John F Kasson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 681668 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John F Kasson |
| PRENOMES | John F |
| SOBRENOME | Kasson |
| ASSINATURA | KASSON J F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
S arah S chrank . Free and Natural
The history of American nudism and lifestyles that seek to bring the naked body in contact with nature has been surprisingly neglected. The first full-length study appeared only in 2015: Brian Hoffman’s Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism. Hoffman perceptively traced the shifting course, sites, critiques, and defenses of nudist efforts. He showed how, over the course of the twentieth century, the terrain of organized nudism dramatically …
Barnum
Barnum: An American Life Barnum: An American Life. By Robert Wilson. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. x, 341 pp. Cloth, $28.00. Paper, $18.00.) John F Kasson John F Kasson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 1011–1012, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa501 Published: 01 March 2021
Work Sights
Reviewed by: Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America by Vanessa Meikle Schulman John F. Kasson (bio) Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. By Vanessa Meikle Schulman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. Pp. 304. $29.95. In the pivotal three decades from 1857 to 1887, when American technological and industrial systems transformed the nation and penetrated much of …
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
Journal Article Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood Get access By Kristen Hatch. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. x, 173 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1243–1244, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav701 Published: 01 March 2016
Shirley Temple’s Paradoxical Smile
Follow the Bodies
Research Article| May 01 2007 Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History” John F. Kasson John F. Kasson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (2): 45–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John F. Kasson; Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-…
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Journal Article Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. By John F. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. x, 256 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-8862-2.) Get access Susan Curtis Susan Curtis Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 657–658, https://doi.o…
The Trials of Masculinity
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Seeing Coney Island, Seeing Culture
Seeing Coney Island, Seeing Culture: Joseph Stella’s Battle Of Lights John F. Kasson (bio) Figures Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. “Helter Skelter,” Luna Park, 1905. Library of Congress. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. The Kaleidoscopic Tower, Luna Park, 1904. Museum of the City of New York. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Joseph Stella, Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras (191…
Rudeness and Civility
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Rudeness and Civility
Rudeness and Civility
What Matters is Manners
Rudeness & Civility
The Cambridge Meeting, November 1-4, 1984
Organizational Notes THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING, NOVEMBER 1-4, 1984 More than 250 people attended the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,. Cambridge, November 1-4, 1984. Jeffrey Sturchio (Center for History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania) chaired the Program Committee, which included Susan Douglas (Hampshire College) and Stuart W. Leslie ( Johns Hopkins Univ…
Charles Willson Peale and His World
The Philosophy of Manufactures
This work collects in a single volume often in their original form the primary texts in the American debate over industrialization between the Revolution the Civil War. These documents reflect the intellectual ideological forces behind the promotion of manufactures, as well as the skepticism resistance which the industrial capitalist aroused in the democratic agrarian new nation. collection demonstrates that there was a heated debate over the ind…
First-Person America
King C. Gillette
Work and Play
Sodoms by the Sea
America's Humor
Journal Article America's Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury. By Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xvi + 559 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $17.50.) Get access John F. Kasson John F. Kasson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 108–109, https://doi.org/10.230…
Amusing the Million
Journal Article Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. By John F. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978. 119 pp. Illustrations and notes. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $5.95.) Get access Robin D. Lester Robin D. Lester Trinity School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 439–440, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900971 Published: 01 Sep…
Engineering America
Civilizing the Machine
With so much narrow medical specialization it is refreshing to review this catalogue of an exhibition inter-relating aspects of literature, medicine, and history.It tastefully depicts the tribulations of a frustrated Dublin medical student, James Joyce (1882- 1941), who, in spite of his "impossible health", became one of the foremost creative writers of his times.Joyce stoically endured nine eye operations: he also had rheu- matic fever, arthriti…
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Journal Article Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. By John F. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. x, 256 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-8862-2.) Get access Susan Curtis Susan Curtis Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 657–658, https://doi.o…
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
Journal Article Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood Get access By Kristen Hatch. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. x, 173 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1243–1244, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav701 Published: 01 March 2016
Follow the Bodies
Research Article| May 01 2007 Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History” John F. Kasson John F. Kasson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (2): 45–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John F. Kasson; Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-…
Civilizing the Machine
With so much narrow medical specialization it is refreshing to review this catalogue of an exhibition inter-relating aspects of literature, medicine, and history.It tastefully depicts the tribulations of a frustrated Dublin medical student, James Joyce (1882- 1941), who, in spite of his "impossible health", became one of the foremost creative writers of his times.Joyce stoically endured nine eye operations: he also had rheu- matic fever, arthriti…
Success in America
Journal Article Success in America: The Yeoman Dream and the Industrial Revolution. By Rex Burns. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. x + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access John F. Kasson John F. Kasson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 17…
Civilizing the Machine
With so much narrow medical specialization it is refreshing to review this catalogue of an exhibition inter-relating aspects of literature, medicine, and history.It tastefully depicts the tribulations of a frustrated Dublin medical student, James Joyce (1882- 1941), who, in spite of his "impossible health", became one of the foremost creative writers of his times.Joyce stoically endured nine eye operations: he also had rheu- matic fever, arthriti…
Chicago's White City of 1893
Sodoms by the Sea
America's Humor
Journal Article America's Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury. By Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xvi + 559 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $17.50.) Get access John F. Kasson John F. Kasson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 108–109, https://doi.org/10.230…
Amusing the Million
Journal Article Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. By John F. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978. 119 pp. Illustrations and notes. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $5.95.) Get access Robin D. Lester Robin D. Lester Trinity School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 439–440, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900971 Published: 01 Sep…
Engineering America
The Pittsburgh Meeting, October 18-21, 1978
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH MEETING, OCTOBER 18-21, 1978 Over 175 members registered for the twenty-first annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 18-21, 1978. The meeting was notable not only for the quality but also for the quantity of the scholarly papers presented; the number of papers necessitated, for the first time in the society’s history, the holding of simultaneous…
King C. Gillette
Work and Play
First-Person America
The Philosophy of Manufactures
This work collects in a single volume often in their original form the primary texts in the American debate over industrialization between the Revolution the Civil War. These documents reflect the intellectual ideological forces behind the promotion of manufactures, as well as the skepticism resistance which the industrial capitalist aroused in the democratic agrarian new nation. collection demonstrates that there was a heated debate over the ind…
Charles Willson Peale and His World
The Cambridge Meeting, November 1-4, 1984
Organizational Notes THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING, NOVEMBER 1-4, 1984 More than 250 people attended the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,. Cambridge, November 1-4, 1984. Jeffrey Sturchio (Center for History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania) chaired the Program Committee, which included Susan Douglas (Hampshire College) and Stuart W. Leslie ( Johns Hopkins Univ…
Rudeness and Civility
Rudeness and Civility
What Matters is Manners
Rudeness & Civility
Rudeness & Civility
Rudeness and Civility
Seeing Coney Island, Seeing Culture
Seeing Coney Island, Seeing Culture: Joseph Stella’s Battle Of Lights John F. Kasson (bio) Figures Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. “Helter Skelter,” Luna Park, 1905. Library of Congress. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. The Kaleidoscopic Tower, Luna Park, 1904. Museum of the City of New York. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Joseph Stella, Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras (191…
The Trials of Masculinity
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Journal Article Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. By John F. Kasson. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001. x, 256 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8090-8862-2.) Get access Susan Curtis Susan Curtis Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 657–658, https://doi.o…
Follow the Bodies
Research Article| May 01 2007 Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History” John F. Kasson John F. Kasson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (2): 45–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John F. Kasson; Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-…
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