Benjamin L Carp
Biographic Data
| ID | 987002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin L Carp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Carp |
| SIGNATURE | CARP B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3938-2996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of how various people navigated military occupation, c…
American Laughter, American Fury
The Great New York Fire of 1776
Craig Bruce Smith. American Honor
Honor, virtue, and ethics are the driving forces behind this fresh look at the American Revolution. Such a focus may strike some scholars as quizzical or even downright dangerous; Craig Bruce Smith anticipates these objections as he introduces his careful and colorful study American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era. Smith analyzes “American variants of honor that are in several ways unique to a nonaristocrat…
Fix'd almost amongst Strangers
Eighteenth-century Charleston, South Carolina, was steeped in luxury and slavery and proved an awkward home for the small community of Quaker merchants who did business there in the early 1770s. These travelers experienced profound displacement as they grappled with the lived experience of cosmopolitanism. In striving for worldly acceptance, universal humanity, or both, “port Quakers” and other people of the Atlantic world faced stark choices. So…
Groundless
Early American history has become destabilizing. Just two years after Kathleen Donegan described American colonization as an “unsettling act,” Gregory Evans Dowd unearths the groundlessness that underpins so much of early American history.1 “Panic” born of rumor, Dowd writes, “dislodged populations; moved governments; and altered the course of policy, diplomacy, and battle” (291). Drawing upon previous scholarship by Marc Bloch, Georges Lefebvre,…
Defiance of the Patriots
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Book Review| December 01 2005 Riot and Revelry in Early America Riot and Revelry in Early America William Pencak, Matthew Dennis,and Simon P. Newman, eds. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 viii + 316 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) Benjamin L. Carp Benjamin L. Carp Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (4): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-4-125 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Fire of Liberty
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Fire of Liberty
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Book Review| December 01 2005 Riot and Revelry in Early America Riot and Revelry in Early America William Pencak, Matthew Dennis,and Simon P. Newman, eds. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 viii + 316 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) Benjamin L. Carp Benjamin L. Carp Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (4): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-4-125 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Defiance of the Patriots
Groundless
Early American history has become destabilizing. Just two years after Kathleen Donegan described American colonization as an “unsettling act,” Gregory Evans Dowd unearths the groundlessness that underpins so much of early American history.1 “Panic” born of rumor, Dowd writes, “dislodged populations; moved governments; and altered the course of policy, diplomacy, and battle” (291). Drawing upon previous scholarship by Marc Bloch, Georges Lefebvre,…
Fix'd almost amongst Strangers
Eighteenth-century Charleston, South Carolina, was steeped in luxury and slavery and proved an awkward home for the small community of Quaker merchants who did business there in the early 1770s. These travelers experienced profound displacement as they grappled with the lived experience of cosmopolitanism. In striving for worldly acceptance, universal humanity, or both, “port Quakers” and other people of the Atlantic world faced stark choices. So…
Craig Bruce Smith. American Honor
Honor, virtue, and ethics are the driving forces behind this fresh look at the American Revolution. Such a focus may strike some scholars as quizzical or even downright dangerous; Craig Bruce Smith anticipates these objections as he introduces his careful and colorful study American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era. Smith analyzes “American variants of honor that are in several ways unique to a nonaristocrat…
The Great New York Fire of 1776
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of how various people navigated military occupation, c…
American Laughter, American Fury
History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)