, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908342 Published: 01 June 1989
Work and Labor in Early America
Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas. These essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most…
Gentry and Bourgeois: Patterns of Merchant Investment in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1658 to 1776
Journal Article Gentry and Bourgeois: Patterns of Merchant Investment in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1658 to 1776 Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 20, Issue 3, Spring 1987, Pages 531–548, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/20.3.531 Published: 01 March 1987
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
Journal Article The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1812. By Charles G. Steffen. (Urbana: University of Illinos Press, 1984. xv + 296 pp. Map, tables, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access Roger J. Champagne Roger J. Champagne Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 941–942, http…
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
Republicanism and the Making of the American Working Class
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The pre‐industrial iron worker: Northampton Iron works, 1780–1820
Changes in the Organization of Artisan Production in Baltimore, 1790 to 1820
I N June I799, Baltimore's journeymen tailors published a plea for higher wages in the Republican newspaper, the Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser. Addressing themselves impartial Public, the discontented craftsmen challenged the contention of their employers who insisted that a pay raise was both Iun[n]ecessary and unjust. They presented detailed information on the master tailor's expenses and profits, showing that while the common price f…
Work and Labor in Early America
Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas. These essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most…
Newspapers for Free: The Economies of Newspaper Circulation in the Early Republic
In a manner that astounded foreign observers and citizens alike, newspapers defined new republic of United States as did no other institution. By 182Os roughly six hundred newspapers, including sixty big-city dailies, were being pulled off nation's presses, a quantitative accomplishment in which editors took understandable pride.1 In 1814 Nathan Hale of Boston Daily Advertiser wrote, we have any striking traits of national character, their origin…
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
In Search of the Good Overseer: The Failure of the Agricultural Reform Movement in Lowcountry South Carolina, 1821-1834
Charles G. Steffen, In Search of the Good Overseer: The Failure of the Agricultural Reform Movement in Lowcountry South Carolina, 1821-1834, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 753-802
(Dis)Empowering Homeless People: The Battle for Atlanta’s Imperial Hotel, 1990-1991
This article examines the occupation of Atlanta’s Imperial Hotel by homeless people in the summer of 1990. This dramatic event represented the apogee of homeless empowerment in Atlanta during the last thirty years. It allows us to examine a “poor people’s movement” that wielded the power of disruption to put the issue of affordable housing on the agenda of the city’s governing regime. The Imperial takeover also provides an opportunity to consider…
The Corporate Campaign against Homelessness: Class Power and Urban Governance in Neoliberal Atlanta, 1973-1988
This article deals with the efforts of Atlanta's business community to remove homeless people from the downtown area during the 1970s and 1980s. The corporate sector pursued a two-pronged strategy in rolling out this removal project. First, it attempted to define homelessness as a public safety problem requiring a beefed-up police presence in the central city. Second, it attempted to leverage social services in such a way as to physically displac…
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660-1769
Journal Article The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660–1769 Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen professor of history Murray State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 9–33, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908342 Published: 01 June 1989
Changes in the Organization of Artisan Production in Baltimore, 1790 to 1820
I N June I799, Baltimore's journeymen tailors published a plea for higher wages in the Republican newspaper, the Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser. Addressing themselves impartial Public, the discontented craftsmen challenged the contention of their employers who insisted that a pay raise was both Iun[n]ecessary and unjust. They presented detailed information on the master tailor's expenses and profits, showing that while the common price f…
The pre‐industrial iron worker: Northampton Iron works, 1780–1820
Changes in the Organization of Artisan Production in Baltimore, 1790 to 1820
I N June I799, Baltimore's journeymen tailors published a plea for higher wages in the Republican newspaper, the Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser. Addressing themselves impartial Public, the discontented craftsmen challenged the contention of their employers who insisted that a pay raise was both Iun[n]ecessary and unjust. They presented detailed information on the master tailor's expenses and profits, showing that while the common price f…
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
Republicanism and the Making of the American Working Class
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
Journal Article The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1812. By Charles G. Steffen. (Urbana: University of Illinos Press, 1984. xv + 296 pp. Map, tables, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access Roger J. Champagne Roger J. Champagne Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 941–942, http…
Gentry and Bourgeois: Patterns of Merchant Investment in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1658 to 1776
Journal Article Gentry and Bourgeois: Patterns of Merchant Investment in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1658 to 1776 Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 20, Issue 3, Spring 1987, Pages 531–548, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/20.3.531 Published: 01 March 1987
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812
The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660-1769
Journal Article The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660–1769 Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen professor of history Murray State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 9–33, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908342 Published: 01 June 1989
Work and Labor in Early America
Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas. These essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most…
New Light on the Chesapeake
According to an old joke, it takes twelve Virginians to change a light bulb: one to replace the bulb and eleven to talk about how much better the old one was. At times in recent years, it has seemed that something similar might be said of historians of the early Chesapeake, with the preponderant majority described as surrounding the expired fixture, comparing it to others further north, and debating the causes of its decline. Beneath this caricat…
From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660-1776
Journal Article From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660–1776. By Charles G. Steffen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. xii, 209 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-1829-8.) Get access Barrett B. Rutman Barrett B. Rutman University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1284–1…
From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660-1776
From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland 1660-1776
The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County
Journal Article The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. By Jean B. Lee. (New York: Norton, 1994. xviii, 388 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-393-03658-8.) Get access Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 694, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082225 Published…
In Search of the Good Overseer: The Failure of the Agricultural Reform Movement in Lowcountry South Carolina, 1821-1834
Charles G. Steffen, In Search of the Good Overseer: The Failure of the Agricultural Reform Movement in Lowcountry South Carolina, 1821-1834, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 753-802
American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850
Given the fundamental changes that transformed American society in the years between Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship in a printer's shop and mid-19th-century efforts to organize labouring men and women, no social group offers a more interesting spectacle than skilled tradesmen or artisans. They came from various ethnic backgrounds (some worked in slavery), took their religion and politics seriously, lived mostly in cities but also in the count…
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Journal Article Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania Get access Fox Francis S.Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania 2000University Park Pennsylvania State University Pressxx212$29.95, ISBN 0-271-02062-8 Charles G. Steffen Charles G. Steffen Georgia State UniversityAtlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Newspapers for Free: The Economies of Newspaper Circulation in the Early Republic
In a manner that astounded foreign observers and citizens alike, newspapers defined new republic of United States as did no other institution. By 182Os roughly six hundred newspapers, including sixty big-city dailies, were being pulled off nation's presses, a quantitative accomplishment in which editors took understandable pride.1 In 1814 Nathan Hale of Boston Daily Advertiser wrote, we have any striking traits of national character, their origin…
(Dis)Empowering Homeless People: The Battle for Atlanta’s Imperial Hotel, 1990-1991
This article examines the occupation of Atlanta’s Imperial Hotel by homeless people in the summer of 1990. This dramatic event represented the apogee of homeless empowerment in Atlanta during the last thirty years. It allows us to examine a “poor people’s movement” that wielded the power of disruption to put the issue of affordable housing on the agenda of the city’s governing regime. The Imperial takeover also provides an opportunity to consider…
The Corporate Campaign against Homelessness: Class Power and Urban Governance in Neoliberal Atlanta, 1973-1988
This article deals with the efforts of Atlanta's business community to remove homeless people from the downtown area during the 1970s and 1980s. The corporate sector pursued a two-pronged strategy in rolling out this removal project. First, it attempted to define homelessness as a public safety problem requiring a beefed-up police presence in the central city. Second, it attempted to leverage social services in such a way as to physically displac…
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