John Majewski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3846473 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Majewski |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Majewski |
| ASSINATURA | MAJEWSKI J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
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Grassroots Leviathan
The northern agricultural reform movement rarely makes even a cameo appearance in most accounts of the Civil War period. Ariel Ron's remarkable Grassroots Leviathan, however, compellingly argues that the northern agricultural reform movement helped crystallize support for a northern developmental state that focused on the use of government policy to advance a capitalist economy. Readily embraced by the Republican party and strongly opposed by sou…
What Do Players Learn from Videogames
Using social media posts on sites such as Reddit and You Tube, I analyze how players think about the history embedded in Civilization, an immensely popular computer game. I find that most players are males who started playing the game as children or adolescents. Most posters express little interest in history, but those that do often credit Civilization with sparking a lifelong passion for history. These players develop what I call an “immersive …
Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South
Michael S. Frawley's book rests on an ingenious research method. Combing through newspaper advertisements, city directories, and R. G. Dun credit reports, he found a number of manufacturing firms missing from the 1860 manufacturing census of the Gulf South (defined as Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, as the census returns of Louisiana have been lost). The number of manufacturing firms and employees might have been as much as 25 percent higher tha…
James L. Huston. The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
In this ambitious book, James L. Huston argues that the origins of the Civil War stemmed from the desire of northern family farmers to be free from the mastery of others. Unlike the British gentry (who relied on rents paid by tenants) or southern planters (who relied on slave labor), northern family farmers relied on their own labor. Northern farmers glorified the long hours of hard work it took to achieve the independence of farm ownership, and …
Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Journal Article Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Get access Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2011. Pp. xii, 280. $42.50. John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 514–51…
Capitalism Takes Command
Journal Article Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America Get access Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. viii, 358 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $30.00.) John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, California [email protected] Searc…
Modernizing a Slave Economy
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turnin…
The Environmental Origins of Shifting Cultivation
Farmers and planters in the antebellum South held large tracts of unimproved land because they practiced shifting cultivation. Southern cultivators burned tracts of forest growth to quickly release nutrients into the soil. After five or six years, when the soil had been depleted, the old field was abandoned for as long as twenty years. Environmental factors such as poor soils, rugged topography, and livestock diseases accounted for the persistenc…
Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War
Internal opposition \tEconomic disparity was Confederacy's downfall \tThe question of Confederate unity — or the lack of it — has been the subject of a lengthy scholarly debate. Some historians, focusing on the racial and class divisions of the South, argue that internal dissent sign....
A House Dividing
The Conquest of Labor
Journal Article The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization Get access The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization. By Evans Curtis J.. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xvi, 337 pp. $49.95, isbn0-8071-2695.) John Majewski John Majewski University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
A History of Banking in Antebellum America
Journal Article A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. By Howard Bodenhorn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 260 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-52166285-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-521-66999-5.) Get access John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
A House Dividing
Journal Article A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. By John Majewski. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xx, 214 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-59023-X.) Get access Mary A. DeCredico Mary A. DeCredico United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages …
A Revolution Too Many
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The Political Impact of Great Commercial Cities
John Majewski, The Political Impact of Great Commercial Cities: State Investment in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 1-26
Commerce and Community
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Who Financed the Transportation Revolution? Regional Divergence and Internal Improvements in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia
Comparing investment in transportation companies in Albemarle county, Virginia, and Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, I analyze why nineteenth-century internal improvements revolutionized the northern economy, but only seemed to increase the South's dependence upon plantation agriculture. In both counties local investors and financed early improvements
Politics and Industrialization
Responding to Relative Decline
From 1847 to 1853 New Yorkers built more than 3,500 miles of wooden roads. Financed primarily by residents of declining rural townships, plank roads were seen as a means of linking isolated areas to the canal and railroad network. A broad range of individuals invested in the roads, suggesting that the drive for bigger markets was supported by a large cross section of the population. Considerable community spirit animated the movement, indicating …
Economy, Community, and Law
Turnpikes promised a solution to the problem of bad roads, but private management of highways was a startling innovation. Some people opposed the idea of turnpikes as exemplifying two bêtes noires of the post-Revolutionary period, the "private corporation" and "aristocracy." Much of the controversy, however, was rooted in local disputes over legislative concessions to turnpike protesters. The legislature both expressed and responded to turnpike p…
Capitalism Takes Command
Journal Article Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America Get access Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. viii, 358 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $30.00.) John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, California [email protected] Searc…
Modernizing a Slave Economy
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turnin…
Economy, Community, and Law
Turnpikes promised a solution to the problem of bad roads, but private management of highways was a startling innovation. Some people opposed the idea of turnpikes as exemplifying two bêtes noires of the post-Revolutionary period, the "private corporation" and "aristocracy." Much of the controversy, however, was rooted in local disputes over legislative concessions to turnpike protesters. The legislature both expressed and responded to turnpike p…
The Political Impact of Great Commercial Cities
John Majewski, The Political Impact of Great Commercial Cities: State Investment in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 1-26
Politics and Industrialization
Grassroots Leviathan
The northern agricultural reform movement rarely makes even a cameo appearance in most accounts of the Civil War period. Ariel Ron's remarkable Grassroots Leviathan, however, compellingly argues that the northern agricultural reform movement helped crystallize support for a northern developmental state that focused on the use of government policy to advance a capitalist economy. Readily embraced by the Republican party and strongly opposed by sou…
A Revolution Too Many
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Responding to Relative Decline
From 1847 to 1853 New Yorkers built more than 3,500 miles of wooden roads. Financed primarily by residents of declining rural townships, plank roads were seen as a means of linking isolated areas to the canal and railroad network. A broad range of individuals invested in the roads, suggesting that the drive for bigger markets was supported by a large cross section of the population. Considerable community spirit animated the movement, indicating …
Economy, Community, and Law
Turnpikes promised a solution to the problem of bad roads, but private management of highways was a startling innovation. Some people opposed the idea of turnpikes as exemplifying two bêtes noires of the post-Revolutionary period, the "private corporation" and "aristocracy." Much of the controversy, however, was rooted in local disputes over legislative concessions to turnpike protesters. The legislature both expressed and responded to turnpike p…
Responding to Relative Decline
From 1847 to 1853 New Yorkers built more than 3,500 miles of wooden roads. Financed primarily by residents of declining rural townships, plank roads were seen as a means of linking isolated areas to the canal and railroad network. A broad range of individuals invested in the roads, suggesting that the drive for bigger markets was supported by a large cross section of the population. Considerable community spirit animated the movement, indicating …
Politics and Industrialization
Commerce and Community
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who Financed the Transportation Revolution? Regional Divergence and Internal Improvements in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia
Comparing investment in transportation companies in Albemarle county, Virginia, and Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, I analyze why nineteenth-century internal improvements revolutionized the northern economy, but only seemed to increase the South's dependence upon plantation agriculture. In both counties local investors and financed early improvements
A Revolution Too Many
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Political Impact of Great Commercial Cities
John Majewski, The Political Impact of Great Commercial Cities: State Investment in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 1-26
A History of Banking in Antebellum America
Journal Article A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. By Howard Bodenhorn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 260 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-52166285-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-521-66999-5.) Get access John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
A House Dividing
Journal Article A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. By John Majewski. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xx, 214 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-59023-X.) Get access Mary A. DeCredico Mary A. DeCredico United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages …
The Conquest of Labor
Journal Article The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization Get access The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization. By Evans Curtis J.. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xvi, 337 pp. $49.95, isbn0-8071-2695.) John Majewski John Majewski University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War
Internal opposition \tEconomic disparity was Confederacy's downfall \tThe question of Confederate unity — or the lack of it — has been the subject of a lengthy scholarly debate. Some historians, focusing on the racial and class divisions of the South, argue that internal dissent sign....
A House Dividing
The Environmental Origins of Shifting Cultivation
Farmers and planters in the antebellum South held large tracts of unimproved land because they practiced shifting cultivation. Southern cultivators burned tracts of forest growth to quickly release nutrients into the soil. After five or six years, when the soil had been depleted, the old field was abandoned for as long as twenty years. Environmental factors such as poor soils, rugged topography, and livestock diseases accounted for the persistenc…
Modernizing a Slave Economy
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turnin…
Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Journal Article Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Get access Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2011. Pp. xii, 280. $42.50. John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 514–51…
Capitalism Takes Command
Journal Article Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America Get access Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. viii, 358 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $30.00.) John Majewski John Majewski University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, California [email protected] Searc…
James L. Huston. The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
In this ambitious book, James L. Huston argues that the origins of the Civil War stemmed from the desire of northern family farmers to be free from the mastery of others. Unlike the British gentry (who relied on rents paid by tenants) or southern planters (who relied on slave labor), northern family farmers relied on their own labor. Northern farmers glorified the long hours of hard work it took to achieve the independence of farm ownership, and …
Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South
Michael S. Frawley's book rests on an ingenious research method. Combing through newspaper advertisements, city directories, and R. G. Dun credit reports, he found a number of manufacturing firms missing from the 1860 manufacturing census of the Gulf South (defined as Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, as the census returns of Louisiana have been lost). The number of manufacturing firms and employees might have been as much as 25 percent higher tha…
What Do Players Learn from Videogames
Using social media posts on sites such as Reddit and You Tube, I analyze how players think about the history embedded in Civilization, an immensely popular computer game. I find that most players are males who started playing the game as children or adolescents. Most posters express little interest in history, but those that do often credit Civilization with sparking a lifelong passion for history. These players develop what I call an “immersive …
Grassroots Leviathan
The northern agricultural reform movement rarely makes even a cameo appearance in most accounts of the Civil War period. Ariel Ron's remarkable Grassroots Leviathan, however, compellingly argues that the northern agricultural reform movement helped crystallize support for a northern developmental state that focused on the use of government policy to advance a capitalist economy. Readily embraced by the Republican party and strongly opposed by sou…
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