Andrew Wells
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3840838 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Wells |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Wells |
| ASSINATURA | WELLS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4935-7743 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1939 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Whiteness as freedom
The attempt to view whiteness as a form of property encounters significant obstacles when applied to the colonial era in North America. This article examines the assumptions and arguments made by Cheryl Harris in her discussion of the historical background in “Whiteness as Property” (1993), and demonstrates that the complexity and variety of colonial societies ensure the notion that whiteness is a species of property has only limited purchase in …
Generating Difference
The Influence of Mindfulness-Based Factors on Well-Being in an Academic Setting
The mindfulness components of acceptance, decentering, and non-attachment allow individuals to be less defensive and to respond more adaptively to challenges in their environment. In an academic environment this could be helpful in mitigating the stress associated with failure, which in turn may allow for greater well-being. Therefore, the purpose of Study 1 was to examine whether these protective factors might allow students to feel less academi…
In search of a soft life
A Persistent Borderland
Borderlands are not just zones bisected by a border but are also conceptual spaces and areas defined by ‘borderwork’ activities. Eighteenth-century Glasgow was one such area, in which the typical activities associated with borderlands – tax evasion, feuds, and violence as a hallmark of inter-community relations or resistance to an overmighty state and its lieutenants – shaped the effort to produce a new ‘British’ identity after 1707. This article…
So much weak and inconclusive reasoning”
The evaluative, pejorative category ‘pseudoscientific’ has, thanks to its questionable analytical value, been far less often applied to racial thought than in previous decades. Yet this tendency comes at the cost of obscuring one of the most interesting questions about racial ideas – how far were they not only conceivable, but respectable? This article makes the case for using the category of the pseudoscientific to describe early modern racial i…
A Dynamic Risk Management Approach for Reducing Harm From Invasive Bedside Procedures Performed During Residency
Internal medicine (IM) residents frequently perform invasive bedside procedures during residency training. Bedside procedure training in IM programs may compromise patient safety. Current evidence suggests that IM training programs rely heavily on the number of procedures completed during training as a proxy for resident competence instead of using objective postprocedure patient outcomes. The authors posit that the results of procedural training…
Imperial Political Economy and Its Discontents in Colonial New York City, 1664-1763
Based on the apparent incongruity between the ideology of liberty within the British Empire and the extensive trade regulations that governed its economic life, this article explores efforts to circumvent the Navigation Acts undertaken in New York or by its citizens between the English conquest and the end of the Seven Years War. It argues that a remarkably wide range of evasive measures were employed, forcing us to re-examine both what it meant …
Global cities, glocal fauna
This article has two principal aims. The first is to assess the usefulness of ‘glocalization’ as a concept in the study of early modern global cities, using human–animal interactions as a test case. The second is to explore the reciprocal influence that human–animal interactions and the development of global cities had on each other. Exploration of these two issues interrogates the frequently contradictory, often ambiguous and always contested na…
Introduction
This introduction to the forum outlines the events in Bristol that led to the discussion in the following pages, and makes the argument that, however satisfying it might be to remove celebratory monuments to figures nowadays deemed personae non grata, there are hidden dangers in too zealous an effort to correct urban memory landscapes. Eradicating the celebratory memorialization of those linked to colonial and imperial crimes, of which slavery is…
Race and Racism in the Global European World Before 1800
Histories of race and racism for the period before 1800 have been inclined to focus on the Atlantic world, particularly Africa and America. This focus has resulted in a tendency to think of race primarily in terms of slavery and skin colour. In addition, the problems of finding a suitable vocabulary for race and racism – one that is not anachronistic yet recognises the enormity of early modern slavery and genocide – have produced a degree of conf…
Racisms
The Scottish Enlightenment
The title under review is a translation of an abridgement and revision of Silvia Sebastiani's I limiti del progresso: Razza e genere nell'Illuminismo scozzese (2008). It offers a compelling and gro
Sinking Feelings
The apparent lack of representations of the Titanic disaster in Britain between the start of the First World War and the end of the 1950s was due, not to a lack of interest, but to active resistance to such representations. Shipping interests, the press, government, and the public all opposed portrayals of the catastrophe, but their opposition depended much on the medium by which the sinking was to be represented, on the broader international con…
Race Fixing
Scholarship on race in the eighteenth century continues to treat the concept as somewhat foreign to Britain itself. This essay, which reviews two new works that contribute to the ‘domestication’ of eighteenth-century ideas of race, suggests one way in which race was interwoven with the fabric of British culture in the period
Researching and Writing History with Jim Hagan
This essay has two related purposes: the first is to understand how Jim Hagan practised the historian's craft; the second, to provide a glimpse into the personality and passions that motivated this productive and gifted historian. These two purposes are closely related: the method that historians adopt is typically shaped by the questions they pose - and these questions are deemed significant by the author's personality, interests and ideology (s…
Imperial Hegemony and Colonial Labor
This paper explores Gramsci's theory of hegemony through an analysis of areas of colonial India and Indochina in 1860–1940. It investigates the commodification of labor under capitalism, arguing that the mass relocation of people through indenture was facilitated by state coercion. Such labor was allegedly consensual. However, in the colonies the state had to regulate plantation conditions to monitor the behavior of private companies. A new world…
In Defense of Mechanism
In Life Itself and in Essays on Life Itself, Robert Rosen (1991 Rosen's argument has been used to support critiques of computational models in ecological psychology. This paper shows that Rosen's attack on mechanism is fundamentally misconceived. It is, in fact, of the essence of a mechanical system that it contains closed causal loops. Moreover, Rosen's epistemology is based on a strong form of indirect realism and his arguments, if correct, wou…
Coastal dune ridge systems as chronological markers of palaeoseismic activity
A study of two shore-parallel dune ridge sequences in southwest New Zealand shows that tectonic activity has been the primary controlling influence in their formation since at least AD 1450. The timing of dune-building episodes at the mouths of the Haast and Okuru Rivers was determined using the ages of colonizing trees. Episodic dune formation was indicated by clear discontinuities in tree ages, with distinct cohorts having colonized successive,…
Algorists, Algorithms, and Complexity
The status of computational theory in ecological psychology has been and continues to be a source of controversy. Over a period of more than 30 years, Robert Shaw and his colleagues have developed a powerful negative critique of computation based in part on the idea that computational theory cannot capture central aspects of the coimplicative structure of the relations between animals and their environments. Two aspects of the Shavian critique ar…
Algorists, Algorithms, and Complexity
Gibson's Affordances and Turing's Theory of Computation
The concept of affordance is a central component of the ecological psychology of J.J
Brassed-Off
T OM BRASS . Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour. Case Studies and Debates. [The Library of Peasant Studies, 16.] Frank Cass, London [etc.] 1999. £47.50. (Paper: £20.00). Free and Unfree Labour. The Debate Continues. Ed. by Tom Brass and Marcel van der Linden. [International and Comparative Social History, 5.] Peter Lang, Bern [etc.] 1997. 603 pp. S.fr. 98.00
Deploying insecurity
United States military facilities and personnel in East Asia continue to inflict devastating harm on local communities, especially on women and children. Incidences of sexual violence and exploitation happen far too frequently to be dismissed as aberrations. Thousands of Amerasian children are abandoned by their U.S. military fathers and raised by single mothers, extended families or institutions in societies that discriminate against them. Incre…
Leichhardt
Race and Racism in the Global European World Before 1800
Histories of race and racism for the period before 1800 have been inclined to focus on the Atlantic world, particularly Africa and America. This focus has resulted in a tendency to think of race primarily in terms of slavery and skin colour. In addition, the problems of finding a suitable vocabulary for race and racism – one that is not anachronistic yet recognises the enormity of early modern slavery and genocide – have produced a degree of conf…
Social Representations and the World of Science
Participation in free-time activities
A quota sample of 336 London residents was interviewed using a questionnaire designed to provide information about the respondents' leisure participation patterns and their personal and social characteristics. A comparison study was carried out with a sample of 414 residents from Brooklyn, New York. In both samples there were clearly identifiable groups of leisure activities and it was possible to describe the profile of participants in each grou…
Whiteness as freedom
The attempt to view whiteness as a form of property encounters significant obstacles when applied to the colonial era in North America. This article examines the assumptions and arguments made by Cheryl Harris in her discussion of the historical background in “Whiteness as Property” (1993), and demonstrates that the complexity and variety of colonial societies ensure the notion that whiteness is a species of property has only limited purchase in …
Global cities, glocal fauna
This article has two principal aims. The first is to assess the usefulness of ‘glocalization’ as a concept in the study of early modern global cities, using human–animal interactions as a test case. The second is to explore the reciprocal influence that human–animal interactions and the development of global cities had on each other. Exploration of these two issues interrogates the frequently contradictory, often ambiguous and always contested na…
Imperial Hegemony and Colonial Labor
This paper explores Gramsci's theory of hegemony through an analysis of areas of colonial India and Indochina in 1860–1940. It investigates the commodification of labor under capitalism, arguing that the mass relocation of people through indenture was facilitated by state coercion. Such labor was allegedly consensual. However, in the colonies the state had to regulate plantation conditions to monitor the behavior of private companies. A new world…
Coastal dune ridge systems as chronological markers of palaeoseismic activity
A study of two shore-parallel dune ridge sequences in southwest New Zealand shows that tectonic activity has been the primary controlling influence in their formation since at least AD 1450. The timing of dune-building episodes at the mouths of the Haast and Okuru Rivers was determined using the ages of colonizing trees. Episodic dune formation was indicated by clear discontinuities in tree ages, with distinct cohorts having colonized successive,…
Deploying insecurity
United States military facilities and personnel in East Asia continue to inflict devastating harm on local communities, especially on women and children. Incidences of sexual violence and exploitation happen far too frequently to be dismissed as aberrations. Thousands of Amerasian children are abandoned by their U.S. military fathers and raised by single mothers, extended families or institutions in societies that discriminate against them. Incre…
Richard Heinze, Vom Geist des Römertums. Ausgewählte Aufsätze herausgegeben von Erich Burck. Leipzig und Berlin
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R. G. Austin, Quintiliani Institutionis Oratoriae Liber XII. Oxford
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The Hospital Service
G. C. Lightfoot, Titi Lucreti Cari de Rerum Natura Liber Quintus. Melbourne
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Carmina
Marxism and Australian Historiography
Social Representations and the World of Science
Familiar CUL-DE-Sacs Conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History, Birkbeck College, London, spring 1990
FAMILIAR CUL-DE-SACS Conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History, Birkbeck College, London, spring 1990 Get access ANDREW WELLS ANDREW WELLS University of Wollongong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 30, Issue 1, Autumn 1990, Pages 229–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/30.1.229 Published: 01 October 1990
Constructing Capitalism. An Economic History of Eastern Australia, 1788-1901
In 1788, Australia was a gaol. In 1901 it was a liberal capitalist economy. How were the convict settlements, scattered on the edge of a vast unexplored continent, transformed within little more than a century into a 'free enterprise' economy? In tracing the forces engaged in that transformation, Constructing Capitalism places the creation of a new society within its economic and political context. It demonstrates the crucial role of land policy …
Parallel Architectures and Mental Computation
In a recent paper, Lyngzeidetson [1990] has claimed that a type of parallel computer called the ‘Connection Machine’ instantiates architectural principles which will ‘revolutionize which “functions” of the human mind can and cannot be modelled by (non-human) computational automata.’ In particular, he claims that the Connection Machine architecture shows the anti-mechanist argument from Gödel's theorem to be false for at least one kind of parallel…
The Maritime Strike
Participation in free-time activities
A quota sample of 336 London residents was interviewed using a questionnaire designed to provide information about the respondents' leisure participation patterns and their personal and social characteristics. A comparison study was carried out with a sample of 414 residents from Brooklyn, New York. In both samples there were clearly identifiable groups of leisure activities and it was possible to describe the profile of participants in each grou…
Deploying insecurity
United States military facilities and personnel in East Asia continue to inflict devastating harm on local communities, especially on women and children. Incidences of sexual violence and exploitation happen far too frequently to be dismissed as aberrations. Thousands of Amerasian children are abandoned by their U.S. military fathers and raised by single mothers, extended families or institutions in societies that discriminate against them. Incre…
Leichhardt
Brassed-Off
T OM BRASS . Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour. Case Studies and Debates. [The Library of Peasant Studies, 16.] Frank Cass, London [etc.] 1999. £47.50. (Paper: £20.00). Free and Unfree Labour. The Debate Continues. Ed. by Tom Brass and Marcel van der Linden. [International and Comparative Social History, 5.] Peter Lang, Bern [etc.] 1997. 603 pp. S.fr. 98.00
Gibson's Affordances and Turing's Theory of Computation
The concept of affordance is a central component of the ecological psychology of J.J
Algorists, Algorithms, and Complexity
The status of computational theory in ecological psychology has been and continues to be a source of controversy. Over a period of more than 30 years, Robert Shaw and his colleagues have developed a powerful negative critique of computation based in part on the idea that computational theory cannot capture central aspects of the coimplicative structure of the relations between animals and their environments. Two aspects of the Shavian critique ar…
Algorists, Algorithms, and Complexity
In Defense of Mechanism
In Life Itself and in Essays on Life Itself, Robert Rosen (1991 Rosen's argument has been used to support critiques of computational models in ecological psychology. This paper shows that Rosen's attack on mechanism is fundamentally misconceived. It is, in fact, of the essence of a mechanical system that it contains closed causal loops. Moreover, Rosen's epistemology is based on a strong form of indirect realism and his arguments, if correct, wou…
Coastal dune ridge systems as chronological markers of palaeoseismic activity
A study of two shore-parallel dune ridge sequences in southwest New Zealand shows that tectonic activity has been the primary controlling influence in their formation since at least AD 1450. The timing of dune-building episodes at the mouths of the Haast and Okuru Rivers was determined using the ages of colonizing trees. Episodic dune formation was indicated by clear discontinuities in tree ages, with distinct cohorts having colonized successive,…
Imperial Hegemony and Colonial Labor
This paper explores Gramsci's theory of hegemony through an analysis of areas of colonial India and Indochina in 1860–1940. It investigates the commodification of labor under capitalism, arguing that the mass relocation of people through indenture was facilitated by state coercion. Such labor was allegedly consensual. However, in the colonies the state had to regulate plantation conditions to monitor the behavior of private companies. A new world…
Race Fixing
Scholarship on race in the eighteenth century continues to treat the concept as somewhat foreign to Britain itself. This essay, which reviews two new works that contribute to the ‘domestication’ of eighteenth-century ideas of race, suggests one way in which race was interwoven with the fabric of British culture in the period
Researching and Writing History with Jim Hagan
This essay has two related purposes: the first is to understand how Jim Hagan practised the historian's craft; the second, to provide a glimpse into the personality and passions that motivated this productive and gifted historian. These two purposes are closely related: the method that historians adopt is typically shaped by the questions they pose - and these questions are deemed significant by the author's personality, interests and ideology (s…
Sinking Feelings
The apparent lack of representations of the Titanic disaster in Britain between the start of the First World War and the end of the 1950s was due, not to a lack of interest, but to active resistance to such representations. Shipping interests, the press, government, and the public all opposed portrayals of the catastrophe, but their opposition depended much on the medium by which the sinking was to be represented, on the broader international con…
Racisms
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