Miles Fairburn

Dados Biográficos

ID3841125
NOMEMiles Fairburn
PRENOMESMiles
SOBRENOMEFairburn
ASSINATURAFAIRBURN M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Canterbury
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1985
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2008
ÍNDICE H1

  • Is There a Good Case for New Zealand Exceptionalism

    Open AccessMiles FairburnARTICLEThesis Eleven2008Referências: 7

    The upsurge in cultural nationalism in New Zealand has failed to produce a good case that New Zealand is an exceptional society. The reason for this is that New Zealand has not had a chance to develop a culture that is autochthonous in significant respects. New Zealand's domination by the cultures of Britain, Australia and America in the 19th and 20th centuries prevented its history from taking a significantly different path. The lack of autochth…

  • Class, Gender and the Vote

    Open AccessRaymond Markey, Miles Fairburn et al.ARTICLELabour History2008

    Contents: Introduction 1 Stability and Egalitarianism: New Zealand 1911-1951 2 Residential Segregation and the Interwar Christchurch Experience 3 Church, Occupation and Class in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1940 4 'For Better or Worse': Marriage Patterns in Dunedin's Southern Suburbs, 1881-1938 5 Apprenticeship or Proletariat? Social Mobility in Rural Nineteenth Century Canterbury 6 'Educating the Elite?: Otago Boys' High School Fathers and Sons, 1863-…

  • Voter behaviour and the decline of the Liberals in Britain and New Zealand, 1911–29

    Miles Fairburn, Stephen HaslettARTICLESocial History2005

    This article examines the three long-standing explanations for the decline of the British Liberals by seeing how far they fit the case of ten towns in New Zealand, 1911-31, which were Liberal strongholds. The article starts by pointing to the remarkable similarities between the decline of the Liberals in Britain and the decline of their counterparts in New Zealand. It then briefly summarizes the history of the decline of the New Zealand Liberals,…

  • The Rise of the Left and Working-Class Voting Behavior in New Zealand

    Miles Fairburn, Stephen HaslettARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2005Citada por: 1Referências: 7

    The extent to which mainstream left-wing parties attracted working-class votes during the first half of the twentieth century is exceptionally difficult to establish and explain. All of the various methods applied to the subject, including ecological regression of aggregate data, have had their problems, especially the ecological fallacy. A novel solution to these problems, in the context of New Zealand, takes occupational and party voting data a…

  • Cleavage Within the Working Class? The Working-Class Vote for the Labour Party in New Zealand, 1911-51

    Open AccessMiles Fairburn, Stephen HaslettARTICLELabour History2005Citada por: 1

    A convention in New Zealand historiography is that the electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in the first half of the twentieth century were tightly constrained by a particular structure of cleavage. Although by 1919 or 1922 Labour had won the support of the vast majority of urban working-class voters in the leading towns, it could not win office with their support alone. This was demonstrated in the 1930s when it gained electoral domination by …

  • Social History

    Bryan D Palmer, Miles FairburnARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

    Introduction The Problem of Absent Social Categories The Problem of Generalising from Fragmentary Evidence Some Solutions for the Problem of Fragmentary Evidence The Problem of Establishing Important Causes The Problem of Establishing Similarities and Differences - Of Lumping and Splitting To Count or Not to Count? The Problem of Socially-Constructed Evidence The Problem of Appropriate Concepts The Problem of Determining the Best Explanation Glos…

  • Social History

    Open AccessMiles FairburnBOOKSocial History1999

  • The Problem of Absent Social Categories

    Miles FairburnCHAPTERSocial History1999

    As I indicated in the Introduction, the subject-matter of social history usually consists of large aggregates of people (or collectivities) and of the social categories that make up these collectivities. The term collectivity may refer to a whole society, a cluster of societies, an empire, a civilization, a large segment of people within a society, a local community, an institution and so on. The term social category refers to a subset of a colle…

  • The Problem of Socially Constructed Evidence

    Miles FairburnCHAPTERSocial History1999

    It is a truism that the ideology of the dominant groups shapes their observations of the subordinate elements in a society. It is also a truism that the dominant groups consciously or unconsciously act to shape the collective beliefs of the subordinate elements, so that the subordinate elements will observe the world as the dominant want them to observe it. In one form or another, both truisms appear in all kinds of claims by social historians th…

  • Violent Crime in Old and New Societies

    Miles Fairburn, Stephen HaslettARTICLEJournal of Social History1986Citada por: 1

    Miles Fairburn, Stephen Haslett; Violent Crime in Old and New Societies: A Case Study Based on New Zealand 1853–1940, Journal of Social History, Volume 20

  • Why Did the New Zealand Labour Party Fail to Win Office until 1935

    Open AccessMiles FairburnARTICLEPolitical Science1985Citada por: 1